It is not easy for a new web developer to get clients for whom he can show off his debut of work. However uneasy, it doesn’t mean that there is no way to Rome. The following ideas to get the first client may be inspiring your new job to work better in market.

1. List the names of everyone you know. Try to get at least 100 names on the list. In order to get these names readable, you can use any techniques convenient for you, such as including the full name, nickname, profession, address, phone numbers, interest, organs, and may be social clubs also. The target audience of people could be your own relatives on the family tree given, neighbors, colleagues at work, your previous college mates and school mates, people who play the same hobbies with you, people at the place you have regular worship, and many more. To be more obvious, don’t forget to put down some particular characteristics and physical appearance like red-haired, good-humored, the skinny, Mr. Fatty, and so on. Some details might be sensitive to tell to person. That’s why you just keep these characteristics and physical appearances secret in your note book.
Soon after you have done these names listing, you can start to call them one by one in order to let them you are really doing at the moment. If possible, ask for recommending your service to any fellows they have got. Asking to these people about other counterparts in the same business which is just started recently will be useful as well. In case of getting bad response from an individual contact, try to cover this annoyance with another two or more people to introduce your profession. Doing listing step and socialization of your current business will the primary cornerstones where in need people might call you soon for carrying out some projects of web developing.

2. Local businesses are more feasible to reach than others. Get to know about them through their websites. Observe the performance, layout, structures, and eve traffics of their websites and put down the report obviously. Prepare an offering service email while attaching these few page report of your observations and send to them. Manage to set up a meeting face to face to discuss about your ideas on developing their websites. We cannot deny that this might be voluntary work at the beginning. It is the price to pay for as a new web developer. Somehow, be confident of what you harvest and thereby you can reap good values of devoted efforts.

3. Borrowing the idea from David Frey, you can take benefits from the available information provided by Yellow Pages. There are hundreds of names from which you can decide the prospective ones to bid. Since the writing on Yellow Pages looks very small, blow up 2-3 times bigger than the original fonts to make it more readable. Afterwards, circle the names of competitors you might have on these Yellow Pages sheets especially for your most potential clients to be. Write down a sheet of letter to your competitors saying that you would like to greatly help carry out one company’s project. State in your letter that the project would be for the development of company’s business while hoping that they were not one of the competitors who bid the same project.

It comes to a turn to reach a few names that you consider potential companies to offer you current service of web developing. If possible, arrange a meeting with them wherever convenient to discuss and explore more about your business.

These three tips are definitely cheap to carry out as the first move. The way will not always be as smooth as planned usually. No problem for this fact. Your determination to be a professional web developer will be appreciated in time by the people as soon as you begin to do the three steps above. Keep moving to make a success!

Analysis – February turned out to be the month of the beta browsers, in a more significant way than we have seen in any other month before. While overall market shares remained relatively stable for the top 5 of browser developers, there were major shifts in beta browser market share. Microsoft saw strong gains for Internet Explorer 8 and Apple hit a home run with Safari 4. Mozilla does not promote its Firefox 3.1 and trails its rivals in beta browser adoption, but has the strongest adoption rate of its most current stable browser.

If February is any indication, then Mozilla’s wild ride may be over for now. Market share data released by Net Applications shows that Firefox still gained share in February, albeit at a much slower pace than in recent months. Internet Explorer still lost, but only marginally and Apple took a big hit in average browser share in February. According to the data, Internet Explorer dropped from 68.18% to 68.17%, Firefox gained from 21.75% to 21.96% and Safari dropped from 7.70% to 7.42%.

Google’s Chrome climbed from 1.13% to 1.16% and Opera gained 0.02 points from 0.68% to 0.70%. Eagle-eyed readers may notice that those numbers deviate quite a bit from the actual February average based on Net Applications’ daily numbers (IE: 67.26%; Firefox: 21.82%; Safari: 8.15%; Chrome: 1.15%; Opera: 0.71%), which is due to the correction of errors that may occur in daily reporting, the market research firm said.






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Redmond (WA) – Microsoft's new Internet Explorer has looked rather underwhelming in the way it aligns itself with common web standards and how fast it can load web pages. But Microsoft has released a quiet surprise document that claims IE8 is much faster in real life than it is in benchmarks indicate – and will beat Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox.

Benchmarks are only one side of the performance capability of hardware and software, as they tend to explore only specifics and are often skewed towards a certain set of features. That was especially the case with recent browser benchmarks — which are anyway a rather questionable way to measure browser performance, as the speed a browser loads web pages will be different for every user. But, we have to admit that the latest round of JavaScript benchmarks was fairly convincing — as it they were in line with subjective speed improvements demonstrated by Chrome and Firefox and left the subjectively slower IE8 Beta somewhat in the dust.

The guys over at Ars Technica have now discovered a document published by Microsoft that claims the opposite. According to Microsoft, IE8 will beat its rivals in real world performance in actual web page loading and not just JavaScripts. If Microsoft’s test is correct, then IE8 will load twelve of the 25 largest websites faster than Chrome or Firefox, while Chrome wins in nine and Firefox in four. The comparison, however, did not include Firefox 3.1 Beta, but rather the upcoming 3.05, which does not yet include the much faster TraceMonkey engine.

It is not only surprising that IE comes out on top in this test, but we also noticed that IE is fastest in loading the web pages of its rivals – google.com and mozilla.com – while Firefox leads in loading microsoft.com.

The report is available for download here.