So how do you first find someone to build your Web site and how to do you make sure that you get what you want from the relationship? As hiring someone to build a Web site becomes more and more popular, here is every small business owners guide to making the decision wisely:

Get your act together!
Not understanding Web technology is no excuse these days for looking like a deer in the headlights when asked – “What are you looking for?” Not knowing what you want will usually lead to quotes that can’t help but be inaccurate, a lot of time (and possibly money) spent having your Web designer make mistakes so that you can tell them what you don’t want and eventually get to what you do want. Especially if you are working with a very limited budget you will want a clear plan for your site.

Be realistic and open about your budget
It is important that you know what you have to spend. If you are selling online and want to hire a reputable company, expect to spend between $1,200 and $5,000 for a Web site that can generate leads for you depending on whether you want a custom design. If you’re planning to sell online (excluding a simple PayPal sales) expect to spend from $5,000 to $20,000 to get a site set up. (Chanel’s note: I am NOT this expensive. My rates range from $350 to $1000!)

Get a Referral
Technology can be a murky business. I have heard both wonderful and horrible stories about business owners who hired a Web site developer from a simple online search. I strongly recommend asking people you trust for referrals.

Use The Horse for the Course
No we’re not talking about OTB, and there should be no “longshot” factor in your Web site construction project. There are different kinds of practitioners involved in building, marketing and maintaining a Web site and they all have different skillsets. It’s not hard to know who they are and what they do, and this is one thing you really should know… Do you just need a designer? Do you not need a designer at all? Do you need a programmer? Maybe you’ll be fine with an HTML coder who is usually less expensive than a programmer? Check out next week’s post for a description of Web site roles and players.

I know it can be hard to figure out what you want and a lot of times, the person you hire will help you do that. But you want to hire people with the right skillset to even be able to answer those questions for you. Please check out my online resume if you are interested in hiring me!

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I used to adore Kim Kardashian. Her hair, her style, her pretty face. But now, she’s completely gone. It seems like she’s trying way too hard to keep her name in everyone’s mouth. Shame on me for falling for the bait as well.

As I was gathering my thoughts to type this, it dawned on me. She has NPD (narcissistic personality disorder).  Here are the details of the disorder:

¹Symptoms of this disorder include, but are not limited to:

• Reacts to criticism with anger, shame, or humiliation
• May take advantage of others to reach his or her own goal
• Tend to exaggerate their own importance, achievements, and talents
• Imagines unrealistic fantasies of success, beauty, power, intelligence, or romance
• Requires constant attention and positive reinforcement from others
• Easily becomes jealous
• Lacks empathy and disregards the feelings of others
• Obsessed with oneself
• Mainly pursues selfish goals
• Trouble keeping healthy relationships
• Are easily hurt and rejected
• Set unreal goals
• Want “the best” of everything
• Appear as tough-minded or unemotional

Narcissists also tend to be physically attractive on first impression, giving them advantages when first meeting people.

The symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder may seem similar to traits associated with strong self-esteem and confidence, but this is not the case. Narcissists have such an elevated sense of self-worth that they value themselves as inherently better than others. Yet, they have a fragile self-esteem and cannot handle criticism, instead putting other people down in order to validate themselves. People with healthy self-confidence do not have the same need to put themselves on a pedestal or to belittle others.

Narcissists also tend to be physically attractive on first impression, giving them advantages when first meeting people.

The symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder may seem similar to traits associated with strong self-esteem and confidence, but this is not the case. Narcissists have such an elevated sense of self-worth that they value themselves as inherently better than others. Yet, they have a fragile self-esteem and cannot handle criticism, instead putting other people down in order to validate themselves. People with healthy self-confidence do not have the same need to put themselves on a pedestal or to belittle others. [/end quote]

Check that out! While I don’t know this woman personally, the impression I’ve gotten from her the past 4 years of reality television, interviews and her own blog posts, this matches her personality exactly. This is why an already gorgeous woman felt the need to “enhance” looks to “look better”. She reminds me of those women with 36DDs saying that their boobs are too small. Or anorexic people looking in the mirror believing they are fat.

While I believe most of this family has some deep embedded issues, I think Kim is the first one that needs help. And sever medication.

¹ - Source: Wikipedia.

I wish to formally announce that I am suing Kim Kardashian to stop her divorce from Kris Humphries. I am also suing Ryan Seacrest, E! Entertainment Television, and Comcast for promoting their sham marriage, bilking advertisers, and polluting the airwaves of America and every other nation unfortunate enough to be subject to the disease of Kardashia.

HOW I IMAGINE THEIR “WEDDING” WAS PITCHED:

“I know! We’ll have Kim get married! It’ll be a ratings bonanza! We’ll bludgeon the populace with billboards and commercials, build it up across our 14 execrable spinoffs, hire some psychologists to help Kim and Kompany approximate the appearance of human emotion as they navigate the wedding preparation, split the actual wedding over two interminable episodes—even accompany them on the honeymoon! And the best part is, it doesn’t even have to be real! We’ll have Kris (Humphries, not Kris Jenner, Kim’s mom (though having her marry her own mom once ratings start to slide IS a great idea!!!)) sign a pre-nup that is also a non-disclosure agreement AND a waiver stating that if he even talks in his sleep about the “marriage’s” details, he’ll be beaten, drugged, and given a facelift from the same doctor who did Bruce Jenner, and then forced to walk the Earth terrifying children and animals for eternity.”

