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As a small business owner it is very important for me to be able to reach out to new customers, as well as retain old ones. One thing that is particularly hard for me to manage with new websites is Email Validation and other email marketing trends. I just don’t have the time to sort through hundreds upon thousands of emails and pick out the SPAM much less potential customers. That is why I am so glad I found TowerData.com they allow for me to do what I do best, and they can do what they do best with email marketing. TowerData.com allows me to grow my small business at a rate that I can handle, while not spending hours a day trying to search for new customers.

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This post is more geared towards newbs in the field like myself, and will go over both advantages I’ve found and disadvantages. First off lets start by saying that my progress in the website development world has been VERY slow and everything has been self taught. I started out in 7th grade on NeoPets.com where I learned about “NeoHTML” which wasn’t actually HTML at all it was CSS that you used so that you could format your page. Then I actually started to use HTML when I got Archmaille.com which originally was where I tried selling my sterling silver jewelry (if you don’t believe me check out Way Back Machine) I hand coded the site at first, later on some webmaster forums I learned how to combine my knowledge of CSS and HTML to create prettier pages. I finally started to dable in PHP when I got kclanparty.org where I first had PHPNuke installed. Didn’t do much more than the template, and a few custom add ons… but it helped me to learn the interaction of PHP and HTML. Later on I learned of the beauties that come with WordPress soon abandoning PHPNuke. I mean the only feature of Nuke I really used was the blog so why bother with all that clutter, and growing insecurities?

At this point not only my knowledge of the difference between good code, and the interactions of the different foundational languages was growing, but so was my portfolio of websites. Moving into the upper 20′s the list of domains I owned seemed to be growing month by month. Now with several WordPress websites, the experience with PHPNuke, (also some PHPBB), and ArchmailleDesigns.com where my jewelry store moved with a custom PHP shopping cart… it was about time that I actually learned how to code a website in PHP from the ground up.

I went out and purchased several books on PHP and MySQL because what I wanted to do you really can’t have one without the other. After several chapters of these books I wasn’t really getting to anything terribly interesting to me. I was learning names of things that I’ve been using for a long time, which is helpful to a point, but not as much as you might think. I could now search for solutions when I had problems which was nice, but I wasn’t having many problems with the few things I knew.

Later when I was working on the security team with MTV protecting their websites I learned of the great world of PHP frameworks. Or rather MVC frameworks in general. I tried many of them but really attached myself to CakePHP since the others were basically worthless as you still had to write 100% of the code how is that quicker? With cake you’ve got the beautiful Bake function where you can bake up a simple CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) website in a matter of minutes (assuming you already have the database ready) What CakePHP really taught me was the importance of good Database Structure, hell it taught me database structure all together, but since it was writing 90% of the code for me and I was once again editing it… needless to say I’ve still not learned any sort of real code.

Which brings me to the downsides of PHP frameworks I still don’t know what I’m doing! I built PetitionsForChange.com in less than 2 weeks! It really is amazing how quickly you can build a website with a framework… but now I am starting to build websites more and more complex, each new project has new complexities that come with it. Now that I’ve become more comfortable with CakePHP it is once again time to move out on my own and start to learn just PHP by itself. I’ve actually learned MySQL very well which I didn’t know before, so I feel more confident to go out and take on the task of building a website in straight out PHP.

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Have you heard of CreditCardCity.com.au? Credit Card City is a credit card comparison website for australians and they offer the best services in finding the right credit card for you! The economy is rough all around the world right now and some of us just need that little bit of credit to make ends meet so why not visit Credit Card City and pick one that works for you!

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Wow so I’ve been working my BUTT off for the last week to get this new site launched. The site is Petitions For Change and let me say it has been a long week… but it’s coming together very nicely! I am quite satisfied with the outcome of the site and though it is not done yet it is getting close enough that I’m at sort of a Beta testing phase… I’m adding petitions and signatures and well what the heck anyone can now! My cousin has added a few himself… uh… they’re strange and will be going away sooner or later but right now they’ve got a good amount of code and malicious content that will help me to finish developing the security features and make sure none of it gets through.

I plan on being very active with the community around Petitions for Change and would love to see this grow!

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You know one of the worst things about going on vacation is trying to fit everyone into a cramped hotel room. If it were just my wife and I it would be cramped, but with our kids as well… you can sometimes just forget it. One thing that I do like though is the idea of renting a home for the weekend or week for our vacation trips. I knew this family who used Vacation Rentals AD – Vacation Home Rentals to rent their home out during the summer. They lived just off the beach in Southern California and to get away from all the tourists during the summer they would vacation for long periods of time. During that time they would rent out their home to the tourists they were hiding from!

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Do you have little kids getting into the Halloween time of year? One of the first things most kids are going to want is disney costumes. I know when I was a kid the first costumes I started begging for was Disney Costumes such as I wanted to be Aladin. Of course those times have past and which Disney costumes your kids may be into is different, but they’re still most likely going to want something Disney related at some point.

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I just recently found this website on the migration of hummingbirds. At first when the site was shown to me I thought very little of it until I actually started looking through and learned so much about hummingbirds. For the longest time I just thought that a hummingbird was a hummingbird, but there are actually many different varieties, shapes, and colors of hummingbirds! And best of all they are migrating through the United States right now. I also learned that the best way to observe these fascinating birds is by getting a glass hummingbird feeder and placing it near your home or a window so that you can watch them without disturbing their feeding habits.

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I hear all day long talking to people about how “bad” the economy is… and as a businessman myself I’ve seen slowdowns in what I make, but I wouldn’t call this economy “bad” by any means. First off we need this slowdown to equalize our system, it helps weed out the unhealthy businesses making the stronger businesses be able to prosper. And if you are a construction company this is a great time! alasher.com sells used construction equipment such as Cable Rodding Trucks that you can get cheap thanks to some of the weaker companies with bad policies dying out. Now your business can prosper and grow with like new construction equipment from alasher.com!

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If I learned anything from my wife giving birth to our son it is how important fashionable maternity clothes are. Of course I always love my wife, even when she got bigger bearing our son she was still beautiful in my eyes. However women want to feel beautiful too, which takes more than just you telling them how gorgeous they are each day. You have to treat them to maternity wear that brings out the beauty inside them. And with how many companies think that maternity clothing should be boxy, basic, and unfashionable it can be pretty hard to find something that your wife or girlfriend looks gorgeous in (or at least makes her feel gorgeous). That’s why I’m glad I found KikisFashions.com they have fashionable maternity wear any mother would be proud to wear!

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