The MediaWizard’s Blog
Posts tagged Inclination
Forget Domains, buy a TLD!
Jun 25th
ICANN’s Paris conference has thrown up some interesting ideas and questions, chief among them has been the possibility of introducing thousands of new TLDs on a pay and play basis. This BBC News Story has the crux of the issue.
What they’re essentially saying is that anyone willing to fork out between $39,000 – $390,000 for a TLD could possibly buy their own! What this means is that if I had the money and the inclination – I could buy and promote .mwzd (not really, merely an example ) and Coke could get .coke and Ebay could get .ebay, ad nauseam.
My first More >
Why WordPress?
Oct 3rd
I was answering someone’s question about how to start out on web development for a personal site, here’s my answer to that question, elaborated on below.
Easiest method for a noob at web design with some experience in graphic design is Dreamweaver. Design in photoshop / illustrator, export to Dreamweaver, slide and dice, use filter to export to required file type and voila.
Why get into the custom thingie though? Tons of kick-ass templates available for as low as $10 at places. Lots of free CSS templates too – just add graphics. W3C valid XHTML and CSS is mandatory for Web 2.0 More >
