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The Grumpy Designer’s Cure for Massive Expectations

The Grumpy Designer’s Cure for Massive Expectations

Freelance Design / Web Design

It’s time for web designers to take back control over massive (and unrealistic) expectations. The following is my plan to help you do it.

How to Provide Great Support to Your Web Design Clients

How to Provide Great Support to Your Web Design Clients

Web Design

What goes into providing great support? We share tips for keeping your websites running smoothly while keeping your clients happy.

Learn How to Determine Website Project Requirements Like a Pro

Learn How to Determine Website Project Requirements Like a Pro

Web Design

Some strategies can help you get a clearer picture of what a website project requires. We share those strategies with you here.

How to Help Your Clients Overcome Fear of Commitment

How to Help Your Clients Overcome Fear of Commitment

Web Design

Fear of commitment and web design go together like oil and water. So here are some ways to help even the most skittish of clients move forward.

Helping Your Clients with Unexplained Website Phenomena

Helping Your Clients with Unexplained Website Phenomena

Web Design

We look at ways to help your clients solve those annoying website mysteries and share some of the most common of these “stranger things.”

Why Web Design Is Never Simple

Why Web Design Is Never Simple

Web Design

We take a look at ways to both understand and communicate to clients the true complexities of a building well-built website.

When Chaos Invades: Keeping Your Freelance Business Going During a Crisis

When Chaos Invades: Keeping Your Freelance Business Going During a Crisis

Freelance Design

I share thoughts on balancing life and business during chaotic times. I’m learning as I go, but here’s the good, bad, and ugly of it all.

The Grumpy Designer Wonders: Why Are Clients So Cheap?

The Grumpy Designer Wonders: Why Are Clients So Cheap?

Web Design / WordPress

We discuss cheap clients and how they limit what a designer can accomplish. And, how we can convince them to see the error in their ways.

Are Google’s Core Web Vitals Metrics Unreasonable?

Are Google’s Core Web Vitals Metrics Unreasonable?

Web Design

We discuss what Core Web Vitals means to sites that run on a tight budget or content management system (CMS). Is Google asking too much?

My Client Made Me Do It: True Tales from the Grumpy Designer

My Client Made Me Do It: True Tales from the Grumpy Designer

UX Design / Web Design

Enjoy humorous and relatable stories from the Grumpy Designer, offering a unique perspective on the design industry.

How the Web Kept the World Moving in 2020

How the Web Kept the World Moving in 2020

Web Design

This year has proven that the web and its related technologies are essential. We look back at how the web kept us open for business and a whole lot more.

Client Website Feedback with Context? Yes, Please. Sponsored

Client Website Feedback with Context? Yes, Please.

Web Design
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