My wife, Dawn, and I just changed our business name to Red Zebra Design and put up a new website last week (we're still working on it). Dawn came up with the name and the tag line: "change your stripes". I am so lucky to be married to a talented graphics artist and all around great woman.

We've decided to go out into the wild and go from working full time with a web design business on the side, to building our web design business up to a full time endeavor.
...

I found this article very interesting and thought some of the newer members would learn a few things

List Building - An Easy Three-Step Plan For Using Blogging to Grow Your List
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Biana_Babinsky]Biana Babinsky

Do you want to invite more people to your list using your blog? Many heart-based service professionals have blogs and are blogging, but not many of them are actually use their blogs for list building. Read this article to...

By Paul Barrs.

This is the final step of the ‘creation’ steps, and while most people who build websites for themselves are too easily apt to take the easier, shorter road, such should not happen here.

Even though the planning of your website project is by far the most important stage, this area should not be neglected simply because the ‘hard yakka’ is over. Further more, due diligence should be paid here just as much as in previous steps to avoid costly errors...

update: I now use the excellent 'Duplicator' plugin that is completely gratis courtesy of Life In The Grid - find it in the WordPress plugin directory:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicator/

---------------------

If you are creating a lot of blogs that are identical in their configuration (plugins, theme, settings) you can save a lot of time by creating a master blog that can be replicated with ease if you have cpanel hosting.

...

You can make money online from numerous forums, social bookmarking, and networking sites. They have provided methods by which members can earn by participating in the site itself. If you are looking for extra online earnings then you should explore the money-making activities in these sites:

Online Forums
Mahalo Answers, MyLot, Creditmagic, EarnOnlineForum and MySpace Forum are sites which pay you for participating in their various activities. They award points and equivalent...