Payoneer is a waste of time!
I have been fighting with Payoneer from quite a long time now. I think it is has reached the point when I should share my experience. I started working on upwork as a freelance developer around 2011. About four years ago I was looking for options to receive payments from foriegn clients when I found …
Point pairNIC domain to Hostgator
If you have bought your domain and hosting from hostgator, that is ideal but at times you end up buying a domain from one service provider and want to host is on another one. I am just going to give you a brief on how to point your pairNIC domain to Hostgator. You must have …
How to get your first job on UpWork?
UpWork (previously known as oDesk) is an extremely popular name in the freelance market. Though they have made a few changes in their commission now but initially they were charging merely 10{d79a6d3fc954d12776e94c2e20e5b96002b612c6f83590b39d443ad63a49773e} which is very less as compared to their competitors. (Image Courtesy: https://www.upwork.com/blog/2015/05/upwork-roadmap-better-collaboration/ ) Last year they joined up with another freelance giant Elance …
Annoyed with PayPal
From as long as I can remember, PayPal never offered services in Pakistan. I never understood why, I mean we are one of the largest software producing companies of the world. Our programmers are found in every software company. I mean you name it and we are there. Fine we might have political and demographic …
Web Design – What to include?
Web Design is a prime concern for all entrepreneurs, especially if you are looking for a complete online solution. The design and over all look and feel matters, since most of the users are just going to open the home page, go through it for a couple of seconds and then move on to something …
Deploying ZF2 project on shared hosting
We were deploying zf2 sample project Album and added another zfcuser module from the bank on the local server. It was working fine on the local machine. But the deployment became a problem. Now zend does not require any additional things to be uploaded, all you need is to upload the zend in the right folder and …
Monetize your site
So you are looking for ways to monetize your site? You must have heard of many ways to do that. I thought I should share my experience. For me undefeated champion is Google Adsense. No comarison! It’s because it offers pay per click! Simple! Somebody reviews your websites and likes the ad on it so …
Clients with Payment Method Not Verified
When I was new at oDesk, a fellow colleague once noticed I was applying for jobs where the client’s payment method was not verified. He emailed me warning about such clients. He shared his experience that such clients don’t pay. Actually you see that fixed price projects were not covered back in 2012.
Responsive Website
So, what is a responsive website? Do you think you need one? Let me tell you, the other day a company sent me some proposal and I wanted to review the ‘about us’ section of their website to know more details. The website didn’t open on my iPhone, instead the message it displayed was something …