Category: Business
“Serve you?” – No thanks.
I saw a website the other day where they were falling over themselves to “serve” you, the potential customer. Now I see something wrong there. In business, I work with people. I don’t serve them. Waiters serve a meal. Servants serve people. I work with clients and other businesses. By setting myself up to “serve” […]
Open source ecommerce packages: We have a winner
After messing with osCommerce, CRE Loaded and Zencart, I am most comfortable with Zencart. It is based on osCommerce, but is a damn site easier to use and modify. With the addition of a 3rd party basic CSS layout file, I made a layout and had a styled, workable shop very quickly. The admin system […]
Workplace Ideas
Some companies are making moves to change the format of work in context of everyone’s lives. There may as well be no set times to work and play in some jobs. In IT and web design, much of what we do at home is “work”… and we do a lot of personal stuff at work. […]
A change in payment models?
It has been on my mind lately that our current way of working is incompatible with virtually all of it’s goals. The employer wished to maximise their outgoings (wages). The employer is never happy – there will always be more work to do. The employee wishes to get paid as much as possible. Some are […]