POSSIBLY THE GREATEST MAGAZINE COVER OF ALL TIME
Ryan Seacrest is the executive producer of the 22 existing Kardashian programs. Please revel in this amazing quote from him, which recently appeared on the cover of PRODUCED BY magazine, the official magazine of the highly principled and ever-honest Producers Guild of America:

WHAAAAAAAT?! A lot of people toss the word “irony” around without really knowing its precise definition.This quote, from this person, is its precise definition. William Shakespeare would have been like, “Damn bro, I can’t top that.” I’m glad he’s been dead for 400 years and can only see it through a time-telescope that Leonardo da Vinci made for him on his 300th birthday.

THE MEAT OF THE MATTER

I digress. I guess I’m just nervous because I’ve never sued anyone before, and this is not a joke. I AM suing Kim Kardashian and the others mentioned above. It is alleged that Kim Kardshian was paid $18 million to participate in her own wedding. I feel like schools could use that money. Or health clinics in areas hit hardest by the recession. Or Pizza Hut. Or Bernie Madoff. Or my uncle Mitchell, who is a convicted sex offender making a living selling Percocet to the elderly in Rhode Island.

Also, quitting your marriage now is a rather public admission that you are very, very bad at the job you were hired to do. I will be surprised if the venerable fashion house Sears renews your “design” contract.

I don’t mind that Kim Kardashian got married. If gay people can get married, Armenian people should be allowed to as well. I don’t mind that she did it on TV. I a little bit mind that, as a non-viewer of any of the 61 Kardashian programs, I had to see the billboards every day as I drove to work. But I could forgive that if Kim gave her marriage a real go. I’ve been married for five years. To the same woman. I’ve wanted to divorce her at times. She’s wanted to divorce me at times. But one great thing about marriage, when it’s entered by regular folks, in good faith, is that it’s hard to exit. It costs money. You have to talk to lawyers during business hours except whoops—you have a job that you need to earn money to buy food and pants—so when are you going to both take the time to do that? By the time you’d have gotten around to it, you’ve forgiven each other and maybe even reached a new appreciation for each other as you worked through whatever seemingly insurmountable problem made you hate each other for 20 minutes while you sat in your shitty car outside a CVS yelling at each other and crying. Because guess what, Kim? That’s a huge ingredient in a SUCCESSFUL marriage. Sometimes it sucks. And I don’t mean lower-case “s” sucks. I mean it SUCKS so fucking hard you’re POSITIVE you’ll give yourself stomach cancer or an embolism as you try to make your spouse explode through telekinesis. When you relax, however, and remember that you’re a bigger asshole than they are, with enough neuroses and calcified bad habits to warrant their own card catalog, you realize that they’re struggling through life’s shit storm just like you. Then you take a shower together and fuck while laughing.

KIM KARDASHIAN, I WANT THIS FOR YOU. I don’t hate you. I hate your shows. I hate that I know who you are. But I could move to Patagonia or New Guinea and escape you if I wasn’t as willingly bound up in our terrifying modern consumer culture as you are. I know that under your unnecessary inch of makeup and Kevlar sheath dress is a heart that yearns for true love and could find and appreciate the pleasures in marriage that I described above. That’s why I’d like you to stay married. And if you won’t, I will sue you. Because when you wrap your marriage vows around a cubic zirconia encrusted baseball bat and beat us about the head and face with them, you can stay the fuck married for more than 20 minutes, you sexy monster. I’ll see you in court.

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I heard on the radio this week that one of the top 5 reasons for divorce in 2010 was because of Facebook. FACEBOOK? How is that possible? I can understand catching your man cheating on you because his mistress posted a picture of them making out in the club and she “tagged” him in it. But how can the internet really destroy a relationship? Unless that relationship was already in shambles? Let’s be honest: Most people are getting married for the wrong reasons. A lot of others are settling for relationships, just to say that they’re in one. So let’s not blame things like Twitter or Facebook for the demise of your relationship. It’s obvious that there are bigger things to overcome than your significant other’s online activity.

My boyfriend is very aware of my online activity. We follow each other on Twitter, we claim each other on Facebook with our “In A Relationship With” status and he enjoys reading my blogs. Keyword: awareness. We don’t have anything to hide from one another. And with me being the more popular one on the internet, this doesn’t bother him at all. I’m very discreet about my immediate life. I don’t post on Twitter when we’re arguing, I don’t change my relationship status to “Single” whenever he pisses me off, he doesn’t flirt with women (matter fact, he doesn’t chat online at all) and we respect each others privacy. Plain and simple.

