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Lifting babies is easy... right?Woke up today and decided to switch things up a bit.  I’m going to add a bit of ‘funny’ to your morning coffee.  I’m taking a break from the techie stuff for a bit because yesterday I apparently scared all my subs away (11 to 0… friggin’ rough man).  BUT I will switch back tomorrow.  I’ll probably just alternate from here on.  If there is anything to learn out of this, it’s to keep on keeping on with some minor adjustments.

Today you get to see 5 funny things that have made me actually laugh in front of the screen… yup, an actual LOL.  So if you’re reading this with your coffee, drink, then read and laugh.  Not read while drinking and spit all over the screen.  Or you can try it and let me know the results.

The first gem is the Do’s and don’ts with babies.  I’ve added a preview to give you a taste of what’s after the link.  This is worth about 15 minutes and someone needs to continue this series.  As per the website, the end has a blurb that mentions that the pictures are from a book by David and Kelly Sopp. Here’s the book, great for new baby owners.

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Before I get into this, if you want to learn about hosting, you can read the post, but if you want to kill some time and watch Freddiew be awesome, do that instead.

Alright, back on topic we go. In the first post within this Startup Series I talked a little bit about how your domain name ties into your niche, and how to choose a domain name that is right for your business in the online world.  I covered a couple tips when it comes to choosing and gave you a couple tools to use along the way.  Nothing over the top, but just enough to get you started.

You’ve come up with an awesome domain name and now you’re wondering what’s next, right?

Well person on the other side of the screen.  Your next step is going to be finding a place to store your website files so that people can look at them.  At this point we hit the next phase of the Startup Series and another question comes up that gets a little bit more technical.

“Hosting, do I even have a hosting provider?” And “What language should my website be in?”

I don’t mean English, French, Polish or Klingon.  I mean programming language and more specifically, server side programming languages.  Generally most web hosts will support the programming language you want to build your website from.  Just to give you an idea of what I’m talking about, an example of a server side language would be PHP (which actually stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, weird right?  It’s an acronym within an acronym within an acrony… you get the picture).  You might also hear ASP.NET or just .NET being tossed around, which stands for Active Server Pages, and uses the windows based .NET framework.

“Woah woah woah… I was promised kittens.”

Ok, I’m sorry, too technical.  Here, this should hold you over.

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Whatchu know ’bout Freddiew?

Posted: 24th January 2012 by Hammer Bro in Clips
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Best amateur video effects guy on Youtube.

Check out his channel; http://www.youtube.com/freddiew

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Not the one that’s probably there right now… but this one.  You might also say “You’re post titles are unrelated.”  Or “Stop using the ‘yours’ incorrectly buddy.”

Yeah, ok, they are a little over the top.  But they probably brought some people here, and also, people are talking about it outside of the internet.

Kinda like… “Hey, lets see what the crazy looking guy has to say!  You know it’s probably something good… and he might also know kung fu which is right up my alley.”

Sadly, I don’t.

I was explaining this to a friend of mine the other day.  No, not that I don’t know kung fu, but why I gave myself such a ridiculous entry into the blogging world.

It really all comes down to marketing, about grabbing someone’s attention.

Cue the awesome Valentines day card by one of my favourite online comics, The Oatmeal.

I love your eyes

 

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Coffee Coffee Coffee

Posted: 19th January 2012 by Hammer Bro in Clips
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For your morning viewing pleasure. It can be watched with or without sound and it is equally awesome.

Things I was surprised about:

  • Couldn’t find a decent version in english.
  • 100 was backwards.  What?

 

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Super Fluffy Thing

Bonus points for guessing what this is in the comments.

The last couple of posts I did covered my passion for design and development on the web and the other was about bartering for website quotes here in hamilton (or all over the world for that matter).  They briefly went over getting your own business online, whether it’s a starter or not, through a website that can stand out from the rest.  But of course, since I’m a bit scatterbrain(ish), they didn’t really cover any structure.

When you first think about your website and where to start, about 5 billion (over-exaggeration) questions pop into your head.  Some of the right questions to ask might not even be in that list, but I can point you in the right direction based on what I usually ask my clients.  I’ll switch the verbage up a bit so that you don’t have to awkwardly read this in the third person.

Here we go.

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Who doesn't like tacos?

Who doesn't like tacos? But these tacos should be wrapped in another soft shell taco so they don't bust apart all over the place.

That’s right… Tacos.

A friend of my just recently asked me,

“If I started up a taco truck, would you help with the website for tacos?”

“As payment.  Tacos as payment.”

At first I wasn’t sure how to respond… partly because I wasn’t sure if he was serious or not.  But I thought to myself that if this were a serious offer… would I take this deal?

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This is me.. in the morning. Yeah, I usually look this confused.

A quick shower, quick breakfast, a cup of (very necessary) coffee and a few minutes in front of the mirror sums up my usual morning. After that, I hit the road and head off to work here in Hamilton (#HamOnt).  I’m a classic 8-5 guy, and I work on my passion every day.  Web design and development. That and technology… and video games (xBox360 and Wii)… yup, I’m your classic modern day nerd (I’ve even developed the ridiculous nerd hair).

Every day I spend at least 8 hours learning about the web.  What it’s doing, how to create it, and most importantly, how I can make it awesome.  I started Mancini Media about 4 years ago now.  My web design and development passion extends far beyond that though.  When I was in grade 10, I knew what I wanted to do so I stuck with it and kept filling my brain with knowledge about it.  I’ve been learning about the web since then, which is well over 10 years now.  Needless to say, if you have a question about the web, I’m your guy.

Whats the main reason why I started this blog you ask?

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