16 Blogs To Help You Master the Business of Design – Visual Swirl.
good stuff. especially for those just starting out

Do you always have a good written document to fall back on should your client suddenly get amnesia? Even in the best of worlds, clients are busy people like the rest of us and a bit of critical information from a phone call six weeks ago is not going to be necessarily retained if it’s [...]

I’m three paragraphs into this article and it rings as true as a bell and as solid as a stack of bricks.
One thing. One thing to be a good designer. Want to know what it is? Read the article then pop back over here and comment on whether it rings true with you or [...]

Coding Clean and Semantic Templates.
a good article. so many times a woman applies for membership on the mailing list, I look at their portfolio, and I see “div-itis” and yet they say they know CSS. If they did, they’d not have a whole article written just for them. Most just allow Dreamweaver to do their [...]

7 Free Tools to Identify A Font | Webdesigner Depot.
Countless times on our mailing list the question is asked “what is this font” and then the url to the page or the graphic. And since it has been asked a thousand times (I guess Google must be blocked for some people), this post at Webdesigner [...]

Tools to Help you Estimate Price for your Web Work | Admix Web.
I have not had a chance to go thru all of them, but quick scan looks good. Of course you should develop your own methods for pricing. When you start out, chances are that you are going to underestimate quite a bit, until [...]

250+ Resources to Help You Become a CSS Expert | Webdesigner Depot.
They always have good stuff. This list is big and hefty, so bookmark and read at your leisure or as you need.

Effective Strategy To Estimate Time For Your Design Projects | How-To | Smashing Magazine.
Good read. Good read.

25 Detailed Tutorials for Coding Up Your Web Designs.
Good list. even for us “pros” there is always something more to learn.

Well, you know what I mean. This great post from FlyingSolo.com.au reminds you that as an entrepreneur, you are a business. And there’s some things that the big companies do that are good to keep in mind, including #1 (Be Firm) and #3 (Turn Away Customers). It’s brief but great reading.