urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:alextaged design and markup Alex Taged 2009-05-23T17:56:22Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:alextaged:933 2009-05-23T17:29:25Z 2009-05-23T17:56:22Z <b>Targeting &amp; Languages</b><br /><img height="32" width="32" border="0" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/alextaged/pic/00001e37" alt="" /><img height="32" width="32" border="0" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/alextaged/pic/00002aby" alt="" /><br />Since my portfolio website's targeting is <br />a) any english speaking audience <br />b) specifically Russian speaking audience <br />my web presence should be bilingual (did i spell right?) as well.<br /><br />But I am too lazy to say, type this post in both English and Russian. So i am choosing only English, since it's more international and 'standard'.<br /><br /><i>Do you think it's important to maintain delivery in two languages, </i><i>since my targeting is billingual</i><i>?</i> I am of course using both English and Russian on portfolio website, so here i am talking about everything else. <br /><br /><b>Domains</b><br /><img height="71" width="124" border="0" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" alt="to godaddy.com" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/alextaged/pic/000032tz" /><br />Domain&amp;hosting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godaddy">registrar giant GoDaddy.com</a> is what I am using right now to buy my domain. It's such a pain in the ass, cause their usability and attitude to clients are terrible. You have to do about 10-15 clicks in your struggle to final checkout, because they are feeding you with tons of worthless irritating ads and offers. It's a classical example of overagressive very american-like company that doesn't know where to stop in order to keep their customers loyal.<br /><br />Why did i go through all that? Cheap price!<br /><strong><br />update</strong><br />omg! after all the hell, i couldn't check out with neither MasterCard nor Visa which usually work everywhere perfectly. Hey daddy, go to hell.<br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:alextaged:582 2009-05-19T13:05:47Z 2009-05-19T13:09:58Z Hey there. <br />This blog is dedicated to my persona as a web designer. <br />You are about to witness how my medium web designer skills are turned to...mad skillz! <br /><br />I am starting to put my name as a brand in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internets">the internets.</a> That includes building portfolio website, creating same name accounts throughout social media and maintaining them, using various freelance websites, etc. <br /><br />Besides that, books are being read, tutorials are being done and i am also planning on taking some official web design oriented education courses. <br /><hr /><br />This blog's layout will be modified soon as well as&nbsp;info updated.<br /><br />Regards.