The Reasons Why Freelance Web Designers Fail
There’s an enormous amount of responsibility that goes along with being a freelance web designer – especially if you’re doing it full-time. Sure, it can seem like a carefree way…
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FOMOOP (Fear of Missing Out on Projects)
For freelance web designers, finding a measure of comfort in our workload can be quite difficult. It seems like we’re either hair-falling-out busy or bored out of our minds. Happy…
Can a Web Designer Be an Entrepreneur?
The World Wide Web is an enormous industry with seemingly endless potential for growth. It opens its arms to welcome any web designer that aspires to become the next Ethan…
Getting Your Design Work in Front of the Right People
Part of the challenge of being a freelance designer is making sure the right people find out about your talents. But it’s especially difficult when you’re just starting out. The…
How to Explain to a Client Why Investment in Their Website Is Crucial to Their Success
Everybody wants to spend as little as possible and get as much as they can. That’s the case whether you’re building a website, buying a car or grabbing a bite…
The Many Types of Web Design Clients to Avoid
Once they’re out of design school and battling it out in the real world, designers can find themselves in a pretty crappy predicament. Maybe your teachers warned you to be…
Being a Workaholic Designer (And How to Recover)
Designers are very fortunate. Unlike a whole lot of careers out there, we quite often genuinely enjoy what we do. We get to unleash our creative spirit and can make…
Dealing with the ‘Hurry Up and Wait’ Design Client
We’ve all been there (and some of us are there at this very moment). You book a new project and the client just can’t wait to get started. They gleefully…
Starting Out Small in Web Design
People often choose a career in web design because they find it fascinating and/or have a real talent for it. In my own case, I spent my late teenage years…
How to Build a Great Reputation as a Freelancer
If you’ve read the news anytime within the past few thousand years, you may have noticed that a quite a few people aren’t so great with maintaining their reputation. And…