6 Places to Find Web Design Jobs
Here are 6 places to find web design jobs and a few gigs. These are not in any particular order.
1. Yahoo Hot Jobs Lists jobs all over the US without all the flutter.
2. Smashing Jobs The popular Smashing Magazine with over 100,000 subscribers has listings.
3.
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4. Read Write Jobs
5. CraigsList This is good for finding local gigs but be aware many people here are looking for an extremely cheap bargain.
6. Mashable Jobs
I’m Tired of Turn-Key Sites
If you spend anytime looking for something free on Google you'll find it, but you'll also find about 100 copy cat sites with the same mediocre content. MySpace layout sites are a dime a dozen with almost no unique content from the others. Wordpress themes are all over, and free icons are too. I find it rather irritating.
Why are people doing this? Only to make money off ads. It's clever, but if some of these sites need original content. If you do a simple search for MySpace Layout you'll be cluttered with 100's of domain names and titles trying to get to the top with the right keyword weight on the main page.
The worry is that the entire web will be filled with duplicate content, afterall google only scans content. Eventually when you develop some free things for faithful fans on your site it could get turned distributed among these free ad farms only to make your work come to no return, unless you are linked in.
I guess the question is when will it be too much? Free Icons, Free Templates, Free Graphics. There is going to have to be some serious developers who can create unique websites before everything becomes too easy and free.
It seems the mess of all these sites started once social networking became large. I think it's getting messy and I really hope it gets cleaned up but I see no way of cycling through artwork and files.
Twitter Needs Ads
Twitter is a large social networking site that serves a very small purpose, keep track of friends on what they are doing. To me it's a suprise that so many people use twitter while Facebook has so much more.
Twitter is a Page Rank 8 site, Alexa Rank of 669, with 50% of users are in USA. with over 1.2 million users a month. At some point I would think Twitter will start placing a few ads on their site, as of now they have none.
If they simply put AdSense on Twitter they could make atleast $100,000 a month with those type of statistics and smart ad placement. The question is will they, and when? I'm sure they've thought about it but who's paying for the hosting out of their own pocket?
PHP Easier $_POST
If you aren't familiar with loops, or you only need to grab a single post request, I find it friendlier to make a function out of it.
function p($val) { $_POST["$val"]; }
To apply, just do something like this:
p('name');
I usually name my function with an underscore but it's up to you.
CSS Reset, TinyMCE Reset
Here is a simple CSS Reset, I personally think it's best applied as an @import 'reset.css'; at the top of your CSS file so it doesn't get in the way.
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6, pre,code,form,fieldset,input,textarea,p,blockquote, th,td {margin:0; padding:0;} table {border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0;} fieldset,img {border:0;} address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong, th,var {font-style:normal; font-weight:normal;} ol,ul {list-style:none;} caption,th {text-align:left;} q:before,q:after {content:'';} abbr,acronym {border:0;}
If you are using TinyMCE you may need to reset a few settings that are being applied from a stylesheet, so use this:
/* TINY MCE RESET */ body.mceContentBody { text-align: left; color: #000; background: #ffffff url(); }