Building a website that is exactly what you want and has all of the components you believe will impress customers is not easy. Your website needs to make searching and buying as easy as possible for your visitors and sometimes it is best to seek help on your website design. You may want to seek out a professional web design company to help you design your web pages so you can get started online. However, web design companies are notorious for quoting one thing and billing something significantly higher. What you need to do is know how you can avoid getting ripped off before you ever do so you can avoid the situation if at all possible. Read the following suggestions to help you avoid getting ripped off.

Tip #1 - Details

A very important thing you need to do when it comes to hiring a web design company is to lay out all of the important details. Even though your website has not been designed yet, you need to have a plan of exactly what you want your site to do and make note of any important details that you want completed. Once you know exactly what you want, your web design company will better be able to give you a quote.

Tip #2 - References

Talk to friends, co-workers, read blogs, and basically research web design companies every way you possibly can. The reason for this is references speak for the company and if someone had a good experience, they can tell you why as well as how much they paid. However, price is not always a good gauge. Ask what kind of site they had built, if it is similar to yours then it’s a reference worth considering. On the other hand, if it is a completely different kind of site, let’s say really basic and you need something complex, then you should look for other references.

Tip #3 - Monitor

When the design team takes over, monitor what they are doing so you can change things mid-stride rather than after they have already completed the project. Catching things before completion will cost you less money so stay on top of what is taking place and provide input along the way.

Tip #4 - Ask

Always ask questions. If the web designer casually mentions a particular element that he feels would work well with your site, don’t assume that it is for the same price. This could cost you dearly, so find out if this element is something you really need or even want before you allow the designer to add something.

Hiring a web designer can be a big nightmare if you do not know what you need and do not check out the quality of work they do before hiring them. Be careful, do your homework before hiring a designer, and always know what is going on as your project is being completed.

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I would like to thank my website hosting provider for their excellent service; for giving me the experience, described below, in the very beginning of my web carrier, so I can evaluate and get the important lessons on time and for inspiring me to write this article.

There is something you and your hosting provider can learn from here.

Recently, I had very bad experience with my hosting service. That nice morning I tried to visit one of my websites and…Yak! - A scary message appeared instead. I tried another 3 websites and got the same message stating that I have an issue with my hosting account.

So, I logged on into the hosting website to realize that my bill for that month was late!?! But I sign up for recurrent payments via PayPal, following the very same hosting service suggestion? From my point of view there was no reason to be punished at all. That didn’t make me feel better, as the anger started to build up, after the initial confusion.

I was running Google Adwords campaigns on all 4 websites uploaded on that hosting service. If you are in the web business you know exactly what that means. The customers are clicking on your ads. You pay for the click. They don’t get to the site. So, they click again; you pay; they don’t get it and so on… And all this happens while you sleep or have no idea about what is going on.

The first thing which came to my mind was: Pause the Adword Campaigns and try to find the solution of the current situation. So, I paused the campaigns and realized how practical this feature is. Then went to the hosting website and submitted my monthly fee, using again PayPal.

Meanwhile, the confusion and anger were building very strong within. What was the reason for all that mess? Why, due to some issues between the hosting payment system and PayPal, I have to be punished so badly?

It turns out that the hosting service sent 3 notifications via email on that issue. So, they thought that I know about it and after the final notice they decided to pull the trigger and play hard. But they were wrong on that assumption. All their emails were labeled (unknown sender) in my gmail account, which means - junk!

How comes, that professional webmasters misidentified themselves, by using unknown account to notify their customers for such an important issue? I have no answer on that. All I know is that there is a nasty cookie, placed in my mind about hosting services. It is full of anger and confusion.

In a short run, my hosting guys won, they got there money on time. In a long run they lost me as a customer. What is the lesson here for all of us? How to protect your business from hosting troubles like that?

Treat the hosting as investment. Investors have a simple rule: never put all your eggs in a single basket. In fact, money generating website is an investment and it should be protected as such. Imagine all your websites placed in a single hosting account and all shut down, due to bad management decision.

What else may have a negative effect here? - Spam complains! Recently, a famous marketing guru’s website was shut down for almost a month due to spam complains. If you have several websites, hooked on a single account, such complain may put all of them down. That may cost you a lot, too.

