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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.
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

I guess everybody can think of site revamps that went terribly wrong and of revamps that really improved a site. However, when you discuss somebody else’s site it is much…

Good Old Static HTML Sites Aren’t Dead Yet, Should They Be?

Good Old Static HTML Sites Aren’t Dead Yet, Should They Be?

CSS / Web Design

Static HTML sites look so last century that sometimes you might be wondering if they don’t belong to the past. There is no doubt that dynamic, database-driven sites offer more,…

Usability Rules for Content Sites

Usability Rules for Content Sites

UX Design

Content sites, such as blogs, article directories, image galleries, video galleries, etc. are a major category of sites and if you haven’t designed such a site until now, you can…

Things My Clients Hate. What about Yours?

Things My Clients Hate. What about Yours?

Freelance

I have been a freelancer for almost a decade now and in the course of these years, I have had dozens of clients and hundreds of projects. While no two…

7 Essential Features a CMS for Beginners Must Have

7 Essential Features a CMS for Beginners Must Have

Web Design
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