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Whether we like it or not, most of our professional lives are going to have their fair share of time spent in meetings. Be it with our coworkers or clients, a measurable fraction of ...
You've spent years honing your design skills in that corporate cubicle you've been living in, hoping for the day when you would finally make the jump to full time freelance. ...
Even in today’s fluctuating job market, one rule that still remains constant and true is to always play to your strengths. Part of this comes from having a complete and firm grasp of ...
By Peter Crawfurd and Michael Yang Ecommerce re-designs can double your sales over night…permanently, but they can also cut them in half. In this miniseries we’ll be looking at what ...
It's time for something completely different. We have not published our own books at Noupe yet, but we did publish a couple over there at Smashing Magazine. Recently, we launched an ...
With so many blogs riddling the online landscape, blog owners are always looking for new ways to strengthen their relationship with readers—to engage readers so that they not only ...
Because of the potential for variations in the different aspects of a web design project, creating a proposal or invoice for such a project can be trickier than that of another ...
A lot of designers and aspiring designers take formal design courses (or get design degrees), while many others wish they could take the time to get some formal design education. But ...
Designers who are just starting out seem to have trouble calculating just how much their designs are actually worth, let alone choosing whether to charge per hour or per project. Worse, ...
By Melissa Scroggins Have you put off backing up your work? Too complicated, right? Like many, backing up your work becomes a chore that is put off and put off and finally, put out of ...
By Andy Warpole In the autumn of 2008, at least for a few weeks, it looked as if the very walls of capitalism were going to fall on to the heads of its participants. The once mighty ...
Once upon a time, when the Internet was dialed-up and 36,600 KBPS was like lightning, I was living in a small town working for a computer retailer and Internet service provider. My ...
The market for freelance web design is huge. Being able to design a beautiful site in Photoshop is one thing. Programming a website is a whole other story. So when clients come knocking ...
By Alyssa Gregory The ability to communicate, and communicate well, is one of the biggest factors in business success. You could be an excellent designer or a photographer, but if ...
By Aaron Griffith Good business relationships rarely just happen. While a smitten designer and their starry-eyed client may start out well with a “honeymoon” of a successful ...
We’ve all heard of Twitter at this point, and I would be the majority of our readers are already using it. But that doesn’t mean we’re all using it in the most ...