Entries posted in Freelancing


Family and Freelancing – The Ultimate Balancing Act

5/29/2008 | {29}

A couple weeks back FreelanceSwitch had an excellent article on how so many freelancers tend to disrespect their own time. It was an article I seriously needed to read, because I’m one of them. It’s often not by choice, however. Due to parental demands or household responsibilities which must be taken care of during “normal” [...]


Evaluating a Design Slicing Service

11/15/2007 | {54}

If you work for yourself, outsourcing has no doubt crossed your mind. It’s something that requires a decision sooner or later. Whether your preference is to defer to another designer, outsource entirely, or simply turn work away – the question remains.
One option designers now have is that of partial outsourcing to any one of a [...]


Tools For Protecting Your Creative Work (and Yourself)

7/24/2007 | {7}

Every now and then, I see a post on one of the many blogs I read about a rip that’s been made of the author’s content or design. Protecting intellectual property is undoubtedly a concern for every designer, coder, musician, artist and writer… and thankfully, watching for and guarding against theft (at least online) gets [...]


Color Your World – Tools for Color Lovers

5/01/2007 | {4}

Selecting a color scheme could arguably be one of the most important tasks in planning and designing a website, but it’s not always the easiest. Listed here are some great tools for discovering, creating, sharing, selecting and experimenting with color and color palettes.
kuler
With tools like this, working more color into a design can be as [...]