9 Top CSS Essential Skills That Every Web designer Should Learn - aComment.net.
A very good read for new designers who are just starting out, or for oldskool ones who have finally decided to upgrade their skills and code to standards. Gone is the day of the FP n00b wannabee hacker. Well, not really, but they [...]

Script & Style is a fairly recently-developed site of the type that collects high-quality articles spotted around the web that are useful to web designers and developers.
A project of Chris Coyier (whose name you might remember from my enthusiastic mention of his CSS-Tricks.com site) and David Walsh — if I’m remembering correctly, this is the [...]

8 Tips for Creative Soloprenuers - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog
another very timely and insightful blog post. In particular:
8. How to Deal With Scope Creep. Scope creep — when uncontrolled changes affect the scope of a project – can be the bane of a freelancer’s existence. If you don’t address it with a client, you [...]

10 Things Any Web Developer Worth Their Spit Should Know: (Via Search-This.)
Yep. That’s a pretty good list!

Design View / Andy Rutledge - The Employable Web Designer
Note also that nowhere in this list do the words “Photoshop,” “Illustrator,” “Dreamweaver,” or “Fireworks” appear. As I and others have observed plenty of times before, tools do not make a designer. Anyone can learn to use Fireworks or Dreamweaver in an hour or less, but [...]

timeEdition - time management
I was installing MAMP on my old eMac, and in the sidebar of the “stat” page was this little gem.
We’ve been having a long discussion on how we track our time, and subsequent diversions. I think it actually started as a “how do i estimate this project when I usually do [...]

Seths Blog: Email checklist
Last week on the list, a member was getting ready to send out her “newsletter” and was sending it to her subscribed recipients (which is doing what I encourage all members to do, a newsletter on a regular basis instead of whining about lack of business), and was wondering if she should [...]

Small Biz Survival: Small Biz 100
A pretty good little list.

Two very good posts today on ALA:
A List Apart: Articles: Why Did You Hire Me?
# Don’t treat your invoices with an apologetic tone. You and the client agreed to a rate and a schedule of terms. Submit the invoice and thank them for their prompt payment.
# Fulfill your obligation. Even if you have to bring [...]

Web Developers Field Guide - Your Ultimate Resource
Someone I follow on Twitter posted up this. great resource… see! You need to twitter!