Web Site Designers

No one can deny the importance of Adobe Photoshop and the role that this amazing software plays for the designing industry. For a graphic designer, PSD files can come very handy because they can easily edit, modify and customize these files according to their own taste and desire. For this post, we’ve gathered an exclusive [...]

Adobe Fireworks is a somewhat unnoticed but very useful member of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is used for multiple purposes such as to create vectors, design application interfaces, digital artwork, and create rapid prototypes of websites. There is a lot more you can do with Adobe Fireworks, including generating PDFs, exporting CSS based layouts [...]

By Cameron Chapman Generators can be a great way to save time in your web design projects. High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Below are some useful generators to help you speed [...]

The most important discussion you’ll have with any client is the first. They tell you about their project, you talk about your process, and at the end, both of you should have a good idea about if working together makes sense. Usually, this first client/freelancer discussion occurs during the sales call. That first sales call [...]

If you use the popular web browser Firefox and are interested in building up your freelancing business by using search engine optimization techniques, you’re in luck. There are many free SEO add-ons available for Firefox. In this post, I’ll share 25 SEO add-ons and explain why freelancers might wish to download SEO tools to their [...]

You’ve prepared a solid proposal for a new prospect. You’ve covered all your bases and made a convincing case for why you’re the ideal person for the project. Now the waiting begins. A day goes by without a call back. Then another. And another. You’re beginning to wonder if the prospect received your email. Maybe [...]

Inspiration is vital to freelancers. It is what makes our ideas stand out from those of our competition. Yet, if we’re not careful, we can lose that inspiration. It happens to the best of us. We set aside time to work on a specific project and just aren’t feeling it. Instead of spending the day [...]

We get asked a lot whether you should obtain either a .com or a .com.au domain name when building a website in Australia. Here’s the answer. Basically, a .com.au domain name identifies you as an Australian business. This has a number of advantages if you are targeting Australian Internet users. Probably the most important effect [...]

As a web designer, I’m proud to be a part of an Apple-loving, forward thinking, technologically advanced group of people that devour tutorials and web design blogs, hoping to create a stellar design that that gets posted in every CSS gallery out there. Yep, we’re a group of people that works hard, plays hard and [...]