Category: Useful tips

Great list og helpful sites for all you webdesigners out there!! Click here to visit>>

One of the tougher aspects of freelancing is making sure you get paid a fair amount for your work. I’m sure every freelancer has at least one story of either getting grossly underpaid or not getting paid at all. Some great tips here for all ya freelancers.. I have probably done all the mistakes he mentions lol.. So I learned it all the hard way :o( … Click here for the article and save yourself from finding it out the hard way ;o)

Good contrast in your design goes hand-in-hand with your color selections. Contrast is the value difference between the colors on your design. Value is how bright or dark the color (ink) is… Read more here >>

Respect yourself, and don’t do throw-away work for bids. Good article worth a look, I must admit that I have done this mistake more than once in my life!! :o) Click here to visit >>

HÃ¥kon Wium Lie, the creator of CSS shows us how to take harness the power of real TrueType fonts. Click here to visit >>

Key elements needed to create a solid CSS-based layout that is consistent cross-browser. Click here to visit >>

Learn how you can implement tables with accessibility in mind and how to make them appealing for the eye using CSS. Click here to visit >>

Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development. Read more here >>

A nice list of questions to always answer “No” to in the world of freelancing. Could saves a world of hurt for beginning freelancers. Very nice article with lots of great tips for all freelancers out there! :o) Click here to visit >>

In this article we present 30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood. Read more here>>

Clients are the lifeblood of any business. On the other hand, some clients are so bad that your business, not to mention your personal sanity, is better off without them. So what do you do when you have a client that pushes you to the brink? You fire them! Here’s how to give 10 of the worst offenders the pink slip without burning bridges. Love this article!! Thanks for the tips! I will put this one up on the office where I work as a reminder to us all hehe :o) Read the article here>>

CRAP – Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity. These terms come from the book The Non Designers Design Book. If you evaluate a design using these terms, you can see how they are almost always present in well designed sites and print.. Read more here >>

It is proven that by using software shortcuts can boost up productivity. Here are 30 secret Photoshop shortcuts. These are shortcuts not documented in the menus. :o)  Click here to visit >>

Anything that simplifies my life gets my vote. Pretty much everything you need to help you design websites. Click here for these great resources >>

A happy worker is a productive worker, and it’s hard to find a happier lot than freelancers. Whether they’re entrepreneurs, Web workers or something in between, freelancers enjoy a better lifestyle than their cube-dwelling brethren. Read on for 101 reasons why. Click here to read more >>

Smashing magazine has made a great list of 40+ books you can choose from regarding design and development. Check it out >>