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I’m not the biggest fan of technical recruiters, the majority of them are blood sucking morons. Untalented vampires.

However, once you hit a certain employment level they actually become somewhat useful. Meaning they can help elevate your professional career.

I hit that level in my career, after I sold my company, when I had the unfortunate pleasure of busting out the digital wordpad and writing that dreadful resume.

My goal was simple.  To create something unique, a resume that stood out from the crowd.

I met this goal, but also during the process I discovered something VERY COOL … a way to trick the recruiters into finding me easier – SEO for resumes.

Recruiters are no different from traditional web searchers as they begin with a search objective, which in their case is a job opportunity, and they then “keyword” search for specific terms but instead of using Google their engine of choice is Monster.com.

My trick? Easy … I paid critical attention to the keywords in my resume and uploaded it to Monster.

It took a few months to get indexed in the job engine, but shortly after I started receiving calls from recruiters.  A lot of calls.  No joke, even years later to this day – roughly once a week I’m contacted with a job opportunity.

The point?  STEAL MY RESUME!

If you are a web designer, web developer, programmer, SEO specialist, IT expert, technologist … whatever … download this resume template, make the information your own (specifically the keyword list of skills on the right hand side), upload it to Monster.com and let the vampires find you!

It’s my gift to you, my fellow webdevr!

DOWNLOAD WORD DOC: Web-Developer-Resume-Free-Sample.doc

DOWNLOAD PDF: Web-Developer-Resume-Free-Sample.pdf

Enjoy!

Mike

Inheriting or purchasing a website or domain name?  Then you should be curious about its history.

What did the site look like five years ago? Has it evolved alongside the ridiculously-changing internet or has it remained stagnant like a stale slice of pizza under a couch?

You may be involved in a legal dispute that requires you to show proof of a past website. Or you may just be curious about how it has changed over time.  Regardless, if you need to dig up a past website, then here’s your web shovel!

The Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

This website time machine is a killer tool that shows what a site looked like back in the day. Its servers work around the clock to record web pages and has archived over 150 billion web pages since 1996.

Then and Now …

Frederick’s of Hollywood

In 1996, Frederick’s of Hollywood website was just uncool, an amateurish attempt at an online presence.  Today it’s, well … Hot!

NOW

THEN

Spam – The Other Kind!

SPAM, a product that’s 70 years old and who knows what it’s made of, has a website that displays its vintage quality while appealing to a modern audience. The past website seems a little uncertain and tries a little too hard.

NOW

THEN

Craigslist

Some websites have capitalized on their simplified look. Take Craigslist, for example. Never any flash animation or glitzy images found here, the text-heavy interface speaks for itself and always has. In fact, if you rode a time machine to 2000 and opened your laptop to search Craigslist for that underwater basket-weaving class, you might not even realize you turned back time.

NOW

THEN

ESPN

Besides design, ESPN’s website has not changed much over time either. It captures exactly what sports lunatics are looking for: direct, action-packed headlines; bold photographs; and easy-to-access scores and updates.

NOW

THEN

Apple

This creative giant, wasn’t always that creative!

NOW

THEN

And This Author

In 2001, my portfolio website represented exactly what I thought I was at the time … a character.  And although my personal sites have always been a little lighthearted, I’ve always tried to keep up with the web design trends of the times. After all, if you’re going to hire a web developer, his site shouldn’t suck right?

NOW

THEN

Need a loading gif animation for your website?  Here’s 116 to download!

Quickly explained … a processing icon, or loading animation is critical for any application.  The goal is to keep someone patient while they wait for a process to happen, because without one is like showing up an hour late for a blind date.  She’ll bail!

If you can design one in Photoshop go for it!  But, for the art retarded rest of us these free online generators do the trick.

Ajaxload.info is a perfect ajax loading gif creation tool. It’s simple, easy to use and has just the right amount of options.

Preloaders.net may not be friendly with chrome but makes up for it with cool features like animation speed, transparency, width size, height size and huge library of pre-made animations.

Short on time? Right click on your favorite below and save to your desktop.

Grayscale

Red

Blue

Green

Pink

Funky Monkey

And the all time best …

Fail quickly!

