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Jul0Making Money Designing Themes: What You Should Know
Alongside my primary income stream, which is my web design freelance business, I’ve also been selling themes and templates for content management systems and publishing platforms like WordPress for close to two years now. Although theme design can seem like the promised land for web designers and web developers — with some theme authors making tens of thousands of dollars from a single theme alone — it’s actually more like a gold rush: a chosen few hit it big, but only after putting in a lot of hard work. Here is a short guide to help you decide if getting into professional theme designing is for you.
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Jul040 Great Resources for a Complete Roadmap to Freelancing
An important activity that all freelancers need to do–no matter what their freelancing field may be–is to read and educate ourselves. Reading is a great source for freelancers to get motivated, inspired, and learns tips and techniques for becoming a better professional. There are many excellent resources on the web dedicated to the Freelancer
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Jun0The Key to Successful Collaboration
Clients and stakeholders — every project has them, and as much as some designers love to hate them , we need to ensure that we can work constructively with them.
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Jun0Problems with Using Website Validation Services
Amongst the basic skills that fledgling designers and developers should know is the art of website validation.
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May07 Deadly Sins Represented with Web Design Colors
The Seven Deadly Sins represents vices and tendencies that were believed to be misdeeds in early Christian religion. The sins are as follows: envy , pride , wrath , sloth , lust , greed , gluttony . Each sin is said to be represented by a colour.
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Apr060 Beautiful Clean and Light Web Designs for Inspiration
To be unique and original, you need to have a good source of inspiration. You can get inspiration from music, family and friends, even other people’s work, to get a great design idea. To help, we bring you this collection of light and clean websites, separated into different categories.
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Mar08 Ways to Promote Your Work Through Internet Collaboration
Promoting our products and services can be a time consuming and daunting task. A lot of us get tangled up in online self promotion without realising the value in collaboration more often with other people through the web.
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Feb0Common Misconceptions about Web Designers
As a web designer, I’m proud to be a part of an Apple-loving, forward thinking, technologically advanced group of people that devour tutorials and web design blogs, hoping to create a stellar design that that gets posted in every CSS gallery out there. Yep, we’re a group of people that works hard, plays hard and strives to meet our deadlines, while learning something new along the way. We’re also a misunderstood group of people , viewed as gothic creatures that shun the daylight because we’re just tragic artists
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Jan0Five Ways to Guarantee Your Failure as a Web Professional
This article is geared towards anyone looking to implode under the crushing weight of unsustainable business practices, unreasonable client expectations, long hours for little pay, and a general sense of bewilderment as you ponder what went wrong. While that may not be you today, you may identify with one or more of these afflictions. Are you already recalling your worst client and the headaches they have caused?
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Dec06 Reasons Why You Should Do Personal Design Projects
There’s a misconception that creativity is always on: that either you have it or you don’t, or that if you produce great work once, you’ll always be able to produce great work. Now if only that were true , right?
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