UPDATE March 3, 2010 – This page from anidan.design has lots of interesting and useful articles! Definitely worth checking out. Here’s a great resource! It’s a list of specialized freelancing blogs aimed at various web disciplines. The original list is much longer, but I only grabbed the sections I thought would be appropriate for my readers. To see the rest, follow the link at the...

For whatever reason, there are a lot of people who think the internet, and their participation in it, should be free. This is a huge problem for those of us who try to make a living providing the valuable service of creating websites. One of the main reasons I started this blog is to give you, the web professional, some insight on how to survive in this business. This is such a great article, I wanted...

Talent. Art. Bewilderment. Frustration. The talent to create beautiful works of art is a gift. The desire to do this for the web, a medium where artists paint with light, is irresistible. The result can be beautiful and uplifting or bewildering and frustrating. This is where the Zen of Web Design comes into play. Know there will be challenges. Without challenges there is no growth. Know you are not...

This is for all you freelancers and web professionals. It’s really very funny, in a true and sad kind of way. To survive in the website biz, you absolutely must avoid bad clients. Seriously. Here are a few of my personal tips to help you weed them out: Post your rates on your website. Be explicit. Stay away from anyone who says their previous designer split on them. Don’t answer classified...

What is Web Accessibility? Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging. Web accessibility encompasses...

Patterns for the Color Blind About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites. Are you a working on a website? The patterns and examples on wearecolorblind.com will help...