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How To Develop More Mad Skills To Pay The Bills

How To Develop More Mad Skills To Pay The Bills

May 16, 2013 · by Mary Shaw · in Articles, Freelancing, Web Design

Skills to Pay The Bills One of the biggest benefits of freelancing is the freedom to pick and choose your own projects. With that comes the responsibility to keep your skills sharp so you can do your best work and…

How to Acquire New Clients

How to Acquire New Clients

May 6, 2013 · by jgeorge · in Freelancing, Tutorials

How to Acquire New Clients One of the toughest things when owning your own business is getting a sustainable flow of clients. Steady business is what keeps the doors open. Money is tight, and your budget needs to stretch as…

The Four Sections of a High Conversion Services Page

The Four Sections of a High Conversion Services Page

April 23, 2013 · by Nathan Weller · in Freelancing

High Conversion Services Pages Ah, the obligatory Services page. For many freelancers it’s just something they create to look more professional. And yet, ironically, they put little time or energy into it. Resulting in a lackluster page that underperforms. The…

Survive Tax Season By Keeping Good Records

Survive Tax Season By Keeping Good Records

April 15, 2013 · by Mary Shaw · in Articles, Freelancing, Tutorials

Keeping Good Records Disclaimer: The following suggestions are based on personal experience. Please consult a tax professional for your own situation. Call me crazy, but I like to do my own taxes. It forces me to be more organized than…

Answers to Common Freelancing Questions

Answers to Common Freelancing Questions

April 12, 2013 · by jgeorge · in Articles, Freelancing

Common Freelancing Questions I get freelancing questions from people all the time that are starting out in the freelancing field. Some of these things are common sense to veterans, but the freelancing world can be incredibly scary, and even seem…

How to Set Your Graphic Design Prices

How to Set Your Graphic Design Prices

April 2, 2013 · by jgeorge · in Articles, Design, Freelancing

Set Your Graphic Design Prices Right As Creatives, Graphic Designers, Consultants, etc., one of the most daunting tasks is to figure out how to Set Your Graphic Design Prices. When starting our own business, we have to consider our own…

5 Awesome Free Apps To Help Freelancers Be More Productive

5 Awesome Free Apps To Help Freelancers Be More Productive

April 1, 2013 · by Mary Shaw · in Articles, Design, Freelancing

Apps to Help Freelancers Be More Productive Using productivity apps is an excellent way to boost your overall productivity and stay organized as a freelancer. Here’s a list of my five current faves, all of which are totally free. Give…

Freelance Jobs: Should They Make Up the Majority of a Graphic Designer’s Work?

Freelance Jobs: Should They Make Up the Majority of a Graphic Designer’s Work?

March 26, 2013 · by jgeorge · in Articles, Design, Freelancing, Tutorials

Freelance Jobs Vs Full Time Work Freelance work is a way of life and a way of making a living. Some designers prefer to work strictly as freelance designers. They are afforded the freedom to decide their own income, and…

Be More Focused And Make More Money As a Freelancer

Be More Focused And Make More Money As a Freelancer

March 25, 2013 · by Mary Shaw · in Design, Freelancing

Make More Money As a Freelancer As a freelancer, your ability to master both your time and attention is the key to making more money and truly enjoying your off-hours. Mastering time is one thing. Mastering your attention is another…

Explain to Clients Why Quality Web Design Is Important

Explain to Clients Why Quality Web Design Is Important

March 20, 2013 · by jgeorge · in Articles, Design, Freelancing, Web Design, Web Development

Why Quality Web Design Is Important I just recently wrote a post on my personal design blog/website explaining the various reasons why quality web design is important to every business. If you would like to check that out, you can…

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies – 4

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies – 4

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6 Ways To Add Impact To Your Event Flyer

6 Ways To Add Impact To Your Event Flyer

Tags: design, flyer design, graphic design

20 Beautiful Flat Web and Mobile Designs

An article about 20 flat web & mobile designs. See these 20 flat web and mobile designs that will inspire you.

20 Beautiful Flat Web and Mobile Designs

Tags: flat ui, Mobile, web design

150 Greatest Free High Quality Fonts

150 Greatest Free High Quality Fonts

Tags: Font, Typeface

Design Organized Websites Rapidly With 960 Grid

Design Organized Websites Rapidly With 960 Grid

Tags: css, grids, web design

8 CSS Properties Designers Can’t Live Without

8 CSS Properties Designers Can’t Live Without

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Create Your Own Time-​​Saving Photoshop Actions

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Create Your Own Time-​​Saving Photoshop Actions

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10 of the Best Magazine WordPress Theme

WordPress is one of the popular blogging platform, which offers many beautiful free and premium themes for your website. If you are looking for a magazine or news site on a WordPress platform, then below you can see the most beautiful magazine WordPress themes that we have gathered. It provides you with the functions a news/magazine, a web site should have.

10 of the Best Magazine WordPress Theme

Tags: Wordpress

Gooddeedz – a P2P charity forum site

Gooddeedz is about people helping one another on a person-to-person basis, as opposed to an organization-to-person level. The goal is to have people connect to one another directly, with no institutional intermediaries whatsoever, and have them interact either by asking for a good deed or offering one.

Gooddeedz – a P2P charity forum site

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VICTOR SILKIN | 2013

VICTOR SILKIN | Interactive Designer | 2013

VICTOR SILKIN | 2013

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Simplistic Responsive Design using WordPress Themes

With the changing scenario in the technical field and with a new mobile device hitting the market each day, developing mobile websites and meeting the resolution of each device wasn’t getting the right attention by the developers, users as well as by Search Engines.

Simplistic Responsive Design using WordPress Themes

Tags: Responsive, Themes, Wordpress

Free Office templates

Free templates for freelancers: cover page templates, flyers, resume, invoice, certificates, proposals, and much more. 100% free, distributed under Creative Commons.

Free Office templates

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Top 10 WordPress Theme Companies

If you ever find yourself needing a more modern, futuristic appeal to your brochures, this is the perfect tutorial for you. This tutorial will help you design your own, techy looking brochure with included resource links so that you can see where you can find some free stuff to use on your own designs.

Top 10 WordPress Theme Companies

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Best WordPress Options Panel Solutions

Premium WordPress themes should come with unique features plus an options panel that can be easily customized. Most of the WordPress developers create theme option panel for layout, background and navigation configuration and also to help users or clients modify the theme without changing any codes.

Best WordPress Options Panel Solutions

Tags: Panel Options, Wordpress

Free InDesign Templates

Free InDesign templates include layouts, images, and artwork shared under Creative Commons license. Feel free to download, customize, use for yourself of for your client. Create your own InDesign brochures, magazines, newsletters, flyers, books, and other publications quick and easy.

Free InDesign Templates

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