A different present to give to your loved one!

Posted on March 6, 2007 at 4:50 pm

If you know computers or work in the computer field, then it should DEFINITELY be easy for you to make your loved one happy! Thankfully for those of us blessed with the technical skills to figure out computer problems instinctively or write good code quickly, we can use these skills to make the ones we love in our lives something special!

Next time you a big date comes up (wedding anniversary, Valentine’s day, the day you proposed, etc), instead of going after the usual suspects: flowers, chocolates, lingerie, etc – try to think what you can do using a computer! How many guys do you know who have made a whole web site about their girlfriend or wife? Probably not many!!! And won’t she be surprised to find that there is a web site she can go to that is just about her!! Of course, do not make the mistake of putting REMOTELY bad pictures of your loved one or you might just find you are not loved anymore. What I did was a couple of weeks before I made the web site I just went through a couple of digital photos of her casually recording which ones she would scoff at and which ones were “cute”!

And you can do this for cheaper than buying a dozen roses! Go to GoDaddy.com and you can get a domain name for 1 year for $8. Next you can get hosting from ASmallOrange.com for $2 a month! So to keep your site up for 1 whole year, you need to only spend $33!! That’s nothing!! And if you really want to go all out, you can go to http://www.templatesbox.com/ and download a web site template for $50 that is very professional looking and just add your content! Now I know most guys have spent more money on gifts than $80!

Another idea is to create a flash animation and send it to her for a smaller occasion like a birthday! It’s something different and you don’t have to keep trying to think of something to buy because you already got what she wanted to last 5 years!! Again, if you’re not super good at Flash (though you really don’t have to be), you can get a template from a couple of web sites:

http://www.flash-template-design.com/
http://www.flashtemplatestore.com/
http://www.free-flash-template.com/
http://www.easytemplates.com/fla-templates.htm

And if you think this is all too complicated, then anyone can do this last suggestion!! Create a PowerPoint presentation!! It might sound cheesy, but you can do some pretty nice animations in Office along with a ton of useful clipart. And the most important thing of course is that you write out how you feel; women almost always enjoy that more than just getting a gift!

So try giving your loved one a unique present on your next special day and I’m sure she’ll love it!

Follow up to my post about giving your loved one a unique gift!

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