Another unpredictable and out of your control factors are natural disasters. Earthquakes, flooding, hurricanes, fire and the water brought by the firefighters may destroy physically management or data centers of your hosting services without any possibility for recovery. That brings up another, very practical tip: always keep a complete and updated copy of all your website files, ready to be uploaded to a new provider.

Another thing to consider here goes to autoresponder services. Everybody knows that your money is in the list, right? So, where is your list? In the autoresponder service center which, in fact, is another hosting service for you. Make a habit to download, on a regular basis, your lists. It is built with your money, so you must protect your business from any autoresponder malfunctions, too.

So, human errors, natural disasters and spam complains are those major factors, you will never have control on. The only wise decision here is to spread your businesses around several hosting services to minimize the effect of the unpredictable, but always possible events. And don’t forget to keep updated copy of all your web files, too.

For your web success!

Teo Gee

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When designing a website, it’s easy to start loading it up with graphics. While tempting, you have to resist — otherwise, you’ll end up with graphical overload.

Why is that a bad thing? Here’s why.

It Takes Too Long to Download

The first reason to cut down on graphics is that the more there are, and the larger they are, the longer it will take each of your pages to download. People are impatient when waiting for pages to download — you only have around 5 seconds before your visitor hits the Back button.

What can you do about this? Apart from using fewer pictures, you can also make sure that you resize your images in a graphics editor. This actually makes their file sizes smaller. If you just resize images by specifying a width and height in HTML or CSS, they will still be slow to download because the full file size is being used.

You should consider turning on compression in your image editor. JPEG files can often be compressed by up to 25% before there’s a noticeable difference in quality. Try different formats and compression levels to see what works.

It Gets Too Busy

If you use a site with more than 4 images on the page at once, your eyes are being pulled all over the page. They’re not sure where to focus because the page simply has too much going on.

Look at the front pages of newspapers, and notice how they lead on 1 picture. Putting 2 pictures on a front page is considered to be poor: the reader doesn’t know where to look.

That goes double for websites, where the viewable area is much smaller than a newspaper page. Even if you have more than 1 thing to say, it’s better to ‘go large’ with 1 picture and then explain the other things in text, next to or below it.

It Distracts from the Content

Users visit your site to get information, not to look at your graphics. Too many graphics will distract from your content, or, worse, force readers to search for it. Any time your graphics get in the way of people readily using your site, you’re suffering from graphical overload. And that is a bad thing.

What’s the solution? Simply decide which of all those graphics are really necessary. Remember, don’t add graphics just to look nice, each graphic must have a specific purpose.

An Exception: Photo Galleries

If the purpose of your site is photo presentation, then clearly multiple images are appropriate. However, don’t just stick up several large photographs — provide thumbnails: smaller versions of each image. If interested, the visitor can click on 1 to make it larger.

This fits more pictures on each page, and avoids wasting user download time and your bandwidth.

Keep in mind that in all web design, the images are there strictly to support the content. Even when the content is graphical.

Visit Web Design DIY to learn more. Ron King is a full-time researcher, writer, and web developer, visit his website at Website

Copyright 2005 Ron King. This article may be reprinted if the resource box is left intact and the links live.

What is a troll? He is a hairy, ugly creature that lives under a
bridge. Yet, there is another kind of troll; this troll is a
forum group poster who makes a post that is controversial or an
outright lie to provoke readers into a flame war. Every time I
read a troll’s post I think “Liar, liar, pants on fire.”
Sometimes I just want to scream that from the top of my lungs.
What is it that makes people twist the truth to justify their
own needs? The story keeps changing or the trolls say things
that just don’t add up.

Why is it people can’t mind their own business. I swear that
some people just want disruption and chaos. I swear they live
for it. Why do they get enjoyment out of harassing people?
People like this have one sole purpose and that is to create a
“Flame War,” where a bunch of people are all having their say
about a person or a sensitive topic. This benefits only them, so
they post lies about good honest people.

They feel by baiting the topic, they will lure you in, where the
group of them can pounce on you as soon as you post. Soon your
name gets Googled and you are labeled a horrible person. Scam
sites are popping up all over the net and instead of them
posting actual statements about scams; they are posting anything
and everything that destroys the reputation of good, honest
people. Scam sites have quickly become a place to bash other
people to benefit the owner and in the end, hard working people
who are trying to make a life and career for themselves are
victimized.