I think if couples are more honest & understanding with each other, then things like Twitter & Facebook would not tarnish the relationship. Keep your relationship issues private by respecting each other’s privacy (because your 5,000 followers do not need to know you guys have been fighting for the past 2 days) and maintain a strong trust level.

Here are my top 5 favorite people to follow. These are people that have actually made me laugh out loud. Because we all know when we type “lol”, we’re not really laughing out loud. Follow them now!

1. @ispeakfemale – “It’s funny how I’m good at giving advice to others, but when it comes to helping myself, I don’t know what to do.”

It’s very refreshing to find a woman on Twitter that’s not busy complaining about how bad men are, or subliminally tweeting about her enemies. This is a good tweeter to follow if you’re looking for snarky & uplifting updates, without sounding too “biblical”.

2. @verlieren – “Fact: 77% of anti abortion protesters are men, 100% of them will never be pregnant.”

I relate to this chick’s crazy tweets all the time. We both think alike. She gets her fair share of haters, been always remain true to herself, and I like that. She enjoys talking about men, genitals and drugs.

3. @elbeard – “Crazy ex-girlfriends and bill collectors don’t seem to have learned about Caller ID.”

An intelligent male with a harsh sense of humor (otherwise known as an asshole) wins a woman’s heart all the time.

4. @rellyonsmash - “A dude from Twitter popping up in your friend requests on Facebook is like a dude from your job popping up at your house.”

This dude really doesn’t give a damn. He gets cursed out all the time. He’s also addicted to Simply Raspberry. There isn’t a time where I felt he was afraid to say something. His tweets are urban professional, so if you’re from Beverly Hills, you may not understand a word he’s staying.

5. @jane_bot – “Doing crunches while menstruating is like violently squeezing a ketchup packet.”

If you’re into dry humor, then you will enjoy her tweets. You will relate to NOTHING she says, but somehow you know exactly what she’s talking about.

I enjoy these people on a daily basis. I hope you enjoy them too!

1) “She doesn’t post body pictures, therefore she’s fat.”
When you take pictures of yourself, most of the time you’re focused on your face. Just because you don’t take a picture of something, doesn’t mean it’s of the negative. A lot of people believe it’s not necessary for everyone to see what they’re “working with” or to post pictures of their body parts. While the occasional party, hanging at the mall, karaoke pictures are posted, most people are not thinking about taking a picture to post online when they’re actually outside enjoying life.

2) “She’s photoshopped.”
Just because someone has great skin, or because they enhanced the brightness or contrast of an image, doesn’t necessarily means she’s “photshopped”. The baffling idea that someone would photoshop their nose smaller, or butt bigger is one thing, but to claim someone is photoshopped just because they’re actually attractive shows how insecure you are. Most pictures are taken by cellphones these days, which means the quality of the image doesn’t come out that great. Granted you have women that photoshop themselves beyond recognition, but most of the time, the pictures are just being touched up for better quality. People used to (still do actually) accused me of photoshopping. Of what…I don’t know. Truth be told, if I were to photoshop something, I’d erase these hereditary bags away. But I’ve learned to live with my flaw being that it’s a family trait. Now if I turned my bubbies from a 36D to a 36HHH, we got problems.

3) “Men that compliment women are gay.”
Wait a minute. I thought gay men don’t like women? Not regular men who are able to show a queen some respect. A man that shows women respect online is more than likely to be called a pansy than the one who sits around all day disrespecting women. I blame their insecurities and the fact that they’re unable to handle rejection. Or little dick syndrome.

4) “If you don’t post pictures of it, it doesn’t exist.”
Not everyone wants to show off their new car, son’s birthday outfit or engagement ring on the internet. Even though it’s 2011 and everyone post pictures of their birth control pills, there are still millions of people who still use a lot of discretion on the internet. I only like to share intimate things with the people I am intimate with. Privacy is the main reason you won’t catch me posting my child’s picture anywhere. I did it before on my website, but then a disrespectful comment rubbed me the wrong way & I never did it again. I don’t post pictures of my vagina, but you know I have one, right?

5) “He didn’t respond to you, he’s a punk!”
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this but, a lot of people don’t get online to indulge in internet beef. Sounds strange doesn’t it! Especially if it’s with someone you don’t even know. To argue everyday, with the same individuals that you don’t even share the same air with, is ridiculous & a waste of time. Ignore ignorance. Sometimes it takes some time for a person to realize that. I used to argue everyday on AOL. But that was when I was younger & immature. After awhile, it gets tired. Monotonous. It solves nothing. The person still doesn’t like you, they’re going to talk shit about you regardless, so why not just ignore them? Trust me, it worked for me. Put it like this, treat these people like a rat in a house 500 miles away. It doesn’t exist to you nor is it invading your personal space. Like the saying goes “Walking away doesn’t mean that you’re a quitter, it means that you are intelligent enough to know when to quit.”

The diagnosis: The internet is the easiest way for insecure people to cope with the struggles they’re having with their immediate lives, self-esteem and social issues. So they channel their hypocrisy & contradictions via social medias. It’s your job to recognize who these people are, and stay clear away from them.