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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
