HN user
You must mean Google.com.au. The way Google is heading these days, a lot of searches are localized by country/state/city/etc. so it's really important to make sure you're tracking your rankings on the right Google domain. That being said, yes it works for .com.au.
Depends what country your in really. Always check your local laws and regulations before taking advice on the internet; the laws for someone may not be the same as yours.
Unless you have a history of success, it will be tough for you to get any investing without a site that has traction.
I think he was trying to say that you should want to help your customers. You should be happy to receive a work order from them because now they are a satisfied tenant that can praise your apartments to their friends who have been trying to get their sink fixed for a month.
My friend is a renter and he has wanted a renters interface like this for years.
Maybe new to to you, but X came out in 2009.
Why would this be a bad practice? This is a GOOD practice. You don't want to add months to the development time before you know if it's going to get traction.
I've had several successful sites, but dozens more failures and I'm glad I didn't waste the time making them all easily scalable; they simply didn't need it.
Clickable link: http://www.SEOette.com
It sounds like you haven't even talked to investors yet. You don't need a corporation to create a TOS, nor do you need a corporation to accept payments.
Cross those bridges when you get there. I don't see this leverage you keep referring to. They restructure businesses all the time. Having the right incorporation doesn't make your startup/idea/business any better, so why don't you focus on improving those things?
"Higher virality than Facebook at its fastest growth stage." You can't say that and not give us a URL.
A high tech tanning spa. One of the tanning beds cost 30k and looked like a spaceship. I went all out with this thing, using some money from an exit. I re-did the floors, walls, electric, plumping, etc. in the end I was out about 500k after running it for a year. A lot of that money went towards rent and payroll. I had 4 or 5 employees, including a manager, during peak season.
It was difficult to iterate the business, I was locked into a lease, and the equipment was too big to move easily, so I couldn't just pack up and move to a new location when I realized I didn't pick the greatest location.
The worst part was dealing with the local governing agencies for insurance, workman's comp, town, state, federal, permits, etc. They shut me down for a day or two over something trivial and I spent 8 hours driving around to fix it. Felt like the equiv. of my domain being seized and it wasn't worth it for such a thin profit margin.
There was no doubt that I could make it work, but I didn't want to spend the time or money trying to get it right. I have the internet startup stuff down pat; I'll just stick to what I know best.
I didn't realize they had a patent for this until now. Does this mean that no shopping cart can let you check out in under 2 clicks?
You don't have a preference? Nothing stands out as better than the other? Can't even give us a genre?
Most of them can't handle really large attacks. Wikileaks was supposedly getting hit with more than 10Gbps, which is right around the maximum Peakflow can handle.
When an attack this big targets a small business, they usually just null route the servers, essentially sending all data into a blackhole. The downside is that their website will be inaccessible by legitimate users. The upside is that they don't have to pay for the used bandwidth, which is pricey at 10Gbps.
That didn't last very long eh?
It's automated, but we have to wait 5 days for it? That's a deal breaker for me.
You're closing the site because the text field isn't to your liking?
Free is scary.
There was a guy who got caught selling a lot of marijuana and didn't get in much trouble because he was paying taxes on it since day 1.
You can get a free consultation from just about any tax professional. They would have noticed your mistake within a few minutes of talking to you.
The IRS usually takes 3 years to find a mistake like yours. It sounds like you've been filing wrong since 2005. The penalties suck but you got to keep that extra 15% for a really long time.
Most importantly, you have a really long time(6-12 months) from your initial notice from the IRS, before they start trying to collect. You couldn't pay right now even if you had the money, that was my experience anyways. I received a different letter from them, months later, and was finally able to pay.
Everyone knows you don't mess with the IRS. I don't get how you did this wrong for 6 years, never researched it, asked someone, or talked to an accountant. My gut tells me you probably knew what you were doing.
Visual Website Optimizer is a fantastic product and Paras is a great guy. If you run a website, you need to be using VWO. You will easily make your money back within one use.
Pull the trigger. Buy it. You won't regret it.
I checked out the ingredients and it looks pretty good. I bet this stuff really works. Focus supplements are BIG right now and I've always wanted to create something but just haven't had the time.
I know a guy who is a GENIUS at marketing stuff like this. Let me know if you want an introduction.
He does come off as abrasive but I can understand why he worded it that way. Lately people with "great ideas" are coming out of the woodwork like rabid animals. He's probably just tired of it.
White and blue are good colors for your industry, but the current homepage has too much blue above the fold. The blue is slightly too vibrant also. You want to be careful about the saturation of your colors. Vibrant/Saturated colors are subconsciously distracting and unprofessional. The hurdle to trust a vibrant website is much higher.
"WePay helps you collect, manage, and spend money." should be displayed above the fold and have embedded screenshots or an embedded video nearby. I don't recommend popping it up in a lightbox.
Include a "create account" link near your "Sign in" link. The top right corner is prime real estate and needs a call-to-action for current users and potential users.
The site seems segmented because of the various different styles and content widths used. I found three different widths so far (1010px, 960px, and 770px).
The logo needs to go. It's really bad.
Move "featured in" to the bottom.
Move "What kinds of groups are using WePay?" up more. Remove the italics on the links.
Take a look at this: http://i.imgur.com/4zHX7.png - I threw it together in 5 minutes, so don't judge it too much. White is the primary color here and you'll notice that it is visually easy to follow. Looking at the current WePay is actually straining on the eyes.
I really hope WePay destroys PayPal. They have screwed myself and my friends too many times.
The homepage layout is all wrong though. Poor element placement, messy typography, and the color scheme is off. It looks amateur and unpolished. All those SEO'd subpages are worthless if they don't convert.
Also:
- Upgrade to Nginx 0.7.67, there was a lot of bug fixes in 0.7.65 and 0.7.66.
- Limit the number of login attempts to prevent brute forcing.
- Don't show "That email address was not found" when someone tries to recover a password. You are giving out too much info, which can be used maliciously.
- Block scraper/vuln scanner/curl scripts by user-agent to keep away the script kiddies and botnets.
- Don't host your Javascript on Google. This gives hackers another possible point of entry. It's probably safe, but you're better off limiting points of entry.
- Use mod_rewrite as an additional layer of security. You'll need to slightly modify it to make it work with Nginx.
- Remove "access info anytime" and "post to my wall anytime" when signing up with Facebook.
- Limit SSH access by IP address.
Feel free to contact me if you need help.
The house cost 6k, 34 years ago. That's not the value of it today. Very misleading.
Send me a message (AIM sn in profile) I'll help you out, no charge. I'm the technical founder of a top 100 and top 500 site and picked up some SEO along the way.
Yeah, he did, works for me now too.
There is no app configured at that hostname. Perhaps the app owner has renamed it, or you mistyped the URL.
Doesn't work with WWW.
I've explained this to my some of my friends before and they are always shocked. Programmers seem to be the only ones who know 'delete' doesn't really mean it is gone forever. Even if Facebook really did a hard-delete on the data, there could still be screenshots, temp files, and caches out in the wild.
I'm glad non-programmers don't realize this though, because then the internet would be really boring and half of these sites wouldn't exist. Having stuff from my past pop up 5, 10, 20 years later could really suck.
For sites that have a lot of content, you can just do a fluid layout that looks good at any resolution. Keep in mind, it won't look good at higher resolutions if there is too much open space. I have a few sites that look great on everything from a phone to a television screen.
If you properly float elements, they will take up horizontal space when they can and go to the next line when they can't.