About mySpot

by RICARDO R. on JANUARY 16, 2010

Let me start by saying that web development is really fun and most probably you’ll enjoy spending time on the net as much as I do, right?

Well, after developing a few pages for some customers I realized that I did not have my own very personal web presence so I started this project pretending to be my longest to complete since the idea is to have it always under construction.

I pictured it as a very simple space with a nice and neat clean design peaceful place where I can share my portfolio and references of other freelancing professionals I’ve interact with, so please if you have any recommendation to make this site a better let me know so by posting your comments here on the site.

I truly believe on building relationships so if you are considering me as a potential service provider you can count that our relationship won’t be finished after project completion (considering the project is not done until you are satisfied with it).

If by the other hand you have worked for me in the past, chances are that I’ll be getting you more work in the future so let’s keep in touch.

Finally, this website idea crossed my mind while riding on my bike.  As a matter of fact when I’m not home sitting on my computer (preferably my Mac) with my baby daughter, I’m always on my 800cc Suzuki Boulevard so she (la morenasa) deserves her place on mySpot.

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Let’s talk about browser compatibility

by RICARDO R. on JANUARY 17, 2010

…or should I say incompatibility?

Don’t you just hate spending hours working on a very neat website design  to find out a few hours later that people sees something very different to what you just built? This is really frustrating, and of course there are so many variables that is hard sometimes to start troubleshooting.

Some of this difference have to do with image size, header widths, table borders and so on, but mainly are related to browsers, operating systems and screen sizes.

I’m currently running Mac OS X (my favorite) on my main computer and two virtual machines, one of them running Ubuntu Linux and the other one with Windows Vista.

My netbook is also dual boot on Windows XP and Ubuntu Remix (default boot) so this scenario allow me to test my work with Microsoft Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera for all the mentioned OS.  Trust me,irritating!!.

If you are going through these issues then sites such asbrowsershots.org may become handy although you better be patient since they run very low most of the time.

If you’ll like me to help you checking out a few sites just drop me a few lines and I’ll be glad to provide you with screenshots.

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Content Management Systems (CMS)

by RICARDO R. on JANUARY 25, 2010

Thanks God the world didn’t crash on year 2000 so computers are still working fine and the Internet cloud is now bigger and stronger than before.

Did you noticed how easy is to find information online compared to a few years back? (great job Google ) This is due to SEO -Search Engine Optimization – and how the information is stored on CMS.

As a result of SEO techniques and CMS tools information is now geographically related and categorized by language, relevance, keywords and few other parameters, making it easily accessible on the web.

You can find several CMS softwares available on the market according to your budget and specific needs but, for most of us (mere mortals) Wordpress is probably the way to go either for a small to mid-size business or just a personal blog.

Wordpress programming is not only fun but it empowers you to get control of your website.

Once your website is up and running you won’t depend on any developer to keep it up to date. Adding images, videos or changing the way it looks is as friendly as copy-pasting from a Word document, and changing background and colors as simple as the versatility your preferred theme.