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Posted December 22, 2012 in Web Design
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10 New Guidelines for Web Designers for 2012
Posted November 25, 2011 in Design, Web Design
Web design has become a profitable niche for freelancers in the last few years, especially with the popularity of the WordPress platform. Tech blogs, e-commerce sites and general information sites all prefer to have a custom-designed blog to help sell their offerings worldwide.
To capitalize on the earning potential of web design industry there has been surge in the number of custom service web design providers. However, only a handful of freelancers are able to sense the change in the industry dynamics and add value to their creative ideas during implementation.
In order for you to stay competitive, effective, and yet innovative with your web designs I propose the following ten guidelines:
5 Ways to Get Web Content from Your Client on Time
Posted October 5, 2011 in How-To, Managing Clients, Web Design
It’s an all-too-common problem we designers face. You’ve laid out the brochure, or built the website, set up the database and integrated your CMS of choice, but you’re still faced with page after page of “Lorem ipsum…” where the client’s copy should be.
This then impacts on your next project, since when the copy eventually does show up, you need to revisit a job you should have put to bed weeks ago.
In terms of your income, it can have a negative impact too since you may have agreed not to send out that final invoice until the website was live, or the job’s gone to the printers.
In an ideal world, before we even launch Photoshop or Illustrator, we’d have a nice Word document sitting open containing all the copy we need. Unfortunately, in 15 years of working, this has never happened to me.
So, how do we get that all important Word document from our dear clients? Here are a few pointers:
6 Things to Do Before Sending a Site Design to a Developer
Posted September 16, 2011 in Design, Web Design
As web designers, sometimes it is far too easy to look at a completed design and think it is ready for production. But any developer will tell you that bringing a design to life in code takes more than just a pretty design. To expedite the coding process and ensure the product more closely reflects the design, make sure you do these six things before handing off your next design and your developer will love you forever:
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