peteboyd

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by peteboyd 8y ago
Inside Webmaster Tools is “Fetch” tool. It allows you to submit any page to Google. You can then also have Google index the page. When you fetch a time stamp is recorded and a full HTML copy of the page too. I am not sure if Google uses thi
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by peteboyd 8y ago
This is why I stopped practicing law and started my own web design company where I could set my own schedule. We strive to work 35 hour weeks and usually come in around 35 to 40 per week. Burnout will happen at higher numbers.
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by peteboyd 9y ago
I believe it was because they were going to be flying through a war zone and did not want the US and Pan Am insignia on the planes. Of course, it actually helped them when they flew into the Dutch port as the Dutch flighters saw the US flag
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by peteboyd 9y ago
We just had a clients website copied (a law firm no less). We filed a DMCA notice and the site was down within a day. It's a very powerful tool if your work has been copied, so long as the infringing site is in the US (our owned by a U
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by peteboyd 10y ago
I did not know this existed until recently, but you and the article poster probably have a very good claim for diminished value and loss of use. Basically non use of your high-end car for many months. I recently created a short online quiz
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by peteboyd 10y ago
Keep in mind it was NOT an all or nothing proposition for using the Shuttle. We launched satellites while the shuttle was running using Titan, Atlas, and Delta rockets. I would imagine if it was more cost efficient to use those rockets, th
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by peteboyd 10y ago
We are definitely peak NFL for several reasons: 1. Head trauma. People watching now actively know about it and it turns some people off. Those who don't care about players getting injured, then gripe the game is being changed. So the
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by peteboyd 10y ago
2015 and 2015 they suspended having blackouts. The NFL will re-evaluate the rule after going through the season. The blackout policy was instituted in the early 1970s when NFL teams relied primarily on ticket sales to generate revenue. The
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by peteboyd 10y ago
Let's say driverless cars happen in the next five to ten years. I see two scenarios happening - neither do I need uber. First scenario is my local car at my house becomes driverless. I can simply call my car to pick me up from anywhere
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by peteboyd 10y ago
We always have had a surplus of logos. When we design for a company, perhaps 3 to 5 decent ideas are sketched. Of course only one makes the final cut per client. We own any preliminary work, so we can offer these for use later. We would jus
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by peteboyd 10y ago
Using "terrorism" as a threat is simply the new "communism" arguments from the 1950s-1980s. It's just that this new era has no foreseeable end in site. There has been, and always will be, some type of terrorists. S
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by peteboyd 11y ago
Yes, I definitely consider the time of the applicant. I would hate to miss a good person by making it tough to apply. I am thinking it should be five minutes or less to apply to our job. 30 to 45 minutes seems like A LOT. I am not sure I
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by peteboyd 11y ago
Actually, oddly enough, I did not think about that. Thanks for the tip. We have changed the email address from time to time, when one gets picked up by spam. We do like the subject line to be a pass/fail test though - especially on jo
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by peteboyd 11y ago
Good point. I think we were going to keep it super simple. Name, Email, Question 1 - Cover Letter, Question 2 - Some question pertaining the job, and PDF attachment (only PDFs - we hate getting Word docs and other file attachments) This wa
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by peteboyd 11y ago
Every resume just comes into Outlook as a single email and then sorted into a folder based on the subject (hence our need to follow directions). A bit old-school, but it works. So we would need to reply individually to every single email (
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by peteboyd 11y ago
We are hiring right now for a new bookkeeper, actually they start Monday, so we just finalized the hiring. We regularly post ads for designers, developers and content writers too. Probably every other month I am reviewing resumes, so I hav
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by peteboyd 13y ago
This is one area where health care insurance costs are pretty affordable. We are a web design company in the sunny state of Florida, so these are our rates based on 10 to 20 employees. From my understanding the larger you are, the cheaper
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by peteboyd 15y ago
The video game industry has the same issue. Initial bloat screens. A lot. Skyrim for instance, it takes anywhere from 30 seconds to load the initial screen, which is just the logo of Bethesda. You know what is on the initial screen. A bu
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by peteboyd 15y ago
Merge the article for the purposes of comments, but allow references to each unique article cited. Perhaps an indent under the main story with related stories and just one comment section. Either that or leave it alone. Most of the airbnb s
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by peteboyd 15y ago
Yeah, it's tough when a few make up a large percent of the business. You definitely have to drop everything to help them. I think our top 50 clients make up 25% of the business. Top 100 about 50% and the other 400 the rest. So we are less
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by peteboyd 15y ago
Number of customers is critical. When web design studios only have a few customers and one makes up a large percentage of revenue (ex: 10% or more), then you are definitely at the clients whim. However, if an agency has a lot of customers,
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by peteboyd 15y ago
For the vanishing issue, I tell clients that: a) Look at our portfolio and call our existing clients, b) that we do most of our work in the first few weeks of the campaign so it is only fair to pay that high of an amount, and c) I don't w
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by peteboyd 15y ago
I find it better to set up expectations up-front. It is really hard to argue with a client, then go and be "creative." So if you can completely avoid the issue in the first place by having a workflow process, detailed deliverables, what t
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by peteboyd 15y ago
Dealing with clients is all about setting expectations. I really view our contracts as just the expectations codified and hopefully never read again. The key is what the clients actually expect you to deliver. If we ever have to turn to