Scarcity Mentality

I was talking the other night to a client about some work I'm doing for his site. A woman in the room who also has a web development business overheard our discussion and practically attacked the guy for not hiring her instead of me. I was kind of shocked by this behavior even though this person is very well known for being slightly manic. She insisted that my client should have hired her purely because she could have done the work too.
Crazy. I had enough of listening to her attacking him about my working for him right in front of me when she asked him with a straight face, "is he more rational? Is that why?"

So anyway the whole thing was stupid. I'm ashamed for not standing up to her and telling her that this was entirely inappropriate and rude besides. It probably wouldn't have mattered though.

There are many people with vastly different talents in this industry and I for one wouldn't be so hasty to create such a hostile environment with someone who's skills I may lack and would surely need one day. I know if she ever needs my help I'm not going to be so eager to share anything.

“People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.” Stephen Covey.

Hosted E-Commerce Solutions

Doing some research this weekend looking for inexpensive e-commerce. I found a few that offer a sort of clip-on approach for shopping carts. The site that needs a cart is already developed and right now the hosting environment is a bit unknown. Also the client's budget is a bit of a mystery.

I'm leaning toward this one:
http://www.mals-e.com/authnet.php

It's basically free. The client already has cc processing and expressed that his main need is to have the orders pre-filled so he doesn't have to manually fill them out when his customers call them in.

There are some that have a monthly fee. I like this one:
https://www.ecartsoft.com/cgi-bin/home.cgi?page=user+template&tp=1004&seid=1215864628415623113612012149047851120

Color Theory

ColorSchemer is a handy color scheme generator.
You put in hex or rgb values and it creates a color palette.

http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

Webmastery

This blog is intended for me to keep track of any useful tips, tricks, or hacks I come across. Whenever possible I'll also include any implementation of what I find.

I also plan on using this blog for brainstorming. Just putting ideas out into the ether with the hope that it makes me better able to develop them.

At the moment, I'm just happy to finally have something that goes on my "blog" link in my nav...