Comparing Apples to Oranges
Posted July 20, 2009 @ 9:52 AM, by Marc, in Business, BWS, Client — 18 
As Boston Web Studio gains more traffic, more attention, and more referrals, the amount of project inquiries I receive increases proportionately. At the same time, and because of math and all of its wondrous properties, the amount of inquiries that I should politely decline increases as well.
While there are numerous reasons any given project should be declined, the one that’s been on my mind lately is that of being compared to another agency whose estimate is much lower than mine for the same work. As I’ll point out below, the term ‘same work’ is ambiguous and rarely means what it implies.
Recreating bostonwebstudio.com
Posted July 07, 2009 @ 10:20 AM, by Marc, in BWS — 3
Seventeen months have passed since this website was last redesigned and, while there were a few attempts made in the meantime, this version—the sixth version—feels the most suitable. It started back in March of this year and, in what seems to be a welcome trend, very little time was spent in Photoshop; just enough to create the handful of images seen throughout the new design. Beyond that, Photoshop was only used for color-to-hex information, pixel-specific measurements, and the occasional 15-minute period when I just needed to see a spinning beach ball. Much of the remaining ‘design’ work was done while writing the HTML and CSS.
Password-protect a Subdomain with Plesk
Posted November 18, 2008 @ 7:43 AM, by Marc, in Hosting — 1
Boston Web Studio uses the Plesk Control Panel to manage its web hosting accounts, and while Plesk has served us well for years, it does have one shortcoming that baffles me and many other people: it doesn’t make it easy to password-protect a subdomain. It does provide an easy way to password-protect directories under the root domain and it also provides an easy way to create subdomains, yet it doesn’t combine these two features; if I want to password-protect a subdomain, I have to do it manually, and that means poking around the web server using a command-line interface.
