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Freelancing Tips & Tricks

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Using Cheat Sheets To Make Your Job Easier

Whether you freelance as a writer, a programmer or a designer, there are certain tasks that you’ll do again and again and some that you’ll do infrequently.  Cheat sheets can be a huge help for both those tasks that you do all the time, and the ones you do infrequently enough that the exact way [...]

How Many Freebies Should You Offer

A trend among new freelancers is to take jobs at extremely low pay, sometimes no pay at all, to get a foot in the door or have something to put on a portfolio.  These freebies, they think, are just a way to get started and have work to point to when prospecting for clients.  And [...]

Handling Angry Clients – How to Diffuse the Situation

How you handle an angry client probably decide whether you’ll get business from that client again, and whether or not they would recommend or discourage their business contacts from trusting you to do freelance work for them.  You don’t want to risk a client being angry and pointing out what he believes to be your [...]

Freelance Pitfalls to Avoid

You might think that there are no freelancing pitfalls or drawbacks, at first glance.  Freelancing, after all, lets you set your own hours, work as much or as little as you want (within reason) and gives you an incredible amount of professional freedom. On the other side of the coin, though, are some potential problems.  [...]

Procedural vs Object Oriented PHP Programming

Which one works best? Are you a newbie in the PHP language? If you are, for sure you have encountered two kinds of PHP approaches programmers use nowadays: the procedural and the object oriented (OO). Different experienced programmers have already used both approaches, and most probably they would recommend only one kind of PHP approach [...]

How to manage your time as a freelance web designer

In order to be successful as a freelancer you must be organized.  Your success depends on it!  You have to know how to quickly transition from one project to the next while keeping your life manageable. First thing – clean it up!  If your desk, your closet, your car, or your life is messy and [...]

How to style heavy content websites

It is already well known that that content plays a truly vital role in the development of a website, at least as far as search engine optimization and appealing to website visitors are concerned. However, as websites grow around their constantly expanding content bases, it can be difficult to come up with a website style [...]

Outsourcing is on the rise – is it worth it?

Outsourcing is the process of subcontracting with a third-party agency or company that provides a specific service using minimal time and costs.   Organizations (clients) and suppliers enter into a legally binding contractual agreement for a specified amount of time.  The contract defines the transferred services and both parties agree to use whatever people, assets, and [...]

What Exactly is Web 2.0?

We have all been hearing of Web 2.0, as it is mentioned in almost every activity done in the internet today. Indeed it has been one of today’s buzz words, but what exactly does Web 2.0 mean? Web 2.0: A Trend in the World Wide Web While many others think that Web 2.0 is a [...]

Benefits of a being a Freelance Web Designer

Because of today’s changing trends in career and business, more and more people find it more beneficial to work on a freelance job. Among other things, being a freelancer gives you more space to work, more allowance to be creative, and doesn’t bind you under a company’s rules and regulations. But if you are looking [...]