Category Archive: Freelance

Don’t Just Make Things Pretty – Add Customer Service To Your Skill Set

If you want to stay ahead of the competition as a freelancer and ensure a steady stream of work you need to offer more than just awesome design skills to your clients. Your customers won’t just remember the final product, they’ll look at the experience as a whole – make sure it’s a positive one! Read More

Finding more work as a Freelancer

One of the most difficult aspects of being a freelance web designer is finding and maintaining a steady stream of work. This is especially true for newbie freelancers, one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to sit back and wait for projects to find you – this will almost never happen, at least not when you are starting out. Read More

Show Me The Money – Making Sure You Get Paid

As we are in the fortunate position to really enjoy what we do and the benefits we enjoy from each and every project go beyond just monetary rewards. However the underlying reason that we work late into the night is the same as in any other occupation; to be paid for the work we have done. Read More

The Successful Designer – It’s all about Personality

Does your creativity know no limits, do you know colour theory, typography, usability, web standards and every principle of web design like the back of your hand, can you write HTML, CSS, JQuery, PHP with your eyes closed? If this sounds like you, (I’m exceptionally jealous) do you think this makes you a successful designer? Read More