If you are treating someone this way, I have to ask, are you
proud of yourself? Do you really think that this person deserves
to be humiliated and flamed on a message board and who are you
to decide? Do you really know the amount of damage you are
causing to this person?

Sorry but I guess I just do not understand. These people you are
flaming are nothing to you. Ewww, and ahhhh and laugh all you
want. I bet the one your flaming feels like this animal in a
cage. People come back because they want to see the blood, the
hurt, and the anger that you are causing to this person. Of
course you the baiter, flamer, troll has no problem providing
it. No matter how stupid it makes your victim look. It is always
the same bull, Innuendo, and baiting, followed by threats of
exposure. It is good for the ratings isn’t it? If this were a TV
show, you’d be a smash hit.

Trolls are nothing more than cruel people who enjoy hurting
others. I’m sorry Trolls but I see you as nothing more than
someone who likes to stir the pot and cause trouble by twisting
the story and filling it with lies to please yourself. I guess
what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Someone is sure to remind me after reading this article, “Rose
Desrochers don’t you feed the Trolls.” So now you know all about
trolls. I guess internet trolls are really not any different
than the ones that live under the bridge are they?

Web standards is the new buzz phrase on the web. What are web standards? Web standards are basically the use of correct web coding standards as laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The web standards which are of most concern to modern business are XHTML and CSS coding practices. In the words of the W3C, “The XHTML family is the next step in the evolution of the internet.”

In order to achieve appealing presentation it used to be the case that various HTML hacks would have to be utilised by web designers to make a page look appealing. The most commonly know ‘hack’ (which is still in use today) is the use of tables to layout page structure. Thankfully these days are coming to an end, as web browsers have evolved and XHTML and CSS are now commonly supported standards. It is now possible to make sites which not only look great but are also constructed to the correct web standards.

This is all well and good, but should your business switch to a web standards based design? What are the business benefits of getting standards based re-designs?

One of the disadvantages of getting a web standards based design is that it can be difficult to find a designer who will make an attractive site which is also web standards compliant. A lot of very talented web designers do not create sites which are web standards compliant due to the time involved and the lack of appreciation received from the client for doing so.

The slow conversion to standards based designs is in part due to the ease in which a non-standards based site can be created. With the boom in ‘what you see is what you get’ (WYSIWYG) site creation tools like Dreamweaver it is now relatively straightforward for talented graphic artists to create professional looking sites with little code knowledge. Although the sites look great, the construction can leave a lot to be desired. Poor page coding, although not always visually apparent, can result in your business losing money as well as make your site inaccessible to a large audience, difficult to navigate and difficult to maintain.

A quality web standards based web site separates the look of your web pages from the written content of your site. This addresses the negative points about a non-standards based site mentioned above. By separating style from content, standards based sites allow people using screen readers, mobiles, PDA’s and other web browsing methods to be able to navigate your site. These devices have trouble displaying table based layouts and big images so non-standards based sites are largely unusable. In the second generation of the web there is a wider range of platforms than ever before. Using web standards is the only way to ensure a high degree of uniformity across multiple platforms with your site. If your site isn’t accessible then your message is restricted to certain customers, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this isn’t good in business.

A potential downside to a standards compliant website is some site add-ins such as certain bulletin boards, calendars and other dynamic content may not be written in a standards compliant manner. This becomes a problem when the add-in content is the only one that exactly fits your functional requirements. Sometimes in this scenario it may be necessary to forgo full standards compliance on pages where your non-standards compliant dynamic content is needed and migrate the page once the developers adopt standards.

A plus side of web-standards based sites is that maintenance is made easier, meaning your site can be more easily altered. As style is handled by an external (CSS) Style Sheet it is possible to change a sites whole colour scheme by changing a few key values. Also, as no styling information is in the HTML it is much tidier and greatly reduced in size making it easier to read and alter. Smaller file sizes mean that pages load quickly (providing a better experience for customers on slow connections), consume less bandwidth (reducing hosting costs to your business).

The final benefit of well constructed standards based websites is that as well as being accessible to your customers, often it will also be more accessible to search engines. Poorly structured inaccessible websites can often mean that some of the relevance of your text is misinterpreted by search engines. This means you could be losing out in search engine listings. By having a cleanly structured web standards website you are helping to ensure that your site (and its keywords) are correctly represented in search engines and is considered more relevant than non-standards based sites in your industry.

