First Technical Steps to managing your own business

Here’s some useful info about getting your web presence up and running. I took advantage of this advice to resurrect my “Business and Consulting” website - www.gardiner.net.au, using ZoneEdit.

It had gone offline quite for a while after the previous free hosting through work concluded.

I’m now pointing it to an area on my ISP-provided web hosting, and I’ve also got some nice email address forwarding happening too (which I didn’t have before).

ClustrMaps - Hit counter map shows locations of all visitors to my blog

I’ve added a link to ClustrMaps on my blog, to see if there really are any people who read my blog!

I heard about this from Rob Caron, and the fact that there are no dots on Adelaide makes me wonder a) am I the only one in Adelaide reading his blog or b) have they got Adelaide somewhere in the middle of Australia!

Get organised with Solution Folders

This is a nice tip that I’ve already used to organise our Online Assessment solution. Now Alexis doesn’t need to worry about those funny “deploy” projects - she can just find the web projects easily.