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  1. In Topic: Should I remove my name?

    Yesterday, 07:00 PM

    View PostRobbie, on 19 May 2012 - 07:30 PM, said:

    I've only had 2 clients ever request us to remove the link to our website


    ONly ever had one in ~4 years, and that time they were willing to pay for an hours work :)

  2. In Topic: What extra features do you offer?

    Yesterday, 05:58 PM

    View PostWBC, on 24 May 2012 - 11:55 PM, said:

    Knowing the clients budget up from shows you how far you can go.



    Yep, for the clients you know have additional budget you have room to offer extras. For instance, sometimes you could offer an optional extra that may enchance the clients site or add to their business, ontop of what they originally quoted for. This wouldn't come under the fixed boltons either, just something bespoke that would benefit that particular client.

    At the end of the day all this comes down to how well prepared you are. If you're freelancing without having all your basic backoffice stuff sorted (as in a base CMS for example) then you're in for a world of pain. IF for example a client wanted a blog area on a site - soemthing like should be minutes work using existing code.

    It is time consuming I know. I bit the bullet a few weeks ago when I decided to re write the CMS used where I work - based upon 2 years of feedback from clients and tweaking from myself. Yes, in the short term I will have lost time, but in the long term I'll be able to apply it to any website - especially as I'm keeping it as DRY as possible using CodeIgniter (hugs!). Tbh, it would make a good blog explaining what stuff I've changed, my reasoning behind it and new features.

    @OP: if you;re having to write say a blog area of section manage pages each time you do a project, then you're doing it all wrong, simple as that :)

  3. In Topic: SSH and htaccess files

    Yesterday, 10:11 AM

    Ah yer, makes sense. I'm tar'ing my pub html folder. Ta

  4. In Topic: Local server

    Yesterday, 10:10 AM

    View PostVulcan, on 25 May 2012 - 08:27 AM, said:

    OK thank you :). How to I make my website to read this and work with the databases etc. Is there any video tutorial?


    Without sounding off, it's very unlikely that someone here is going to tell you what to do step. You'll need to do a bit research yourself (shock horror!?!?!?). However, after looking at the link provided in this thread for a whole seconds I came across http://www.zend.com/...-documentation/ which would obviously be a good place to begin.

  5. In Topic: Yet Another PHP class/variable question

    24 May 2012 - 07:20 PM

    View PostModerato Maestoso, on 24 May 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:

    Should I initialize ALL variables - including ones I only use as "helper" variables in a function?

    For example, if I initialize the following variables at the top of my class:

    public $primary_author;
public $about_me_page_slug;
public $author_name;


    and then set the variables in some setter function:

    $this->primary_author = "Martin Hughes";
$this->about_me_page_slug = "about-me"

if ( in_the_loop() )
{
	$this->author_name = get_the_author();
}
else
{
	$this->author_name = "";
}


    Then, in another function, I build a URL string in the variable $author_page_url, and use it to echo a meta tag:

    if ( $this->author_name !=  $this->primary_author )
{
	$author_page_url = get_site_url('', $this->author_name ,'');
}
else
{
	$author_page_url = get_site_url('', $this->about_me_page_slug ,'');
}

echo "<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"" . $this->author_page_url . "\">\n";




    Slightly off topic, it's genrally considored bad practice to echo out data directly from your functions. Have read into returning the string instead.

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    rallport 

    04 Jul 2011 - 17:51
    Aye I know. Was in a foul mood when I got into the office this morning. Tead it back this afternoon myself too and laughed :)
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    SniderDK 

    04 Jul 2011 - 09:15
    thanks for the laugh dude... loved reading your post... you know what one im on about ;) have a good one :D
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    rallport 

    20 Dec 2010 - 19:02
    Hi Wesh,
    Was similar to you. Didn't like how he was trying to fool users by calling the folder secure, when it wasn't at all. Also pointed out the fact his post was pure seo spam. Also made a little comment about his potential 'all flash web design', which made me lol, especially for an apparent company that wants to give a good image. :)
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    wesh.co.uk 

    20 Dec 2010 - 12:37
    Hi Rob, I saw you replied to that spammer this morning, "MrAdvanced" but they deleted the thread before I could read it... Would love to see what you said mate... I get the impression your on a similar wavelength?
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    GamingEvents 

    01 Dec 2010 - 14:35
    Can i do it all on your host? Ill give you what the other guy was getting?
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    Anakowi 

    22 Apr 2010 - 04:46
    LOL - how is that a hoot? My todo list scares me at the moment.
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