Posted by sean on
August 21, 2008
Sitepoint
Sitepoint is hands down, THE best webmaster marketplace out there. If you want to sell a site and serious about it, sitepoint is probably the first place you’ll go.
Walk in to any reputable book store and head to the computer / technology section and you’re also likely to find sitepoint branded books. You can buy those books online in pdf format or just buy them in hard copy format. EIther way, those books are extremely useful and are written by people who know their shit.
Along with the no.1 online webmaster marketplace, sitepoint also have a blogs section, articles section and some really helpful videos on webmaster stuff like introduction to new languages, design tips etc… They’ve a kick ass forum too.
Overall, sitepoint is right up there with the top webmaster sites. If you haven’t got it boomarked, do so now.
Official yesnoblog.com verdict:
Posted by sean on
August 18, 2008
GoDaddy
If there’s one thing i don’t like, it’s high prices. Yeah ok, i know there’s more expensive places than GoDaddy (don’t worry, i’ll hunt the down and verbally machete them too at a later date), but GoDaddy are probably the biggest domain name registrar out there.
It now costs $9.99* for me to register a .com with GoDaddy. *Plus 20c ICANN fee - but SSHHHH, we’re not supposed to see that until billing time because it has the cool little star beside it.
Screw that - why pay more? GoDaddy’s site is a mess of fiddly little drop down menus and masses of text. Why the hell should i pay $10.19 to let them host my .com domains when i can do it for $5.99 with name.com (with free whois protection) and have less clutter and the exact same features?
As if that wasn’t enough, we also had the whole .me shenanigans in which goDaddy accepted cash from multiple people for the SAME domains - resulting in a huge cock up, refunds, people losing domains and an angry mob of webmasters who all thought they’d hit the jackpot.
Official yesnoblog.com verdict:
