Web Designers' Edge - The Self-Taught Designer's Best Friend » 2009 July 16

Leaner Times Call For Simplicity – Learn To Be Content With Less

Tim Norton — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:00:48 +0000

Well first of all, I want to apologize for not being consistent with the newsletter, some weeks you get it on Tuesday, others Wednesday or Thursday, and this is Friday! I’m really going to try to be consistent and send it out every Thursday, as I currently promise.

Oh, and last week I missed the newsletter because I was on vacation in the resort state … of Indiana :) It was awesome, my sister was there with her husband and kids, my mom was there, and my wife and I brought our 5 kids. We stayed at my brothers house and just hung around and let the kids play, and had some nice dinners, watched movies. It was great!

I think what made it such a great vacation was that it was simple. We just enjoyed each other. We didn’t spend a ton of money, or do anything extraordinary, just talked, played games, and kept it really simple.

A good lesson for all of us to learn when times are leaner is that you don’t really need a lot to be happy. Of course, the point of being in business is to make money to support yourself and have what you and your family need.

But make sure to take advantage of leaner times to learn what really makes you happy: spending time with your family and friends. It’s people, not things, that ultimately need to be the object of our life.

So relax a little, and until things pick up, find happiness in the little things in life.

Website Tool Might Save You Some Time – You Could Even Promote It For Extra Income

Tim Norton — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:00:31 +0000

In case you don’t remember what it’s like to be a total beginner online, putting up a website and monetizing it can be very difficult.

So most people spend months or years searching for tools that can help them speed it up. That is if they can’t afford your web design fees. After a polite look, they will keep looking.

But there are tools that you can promote, that will solve the problems that newbies online face, and that you can make income from. If you have a list of people who have been on the fence about web design, try this tool. It’s a quick way for beginners to build a website and monetize it. And if you were the one to tell them about it, you make residual income.

Sounds like a good deal!

Learn more here, sign up for an account, and tell your fence sitters :)

Really Cool Web Design Tool You Can Make Residual Income From!

Managing Your Calendar And Tasks For Free – Google Tools Just Keep Getting Better

Tim Norton — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:00:01 +0000

Google has tons of cash laying around and they seem to have plenty to throw at developing their online tools into really awesome ones …

The calendar tool works extremely well, and has some syncing programs that you can use to keep it synced up with Outlook, an exchange server, Mac calendar, lots of different ones.

I use both a blackberry and an iphone, for different uses, and I keep everything synced up between them and with my computer, using Google Calendar.

If you haven’t tried it, this might just be your time!

Learn more about Google calendar here:

Google Calendar