As freelance web designers, one of the things we often run into is the fact that our clients need help with choosing a web hosting company. Even worse, sometimes we work with clients who are already affiliated with a company that charges way too much without offering some of the more basic tools available. On that note, I have a friend who owns a hair salon. She pays over $40 a month for her hosting, the use of a site tool and her domain name. Not only is the web site limited in its design, by nature of ...
We all love javascript and jquery, right? It's the stuff that helps you do cool stuff on your site, like rotators, animated elements, and a ton more. But the problem is, if you use Javascript and Jquery to do every effect on your site, it can be a little code-intensive. It also won't work when someone has javascript disabled. Enter the simple elements that use nothing but HTML and CSS, and maybe some images. What I want to demonstrate is a simple way to get a hover effect on an image, without using jquery or javascript. The way this works, basically, is ...
As I'm building a new blog for a client, I came across designing the comments area for the single post page. I thought to myself, it would really impress my client if I was able to integrate Facebook Connect and Twitter right into the response form. Then I remembered seeing Disqus in many blogs that have this in their forms so I decided to give it a try. At first, I was expecting a widget of some sort that you will be able to call into your theme files. Maybe some check boxes whether to include Facebook comments etc ...
Do you want to know how to triple (at least) your creativity and productivity? Just add one more person to your team! FIND a PARTNER! Partnership is the art of coming together with another person who has complementary skills, things you might be able to do but not as well as they can. The effect of working together with them is a feeling of freedom to do what you do well, and enjoy, and letting them take over the things you would rather not have to do. Most of the successful businesses, and web design is no exception, are built from good strong ...
"Internet Explorer 6.0". The freelance web designer, and especially one who is self-taught, will shudder when hearing the name of this infamous browser. BUT, as much as we all hate it, and struggle with it when we are new, if you can learn to design websites that work EVEN in IE6, then you will have become a much better designer. Good web designers don't care what their clients are going to use to look at their website, it's just going to work. Here are a few things I've learned in my struggle to tame the IE6 beast ... Keep in mind, these are ...
As freelance web designers, one of the things we often run into is the fact that our clients need help with choosing a web hosting company. Even worse, sometimes we work with clients who are already affiliated with a company that charges way too much without offering some of the more basic tools available.
On [...]
We all love javascript and jquery, right? It’s the stuff that helps you do cool stuff on your site, like rotators, animated elements, and a ton more. But the problem is, if you use Javascript and Jquery to do every effect on your site, it can be a little code-intensive. It also won’t work when [...]
As I’m building a new blog for a client, I came across designing the comments area for the single post page. I thought to myself, it would really impress my client if I was able to integrate Facebook Connect and Twitter right into the response form. Then I remembered seeing Disqus in many blogs [...]
Do you want to know how to triple (at least) your creativity and productivity? Just add one more person to your team!
FIND a PARTNER!
Partnership is the art of coming together with another person who has complementary skills, things you might be able to do but not as well as they can. The effect of working [...]
“Internet Explorer 6.0″. The freelance web designer, and especially one who is self-taught, will shudder when hearing the name of this infamous browser.
BUT, as much as we all hate it, and struggle with it when we are new, if you can learn to design websites that work EVEN in IE6, then you will have become [...]
Starting out as a freelancer is never easy. In web design, it’s even tougher because we mainly work by ourselves from home. If you are like me, you first experienced designing for print; now, however, you’ll need to tweak those skills for use with an online medium – too bad since I always loved the [...]
So you are getting your web design business going and there are all kinds of things to take care of. Even if you’ve been in business for a while, there’s a lot on your plate.
I mean you still have to do that redesign of your website that you’ve been wanting to do for a while. [...]
Twitter is one of those weird things that some people love and others hate. It’s been debated up and down whether you can make money with Twitter.
Well I don’t really care what anyone says about it, the fact is, you can easily find clients using Twitter, and a freelance web design business is a perfect [...]
An FTP program is an essential part of your tookit. It allows you to install scripts on a website if needed, upload a ton of pictures or content quickly, even edit files on the server without logging into your text program.
FileZilla is the program I’ve used for years, and I RELY on it. It’s pretty [...]
When just getting started in web design, or even if you’ve been around for a while … you can sometimes feel like you are running out of ideas.
OK maybe you can get started pretty well, but then you kind of fizz out on your design and can’t seem to do anything that looks good.
So what [...]