As a freelance web designer, I'm always thinking of ways to smooth out the natural ups and downs of project based income. One of the ideas I've been toying with for a while is offering to build websites for a monthly cost, rather than an up front cost to the client. My research about this produced s…
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Most People Want to Pay Monthly for Web Design
Posted October 31, 2009
Freelancers: Two Methods for Making Sales the Easy Way
Posted September 20, 2008
Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs I was constantly told, "You can have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it you're still going to be broke." The point is, if you're going to succeed in this (or any) business, you need to be in the business of selling.
So, what are you se…
Some Web Design Inspiration
Posted September 18, 2008
I found a great blog site today on CSS Mania (a nice resource for inspiration) by author Jason Bradbury and thought I'd share it.
Jason Bradbury
I love how you can change the color of some of the items, and how the background changes on reload. The PNG transparencies up top work beautifully, though …
Awesome UI Design Resource - Pattern Tap
Posted August 15, 2008
I don't usually just write about a web site without getting into bits of its UI design, but I came across Pattern Tap while cruising around for inspiration on FeedMyApp today and immediately fell in love with it. It's too great an idea not to share and I wish I had built it first.
Basically, the co…
Mastering Meetings - 10 Tips for Freelance Web Designers
Posted July 25, 2008
If time really equals money, then I've spent a decent amount of money purchasing awkward silence with strangers over the years. What I'm talking about is the minor panic evoked by a sudden realization that I'm sitting across the table from a total stranger and neither of us has anything more to say,…
UI Design Examples to Inspire You - Big Human
Posted July 17, 2008
Fellow designers and friends Rus Yusupov and Dominik Hofmann have created a beautiful and functional little web app called Big Human that's perfect for this series I'm writing on inspirational user interface design. Prepare to be inspired.
Big Human
In an effort to easily share music with one anoth…
UI Design Examples to Inspire You - Vimeo
Posted July 16, 2008
Originally, like my last post, I was going to write one article with a bunch of links to great UI design examples, but as I got into it the article became huge.
In order to sate my appetite for inspiring UI designers, this will be the first post in a series called "UI design examples to inspire you"…
Maintaining a Regular Income as a Freelance Web Designer
Posted July 10, 2008
Most freelance web designers would agree; one of the greatest discomforts of freelancing is the lack of a regular paycheck. I was recently hired as a user interface designer for Wesabe, a site that helps people track their finances, and an interesting side effect of that has been me spending a lot o…
Tips on How to Be a Freelance Web Designer
Posted June 23, 2008
Before I took the plunge and went freelance full time in March of 2007, I was a little nervous. How would I survive without a cushy agency job? Could I sell myself to potential clients as easily as I could sell an entire agency of talent? How would I find work? What about stability?
I've learned a f…
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