Over the years I have had several clients fall victim to this scam, so I thought it would be nice to write a blog to explain what this is.

What is the scam?

A Canadian company called Domain Registry of America is well known in the web world for the deceptive fake invoices they mail to domain owners in an attempt to get the domain registrant to transfer the domain to their registrar for an extremely high price. Often the cost of the domain registration is many times higher than what the registrant is currently paying for a domain registration, however a lot of people have been tricked into thinking this is simply a renewal notice that they must pay in order to keep their domain. (more…)

Lets face it, there's a lot of ugly websites out there. The Oatmeal published one of my favorite articles about the life of a web designer which can be found here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell. There is a fine balance between doing what you know is best as a professional web designer and doing what your client wants in order to please them.

Most of the time you can come to a happy medium, but sometimes you just have to give in and do what the client's wallet wants or risk not getting paid for your work. I definitely have several websites I have completed that I feel are not worthy of my portfolio because my client butchered a really good design with crazy web crap. So here's a fun little list of the top 10 things I HATE to put in a website. (more...)

Most of my clients have a pretty good grip on their business, as well as how and to what extent a website will help their business. However, with the down economy, I do get the occasional client who calls me four days after their website goes live, and says something to the effect of:

“Hi, my website has been live for four days, why am I not having to replace my front door because people are beating it down wanting to buy my product? Why have I not had to install six additional phone lines to accommodate all of my new business from the website? Where are all of my new customers? I thought my new website would solve all of my problems!” (more…)