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Look for the following qualities in terms of knowledge and practice: Your web designer must have an understanding of web standards. Web standards basically means that your website is going to be visible on almost all devices. You may ask which devices are they? Today, websites can be visited not only from web browsers on a pc but also browsers from handheld computers, cell phones, sony play station, HDTV’s, iPhone, and many other devices which are not compatible with ordinary web browsers. A web designer who knows standards will be able to design and develop a website for you that can be seen virtually anywhere.

You can look for online web design services. Today, you can easily choose a reliable web designer online. There are a couple of websites for you to do just that.

Your web designer should not necessarily be an expert on website advertising but he must be able to keep that in mind. He has to keep in mind that the website he is going to design and develop is going to be targeted on many levels, both general and specific.

Your web designer should also know about contemporary content management systems like Drupal, WordPress, etc. Today, CMS’ can be used for virtually any purpose and using them means that you don’t have to develop a network security system for your web site from scratch. Those content management software usually publish updates in time and you will not get into trouble worrying about security, archiving, etc.

Of course, a free-lance web designer should not be jack of all trades. It is reasonable that he or she can do your graphics on his favorite graphic editor and then put pieces together via CSS and XHTML. Don’t look after a photoshop expert for an ordinary, successful corporate website.

For complex systems on online sale, you may have to hire someone for maintaining your online business. Online sale services always need technical support. If your customers are clueless, they may choose shopping elsewhere. And those tiny but important technical details aren’t parto of your web designer’s job.

In the final analysis, choose somebody who pays attention to knowledge and practice equally. Try to feel that he loves his job and is determined to stay in the business for a long time. Pay attention to e-mail conversations. Don’t go with im and take his time.

As with the fees or prices, an average web designer who has those qualities is working for around $50 per hour. Less than that is an alert for decrease in quality. After all, you are paying for a website which you will use through all media and for a very long time.

I have been thinking on a project that involves some minor information design. I suddenly caught up by the idea of what is a post and what is an article. This reminded me of a blog post of Dave Shea.

I think a blog is news source regardless of what is it about. It may inform you about that the blogger saw this movie and has slept with that person, etc. It’s a news source that can tell you that the blogger person has written a new article, but its not the article itself.

Therefore, Wordpress has the static pages feature. So that the user will be able to both blogs about this and that and then also writes articles, or essays in whatever kind of nature.

Just a couple of cents in a break.

Nowadays, I see posts about Robert Scoble and his blog and his job and his nearly everything here and there. These posts mostly talk about Scoble’s views on certain products that he writes up in his blog. Others are simply hate propaganda against Robert Scoble.

I don’t specially like or dislike Robert. I just think that he is a clever, special guy who likes to initiate discussions in a provocative fashion. His provocativeness is a must as a journalist. And yes, he is a journalist. He does interviews. He does it well, I think.

His provocative posts are generally about comparing two or more products or services. For instance, once he questioned whether Apple imitates Microsoft. There have been 230 comments under this post so far and he made people to come out and talk. Okay, I know that topics like Microsoft vs Anything can be quite intriguing at times but he has the ability to achieve more buzz than an ordinary Microsoft vs. Oranges and Apples kind of comparisons.

Another nice post to play with from Scoble was about why United States will remain dominant in tech. He claimed that United States will remain dominant in tech because Iran and some other countries mistreat their citizens. Robert Scoble knows very well that there are lots of countries on earth that are coming really close in competition on tech. I don’t think that his claim was sincere. I think he just knows how to make a buzz.

For a last example, I will mention his post about how Microsoft is gonna edge in on Google. I am sure that Robert is joking here completely.

Now, more important than all this is how and why people react to Robert Scoble. I feel disturbed by the hate propaganda that some bloggers carry out against him. I just don’t understand why they keep reading him if he discomforts them by his posts.

There must be something else, some other reason that some people hate Scoble and keep reading his posts. This isn’t just a love-to-hate situation.

My opinion is that those people don’t have the guts and the mindset to post like him. I think that is jealousy. Most people that blurbs about Robert Scoble blurb about him just because they think he gains and earns by something they cannot achieve. Those people cannot make something on their own, they feel needy most probably. Or at least, they cannot see the buzz he creates and they forgot that Robert Scoble is a journalist. One of his provocative posts was about comparing Windows Vista and Mac OS X. He needs this to do his job. He needs to and must podcast about odd things sometimes. That happens all the time, all day long with a whole press and media.

Anyway, my suggestion to those suffering from the Scoblenvy: Go try and create your own buzz and content. You are free to add any interesting content to your blogs. Do it and try to make it better than Scoble, then come and blurb about why Scoble makes no sense.

By the way, among the negative comments blurbs about Scoble, the oscar has to go to Yuvi who is a 15 year old Geek wannabe from Chennai, India. He is a VB and C# guy, but is trying to expand his horizons. He is the best representative of people who like to blurb about Robert Scoble.

update: Another post from Robert Scoble that drive people crazy. Now it is iPhone. Well, another reason why I think that Robert Scoble has a playful cleverness. There are many people out there, important names who blog about the iPhone recently. They write down very decent things, evaluating iPhone and the future of Apple, swot of opponents etc. but none of them get the attention that Scoble is getting right now. This isn’t Scoble’s way, that’s just what we call “social psychology” among academic jargon.