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One of the great advantages of freelancing is the ability to work from anywhere. On Web.AppStorm, Justin Stravarius looks at fifty web apps that can replace desktop applications you depend on.
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50 Great Web Alternatives to Desktop Software on Web.AppStorm
How did you become a web designer? Fill out this form (be sure to include a photo) to be featured on the home page of About.com Web Design/HTML: Share Your Experience
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Wordless Wednesday – Working Designer Profiles – CJF Designs
It seems that long before Red Bull , Radio Stations and unknown hip-hop artists started visually polluting our streets with promotional vehicle wraps, Volkswagen was were already driving down a similar road, but one that was designed quite a bit better.
If you’ve got a lot of old pages in table layouts and you’re reluctant to change them simply because they work fine right now, well, here’s a tip that could help. By using temporary CSS styles you can review the layout of your page and then convert it more easily. How to Update Old Web Pages Use Temporary CSS Styles to Update an Old Document How to Convert the BODY Tag to CSS Converting Web Sites to XHTML+CSS: Why Go Through All the Work?
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Help Updating Table Layouts to CSS
Today we look at an interview with the artist Francisca Prieto from Insideout, take a tour of Dave Chihuly’s boat house with shelterrific, ponder the visualizations of race and ethnicity in cities across the U.S. by Eric Fischer, and take a step back with vintage inspired print series by Blue Art Studio. Interviews Francisca Prieto [ Insideout ] Have you always been creative, even when you were a child
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Eclectic Color Roundup: Interview, Studio Tour, Infographics and Posters
(Disclosure: several authors of this book and its technical reviewer are personal friends of mine.) Once upon a time there was a grassroots group of Web designers and developers called the Web Standards Project (WaSP) that pressured companies such as Microsoft and Adobe to ensure that those companies’ products were more standards-compliant. They were largely successful; although some companies occasionally relapse, most of the time standards are given more than mere lip-service
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Review: Interact with Web Standards
A CAPTCHA™ is a popular tool for protecting HTML forms from spammers. They work by displaying some type of question that would impossible for a computer to solve, but a person wouldn’t find difficult
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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Securimage CAPTCHA
An Effective Marketing Plan: Getting Started Effective marketing campaigns are the foundation for your business’ success.
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Linkswitch #30: Pricing Tactics, Effective Marketing Campaigns
Starting out in a freelancing career can be tough. Ranging from freelance authors to graphic designers and programmers, freelancing comes with many of the same hurdles. One large aspect is building your personal brand – how do you get people to recognize you for your skills? Thankfully the internet has provided a very simple medium for sharing and obtaining information in a very short time.
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Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Branding
The more clients I get, the more amazed I am at the way the world is shrinking as the internet grows. I have clients in the US, Australia, the UK, India, and right here in Canada, on the other coast and within my humble city. I love freelancing, but it’s not something I would choose to do for free – despite what the clients think! I’ve had to explore some of the available ways to get paid, and I’d like to know how you handle this essential part of the business.
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Ways to Get Paid Around the World
Until recently, I seemed to prefer to always do things the hard way. If a website needed to be created, I would learn how to code it, populate it, and then publish it. During renovations of my home I learned how to do my own electrical, dry wall, plumbing, and first aid. I nearly had to learn how to handle my own divorce, but luckily that was avoided. We justified learning these things ourselves in order to offset the cost of paying someone else to do it, but in retrospect, this is probably a backwards way of looking at things.
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Do You Need Professional Help? The Limits of Doing It Yourself
If you have read The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris , you won’t be surprised by the number of things that you can have a virtual assistant complete. If you haven’t read his book – go read it – but until then, here’s a quick list of some of the things you can have a virtual team perform. Invoicing – create invoices to send to your clients Invoicing follow up – contact your clients that have been delinquent in their payments Research – assign the task, go to bed. When you wake up, the information is sitting in your inbox. It’s like magic.
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Are You Using a Virtual Assistant?
I often find that when I invest in my freelance career, I experience a boost, whether it’s in ideas, time management skills, or actual, y’know, money.
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When NOT to Invest in Your Freelance Career
So you don’t have a lot of cash or a lot of time to save, and even if you did, no one in either family could afford to travel to a destination wedding if you planned one. Don’t lose hope! Isn’t the next best thing to create a fun version of your dream destination in your hometown (or wherever you’re doing it away from the actual destination you desire)? Maybe you pictured having a beach or tropical wedding followed with a casual, “kick off your shoes” reception with palm leaves and drinks in coconuts
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Destination Reception At Home (DIY)
You can win a $150 Amazon.com gift card or a full copy of Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. Spam Experts has a design contest to create three graphics for wallpaper, Firefox theme, and twitter background. The winner will receive a $150 voucher from Amazon.com and have their work distributed and promoted by Spam Experts.
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Design Contests and Awards in August
How many times have you heard the old fable, the tortoise and the hare? Slow and steady wins the race. Right…. From what I’ve read here on FreelanceSwitch, it seems like most freelancers are hares – but they are frequently running more than one race at a time. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m in this camp, and I know that this isn’t necessarily a good thing. Whether my deadline is tomorrow or next Tuesday, I find a way to hit it, and sometimes I think it might be the panic factor that promotes the creativity.
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What Kind of Freelancer are You?
Corporate branding agencies have long valued the creation and use of Corporate Branding Standards Guides , or something lofty sounding like that. The idea behind the tool, often created as 400 page, richly illustrated books, was to communicate all the ways that the identity elements associated with the brand could and could not be used. This workhorse is often used by internal and external sources alike
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Do You Have Standards?
I’ll be on the Radio! August 4, 11:00 am eastern/8:00 am pacific, talking about Reinventing Your Coaching Business, with host Christopher McAuliffe! Visit The Coaching Show Internet Radio website to listen live or to the archives! Call in with your questions: (888) 327-0061 Related posts: Online Radio – Small Business Programs Internet Radio Audience Grows 50 Percent Practice Pay Solutions Education Director
Cookies have been around on the web for a long time. And when they first came out there was a huge backlash about the dangers of HTTP cookies and how they would invade your privacy . But the reality is that cookies aren’t dangerous and they only invade your privacy if you let them.
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Oldy But Goody: Are Cookies Dangerous?
The W3C announced on July 27th a new all-in-one validator called Unicorn . What’s fabulous about this validator is that now you can check your HTML , your CSS , and your RSS all in one place. You just type in your URL (or upload a file or paste in the code you want checked) and Unicorn will check it all for you
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Unicorn Will Help you Validate Everything