We provide web design and website programming contract work for small businesses looking to hire a telecommuter.

What is telecommuting? According to Wikipedia:

Telecommuting, e-commuting, e-work, telework, working at home (WAH), or working from home (WFH) is a work arrangement in which employees enjoy limited flexibility in working location and hours. In other words, the daily commute to a central place of work is replaced by telecommunication links.

Telecommuting saves gas, time and energy because we are not driving to a central office everyday. If you are in need of a part-time, full-time or contract web master who will work from home, please call us at 910-234-0969, or use our contact form to email us:

http://www.impulsewebdesigns.com/website+quote+form.php

We provide telecommuting services to the following states: NC, SC, VA, TN.

Link: Our web services

Link: Our web design portfolio

Here is a great article by Matthew Griffin on Bits O’ New Media about the benefits of flat-rate billing. At Impulse we practice flat rate billing and the following article just about sums up why. Occasionally we do charge by the hour but that is rare and is usually reserved for small website udpates.

1. It’s time consuming
2. It makes clients nervous
3. It encourages lower productivity
4. It lends itself to tedious website update work
5. It doesn’t stop feature creep
6. It severely cripples billing potential
7. It encourages clients to abuse you

Read the full article at Bit O’ New Media

Are you a web designer with little or no knowledge about HTML or CSS? Do you dread pouring over endless rows and rows of code, trying to get your design sliced just right to look good on all the major web browsers? Do you wish someone would just take your Photoshop .psd file and slice it up for you?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, we can help. We are proficient in coding websites using HTML and CSS that are search engine friendly and cross-browser compatible.

Do you already have a website and need some minor updates? We can help with that to.

Find out more about our HTML and CSS code design services.

Have you recently purchased a template from TemplateMonster.com or some other resource but now have no idea how to modify it?

Let us help – we can take your web design template and modify it to fit your needs with your logos, your text and your graphics.

Link: Web Design Template Modifications

Do you currently have a website but need someone to do frequent updates and maintenance to the site?

Great news! We can help! We can provide you with web updates based upon an hourly rate or a monthly retainer fee.

Updates can be made to HTML, CSS, graphics, web design, Flash, PHP programming or MySQL databases.

For more information, please visit our site, Website maintenance and updates.

Does your website look like a 3rd grader did it? If you are looking to get a face lift for your outdated website, let us re-design your site and develop something you can be proud of that will:

– be XHTML and CSS standards compliant
– cross-browser compatible
– have a new, fresh, modern design that you can be proud to show off
– incorporate Web 2.0 technologies
– be search engine friendly for Google, Yahoo and MSN
– look professional and established

I want to know more about getting a web site re design

So my wife’s boss always says.

But I have to agree with him on this one – sort of like ‘you get what you paid for’.

If you pay $300 to your wife’s second cousin’s brother who has tinkered with HTML you will get a website that looks like a 3rd grader designed it.

I’ve gotten that phone call before – “I hate the way my website looks”, “The guy who did my website didn’t know what he was doing”, etc.

You wouldn’t expect to get a Mercedes Benz for the price of a Geo Prizm would you?

If you want a professional web site that will be search engine friendly and will be something that you will be proud to show off, send us a shout out.

Link: Professional, Search Engine Friendly Web Site Design

Been continuing my search on the net for good Mac software ever since I switched to a Mac about 3 weeks ago.

Found 2 new good ones from IGGSoftware – iBiz and iBank

iBiz lets you define clients, define projects for a client, and then specify the work you did for that project and how much each task costs. For example, I set up a service called ‘Flash’. I set up my standard Flash rate, punch in the number of hours I worked, and then it calculates the total and adds it to the project total.

iBank is a nice budget tool that helps you see what you are spending and what you are getting. It has some nice graphs, budget tools and easily lets you categorize your expenses and purchases.

I think they can be linked somehow but have not gotten that far yet. They both seem to have a ton of functions and capabilities that I have not tapped into yet.

iBank is around $40 and iBiz is $50. You can get both for $65 if you buy them together.