If you haven’t already read Tech Sanity Check, download the PDG here. Pay attention to number 6
Your nontechnical coworkers will use you as personal tech support for their home PCs.
Yup, I’m there right now. Everyone who knows anything about tech knows and understands this. Most of my holidays, cookouts, parties, et al. are spent repairing [...]

When ever someone asks me to build a web site for them, I generally do my best to get out of it. It’s not that I don’t want to build their site. It’s not that I don’t want to maintain the site. I just don’t want to charge them for it… To the people who [...]

I’ve recently begun using Wordpress as a CMS to build standalone, non-blog, websites. My first project Beads Etc… is a jewelry store front. Everything I used for this site is available freely on the ‘Net. It’s a standard Wordpress 2.5 install, a free theme with a few theme hacks and some pluggage.
The ‘Net Unknowledgable Customer
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