The obvious conclusion to this article is that web standards bring real tangible benefits to business. Although finding a design company that will construct a standards compliant site is more difficult than just finding a web designer, the benefits speak for themselves. By moving to a standards based web site businesses can ensure they have accessible sites which are maintainable and future proofed. Increased customer exposure and search engine prominence can all improve the level of business that comes to you via your website. Web standards are the future of the internet and to ignore it could leave your business trailing behind the online competition.

Thomas Ashworth
NuBlue Digital Web Solutions
http://www.nublue.co.uk

Submit your site to web directories and make this tool an
integral part of your e-marketing plan. Your site will get
higher search engine rankings-guaranteed.

Online competition is undeniably fierce, with an estimated 5
billion webpages on the net. And all of them vying for the
attention of around 2005, 202,888,307 Americans, or 68.9% of the
entire population of the country that’s online (June 2005
Nielsen/NetRatings survey).

In December 2005 - these shoppers, spent a total of $25 billion
on the net, from between October 29 and December 16, pegged the
first seven weeks of the 2005 holiday season.

How can you make your website stand out from a sea of over 5
billion webpages?

How can you get traffic that is easily converted into paying
customers? The answers to these two questions are simple - have
your website listed in web directories.

A web directory is the online equivalent of a library, for it
contains the addresses of websites, indexed and organized
according to specific subject matters. And to complete the
analogy, the virtual librarians are human editors who evaluate
and catalogue websites submitted for listing.

Here are three good reasons why you should use web directories
to gain increased search engine rankings. * Higher Ranking In
Search Engine Results Major search engines such as Yahoo! Google
and MSN search use the databases of web directories to
complement their search results. In addition, to these major
search engines, your site is sure to appear in Netscape Search,
Google, Lycos, and AOL searches. * Immediately Accessible to
Your Target Markets Web directories index websites according to
categories. So all your audience has to do is, access that
specific category, and click on the link to end at your landing
page. * Permanent and quality links from the web directories
Search engines award websites that have more quality links,
higher rankings. Therefore, your site benefits two ways,
increased visibility due to its’ link to a respected web
directory and by association, it becomes a quality site. Should
you go for paid inclusion or free submission? It all depends on
your budget and the target audience you want to reach. Many web
directories, list websites free provided that these websites
have to pass strict guidelines. Moreover, you should be prepared
for a long wait, if you are applying to a major directory.
There’s the ratio of a few human editors, against hundreds of
websites, to consider.

In addition, while there are web directories, which charge
nominal monthly or one-time inclusion fees, the fees do not
guarantee immediate traffic to your site. Nor does the inclusion
fee guarantee your site will be listed. However, if your site is
rejected, most directories will return your fee. Here’s what you
can do to increase your chances for inclusion: * Have your own
domain name. * Ensure your site’s name matches your domain name.
* Before submitting to a web directory, double-check to ensure
you have no bad links, images, and Java script errors. If it’s
sloppily done, your site may be rejected. * Have your company’s
details, such as postal address and phone numbers, clearly in
view. * Ensure the links to your company’s privacy policy,
return policy, and guarantee, aren’t broken. * Lastly, if you
are selling online, make sure your e-commerce facilities are
secure.

Submission Tips Worth Remembering

Consider what kind of site you have and the services you are
selling, use this knowledge as a guide in selecting the
category.

Here’s an effective way to find out what category your site
belongs to. Launch a search at the directory for websites whose
services are similar to yours. Surf these sites, Evaluate why
these web sites had themselves listed in this particular
category.

Carefully read the directory’s instructions and comply with
these. It will lessen your chances of being rejected and have
all the hard work wasted.

Does the application give you an opportunity to provide more
information about your site? Use the form. If your site has
special benefits or products, be sure to write these down, for
the directory editor. Focus your attention and time to
submitting to directories but don’t ignore the smaller ones, as
long as these directories are relevant to your site. That way,
you increase your opportunities to reach your target audience.
And, the more listings the greater the links you’ll have, adding
to the link popularity of your website. In conclusion, remember
two things about directory listing. It’s just one of the many
strategic e-marketing tools you can utilize. And it’s cheap.

Second - remember to constantly surf for relevant directories to
submit your site to. One such directory is
http://www.alivedirectory.com . You’ll gain quality links and
increased visibility, which will give your site higher engine
rankings. And attract quality visitors, who can easily be
converted into paying clients.

