Posted by Amber Weinberg on Mar 8, 2010 in blog, freelance | 4 comments
This past Saturday, I attended PodCamp Nashville at Cadillac Ranch and it was a blast! There were several great sessions for everything from using WordPress for everything to social media to podcasting, and I was able to capture several photos, interviews and video recorded some of the best sessions (all with my awesome iPhone I might add).
I really enjoyed meeting fellow developers and all the...
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Posted by Amber Weinberg on Mar 8, 2010 in blog, development | 4 comments
In the first post of the CSS In depth series, we’ll be talking about margins, padding and the box model.
Margins and padding are some of the most widely used styles in CSS, but are often the source of frustration in cross-browser compatibility.
In this post, we’ll explain the difference between padding and margins, how the box model effects browsers and some tips and tricks dealing with...
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Posted by Amber Weinberg on Mar 5, 2010 in testimonials | 0 comments
Bill Rousseau, Ticketfly, Inc.
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Posted by Amber Weinberg on Mar 5, 2010 in blog, development | 26 comments
Everyone loves free stuff, myself included. But thinking of “free” always reminds me of my mother’s cliched saying, “Nothing in life is free.” Well, what about software?
As freelancers, no matter how much money we make, we’re always budget-conscience. Unfortunately, in this day and age of technology, we can no longer get by with just a copy of Microsoft Windows...
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Posted by Amber Weinberg on Mar 4, 2010 in blog, freelance | 5 comments
I picked up the Designer’s Guide to Marketing & Pricing by Ilise Benun and Peleg Top a few weeks ago at Books-A-Million. I was immediately drawn to both of the topics, as I’m always looking for unique ways to market my business and effectively charge for the work I do.
The Designer’s Guide to Marketing and Pricing is a great book for any beginning freelancer, whether you...
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Posted by Amber Weinberg on Mar 3, 2010 in blog, development | 3 comments
Last week, Elliot Jay Stocks set off a pretty heated argument, when he tweeted:
Honestly, I’m shocked that in 2010 I’m still coming across ‘web designers’ who can’t code their own designs. No excuse.
To be honest, I’m not shocked. I know lots of web designers who can’t, or won’t, code their own websites. In fact, I know so many, I built a business...
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Posted by Amber Weinberg on Mar 2, 2010 in blog, freelancefolder | 27 comments
A website’s design gets all the glory. When someone visits a site, you’ll hear them talk about how awesome the design is–but, do you ever hear someone talk about how awesome the code is? Never!
Regular people can’t see code, nor do they care to see it or what it looks like. It’s precisely this reason that there’s so much ugly code in the web world today....
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Posted by Amber Weinberg on Mar 1, 2010 in blog, freelance | 0 comments
So you may have been wondering what’s up with the video link to the right of the site. A couple of weeks ago, I entered BizBreak’s Limitless VC Contest.
To enter the contest, you had to make a video. The top 10 videos with the most views on YouTube in 2 months go to the final round, where voters pick the final winner.
The final winner wins $3,000 in venture capital + 50% of the...
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Posted by Amber Weinberg on Feb 25, 2010 in testimonials | 0 comments
Richelle, Bozell
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Posted by Amber Weinberg on Feb 25, 2010 in blog, development | 40 comments
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the world today about what it is that web developers are and do. Are they designers? Programmers? Marketers? Business owners? While being a little of all of these is important in the world today, that’s not what web developers really are.
I’m constantly getting requests for quotes on a daily basis for a ton of services I don’t offer. I...
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