Freelancing and Contracts

Freelancing… What a joy, what a pain! I’ve found that the biggest drawback to doing freelance work is the lack of recourse when a client doesn’t pay. Sometimes as a freelancer you take jobs that bigger firms wouldn’t take just to pay the bills. These jobs tend to be smaller and less profitable, but you take them nonetheless. That’s where the problems begin.

There are many things I’d like to talk about in this post, but I’ll keep it on point this time. There is however one point I’d like to make first - underselling yourself.

10 Tips for selling web design.

One of the most difficult things to do when selling anything is educating the client. Disclaimer: I am not a sales expert, let’s get that straight now. I am however experienced at seeing the process happen. And that’s one of the only things I can claim - my experience.

"Jack of all trades, master of none?"

Just a few days ago I was reading Authentic Boredom, Cameron Moll’s blog. He had just posted an entry titled, "Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one?" and I found it very interesting. The gist of his entry was asking whether Designers are as effective coding (front end coding - HTML/CSS) their own designs as a separate design/code team.