Once you’ve written a web page, you can upload it to an HTML validator. This site, run by the web’s standards body, will check that your site is valid (’correct’) HTML, and give you some idea of how to fix it if it isn’t. This is an essential step in the development of any website - as vital as running your text through the spell checker - but whenever I recommend it there’s always someone who wonders why it’s so important (and also why they should bother). Well, I’ll tell you why.

Don’t Just Guess Know Your Code is Right

If your code validates, then it’s correct, and therefore very likely to work as intended on every web browser, and there are more each day, out there. If you don’t validate your pages, then you might find that people who visit your site with less forgiving browsers see nothing at all. These are customers lost.

Correct code is more likely to display correctly on many different browsers, because it puts them into their ’standards’ mode. If code is even slightly incorrect, many browsers will use a different way of displaying it, known as quirks mode, which is designed to handle old and bad HTML, takes a long time and may make your page end up with errors you didn’t expect.

Without web standards, you end up going back to the bad old days of having to develop entirely separate web pages for different browsers. Not a good idea unless working is your hobby. Validating by the standards ensures that all working browsers can view your content - if they can’t, the fault’s with them, not with you.

Give Your Customers What They Want

I’m putting this first because I feel it is probably the most important reason for using valid code. You put up a web site for people, i.e. your customers, to see, right? And you want to look professional, right? Well don’t validate your code, heck you won’t miss the visitors who leave your site cause the code is broken and making your page look crappy in their browser, will you.

Be Friendly To The Search Engines

When it comes time for a search engine to add your page to its results, it’s going to have a much easier time understanding the page if it’s been validated. This will often get you a higher ranking in the results, which means free visitors, and more money, for you. If your page isn’t valid, search engines will often miss keywords in your pages or not understand your navigation, and may list nonsensical parts of your code under your site’s name in the search results, not exactly helpful to potential visitors who want to know what your site is about.

Access All Areas

More and more people are accessing the web using mobile devices like mobile phones and PDAs, and these devices have a lot of trouble with code that isn’t valid. Because they have limited processing power, it would take them a very long time to try to untangle invalid code - they will simply strip out the formatting and do the best they can with it. What is the point in designing a page that a lot of your customers will never see? Writing valid HTML lets users with mobile devices see your pages as you intended.

Disability And technology

When you write valid code, it becomes much easier to view with things that aren’t web browsers, such as screen readers. Technology for disabled people doesn’t tend to be as forgiving as web browsers, so having valid code is important when it comes to working with these programs. This is also a good reason to use an external style sheet, as it will make it easier for their readers to read your web page.

Future-Proofing.

Before your code will validate, I’m sure you realize it’s a good idea by now, you need to explicitly say which version of HTML you had in mind when you created it. This future-proofs your code, as each version of the standard doesn’t change once it’s been decided on: a valid XHMTL 1.1 page will always be a valid XHTML 1.1 page, even if everyone else has moved on, and they will, to XHTML 5. Once you’ve validated your site once, you can put it on the web and be confident that people are going to be able to read it for a long time to come.
You can see a list of valid DTD’s here http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html also you won’t be able to validate your code without the right DTD and if you don’t have one it will cause IE to view your page in quirk mode which can really suck.

Wrong and Wrong Again

If there’s a mistake in your website’s code, validation gives you an easy way to track it down and fix it. Before validation, people had to test their site after each change and look carefully to make sure that nothing had gone wrong. Writing valid code lets you use programs that will examine what you’ve written and point at the exact place where the code doesn’t validate.

A List of Validators to Get You Going

Here are a few validators that you can try. Most HTML validators are online, but there are a few that you can download and use on your own computer.

The W3C validator: validator.w3c.org

The WDG validator: www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator

CSE validator: www.htmlvalidator.com (downloadable)

WebTechs validator: www.webtechs.com/html-val-src

Doctor HTML: www.doctor-html.com (downloadable)

You might also be interested in visiting the W3C’s main site at w3c.org, as well as the Web Standards Project at www.webstandards.org.

Valisdation is not the hassle that some designers think and it’s well worth the effort.

Technology Camps Across the U. S. Lead the Way

Today’s youth is inundated with technology. From Xboxes, TiVos,
iPods and cell phones, Generation Z will be the most “connected”
generation of Digital Kids to ever to walk the planet.

