The Growing Complexity Of Developing Websites and the Growing Ease Of Using Site Builders

Last week I talked about how I’ve been stalling and stalling and stalling when it comes to building a new site about writing and creativity. I also told you how the time had finally come where I couldn’t avoid it anymore and I’ve been surprised to find I’m enjoying myself more than expected.

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Thoughts On Closing My Freelance Business

Ever since I made the transition from being a freelance designer developer to a full time writer I’ve been wanting to build another website, specifically for topics about writing and other creative pursuits. I purchased a domain a few years ago, set up a newsletter signup form, and I’ve regularly written and sent an essay every month or so, but I keep putting off launching a full site year after year.

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How To Prevent Your SVG Graphics From Deforming With preserveAspectRatio

For the last few weeks we’ve been looking at SVG coordinate systems, the SVG canvas, the viewport through which we can see a part of the canvas, and the viewBox that lets us map a region of the canvas into the viewport.

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Move And Scale SVG Graphics With The viewBox Attribute

The SVG canvas and the SVG viewport, through which you see the canvas operate on independent coordinate systems. The systems are aligned by default, but you can change the default to move and scale the canvas.

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My Transition From Services To Informational Products

What are you doing to grow your business? Are you concerned by the changing and probably shrinking market for your services? I know I am.

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