While this student MetroCard design project celebrating the meat packing district of NYC brings humor to hamburger, a similar, glitter-covered treatment of the gay-friendly Chelsea (not shown) is slightly offensive. Still, this is a great idea for what could be a standout, academic project. See more: here!
You will remember from the Thumbnail Guide to the World Wide Interwebs that the internet is a giant city of trailer parks in the sky and your host is the specific trailer park where your website lives.
In the personal experience of Ofazomi, real satisfaction in the case of a massive web problems is pretty much non-existent across all vendors. Friends may be able to offer hosting suggestions. At minimum, your host should be running the most current PHP software and implement all patches within 24 hours. Other things to consider when selecting a host is their value proposition (cost/space), hosting options and back end administrative systems, but for most folks nearly any host should work equally well. With the notable exception of Laughing Squid, (please email if you know of others) nearly all tech support has been outsourced to India. Outsourcing tech support is not a problem until you want to speak with someone in management because everything has gone wrong. I have never spoken with anyone in tech support since the proto-internet days of the late 1980s is ‘authorized’ to offer their “guaranteed refunds.” There is no real accountability on the web. Pick your poison.
Can you be a bit more specific? I want to sell things online. (Click to find out!)
Here, here, here and here. The motherlode of UI articles can be found here: ui-patterns.com/patterns. Also check out www.responsinator.com to see your design on such lovely hardware choices as Crappy Android Landscape 320 x 240!
The web is just a giant bunch of trailer parks in the sky. You need three things to live there: a park, a trailer and an address.
How do I pick a host? (Click to find out!)
But wait, what IS the internet? (Click to find out!)
