I came across a good article yesterday with the title, The business case for Web standards-based development. I like the break down at the end of the article of all the benefits that come with designing a standards compliant web site.
It got me thinking about the clients I’ve had in the last year. Most of [...]
My guess would be most web designers learn this lesson pretty early, but I’d like to add it to the Best Practices canon anyway. You design web sites all the time for all kinds of clients. As a result, you’ve built up a good deal of knowledge about what does and does not work in [...]
It’s easy to overlook the importance of budgeting your time because it seems so simple. You feel like you instinctively know whether or not you have enough time to do a project this week, this month, or at all. In the beginning as your practice is growing, you’ll almost always be right. Sometimes you may [...]
I went back and read the post I wrote on pricing your web design service and realized that I made a pretty big assumption with it. I assumed that every freelancer looks at a list of requirements for a project and can instantly predict the amount of time it will take to complete the project [...]
One of the many contributions that Stephen Covey has made to modern society’s corporate culture is the time management matrix. As shown in the example below, it divides the tasks that fill your day into quadrants, allowing you to apply rules about how much time should be spent on each activity. Spending time in quadrant [...]
During the development of a project, you’ll repeatedly be faced with situations where there are multiple solutions to a problem. One choice is to create a robust answer that is reliable and will adapt well to the changing needs of the customer for the foreseeable future. Another option is a design that addresses the current [...]
