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Freelance Career

Learn about the challenges and rewards of a freelance design career and take control of your self-employed professional life.

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A Web Designer’s Secrets to Longevity

A Web Designer’s Secrets to Longevity

Being a web designer for 25+ years is hard to fathom. So much has changed, and achieving longevity in web design is really not easy.

How to Find Your Comfort Zone with Design Clients

How to Find Your Comfort Zone with Design Clients

I’ve learned some valuable lessons about gaining confidence with clients. Read this for some tips you can use in your day-to-day interactions.

Those Things That Can Come Back to Haunt Web Designers

Those Things That Can Come Back to Haunt Web Designers

So many problems can be prevented by avoiding lazy practices. By weighing the potential consequences of a web project could save us from many issues.

How to Build Confidence in Your Design Skills

How to Build Confidence in Your Design Skills

Confidence is among the most important traits for a web designer. It’s part of what propels us forward and enables us to create amazing things. Yet, it’s also quite volatile….

How New Web Designers Can Level Up

How New Web Designers Can Level Up

If you’re looking to build a web career that is successful and sustainable, we’re here to help! Here are some tips to help get you up and running.

How ‘Lazy’ Price Estimates Can Cost Freelancers

How ‘Lazy’ Price Estimates Can Cost Freelancers

In an effort to help freelance designers, we explore how you can more accurately estimate costs and fill clients in on the details.

The Keys to Becoming a Self-Reliant Freelance Designer

The Keys to Becoming a Self-Reliant Freelance Designer

Many choose the freedom of a freelance career, but dealing with the responsibilities can be difficult. You’ll need to become self-reliant!

The Five Inconvenient Truths of Web Design

The Five Inconvenient Truths of Web Design

Unveiling the hard truths about web design, challenging misconceptions, and highlighting the realities of the profession.

The Importance of Diversifying Your Client Roster

The Importance of Diversifying Your Client Roster

Don’t put all of your eggs into one basket. That applies not only in life but also to your web design client list/roster.

How to Work with Web Design Technophobes

How to Work with Web Design Technophobes

Let’s go out on a limb here and declare that web designers are generally pretty comfortable with technology. We know our way around computers, smartphones and other assorted gadgetry. Our…

Techniques for Documenting Your Web Projects

Techniques for Documenting Your Web Projects

Whether working on a new web project or looking through some past ones, here are some useful tips for documenting what you’ve done.

The Unpredictable Life of a Freelance Web Designer

The Unpredictable Life of a Freelance Web Designer