This is a favorite piece of advice I give every startup, one which I originally heard from Marc Ostrofsky’s book “Get Rich Click!”  And yes this dude is smart, he’s made millions online.

The point being, the longer you hold on to a bad idea, terribly executed project, under-funded business, over architected website etc … the more money you lose.

And for many years I’ve built projects for clients, then upon closure … they simply walk away.

Their website is like your abandoned Atari 2600 console in the garage.  At one time playing Pitfall and Asteroids was cool and certainly the nostalgic reason you’re holding on to it, but please … SELL THAT SHIT!

eBay, Craigslist, a traditional garage sale … there are many ways to gain back dollars online and in some cases lose only minimal.

But what about that abandoned website project? I.e. where to sell my website.

You can sell your website on the above mentioned three, but it’s highly not advised.  Like any product, there is an appropriate location to sell it.

The top 3 recommended places to sell your website are:

FLIPPA

Flippa.com is the #1 marketplace online for buying and selling websites.  And I’ve personally used this site to dump and dig for web properties.

WEBSITE BROKER

Website Broker is another great marketplace, website shoppers flock here.

FORUMS

A bit more of a risky transaction, heavily traffic’d fourms like NamePros.com have sections dedicated to the buying and selling of websites, forum sections like “Websites for Sale.”

You pay your developer, pay your host … now you can pay Google to redo it all – their way!

A new service called “Google Page Speed Service” analyzes your webpage performance and rewrites developers hard work to make pages load faster for users.

Google will be charging in the future for this service but claims it will improve speeds from 25 to 60 percent and although it’s free to signup, beta spots are limited.

Is it time to fire your developer?

A. Not yet, you still need the crappy coding to start with.

Is it wrong for Google to charge rent for a home(page) you own?

A. Hell yeah!  But odds are I’ll shell out the dough.  Prices are TBD – begging Google to be gentle.

How fast is your website?  Use webpage speed tester Google Page Speed, an awesome speedometer.

For decades website owners showed concern over speed issues, and back in the day web developers could blame it on the internet connection. Not anymore! Broadband being the standard, development now needs to be cleaner, appropriate and proficient.

“Dude! How fast does my website download?”

Obviously user experience matters and Google values webpage speed but more important is the question “How do I improve the speed?” and HOW ACCORDING TO GOOGLE.

The alternative, ySlow, developers current favorite tool runs very impressive speed stats … almost overkill.

According to topLingo developer Pete Mayo ”ySlow runs some dated stats, like claiming the importance of using images from a high bandwidth source other than the website you are using.” Then again, ySlow is from Yahoo.

Mayo elaborates (for the nerds) “YSlow puts weight in a “Content Delivery Network” (CDN) to load images onto the site, such as Amazon S3, which is a separate server dedicated and optimized for loading images. This is an Archaic way of measuring since at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is how fast your images load, especially under high traffic load.”

Translation:  What Google considers important … matters!

Meaning the use of a webpage speed testing tool from the search giant is a no brainer.  Simply, look at Google.com speed results tested in both tools, you’ll understand (and laugh)!

Google Page Speed – Test of Google.com

GRADE A or 99 of 100 … EXACTLY!

ySlow – Test of Google.com

GRADE D?  BAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!

FYI I’m a C Student

Well, my personal website MikeGlezos.com passed.  Barely.

*IMPORTANT NOTE: to reap the awesome benefits of speed fix solutions you need to install the Google Page Speed browser plugin for either Firefox or Chrome.

Testing for Non-Techies

As a final bonus, the general public gets an easy to use web based version. Page Speed Online for dummies.

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Five types of eCommerce shopping cart solutions exist: Custom programming, software (install), web based software, CMS plugins and buttons.

1. Custom Programming: Hire a custom development firm
2. Software: Purchase software, install and configure it
3. Web Based Software: Inegrate web based software
4. CMS Plugins: Install a plugin for your content management system (CMS) like WordPress
5. eCommerce Buttons: Install pre-developed code snippets

E-Commerce Shopping Cart Options

To explain eCommerce easily to my clientele I created this “Steps to eCommerce” flowchart which still holds true over 8 years later.  Of course prices have changed slightly and new options were introduced but the core concepts have remained.

Steps to eCommerce

Download “Steps to E-Commerce” PDF