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Selling cars from US to Russia. Our part was to create web design and CMS that would handle the shopping cart and some texts. Still working on content though, but the site is considered up and running.

Update as of 2007-08-14: Client has abandoned site, so we had to turn it off.

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• Well, first part is over, more to come (November 12, 2004): First part is over, the client was introduced to the new working web site. Of course, there will be some minor issues and bugs and there will be some things to fix and so on, but nevertheless - it's WORKING! On the same note - let's hope I will be able to survive the stress of [...]
• Weird people that sell hosting (January 20, 2005): Yeah, weird. How else would you call these guys that don't return phone calls, don't respond to e-mails of their clients? They seem to be too big to notice small clients that have invested in whole year of hosting. And instead of making another sale they just ignoring it. Good, I'll make a sale on [...]
• Web hosting requests (October 20, 2004): What makes people to post requests like these? Platform: Linux Space: 1000 MB Bandwidth: 30GB Control Panel: yes IP Address: no Email Accounts: unlimited Database(s): unlimited Expected cost: 1 per year Right, like someone is really going to give them free hosting like this. The forum seems pretty empty. I mean if the forum would have been up to the resources, then sure, it [...]
• Updates by the pound. (September 26, 2005): What I like my clients for is not only the money they tend to forget to pay, but for all the fun I tend to have meeting their requests. By all means - I'm happy to provide the services and whatnot. What amazes me is how fast the ideas and demands are changing :)

Two more sites are approaching finish line - some minor design bug in one and content in another are pending. Stay tuned for announcements.

After some minor tweaks and some innerworks on AquaShieldOnline.com the site is back on the first page on Yahoo. “Not thrilling, but nice”. I wish all my sites were there.

Spend last couple of weeks learning isides and outs of Mambo Open Source. Looks like a great platform to build long-overdue RussianHut place. If only people who can help were a bit more organized and actually cared about what they do… it would’ve been done already.

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• Sunday’s blabber (October 31, 2004): Don't forget to set your clocks one hour back! This night must have been prelude to Halloween. I've got 11 Chinese asking for free hosting (with no apparent web site details) and one guy from New York who was so security conscious that he didn't provide his return e-mail address... But hey, what can I do. [...]
• Some like it hot (November 16, 2004): Finally, the project started to look like it might come to an end. WYSIWYG editor works. Flash fragments appear. Images load. Client is happy. Next stop? Forum. Actually, appetite comes with the meal (if I translate the saying correctly), I already got a request for the following: 1. New forum 2. Chat 3. Internet radio broadcast Not bad. The [...]
• Radio Ga-Ga (April 3, 2006): One of the problems while dealing with clients - is the problem with clients that don't know what they want. A client I work with on initial drafts (in fact it's a group of 6 people, most of them - women of various ages) has rejected six initial drafts - more or less original from my [...]
• Problems, problems, problems. (September 22, 2005): The real-estate web site that I have moved to a newer server suddenly started acting up. The JavaScript stopped working, but not all the JS on the whole site. Just one little piece that by not working pretty much makes half of the site useless. Moved back because of the annoyed client. Next step - putting [...]

Done with PhotoFYI.com - photography, portfolio and the rest. Now I will be able to showcase my works.

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• Sometimes things appear out of nowhere Dept (March 21, 2005): AKA pianos in the bushes (as we, russians, are saying). Last week my sister, who's very good at income tax, called me and said that some of her clients were looking for a decent guy to help them with their web sites. I happened to be the appointed one. Nice to know that sometimes good things tend [...]
• Small business in Chicago (November 27, 2007): Yesterday I have returned from a Thanksgiving trip to Chicago. Aside from matrimonial errands (my friends were getting married) I had a chance to communicate to a lot of different people from various social groups. Aside from regular chit-chat I was inquiring on the cost of living. Obviously you can get data from various web [...]
• Programmers (December 13, 2004): Sometimes some people can set me off, even though I am very patient and calm person. First they didn't like the project. Then they didn't like the terms. Then they didn't like the payment amount. Then they didn't like the payment time frame. Had to give in to the last resort - mentioning that they are [...]
• How I ended up thinking of indian guys (October 29, 2004): There's this friend of mine, who says he used to run two of largest Russian immigrants message board communities in the past. We got acquainted when he found my forum and I found his. We both (with our associates and fellows) went to fancy place called banya (Russian bath) and had an idea of joining [...]