Office Talk

How to Avoid the Pitfalls That Lead to Startup Failure

My wife and I founded DCGWS back in 2007, with zero budget and an old, run-down PC sitting in the corner of our studio apartment. I would spend all day creating freelance profiles and bidding for projects on websites like GetAFreelancer and WebDesigner123, and spend all night studying HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript. Oh, those were the days and I sometimes remember them and start to feel nostalgic and think I miss those days. Stakes were low, risk was low, and yes, the rewards were low. But, I felt on top of the world back then as the one-man show that got it all done – and that’s how things were until February 2012.

Today, things are quite different. In less than 2 years, my one-man show has somehow ballooned into a company of 15 employees. How did that happen, you ask?

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3 Tips to Overcome Overwhelming Work

When we face problem and challenges at work, we tend to get overwhelmed easily. How are you getting? I know sometimes you fizzle out because of overwhelming responsibilities and problems in the office. It’s normal to feel overwhelmed because we are not supermen and superwomen.

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Designer’s Dilemma

A writer can write more stories but he’s not sure whether all of his novels or stories will become best sellers. A musician or a songwriter can create songs but not all of it will be classics. A painter can paint thousands of paintings but the percentage of his works to become a masterpiece is still unsure. In photography, a photographer’s first 10,000 pictures are his worst. A graphics artist can design more artworks but the possibility that all of his works will be approve by a client is still unsure. If you do this for a living what will you choose between “Quantity or Quality”? Some may think that it is quantity over quality but others think it is the other way. In my opinion I chose “Quality over quantity”.

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4 Tips for Efficient Programming

Even though I have little experience, I would like to give some tips to those who are planning on becoming a software developer. Although I do not claim to have much programming wisdom or experience, but because these tips have always helped me, I’m going to share them to you.

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Design: The Dictator of Web Success

Website designers might laugh at me while reading this or maybe say “yes it‘s true” quietly. Unfortunately I’m not one of you guys..I’m just staring around and walking around and talking around and suddenly a blog pop-up to my mind and translate it through my bare hands and here it is.

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Choosing the Right Web Developer

Your website project is not an easy thing to do. You might find it simple but there are functionalities that you may want to put in. A simple widget may take intense programming. A slider may need a perfect image sizing. And there’s a lot more.

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The Age of Mobile Communications

iPhone 5 was just launched and it’s another leap forward for Apple and its developers. We have seen the patent battle between Apple and Samsung and somehow got excited about who is going to pay who? Well, it’s a different side of story. If you think about it very deeply, you will find gigantic mobile companies running the race in changing the world… through mobile communications.

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We Care: Simple Way of Keeping a Customer Happy

I believe that there are many ways to communicate with your customers. Either through phone calls, emails, instant message or even through a blog post. These are all valid ways of communicating with your clients, although these are not exclusive. Our obligation is to find out which method will work best.

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Hello HTML!

I’m a social media addict. I do Facebook, online games and lots of internet fun! When I first joined DCGWS, I started as an Office Assistant. I did clerical jobs and data encoding, but I was given an opportunity to try other things and I got myself in the challenging world of web programming.

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