How to Avoid Bad Clients – Do Your Homework
If you’re just starting out or are in a dry period, it’s tempting to take on every client who wants to work with you. That email in your inbox from
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Why You Should Be Working With The Competition
For the first year of my freelancing career, I would follow other freelance designers on social media, mainly just to get inspiration. I usually looked at them as just another
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What to Look for in Your Web Hosting Company
Your web hosting company is the oft-overlooked aspect of your website. Even so, your website lives and dies by the dependability of your web hosting company, so it pays to
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11 Steps to a Perfect Logo
A comprehensive 11 step guide addressing the principles of clean, effective and functional logo design.
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How To Build Instant Trust On Your Website
We all understand trust is not built instantly. In this post, I explain why it’s important to have clear trust indicators on your website, several ways to do so and
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Understanding Content Marketing
If you try to stay up-to-date about news on the branding and online promotion front, surely you have encountered the term “content marketing”. Referring to the spheres of “content” and
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5 Reasons to Avoid Installing Some WordPress Plugins
Like every other tool out there, there are some WordPress plugins that work for you, e.g. for creating contact forms or for helping you build an e-Commerce website on top
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This s a college project from Ritchie Fernando Wijaya about typography using After Effects.
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5 Ways To Stay Productive When Out Of Freelance Work
The typical freelance career looks like a wave. It has “crests”, where you have more than enough work to keep you going, and “troughs”, where you have little, if any,
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5 Facebook Cover Photo Ideas to Inspire Action
Although most interaction on Facebook happens via your Facebook newsfeed, it’s important to remember your fan page is still getting direct traffic on a daily basis. One of the first
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Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Raindrops on a Frosted Window
In this Photoshop tutorial, Howard Pinksy shows how you can create raindrops on a frosted window in Photoshop using Layer Styles, filters and masking techniques. He also covers how to create a
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Public Domain Archive: Free High-Res Photos
Public Domain Archive hosts photos that are entirely free of rights whatsoever. You are allowed to download them freely and do whatever you’d like to do. Use them in any kind
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