After watching his twelve-year old son surf the net, text
message friends, and immerse himself in technology, sales
consultant and business owner Peter Hanson from the Philadelphia
area had an idea. Why not harness his twelve year old’s thirst
for technology and redirect it towards a skill that would help
him compete in the 21st century?

Although his company was doing well, his website didn’t
adequately portray his firm. If his son Kyle learned how to
build websites, he could then hire him to redesign and update
his company’s site. Luckily, while surfing the web, his wife had
come across a technology camp where they could send their son
Kyle to learn these new skills.

So while most young boys are busy playing sports during the
summer, Kyle attended iD Tech Camps and learned how to make
websites pivot, jump and bounce with Flash Animation.

iD Tech Camps provides weeklong, beginner to advanced, hands-on
summer technology courses for ages 7-17 at prestigious
universities in 19 states. These 40 locations include Stanford,
Princeton, UCLA, Columbia, Northwestern, Vassar, and Emory.
During the week, students take courses in web design, digital
video production, 2D and 3D video game creation, and programming
& robotics. With small class sizes averaging only six students
per instructor, students are given the attention they need to
excel.

Students use industry products from tech leaders like Adobe,
Macromedia, Apple, Canon, RadioShack, Wacom and AutoDesk.
Besides a week of fun, these Digital Kids leave with a completed
project using products which professionals use, increased
tech-confidence, and a competitive edge.

“I was really proud that I created a really cool website within
one week that made my instructor’s jaw drop when he watched my
Flash Animation morph from different shapes into a logo,” said
Kyle.

With the Flash Animation Shape Tween tool, Kyle made his
animation come alive. He used different colored shapes that
finally morphed into his “Kyle Henson Productions” logo.

“At first it was hard, but my instructor showed me how to morph
objects. I think making animations for my site was not only
super fun, but really rewarding knowing that I was using the
same software that professional web designers use.”

Today’s challenge for parents is helping their kids learn
technology that they themselves do not use or understand. They
depend on school to achieve this goal, but unfortunately schools
today still lag in integrating technology into the curriculum.
Thomas K. Glennan and Arthur Melmed address this critical issue
in their article Fostering the Use of Educational Technology:
Elements of a National Strategy. “The nation’s most important
educational goal must be to produce learners adequately prepared
for life and work in the 21st century. In 1994, U.S. schools
spent about $3 billion on computer- and network-based
technology. Despite all this activity, however, examples of
school-wide use of technology are comparatively rare and
isolated.”

iD Tech Camps addresses this pressing need and uses tech savvy
role models for instructors. As role models, these college
students and recent grads make learning fun and share first-hand
how technology is making a positive impact. “Our philosophy is
to be mentors for these Digital Kids. They are like sponges, and
love to soak up this knowledge,” said Jennifer Liss, Camp
Director at the iD Tech Camps where Kyle attended. “These kids
can’t get enough so it’s incredibly inspiring for us to teach
them what we’ve learned in college and our professions.”

The end result is a sense of empowerment, independence and
self-confidence as students learn to articulate their creativity
through new ways by using technology. Often times they
incorporate what they’ve learned in their school projects or
even start side businesses.

While Kyle is using his newly learned website design skills to
help his dad improve his company’s website, across the country
in San Francisco ten-year-old Julian is transforming his passion
for video games into a profitable business.

Julian’s mom, Ellen Finnegan, also heard of iD Tech Camps and
immediately enrolled her bright son in a Video Game Creation
course. Her hope was to inspire Julian in technology through his
passion–video games.

But Ellen never expected how far he’d go. After creating his
video game at camp, using the easy-to-use Multimedia Fusion,
Julian didn’t stop there. When he returned home, he would finish
his homework quickly, and then would spend time adding more
details to his game. He then began selling his game to peers.
The demand was so large that this young entrepreneur expanded
his sales team by hiring his eight year old sister and her
friend. It worked. Now Julian is working on his third sequel due
to the pent up demand.

With these Digital Kids, the sky is the limit. With both Kyle
and Julian already enrolled in more courses on Programming &
Robotics, Web Design, and Digital Video, who knows what these
whiz kids will create next.

And what does Julian want to do in the future?

“Own several video game companies,” said this confident fourth
grader. “If I’m rich, I’ll own three. If not, I’ll own one.”