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31st Mar

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Getting paid as a freelance web designer

As a freelancer, or small business owner, it’s extremely important to get paid as soon as possible because more than likely you don’t have a Scrooge McDuck money bin to help you out. Money can be a tricky subject, and for one reason or another getting paid on time is something that will always crop [...]

17th Nov

56

5 Essential Document Templates for Freelance Designers

As a freelance web designer it makes sense to have a number of documents prepared as you tend to use the same ones over and over again. I thought I would share with you the 5 documents that I have prepared and ready to use, along with some excellent examples from other designers and studios.

1st Jul

3

5 Must Read Career Blogs for Web Designers

Guest post written by Mary Ward
Keeping an eye out for your career’s future is important for everyone.
However, for web designers, looking forward may be even more important than for many other professions. Many web designers are freelancers, or work for more than one company at a given time. Jobs can be short or long term [...]

26th Feb

1

Book Review: Tick My Boxes

I can’t remember where exactly, but I came across this while browsing the web one day and it caught my attention as I’d been thinking for some time now about having a checklist for projects. And here it is. Tick My Boxes, The Web Developers’ Checklist.

26th Jan

4

Book Review: The Unlimited Freelancer

I just finished reading The Unlimited Freelancer; an eBook by the guys at Freelance Folder, that I was lucky enough to receive for a review. It’s a guide that delves into becoming the ultimate freelancer, covering an introduction to freelancing, putting automated systems into place, building your team and ultimately making a lot more money [...]

10th Nov

15

Why it’s good to work on your own side projects

Whether you’re freelance, employed or a business owner, we each have our own daily routine, which usually involves doing work to please someone else, whether that someone else be a client, end user, reader etc. But every once and a while I think it’s important to work on your own projects.
As I work on my [...]