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great ideas to keep your clients' and your own blogs up-to-date
A good guide to when you should use project pricing instead of an hourly rate. Excellent advice for freelancers and for small businesses.
Having been around the block several times, we know how some clients can get fixated on the wrong things when reviewing a design composition. This often frustrates the design team and makes the feedback process stressful for both parties.
Many web designers fall into a trap by pricing their services lower than they should, which can have a serious impact on their business. Here is a quick look at the many different ways that under pricing your services can hurt you.
80% of your negative experiences will be caused by 20% of your clients.
I found this site doing a tour with Adobe to teach print designers how to use Dreamweaver CS3. Looks pretty cool.

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Great little notebooks that look to be durable and are absolutely gorgeous. The question you should ask yourself is are my ideas worthy to be sprawled across its beautiful pages.
The design section of the Uber Index ezine is beautiful and inspirational.
Building a complete and effective website truly is a process. In this post we’ll take a brief look at the various steps that lead to a successful project. Of course, this will vary from case-to-case, but this is a pretty standard order of events.
7 neat street art executions that not only make you look, but also make you think and act.

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In the list below we present an overview of 35 established or rather unknown — but useful source code-editors; you’ll probably find “usual suspects” — your favourite editor or the editor you’ve once been working with. But you’ll also find some rathe
Not everyone using the Internet today enjoys the same kind of user experience as does the average person. Consider the following.
Many freelancers struggle with seeing the true value of their own time and respecting it for what it is worth. In order to have a truly successful career we all need to understand that our time is what allows us to make a living, and the more effici
A collection of different options for creating and managing invoices.
More than anything else, your business is dependent on the personal vibe that radiates from you in every communication - your emails, your website, your collateral. Are you absolutely nailing this, communicating the confidence that brings in clients