Creative Break: Progress On The New Office
I have no real blog post for you guys today because I stayed up late working on the new office. While it’s not even close to being done, it’s good enough to move into. I finally get a nice bright sunny room with a beautiful view!! What I’m Waiting On: New chairs Custom floating shelves...
Read more…Do You Have To Go To College To Be A Designer or Developer?
Talking about college yesterday, preparing for my little sister to go to college and listening to a question on FreelanceSwitch got me thinking: does one have to go to college or extended learning to become a successful designer or developer? Personally I can argue on both sides. On one side, I learned an invaluable amount...
Read more…The Price of Being Great
Most of the people I graduated with have no job, or are holding a job different from their field. Why? Because they say they can’t find work in the design field. This is however, simply untrue. The problem isn’t that there’s no work in the design field, the problem is simply that there’s no longer...
Read more…Contribute Fridays: Giving Back
No matter how rich you get freelancing (or how poor lol) you’ll never be fully satisfied until you give something back to something you care about deeply. What do I care about? Well, I have an awesome secretary (photo of him on his desk at right). He’s the best secretary in the whole world (and...
Read more…Creating Custom Taxonomies in WordPress
I had a client this week that wanted to install WordPress on the CoreCommerce site I recently did for her. When I was checking out the mockups, I noticed a strange section in their sidebar. Basically, they wanted to have four different tag areas with different sections, one for “Materials”, “Colors”, “Country” and one called...
Read more…What To Do When Constant Client Emails Keep You From Working
I love my clients. They keep me in business and they allow me to have the kind of career and lifestyle I’ve always wanted. However that’s not to saythey aren’t without their vices. The busier we get as freelancers, the less time we have to answer emails, yet the more emails we seem to get. What’s...
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