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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
You might be tempted, when you are beginning your design business, to think you need to do everything. I mean doing more stuff is going to bring you more money, right?
Well yes … and no.
In the very early stages when you are trying to get things off the ground, you will be inclined to take [...]
Well first of all, I want to apologize for not being consistent with the newsletter, some weeks you get it on Tuesday, others Wednesday or Thursday, and this is Friday! I’m really going to try to be consistent and send it out every Thursday, as I currently promise.
Oh, and last week I missed the newsletter [...]
Google has tons of cash laying around and they seem to have plenty to throw at developing their online tools into really awesome ones …
The calendar tool works extremely well, and has some syncing programs that you can use to keep it synced up with Outlook, an exchange server, Mac calendar, lots of different ones.
I [...]
Often you’ll find that a web designer who has spent 10 years in school will consider themselves to be a lot better than you. (Do you have 10 years of web design education? Well good for you … and stop reading now :)
After all, they have the sublime gift of education. They’ve been beaten up [...]
This tool costs nothing and will help you do mass actions like following everyone who follows you and unfollowing people who you follow but don’t follow you back. It’s going to save you a lot of time in cleaning up your followers list and I use it a couple times a week at least.
Only thing [...]
