Everyone’s curious about new versions of Adobe’s Creative Suite. Here are a few more videos guaranteed to either satisfy or intensify that curiosity. Sneak peek of new Adobe DreamWeaver CS5 technologies Did someone say HTML v5? Adobe Flash CS5 on Adobe MAX 2009 Adobe Flash CS5 applications for iPhone Adobe Opens iPhone to Flash Developers Evolution of Dance You need a break! This...

The WebSite of the future is already here. WebSites are like clothes. Consumers and web designers need to realize that. I don’t know about you, but I don’t get my clothes from a tailor. Tailor made clothes are for rich people. I buy my clothes off the rack. I don’t have a problem with that, either. It’s easy, I have a choice of prices, they’re easy to maintain (I can’t...

What Is It? The most important document a freelance web designer or web developer has to create is a contract with their client. The contract is the written mutual agreement between you and your client stating what you will deliver, terms of your payment and what happens if things go awry. In part, it consists of all the items that were discussed beforehand. These items may have been mentioned in...

World Standards Day – October 14, 2009 Of course, all web developers know IP stands for Internet Protocol, FTP is File Transfer Protocol and SNMP is Simple Network Mail Protocol.  But, what about the standards authority alphabet soup? Sure, you know W3C. But IANA (a personal favorite) or NSSN or ICANN? Here’s a list. Learn half of it and you’ll really impress your clients. Sometimes...

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...

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...