Well that depends but the usual answer for most small business is cable.   DSL just isn't fast enough for multiple users and the price difference is typically negligible.   FiOS is new, not available everywhere and where it is it is mostly  and adds extra layers of potential problem (something I hate so much I have a whole category dedicated to the idea).  In other words FiOS isn't ready for prime time in the business since.  When they work out the bugs and get universal availibilty it will be great but I have seen too many problems.

Cable is typically a quick install that requires basic hardware from the provider (a cable modem) and usually comes with a static IP address on a business line.  Cable for business is usually no different than residential cable internet except that it costs more (and maybe comes with a static IP) which stinks but is understandably common practice anything for the "home" costs less than the "business" version even though feature wise there is no value added components. But the bottom line is the cable provider is the best way to go in an office from three to 15 employees who regularly use the computer, after that talk to the telecoms about a "partial T" and be preparred to dish out the money, your bill just quadrupaled .

 

What cable can't necessarily offer you is a PBX phone line.  (A multi-line phone system - usually four - or five with a dedicated fax) which is another way businesses get bumped up to major telecom providers.  Again this is one of those moments where you have to look at the costs objectively.  VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol)  is starting to come into its own and while there are a lot of players in this market, there are an awful lot of factors that play into the effectiveness of implementing a VoIP office.   VoIP is a phone system that uses your internet data connection to travel over the internet which offers some distinct advatages to those that can understand the process. One factor is how good your internet connection is.  Ignorance is not bliss here.  I saw a case where a customer paid for DSL ( a slower connection) to the phone company and then paid another VoIP company for addtional lines.  Forgetting to put the DSL (he had no idea) filter a phone jack and he had no internet and no phone.  The problem with options is not understanding what you are really choosing.  Some business these days still use good old fashioned phone land lines and that works JUST FINE, but if your business spends an awful lot on long distance, well you may want to reconsider.

If this all confuses you.  Good.  The whole point is know what you are buying and if you don't, don't buy it.  If you are stuck in a DSL contract, stick with it if is working for you until your contract runs out and don't let your employees stream internet radio.  If you are opening your doors day one, go cable unless you are starting out with fifteen or more employees who regularly use the computer then consider more.  Don't think just because they are not on the internet 24-7 this shouldn't matter because there is more to the internet than web surfing.  Downloading software and operating system updates, email, research and other very legitimate work activities rquire the internet and bandwidth without anybody goofing off on twitter.


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Located in St. Petersburg. Florida, Stan Andrew Design Studios can work on any project around the globe as is the nature of an internet business.  This being said I love to shake my customer's hands and look them in the eye.  If you are in the Tampa Bay area from Holiday to the North to Plant City to the East Down to North Port in the South I would love to meet with you directly and discuss your needs.  Give me a call at 727-954-6368.  I can customize a plan to meet all your web, sinage and printing needs as well as many of your marketing goals.

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Whatever you need your web site to do, there is no doubt it will involve data handling that host of variables that brings.

Do you buy your applications?   Build applications Yourself? 


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Don't let the title fool you; I love GIMP.  I just don't love it as much as Photoshop, . . .yet.  But if you can't afford CS whatever we are up to the GIMP is the way to go.  Also, GIMP is kind of like driving stick, if you can handle that then Photoshop is "automatic". 

GIMP is an open source product that has most of the features of a high end Graphics Manipulation Program but it is freely downloadable. 

 GIMP has the feel of Photoshop but it is slightly harder for a noob, which is bad because just sitting down to Photoshop for the first time, you are reminded of the scene from Airplane where the single engine pilot just keeps looking at controls after controls after controls.  Gimp, likd photoshop has windows (or Palettes) within windows that control what you are working but Photoshop does a much better job of making the windows look like a cohesive interface.  GIMP treets everything like its own window.  That can be confusing as hell, even for some one who does this kind of work.


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Photoshop LayersThe hardest thing for a noob with Photoshop to understand is Layers.  People used to using basic image editing software don't get layers and I have got to when I was a noob that (like the libray in Flash) was completely confusing. 

 I am not a photographer, I am a web designer but I use Photoshop nearly everday to create buttons, backgrounds and such.  It is the market leader for a reason, yet I have known several brilliant programmers who can solve the most advanced puzzles and algorithms who can't grasp a simple gradient.  That is why graphics guys (and gals) will always have a place.  But anyhoo.... 

Layers a major factor in layout and design with Photoshop.   Layers make all the difference in the world.  The first time I figured that out I was hooked for good.  I had just gotten a new 6 (how fast things change) megapixel camera a few years ago and had taken a time delayed photo of my self jamming on my candy apple red acoustic guitar.  It was a cool looking picture because it cut my head off.  It was really all about the guitar.  

I had seen a Midol commercial,... little, yellow, different, better.... you remember.  Anyway I wanted to duplicate that effect and I was just learning CS2.   I made a copy of the photo and turned into gray scale. 

 I then copied the grayscale layer and pasted it overtop of the image.  I painstakingly began to erase away the grey guitar a few pixels at a time.  Then I realized I could make the layer semi-trapsparent engough to sell the colors behind it.  In minutes I had duplicated the "Midol'effect and I have been hooked on photoshop ever since.


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