August, 2007

Aug 29th, 2007

Give Your Table Rows a Little Extra Style

Sometimes the simplest items end up making the best blog posts. Lately I’ve really started to enjoy giving a mouse-over effect to each row in a table. (This could be in part because I frequently include links in my tables.) This practice certainly can’t replace the techniques that a web designer uses to make tables [...]

Aug 22nd, 2007

Look Back: Best of Practices

Since I’ve hit the one-year anniversary of being a full-time freelancer, it seems like a fitting time to look back on this blog. Enjoy some of my favorite best practices posts:
Pricing Your Web Design Service
I wrote in this post that I prefer to give clients a fixed price per project, and that’s still true [...]

Aug 15th, 2007

Look Back on First Year of Freelancing

This week marks the 12-month anniversary of the day I left my safe cubicle in corporate America for the more adventurous world of freelance web design. I’ve already posted some of the things I’ve learned at the 2 month and 8 month marks. Here’s a look back at what I’ve learned with the wise and [...]

Aug 8th, 2007

What’s Holding You Back?

When I look at the comments people have left on this site, it seems like a lot of readers are where I was a little over a year ago. You have a job in a cublicle somewhere that’s not very fulfilling. Part of you really likes the idea of striking out on your [...]

Aug 1st, 2007

Finding a Niche Allows You to Collaborate

If you are a freelancer or even a small business, one of the first ideas you have to get used to is that you can’t be everything to everyone. If you want to be a database guru, you may not have time to learn everything there is to know about Flash. If you want to [...]

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