June, 2008

Jun 24th, 2008

Blog Revamp

Long overdue, I finally did a redesign of this Best Practices blog. I was motivated to do this because I decided to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. (I had been using 2.0.3, and the admin interface has gotten a lot better since then.) Since I was going to all the trouble, though, I [...]

Jun 18th, 2008

The Joy of Working IN Your Business

I’m always looking for ways to improve my business. I mean that literally. It can be a problem. I’m always looking for little tweaks I can make. Last week an opportunity to dive into a new project came up, and I resented it. I didn’t want to do any web development because I was too [...]

Jun 11th, 2008

Keeping Regular Hours As a Freelancer

On August 18th, 2006, I had a huge smile on my face as I drug my sleepy carcass across the bedroom to shut off the alarm clock. I felt so warm and serene knowing this was the last day I would ever have to set my alarm. This was the final episode of hopping on [...]

Jun 4th, 2008

The Downside of Turning Freelance Work Down

A few weeks ago, Noah wrote a guest post about turning projects down. I shared my own ideas on the topic a few months back. Today it occurred to me the posts on this blog are really focusing on one side of the story. Now this is exactly the stuff you need to hear if [...]

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