How to Find a Good Website Designer

Written by Irene Herz


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DON'T be impressed by awards. They're easy to get. Many of them are available to all comers. All you have to do is promise to link back to their awards site.

DON'T be impressed by a slick marketing presentation. Ifrepparttar firm is dominated by marketers, they may undervalue their technical talent. Some ofrepparttar 118613 best companies are two or three person firms whose members are all actual designers and programmers.

Three other things to consider:

One: A marketer is overhead for a design firm. That meansrepparttar 118614 firm that hires one has to charge you more to payrepparttar 118615 marketer's salary.

Two: A marketer knows how to sell, notrepparttar 118616 nits and grits of how to make a website. You might as well startrepparttar 118617 process withrepparttar 118618 person who's actually going to makerepparttar 118619 website.

Three: You may loverepparttar 118620 marketer you meet with initially, but that's notrepparttar 118621 person you'll be living with duringrepparttar 118622 creation process. You need to be sure you can communicate withrepparttar 118623 person who's actually going to dorepparttar 118624 work.

The final DON'T:

Don't authorize work with a handshake. Get a contract spelling out who's going to do what and how payment will be handled. It's for your protection as well asrepparttar 118625 developer's.

As an internet development manager, I've worked with all kinds of design companies. I know you will find, as I did, that a good designer can makerepparttar 118626 process of putting up a website a pleasurable and edifying experience.

Irene Herz, the author of Having My Own Website, a free guide to all the practical steps involved in setting up a website, is the president of the website design and development company, Aunt Reenee's Websites. She was for many years a website designer and a manager of Internet Development for ITT Industries.


eBay Tips

Written by Gillian Tarawhiti


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•Bid Shielding: Posting extremely high bids to protectrepparttar lower bid of an earlier bidder, usually in cahoots withrepparttar 118612 bidder who placedrepparttar 118613 shielding bid.

•Bid Siphoning: The practice of contacting bidders and offering to sell themrepparttar 118614 same item they are currently bidding on, thus drawing bidders away fromrepparttar 118615 legitimate seller's auction.

•Bulk Loading: Listing a group of different items in separate lots all at once using an online auction site's bulk loading tool.

•Buying Up Lots: The practice of buying all quantities of an item during a Dutch auction. This is typically done for resale purposes.

•Caveat Emptor: The Latin phrase meaning "letrepparttar 118616 buyer beware."

•Cookie: A piece of information sent from a web server to a web browser thatrepparttar 118617 browser software saves and then sends back torepparttar 118618 server wheneverrepparttar 118619 browser makes additional requests fromrepparttar 118620 server.

•Deadbeats: High bidders who fail to pay forrepparttar 118621 item they won.

•Dutch Auction: The seller is offering multiple, identical items for sale.

•Escrow: Money held in trust by a third party untilrepparttar 118622 seller makes delivery of merchandise torepparttar 118623 buyer.

•fdbk/fk: Feedback. One user's public comments about another user in regard to their auction dealings. Feedback comments cannot be removed or changed once submitted to an auction service.

•Featured Auctions: Auction listings placed prominently onrepparttar 118624 home page and category pages of an auction service. Sellers pay for this prime placement.

•Feedback Padding: One user posting fraudulent positive feedback about another user and his or her auctions.

•Final Value Fee: The commission chargerepparttar 118625 seller pays torepparttar 118626 auction service after his or her item sells.

•FVF Request: Final value fee request.

•Grading: The process for determiningrepparttar 118627 physical condition of an item. Different items have different grading systems.

•Initial Listing Price: The opening bid price a seller attaches to his or her auction.

•Insertion Fee: A fee paid byrepparttar 118628 seller torepparttar 118629 auction site in order to list an item for auction, calculated as a percentage ofrepparttar 118630 opening bid or reserve price.

•Lot: A single auction listing.

•Market Value: The highest price a property will bring inrepparttar 118631 open market.

•Maximum Bid: The highest price a buyer will pay for an item, submitted in confidence to an online auction service's automated bidding system to facilitate proxy bidding.

•Minimum Opening Bid: The mandatory starting bid for a given auction, set byrepparttar 118632 seller atrepparttar 118633 time of listing.

•NARU'd: A auction user term to describe users whose memberships have been discontinued. NARU isrepparttar 118634 acronym for "not a registered user."

•Neg: Short for "negative user feedback."

•Net Cops: Auction users who actively attempt to report instances of fraud, such as shilling or bid shielding, to online auction sites.

•NR: Short for "no reserve." This indicates inrepparttar 118635 item description line thatrepparttar 118636 auction has no reserve price specified.

•Opening Bid: The seller's opening bid, which setsrepparttar 118637 opening price.

•Outbid: To submit a maximum bid that is higher than another buyer's maximum bid.

•Proxy Bidding: Deciderepparttar 118638 maximum you're willing to pay and enter this amount. eBay will confidentially bid up to your maximum amount. In this way, you don't have to keep an eye on your auction as it unfolds. If other bidders outbid your maximum atrepparttar 118639 end ofrepparttar 118640 auction, you don't getrepparttar 118641 item. But otherwise, you'rerepparttar 118642 winner--andrepparttar 118643 final price might even be less thanrepparttar 118644 maximum you had been willing to spend!

•Registered User: A person who has registered as a member of an online auction service. All online auction services require registration prior to buying and selling.

•Relisting: The relisting of an item by a seller after it has not received any bids or met its reserve price. Typically,repparttar 118645 first relisting is free.

•Reserve Price: The minimum price a seller will accept for an item to be sold at auction. This amount is never formally disclosed.

•Retaliatory: The user term for retaliatory negative feedback, posted by one user in response to another user's negative feedback.

•S&H Charges: Shipping and handling charges.

•Secondary Market: The buyer market for second-hand goods. Online auctions serverepparttar 118646 secondary market.

•Shilling: Fraudulent bidding byrepparttar 118647 seller (using an alternate registration) or an associate ofrepparttar 118648 seller in order to inflaterepparttar 118649 price of an item. Also known as bid rigging and collusion.

•Sniping: Outbidding other buyers inrepparttar 118650 closing minutes or seconds of an auction.

•Starting Price: The mandatory starting bid for a given auction, set byrepparttar 118651 seller atrepparttar 118652 time of listing.

•Terms of Service: A legally binding agreement that outlines an auction site's operating policies. All registered users must agree to a site's terms before usingrepparttar 118653 service.

•User Info Request: A request for a user's background information, which provides personal information, such as a phone number.



About the Author Gillian Tarawhiti, is Founder and CEO of Community Training Centre, an Australian-based Internet Marketing firm that works with individuals and organisations © 2004 Permission is granted to reprint this article in print or on your web site so long as the paragraph above is included and contact information is provided to www.millionairerippleeffect.com.




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