Comments for Abel Mohler

Comment on Introducing WowWindow by Abel

Abel — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:03:41 +0000

see my answer here:
http://wayfarerweb.com/jquery/plugins/wowwindow/comments.php#dsq-comment-162316669

Comment on Introducing WowWindow by Carl Robinson

Carl Robinson — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:00:47 +0000

How would I add a link to the bottom of the window content that would also function in addition to closing it using the button?

Comment on How a Blog can Improve your Site and How it Can’t by Ed

Ed — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:13:54 +0000

I had great success with an architecture blog I managed for an architectural company I used to work for. I put the blog on a subdomain but made it part of the site’s navigation. Visually it just shared the website’s header, so it kept a nice corporate brand going through the entire site.

Comment on How a Blog can Improve your Site and How it Can’t by Abel

Abel — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:43:58 +0000

@Andrei:

There’s no one correct solution in my opinion. I guess I get frustrated if a blog becomes a section of a site without really really being a part of the rest of the site. One solution would be to build the entire site as a blog and make the static parts pages withing the blog, but that’s not usually what I do. The alternative that I would propose is to link to sections or latest articles from the rest of your site to give users the ability to interact with your blog or read your latest material without needing to choose the blog from your menu and go there.

I do this in a limited way, from my main website http://wayfarerweb.com/ Although my blog, this website, is a separate site completely, you’ll notice on my main website, at the bottom, is a link to the latest post I’ve made. I wanted to do this instead of just linking to the blog without giving any indication of what was on it.

Comment on How a Blog can Improve your Site and How it Can’t by Andrei

Andrei — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:05:05 +0000

So you’re suggesting having the blog spider out into the rest of your website? I don’t see why a blog can’t act as a governing body to your website, updating users of what’s going on behind the scenes.

Comment on How I became a full time freelancer by Mark Simon

Mark Simon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:09:51 +0000

Great post and love the story of how you made the best of your situation.

Keep on working to promote yourself; I think you have a good idea on how to do that. You may want to checkout Inbound Marketing for some more ideas.

P.S. I came across your site from a comment on Matt Cutt’s blog about Nexus One, iPhone and Sugar…great comment, very funny.

Comment on Wedding Pictures June 28th 2009 by Abel

Abel — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:37:40 +0000

errr…. thanks mom Lol

Comment on Wedding Pictures June 28th 2009 by Jan S

Jan S — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:03:17 +0000

Nice looking mother you have there! Great photos!

Comment on Competing in a Global Marketplace by Abel

Abel — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:00:51 +0000

@Garth:
Most definitely. Actionscript skills pay higher than many other skills because it is harder to find providers who are highly qualified with them. I think it is easy for some to look at skills and think “what is in the most demand?” by simply seeing what is the most common skills that are demanded in the marketplace. This can be a mistake because usually it is the more rare skills that pay more.

Whatever you do, I really believe you need to be well-rounded, with many skills, while also being specialized in only a few things. This is what makes someone really valuable.

Comment on Competing in a Global Marketplace by Garth Patterson

Garth Patterson — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:40:45 +0000

Abel,

You made a list of in-demand skills that people can learn to supplement their skill sets. Do you think that Flash/Actionscript is/can be another one of those skills?

Thanks!