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4 Reasons to Track Time on Projects »

4 Reasons to Track Time on Projects. Always always track time, even on a flat fee project. You will be amazed. For an even greater benefit, on three projects in a row or concurrently, label the time too! Discovery, research, code, design, learning, testing. Then adjust your pricing if needed. Yes it will be a [...]

MockFlow: Online Wireframe Tool »

MockFlow: Online Wireframe Tool. Looks pretty good. If you try it out, write it on up and we can do a guest post for you!

9 Solid Logo Design Tips for Beginners | UK Logo Designer and Brand Identity Graphic Design by Graham Smith »

9 Solid Logo Design Tips for Beginners | UK Logo Designer and Brand Identity Graphic Design by Graham Smith. So many list members come to the list and ask for opinions on a logo. Not once has someone come in with a b&w design. it is always these colored gradient/beveled/looks good on a web site [...]

30+ Killer Web Development Screencasts to fine tune your skills »

30+ Killer Web Development Screencasts to fine tune your skills. We can all use some fine-tuning of our skills. Spend at least an hour a week learning something new in your field. You will thank me in the long run.

The Good, Bad And Ugly Of The Web Design Industry | PV.M Garage »

The Good, Bad And Ugly Of The Web Design Industry | PV.M Garage.

16 Blogs To Help You Master the Business of Design – Visual Swirl »

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

But I didn’t say that! »

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 [...]

Designer? Stop. Read. Now. »

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 »

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 [...]

7 Free Tools to Identify A Font | Webdesigner Depot »

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 [...]