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Tips for Freelance Designers Who Work as a Sub-contractor

Tips for Freelance Designers Who Work as a Sub-contractor

Freelance / WordPress

Navigate the world of freelance design by learning how to effectively work as a subcontractor, enhancing your skills and network.

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

Freelance / Web Design

Including interesting side projects in your portfolio can help you make the leap from forgettable, all-purpose designer to an industry superstar.

What to Do When Someone Wants to Partner with Your Design Business

What to Do When Someone Wants to Partner with Your Design Business

Freelance

Considerations for partnering in a design business to enhance creativity, share responsibilities, and grow.

Why I Charge the Same for Building Websites Designed by Someone Else

Why I Charge the Same for Building Websites Designed by Someone Else

Freelance

As a web designer, the vast majority of my new projects are original creations. The process goes a little something like this: I create a mockup, make revisions until my…

Starting Out Small in Web Design

Starting Out Small in Web Design

Freelance

Tips for starting small in web design, focusing on how to grow your skills and business from the ground up effectively.

How to Stay Calm When a Client Tries Your Patience

How to Stay Calm When a Client Tries Your Patience

Freelance

We take a look at some scenarios where patience between a designer and client is called for, and when it’s time to say “enough.”

5 Ways You Can Contribute to the Web Design Community

5 Ways You Can Contribute to the Web Design Community

Web Design

We share ideas that will hopefully inspire you to give a little bit of your time and skills to make the web design community a better place.

Jumping Through Hoops for Prospective Web Design Clients

Jumping Through Hoops for Prospective Web Design Clients

Freelance

You’ll start to spot those red flags for projects and clients you want to avoid. It is about understanding the types of clients you want to work with.

How to Build & Grow Your Freelance Web Design Personal Brand

How to Build & Grow Your Freelance Web Design Personal Brand

Freelance / Marketing

A step-by-step guide on how freelance web designers can build and grow their personal brand that will cost nothing but a bit of time.

The Five Types of Projects NOT to Include in Your Portfolio

The Five Types of Projects NOT to Include in Your Portfolio

Freelance

When it comes to designer portfolios, bigger is not necessarily better. While it’s tempting to list each and every project you’ve ever done, it may actually be counterproductive. That is,…

A Web Designer’s Secrets to Longevity

A Web Designer’s Secrets to Longevity

Freelance

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.

The Many Ways Web Designers Give Away Their Time (Without Realizing It)

The Many Ways Web Designers Give Away Their Time (Without Realizing It)

Freelance

We look at some common situations where designers essentially give away their time, and share how you can handle those situations.

How to Work with Web Design Technophobes

How to Work with Web Design Technophobes

Freelance

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…

Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

Freelance

How to offer web hosting services to clients as an added value to your web design offerings.

The Freelance Design Situations You Need to Fix Right Away

The Freelance Design Situations You Need to Fix Right Away

Freelance

We delve into some common freelance situations you’ll want to fix sooner rather than later and offer some useful solutions.

The Deadly Communication Sins Freelance Designers Commit

The Deadly Communication Sins Freelance Designers Commit

Freelance / Web Design

Identify and avoid common communication mistakes freelancers make, fostering better relationships and project outcomes.

It’s Relationship Building, Not Networking

It’s Relationship Building, Not Networking

Freelance

Freelance designers need to perfect the art of building relationships rather than traditional networking. Surprisingly, it can be done.

Best Practices for Documenting Web Design Work

Best Practices for Documenting Web Design Work

Freelance / Web Design
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