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Ada Ivanova (22 Articles)

Ada is a fulltime freelancer and enjoys every second of it. She is also the Blogger Relations Manager at WinkPress.com, which is a web resource about leveraging WordPress, its themes, and plugins to create versatile and unusual websites.
10 Free Tutorials & Courses for Learning PHP

10 Free Tutorials & Courses for Learning PHP

Web Design

PHP is easier to learn than most programming languages. But if you are new to it, it can be daunting. We can help with these PHP tutorials.

10 Useful htaccess Code Snippets & Hacks

10 Useful htaccess Code Snippets & Hacks

Web Design

With this useful collection of HTACCESS snippets, you will be able to cache and compress files, speed-up load time, control access to files, block visitors, and much more.

How to Deal with Creative Differences with Clients

How to Deal with Creative Differences with Clients

Freelance

Strategies for handling creative differences with clients, ensuring a productive outcome without compromising the project’s vision.

10 Rules to Follow for Popups and Modal Windows

10 Rules to Follow for Popups and Modal Windows

UX Design

Skillfully used popups or unclicked modal windows are probably the best ways to attract newsletter subscribers, to sell products, and to generally get your message noticed. But they’re so annoying!…

Things to Consider When Hiring Subcontractors

Things to Consider When Hiring Subcontractors

Freelance

When work volumes surge, or when you simply have a project you don’t have the skillset for, hiring subcontractors is one path you may consider. However, before you do so,…

Things I Hate about My Clients

Things I Hate about My Clients

Freelance

In the Things My Clients Hate. What about Yours? article I discussed 5 things my clients hate. Now, let me present the other side of the story – i.e. 5…

A Case for Using Gimp

A Case for Using Gimp

Design / Freelance

Before I start answering the question of whether GIMP is a Photoshop alternative or not, I have to make it clear that the GIMP project hasn’t been developed with the…

Protecting Your Content from Theft

Protecting Your Content from Theft

Web Design

If there is a war that is as hard to win as the wars on drugs and terrorism, it must be the war against content theft. Content theft is so…

Subscription Model in Your Web Design Business

Subscription Model in Your Web Design Business

UX Design

Regular supply of work is vital for the health of your budget. When you don’t have projects lined up, you may enjoy the free time you have but at some…

Communication Tips for Techies

Communication Tips for Techies

Freelance

Techies aren’t known for their outstanding communication skills – we are much better at design, code, machines in general than in communication with other humans. However, no matter if we…

10 Productivity Tips for Freelancers

10 Productivity Tips for Freelancers

Freelance

As a freelancer, it matters not how much time you have spent in front of your computer but what you have completed on the project. What matters is productivity rather…

5 Things that Can Derail Your Freelance Career

5 Things that Can Derail Your Freelance Career

Freelance

When you started your freelance career, you probably thought that the beginning was the most difficult. While a beginning is usually hard, what’s after isn’t necessarily any easier. There are…

Sell Your Designs – Print-on-Demand (POD) Tips and Services

Sell Your Designs – Print-on-Demand (POD) Tips and Services

Freelance / Print & Graphic Design

Print-on-Demand (POD) is usually related to books and other written stuff but it is not limited to this. With POD, you prepare your manuscript, or design, upload it to a…

How Seasonal Factors Can Influence Your Business

How Seasonal Factors Can Influence Your Business

Freelance

The four seasons of the year might not affect your business directly, unless you are a farmer, but more or less seasonal factors play a role for every kind of…

Are Website Builders and Ready-made Templates a Competitor to Designers

Are Website Builders and Ready-made Templates a Competitor to Designers

Web Design

We all admire technological advancements that make our life easier. After all, this is what drives progress. However, when these technology advancements hurt our business, we tend to hate and…

Five Alternative Careers for Designers

Five Alternative Careers for Designers

Freelance

All these alternative careers for designers are Web-related and presumably it will be easier for you to make the switch but of course, if you are totally fed up with…

Reasons to Become a Freelancer

Reasons to Become a Freelancer

Freelance

For me personally becoming a freelancer was one of the best ideas I’ve ever had. Being a freelancer beats all jobs I have had in the past and maybe more…

To Revamp or Not to Revamp?

To Revamp or Not to Revamp?

Web Design
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