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This is a little tip for anyone that was using a test server before publishing there website to the world.
Before putting this blog up I was running it from my computer, so that I could muck about in the coding without everything going to hell. Once I had everything in some semblance of order and more or less working, I followed this helpful article from the WordPress Codex to transfer my site to the new server. I then encountered The Problem. All my images and links were going back to the database on my computer. So all the images where coming from http://localhost.zoddesign instead of www.zoddesign.com. and I don’t know if my humble iMac could handle the strain. You see wordpress uses absolute paths instead of relative paths. I don’t know that much about php and databases so I’m sure there’s a reason for it
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One of the biggest questions of design, To Spec or not to Spec. For those of you not familiar with the term, Spec work is short for Speculative Work, any job for which the client expects to see a finished product before agreeing to pay. It’s like ordering a Big Mac then refusing to pay because the required big doesn’t meet (or meat) your expectations.
It is one of those problems that just will not go away, and I suspect it pops up in different fields of creative form. All the thought that goes into most creative forms, is hidden from the hoards of consumers that just look at your work and sum it up with a simple “I could do that.”
