Bangalore PHP Freelancer

You may be motivated to start your freelancing career after reading blogs and speaking to other freelancers. Everyone advice you to have a personal website to promote you service. In fact they tell you that websites as your identify on the internet. But what they don’t tell you is how to make your freelance website such that clients come to you. This blog guide you to build one such website.

First impression is the best impression

Home page is the first page to visit by any new clients. Since you are completely new in their world, they willing don’t want to stay more than 20 seconds there. This means you have got just 20 seconds to retain them.  You can do that by introducing yourself in just a line or two. Below is a quick example of mine.

Also note to have a good tagline for yourself that would convince your customer to stay back and browse rest of your website. If you achieve it, you have won a client – of course not an extent to get a order placed.

Today I have revamped a my blog design. The new design is attractive, mobile friendly and more informative. Cover photo of this article hosts the new design of the website.

But wait, what’s wrong with the old design ?

After using the old design for year and half I have found many drawbacks of the old design.In simple words It was not impressing the customer who have landed on my website. Below are the few things which every consultant like me must have in their website.

Have a vision: Have a vision for your website.Just having blog don’t get more customers. Vision of my website is to introduce myself & my service to my customer.

Today I have launched a brand new design for  my personal site. This new website design which you have landed on is more mobile friendly and loads fast.This is more attractive than the former one.

 

Last few days ago I got a request from a client to develop a website just like naukari.com. My first reaction for that was “yes! I can develop a job portal for you”. Then he replied “I want it exactly like a naukari.com”. So after that I requested him to give me the list of requirements. He said “I need all the features of naukari.com”. He just wanted me to clone the website! Realizing this I happen to explain him why this doesn’t work. Today I am writing a blog about the same.

Cloning a famous website will not help you to establish the business. The straight forward reason for this is that a person who wants to clone a website generally does not have a domain knowledge in which he is trying to establish the business. Want to realize this? -read the above paragraph again wearing the hat as my client. Read his replies and think of his approach to build a business.

We term such a kind of business as “me too business “.  Mostly these kinds of businesses build all the features of a famous website without knowing the reason for that. In fact one thing these people fail to understand is the big websites found today were not big from day one. They started small, studied the market, established in market, found a problem to solve, built a product/business which solves the problem and adds the business value. That’s the right path to walk on.

The other reason that makes the “me too business” to fail is their lack of understanding of problem. These kinds of businesses try to solve the same problem what already existing website without understanding the depth of the problem. Building a product is not about giving many features; it’s about solving a real-time problem. In fact the software itself is worth nothing if it doesn’t solve the problem to the fullest extent. It’s not the software makes the product, the approach taken to solve a problem does.

Today I attend the Mobile Developer Summit in NIMHANS conventional center,Bangalore. This event was very well organized and was information filled. Mainly I liked two session of scott davis – One Web Many Screens , Mobile OSes : More than Android & iOS. I would write a post with collective of those two.

Here are key take away from the sessions :

1. Today users access you web app with many devices , hence one web & many screens . Giving the same user experience through out the device is challenging.
2. Apps must save it’s state on a device for every user  and resume back to the same state when switched between the devices
3. Apps must eventually learn it’s user behavior & get automated based on the same.
4. Apps can use GPS for location based automation
5. Apps must give instant activity updates across the device, across the OS, across the browser.
6. These days web has become a collection of different pieces which are loosely coupled.
7. Mobile devices can be integrated with other day-to-day machines like car.In fact car may be seen as a extension of mobile.
8. By next year the mobile OS spectrum may include few more OS like Tizen, Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch etc
9. Big companies are trying to take a pie of mobile market .However the approach may be different  – Market Share or Profitability
10. Mobile OS , Mobile Hardware & Apps store are 3 elements of a mobile industry. Owning all of them by a single provider gives more control & market share. Hence Google , Apple , Samsung , Amazon are aiming at it.

I have just covered the major points of the whole talk. I would write more about them some times later.

That’s being said….I like the way scott gives the presentation. Good and engaging…

I just found this infographics about startup via Facebook . Of course the money making is not a only factor for an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs will have a very good product idea . Even most of this Web Developers take a step ahead with their great product idea and find a startup.

 

 

Say you are a PHP Developer who takes up freelance projects. After few months of being in the field you always feel like you are paid less than what you deserve. If you ever felt so, then the person you have to blame is yourself. That’s because you may be having very few direct clients. Surprised how does this matter? Read on…

 

The first obvious reason is that the middle person between the client & you will take up his/her piece of cake. The left out is what you get. So that’s the very basic reason every one is known of. But let me tell you there are other reasons too.

From past few days many people asked me like how I get freelance project from the market. I explained them verbally & today I thought why let me not write about it. Many new business start ups who is looking out for freelancer had question – How to find PHP Freelancer in my city? The question has a concern hidden inside them. Actually the question was how to find trusted a PHP Freelancer online?

I had a one answer for all – Believe in freelancer’s social presence. Let me explain you the insight.

Today the Social media has grown to the extent that you can measure a person out of it? Many of my clients discovered me online thru my social media presence. Most of the clients would have gone thru my LinkedIn profile before they contact me.

The clients would have got a small impression about me before they even contact me. Believe me, that’s the truth. By this fact I don’t recommend the new freelancer to their profile with experience & projects. Please don’t do that. People are enough smart than you.

Yes, the era of flat UI has started. Many designs by now have adopted the concept of Flat UI. In fact the whole concept of the Flat UI was picked up must faster than anything else. I would reveal the secrete bit later in this blog. For who don’t know what is flat UI here is the small explanation about it.

In plain terms, flat design is a style of interface that doesn’t employ any three dimensional realism. Windows 8 is the perfect example. Yes, I guess Microsoft is the one who started it. But I am not too sure…

Some suggested that in Apple’s next mobile operating system,is pushing a more “flat design” that is starker and simpler, according to developers who have spoken to Apple employees but didn’t have further details.

So do you want to look into more possibilities of Flat Design? Then here you go. This pinterest collection is all for you.

When a new customer contacts me for a web development the first question they would prefer to ask:

Customer: How do you charge?

Me: Well,  Rs X per hr or fixed amount for a particular website

Customer: Your charges are very high. What is the best price you can quote?