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Re: Ask HN: Can I Help You with Anything?

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cedlimed wrote: post #25
DanielRibeiro wrote: post #21

Very nice design. Direct link: http://willworkforamac.com Suggestion: put design as 1 instead of 4. Also, putting your email in the same line as "talk to me at:", or aligned, would convey the information better.

Love the design too. While you're at it, you may want to change the link for your email to "mailto:francine@willworkforamac.com" instead. It's currently linking to " http://willworkforamac.com/francine@willworkforamac.com

Thank you for spotting that! The link's been changed to the mailto.

And it's aligned on the same line and centered now, with an e-mail icon instead. Icons are cute!

Re: Ask HN: Can I Help You with Anything?

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Post by donuts »

Jun8 wrote: post #23

Fantastic design, amazing for a first project! You definitely want to add the amount people have donated so far, it would be a nice motivation.

Yeah! I wanted to have a thanking board or some sort of real-time donation tracker (a la humble bundle), but I'm not a developer/didn't know how to implement such a thing that linked to my PayPal/WePay =(

Re: Ask HN: Can I Help You with Anything?

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Post by donuts »

megamark16 wrote: post #26
zacharycohn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out www.wepay.com. Full disclosure, I use them and they're awesome.

Came here to say this, I used wepay.com to raise money from family and friends to buy my brother-in-law a birthday present. They are super easy to use, and super easy to get ahold of a real person if you run into problems.

Just put up a WePay button. =) Thanks everyone!

Re: Ask HN: Can I Help You with Anything?

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Post by donuts »

vessenes wrote: post #20

Hi Francine, nice site! Did you design it? If so, you should put web design as a 'willing to help with'.

Hi there, and thanks!

I bought a theme (from themeforest.net) to make quick changes off of, and my friend gave me some CSS that I used to format the top. Here's the theme I purchased: http://tanshcreative.com/symple-lp-preview/symple_v1/index.h...

I'm not a developer and I'm pretty inefficient at marking up webpages (it took me hours of trial and error for parts that I feel like a normal web designer would take half an hour to do), so it's not something I'd advertise--and that's for your benefit rather than mine =P. But I am definitely willing to help as much as I can, with what I can of it =)

Re: Ask HN: Can I Help You with Anything?

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Post by DanBC »

PaulHoule wrote: post #6

i just remember the time some homeless dude came up to me near union square in san fran and tried to trade me a stolen macbook for a box of doughnuts. it's like "what the hell is wrong with ya man? i've already got a pro in my backpack..."

A box of donuts, and the opportunity to return someone's computer seems like a good deal. I guess you're just feeding the steal-macs-for-donuts outbreak though.

At least donuts are kind f food and can't be translated to drugs or alcohol.

Re: Ask HN: Can I Help You with Anything?

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Post by Jun8 »

donuts wrote: post #32
Jun8 wrote: post #23

Fantastic design, amazing for a first project! You definitely want to add the amount people have donated so far, it would be a nice motivation.

Yeah! I wanted to have a thanking board or some sort of real-time donation tracker (a la humble bundle), but I'm not a developer/didn't know how to implement such a thing that linked to my PayPal/WePay =(

Well, it doesn't have to be real time, could be daily. Just check the donation figure and update your page manually.

Re: Ask HN: Can I Help You with Anything?

#39

Post by donuts »

PLejeck wrote: post #29

Very nice site, I'd donate if I weren't saving to buy my own MacBook (probably would also help if I had a PayPal account) I know exactly how it is to lack a mac. I've been a Windows user up until about a month ago, when I finally threw my hands up and said "screw this, I'm getting Ubuntu" (surprisingly, Photoshop works on Linux quite painlessly) Best of luck in getting a Mac and I hope it serves you well!

& chromedude,

thanks, thanks! =) my trusty Dell has been good to me. but i'm curious about the other side! Good luck to both of you in getting a mac =)!

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