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i need to unlock a Nokia N80. WHERE and how much can i do that.

it reelly brakes my hart when i reed all this posts; its reaaly a[b]paul[/b]ing!!!

yawa-ti-de has spoken.

Got this online:

How to Set a Price for Web Design Work
By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

If you're first starting out as a freelance Web Designer, you need to think about how much you're going to charge, and how exactly you'll charge. But before you quote a price, you need to take a few things into consideration.
What is the project?

Before you evaluate any Web design project, you need to determine what it will entail. Some questions to ask include:

-How many pages will need to be created?
-Are there images and/or design that need to be used, or will they be created as part of the project?
-Is there content for the site, or will that be written by the designer?
-Will there be any Flash, multimedia, programming or scripting required?

Depending on the answer to those questions may raise your prices.

When do your clients want the project completed?

The more urgent a project is, the more you can generally charge. But be sure that if you agree to an accelerated schedule, that it's one you can meet.
How much experience do you have?

The more Web design experience you have, the more you can charge, and the more your clients will expect to pay. Keep in mind, however that if you don't have a lot of Flash experience and that's what your clients want, you shouldn't rely on your six years of HTML coding to increase your prices.
How much long-term maintenance is required?

Often, when a Web site is commissioned, the clients have not thought beyond just getting the page up on the site. As a Web designer, you should make sure that your clients have maintenance covered. If they expect you or your company to cover it, you should probably get a separate contract for that aspect of the job.

What is the going rate?

This can often be difficult to determine. The best way is to talk to other designers in your area. Check out the salary and pricing Web sites in the sidebar for more assistance.

How much do you want to make?

The bottom line, after everything else is: how much do you want to make? For example, you might have a project you would love to do, because it would be fun, or interesting or challenging. Your bid might reflect that. On the other hand, you might feel uncomfortable doing a job or would have to do extra work just to complete it, such as if you would have to hire a database programmer to complete the project.

Some General Rules of Thumb

1. Never bid on a project you do not have the resources to complete. If you assume that you'll be able to hire a Perl programmer when you make the bid, chances are you'll be scrambling 2 days before the due date and spend all your fee on a last minute programmer.

2. Get as clear and specific a contract as possible. If the contract is vague, you may find yourself providing more services than you expected.

3. Be careful with pro bono work. There are many good reasons to build Web sites for free, but you should treat your pro bono work as seriously as any other contract. And if you give away your services, your customers might not want to pay after the free period is over, even if they like your quality.

4. Always be honest with your clients. If you say you can meet a deadline, then meet it, and if you can't give them as much warning as you possibly can.

SOURCE: About.com

Hey Waleab, if i may ask, how do you describe 'fair price'?

Let me start this post by saying am kind of pissed off at this moment. Why are my pissed?

I was speaking to a prospective client earlier today and when we got the 'money' stage, i gave him an average price; even though he has not decided on what he wants on his website. Then, i got the most annoying thing i have ever heard in my whole career as a web designer- 'websites are not expensive anymore'.

Whats happening in the industry? Are people under-fixing prices? Do we need a regulatory body/association?

Read this and let me know if you still want t sited in your community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_accident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

Are LG mobile phones available for sale at the LG shops in Lagos? Also, are LG phones reliable?

Tigerhead Battery inside Fanta Bottle

i prefer BBC, i don't trust anything that comes out of CNN; they are too dramatic.

Its called a social networking website.

50 Must-Read Resources For Incredible Web Design

Web design has become one of the largest online fields with thousands of people pitting their designs against those of others every day. While the field is still young and growing, there are few designers who are recognized by all and have stood the test of time as their designs prevail over all others. Today, I want to share fifty must-read resources if you want to get started on the path of creating incredible web designs. Remember, beautiful designs aren’t made overnight - this is a process that takes time and practice. Don’t give up - instead, read on and find either a website, article, tutorial, or just some inspiration to help you take yourself and your business to the next level.

Sites

A lot of times, there are just a few sites out there in which every article is a must-read to learn more about web design. I’ve compiled ten of my favorite resources that I read every day to get my fill of design news, resources, tutorials, articles, and practices. Most of these you have probably heard of - some may be new - but either way, all ten of these sites deserve your visits and you deserve to read their articles. So dive on in!

READ MORE: http://elitebydesign.com/50-must-read-resources-for-incredible-web-design/

Naeto C- You know my P( the album)

rephrase your post for better understanding. Do you need a web designer?

I have a BlackBerry Pearl 8130 i need to unlock. Where can i unlock in Lagos?

Nothing, NEPA has done their thing for a few weeks now.

snake(taste like fish) , camel(strong meat)

1. Boring design

2. Dont encourage pictures stretched.

3. I noticed that a lot of your design have embossed menus, i think you should try some flattened menus, atleast dont be too consistent on embossing.

There is room for improvement.

Mr. Samuel Olumide, i just checked your website and i must be honest  with you, i am not impressed at all. You call yourself a 'professional web designer' and your own website does not speak well.

I think you should give your website a face-lift. As a designer, am still working on my own website and from alot of artcles i have read online, your own website tells alot about you.

I hope you contract goes through with the poster.

Best

hello,

i need to unlock a Blackberry Pearl 8130 phone. Can anyone tell me where i can do that and how much it will cost me .

Thanx

Who is a DJ?

Is a DJ a person who mixes and scratches on the turn-table or someone who uses his laptop loaded with Dj softwares and mixes?

What really makes a DJ?

It all depends on who you are and what you do with your PC.

Google

Sitepoint

wikipedia

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BBC

Hi people,


I need to downgrade my vista to Xp. I need aall your inputs on doing that.

