Jul 14 2009

Jeff Gardner - Quality-Price-Ratio in Web Design (Pricing Design Work)

I’m about to make a bold statement. The quality of a design and the monetary cost of producing or procuring that design have absolutely no relationship whatsoever. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, I k

Pricing , Income , Business

Dec 07 2009

Mel Ndiweni - Where Do You Work?

Assuming that you have a choice available with no outside factors involved - choosing whether to work from home or a rented space/studio is a decision every freelancer should spend time thinking ab

Remote Work , Networking , Business

Jul 20 2010

Speider Schneider - The Creative vs. The Marketing Team: Yin And Yang, Oil And Water

Smashing Editorial: Please notice that the language in some parts of this article may be very informal. If you think you might be offended, please stop reading this article now. Instead consider th

Marketing , workflow , Business

May 02 2009

Vitaly Friedman - DelliStore: A Free Professional CSS/XHTML/PSD-Template

Over the last months we’ve heard numerous complaints about the lack of quality in our freebie releases. We are aware that our readers have high expectations and we try to do our best to meet them in

xhtml , Freebies , templates

Apr 01 2009

Kat Neville - How To Create A Great Web Designer Résumé and CV?

The economy is bad. No one’s job is really 100% safe, so it’s time we all bucked up and got our recession bags packed (just in case!). Your portfolio is already gorgeous, but have you created a droo

Portfolios , Career , Design , Business

Aug 12 2009

Cameron Chapman - Useful Web Design E-Mail Newsletters

BlueVertigo Newsletter BlueVertigo regularly updates its list of resources related to design and web-development and informs its subscribers about recent updats and new resources. Always a very goo

Newsletters , Inspiration , Content Strategy , Design

Nov 28 2009

Robert Bowen - Critical Mistakes Freelancers Make

Seeing as we are all human (well, presumably whoever is reading this post anyway), we should recognize that mistakes happen. They even have that saying, “To err is human…,” which goes to show that i

Errors , workflow , Business

Aug 20 2009

Steven Snell - Corporate Blog Design: Trends And Examples

With tens of millions of blogs online today, major corporations have started to recognize the value of a corporate blog for communicating with customers. However, corporate blogging is far different

Showcases , Inspiration , Corporate , Blogging

Mar 05 2009

Paul Boag - 10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS

I have written about content management systems before. I have highlighted the their hidden costs, explained the differentiators behind the feature list and even provided advice for CMS users. Howev

cms , coding