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Friday, December 18th, 2009
There are thousands of designers around the web, most of them have a blog but actually being successful at it can be a different story. Getting information from first-hand accounts of freelance web designers is an invaluable asset to any freelance designer. Coupling that with a freelancer web designer that can not only write well [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in Australia Dev, Blogging, Design
Friday, December 18th, 2009
I use Firebug constantly to easily edit a website’s CSS so I can fine tune a design or make adjustments, so when it stopped working, so did I. Everytime I would try to live-edit a site’s CSS it would give me “Failed to load source for: <whatever css=”” file=””>“. I tweeted about it a bit [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in CSS, Design, Firefox, Google
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Being a freelance web designer is a competitive field, everyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of how to open Dreamweaver, or use Photoshop’s motion blur tool think they can hack it as a web designer. Not to mention a number of third-world countries’ easy ability to underbid you by a fraction of what you charge [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in Design, Dreamweaver, Freelancing, Open Source, Photoshop
Monday, May 4th, 2009
As a freelance web designer there are a number of different methods for creating income than just making websites. Some of those are more passive than others and there are quite a few that won’t generate income immediately but could easily lead to more business. Understanding these methods and their benefits for your business can [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in CSS, Design, Flash, Freelancing, Open Source, PHP, Programming, Web Development
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
There are a lot of tools out there for the freelancer that can help you to run your business more smoothly and excel at not only get the projects completed but also managing your projects. I have compiled a list of all of the tools I currently use to keep my freelance web design business [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in Design, OSX, Web Development
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
There are a lot of benefits to being a freelance web designer. The freedom to work your own hours (all of them) and the ability to choose what web projects you take on (how much you charge) and which you decline. However, with as much responsibility that a freelance web designer takes on there is [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in Apple, Design, Flash, Freelancing, Google, Open Source, OSX, Programming, Web Development
Monday, March 17th, 2008
A lot of people give suggestions on how to improve your website or blog. Whether it is via SEO or design suggestions. Not many tell you what is going to destroy your website. I may be a little extreme but there are several pet peeves (as do many in the web design world) have that [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in Accessibility, Design, Flash, SEO, Site Navigation
Monday, February 4th, 2008
There is a lot of talk amongst designers about why web standards are important, sometimes it is a bragging point to say that you know a lot about CSS and HTML and can make a good site within standards. Some of it is just a line to make whatever you are doing sound better. I [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in Accessibility, Adobe, CSS, Design, Firefox, HTML, Internet Explorer, Photoshop
Friday, January 18th, 2008
There are a lot of job boards out there that can help freelance web designers find work, a lot of them aren’t very good and you can find some clients that expect to pay pennies for hours worth of potential work. The problem you will mostly find is that a lot of people that post [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in Design, Open Source, Programming
Monday, January 7th, 2008
There are a lot of reasons that you would want to replace simple text with an image. One of the biggest reasons is the benefit of getting the text that is within the image for search engines.
This method is used mostly for site headings. Say you were making a site about “Freelance Oklahoma Web Design” [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in CSS, Design, Site Navigation