Thanx

To all women on Nairaland and around the world, i don't mean any offence to you.

Its just that in this part of the world as we all know 'women and machine hardly mix'

hey Yawa-ti-de, you seem fully informed and techy for a woman. Nice observations there, will like to chat with you sometime.

Can i find you in yahoo chat?

this looks ok.

My suggested corrections:

1. Drop the president's name below his picture ( on the homepage)

2. The search is not providing me with results.

W3C CSS Validator results for http://www.itsihost.com/test/geometric2/index.html (CSS level 2.1)

Sorry! We found the following errors (1)

URI : http://www.itsihost.com/test/geometric2/stylesheet.css

298 .big Value Error : border-bottom pink is not a color value : 3px solid pink



Warnings (14)

URI : http://www.itsihost.com/test/geometric2/stylesheet.css

84 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts input.btn and #navigation a:visited
84 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #wrappergal and #navigation a:visited
84 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #wrapper and #navigation a:visited
84 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #wrappergal and #navigation a:visited
84 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #wrapper and #navigation a:visited
84 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts input.btn and #navigation a:visited
88 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #wrapper and #navigation a:hover
88 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts input.btn and #navigation a:hover
88 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #wrappergal and #navigation a:hover
143 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #navigation and #header
148 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #navigation and .services
160 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #wrappergal and .sbar
160 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts input.btn and .sbar
160 Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #wrapper and .sbar


Nice work done there.

Try

www.nvidia.co.uk/page/pg_20020206159927.html

www.driverfiles.net/Video-Adapters/nVIDIA/GeForce4-MX-440/download/page,sh,23324,459,5,.html

Hope it helps

To be honest with you your friend's design is totally out of place. Enough said.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)  -- Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.


She believes her latest invention is even more valuable -- only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers -- Russell Power and Louis Monier -- searched for better ways to search. Now, it's boasting time. What do you think of the new Cuil search engine?

For starters, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages.

Patterson believes that's at least three times the size of Google's index, although there is no way to know for certain. Google stopped publicly quantifying its index's breadth nearly three years ago when the catalog spanned 8.2 billion Web pages.

Cuil won't divulge the formula it has developed to cover a wider swath of the Web with far fewer computers than Google. And Google isn't ceding the point: Spokeswoman Katie Watson said her company still believes its index is the largest.

After getting inquiries about Cuil, Google asserted on its blog Friday that it regularly scans through 1 trillion unique Web links. But Google said it doesn't index them all because they either point to similar content or would diminish the quality of its search results in some other way. The posting didn't quantify the size of Google's index.


A search index's scope is important because information, pictures and content can't be found unless they're stored in a database. But Cuil believes it will outshine Google in several other ways, including its method for identifying and displaying pertinent results.

Rather than trying to mimic Google's method of ranking the quantity and quality of links to Web sites, Patterson says Cuil's technology drills into the actual content of a page. And Cuil's results will be presented in a more magazine-like format instead of just a vertical stack of Web links. Cuil's results are displayed with more photos spread horizontally across the page and include sidebars that can be clicked on to learn more about topics related to the original search request.

Finally, Cuil is hoping to attract traffic by promising not to retain information about its users' search histories or surfing patterns -- something that Google does, much to the consternation of privacy watchdogs.

Cuil is just the latest in a long line of Google challengers.

The list includes swaggering startups like Teoma (whose technology became the backbone of Ask.com), Vivisimo, Snap, Mahalo and, most recently, Powerset, which was acquired by Microsoft Corp. this month.

Even after investing hundreds of millions of dollars on search, both Microsoft and Yahoo Inc. have been losing ground to Google. Through May, Google held a 62 percent share of the U.S. search market followed by Yahoo at 21 percent and Microsoft at 8.5 percent, according to comScore Inc.

Google has become so synonymous with Internet search that it may no longer matter how good Cuil or any other challenger is, said Gartner Inc. analyst Allen Weiner.

"Search has become as much about branding as anything else," Weiner said. "I doubt (Cuil) will be keeping anyone at Google awake at night."

Google welcomed Cuil to the fray with its usual mantra about its rivals. "Having great competitors is a huge benefit to us and everyone in the search space," Watson said. "It makes us all work harder, and at the end of the day our users benefit from that."

But this will be the first time that Google has battled a general-purpose search engine created by its own alumni. It probably won't be the last time, given that Google now has nearly 20,000 employees.

Patterson joined Google in 2004 after she built and sold Recall, a search index that probed old Web sites for the Internet Archive. She and Power worked on the same team at Google.

Although he also worked for Google for a short time, Monier is best known as the former chief technology officer of AltaVista, which was considered the best search engine before Google came along in 1998. Monier also helped build the search engine on eBay's online auction site.

The trio of former Googlers are teaming up with Patterson's husband, Costello, who built a once-promising search engine called Xift in the late 1990s. He later joined IBM Corp., where he worked on an "analytic engine" called WebFountain.

Costello's Irish heritage inspired Cuil's odd name. It was derived from a character named Finn McCuill in Celtic folklore.

Patterson enjoyed her time at Google, but became disenchanted with the company's approach to search. "Google has looked pretty much the same for 10 years now," she said, "and I can guarantee it will look the same a year from now."


SOURCE : http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/07/28/google.rival.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Hello peoples,

I am looking for where i can get a personal care shaver in Lagos. I have looked for it in almost all electronic shops in know but could not find it.

I am looking for something similar to the one in the image attached.

Thanx for your help.

1. Identifying the products and services.

2. A webmaster should be aware of the competitors.

3. Learning to know if the chosen venture is feasible.

4. Business planning and projected price of products and services.

5. Should know the legal issues regarding business legitimacy.