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Date archive for: May 2011

Choosing Technology For Your Web App

You’ve had your great idea, completed market research, have your marketing plan in place… and now you need to build it. But what technology should you use?

Here I’ll briefly discuss the choices I made for TweetingMachine.

Note: This is a lightening-quick post, and my last for a few weeks; I get married on Saturday, and will be out of contact on my honeymoon after that until hallway through June.

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Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome

As mentioned before, I am not a natural designer, and my previous design attempts resulted in physical illness for anyone unfortunate enough to view them. This is not an ideal state of affairs when one wants to sell to the general public.

Luckily, there are a few methods you can use to stop yourself from visually poisoning potential customers. By far the easiest is to outright cheap and buy a theme. Still, one can’t help but worry: what will I get after handing over my money?

I contacted the authors of the two themes (from ThemeForest) that I use in TweetingMachine, and they agreed to me showing you their themes’ details.

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