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I get at least one or two emails a day from web professionals who want to become freelancers. Their stories are touching, but their questions are always the same, “How do you start freelancing?”, “How do you find clients?”, “How do I get my name out there?”. In today’s unstable work world, freelancing seems to be this big murky dark abyss for people used...
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One thing that scares a lot of professionals away from becoming freelancers is the thought of doing taxes. Taking care of your taxes shouldn’t be scary. Especially if you’re a one person business, filing your taxes can easily be done in less than 30 minutes. In this post, I’ll share some of my tips for filing taxes, as well as some great tools to help make tax time painless and...
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Last week, in the first of our CSS In Depth posts, we discussed the difference between paddings and margins, and what the box model is. This week we’ll be discussing positions and floats as well as what the differences are and when it’s best to use them. Both floats and positions deal with the relationship of elements between each other. Without these, padding and margins would be...
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If you are asked for your worst clients, you could easily give me a handful. Most surely you will say “I’ll work with them no more, because they are hard to deal with, don’t want to pay, don’t appreciate your work,”and a thousand other things that make you almost hate them. And most surely you want to make them pay-by not working for them any more, raising the rates for them,...
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Any of you know me, know I hate PDF books. I simply can’t stand to stare at my computer screen, after I’ve already been on it for several hours working. I also prefer the weight and solidarity of a beautifully printed heavy real book. However, when I heard that Alex Mathers was coming out with his own book, the 10 Steps to Powerful Self Promotion for Creatives (affiliate link), I...
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I’ve been searching for some great new music to listen to while working. I found a cool site once (that I can’t seem to locate now) that listed what music the person did while doing a certain web task. There was even a category for “music while debugging IE6“. I love listening to upbeat music, normally punk rock but sometimes some rap or pop, while coding. When writing, I...
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As freelancers, we do everything we can to get our names out there. Whether it’s writing blog posts, twittering, using other social media, or just dealing with clients, we try to be everywhere on the web. Unfortunately, the more you put yourself out there, the more you open yourself up to those people. You know who they are–the ones who disagree with you and aren’t afraid to...
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This series of posts will chronicle my journey from life in the midst of the corporate machine to the brave new world of freelancing. I’ve no idea how things will turn out, but I’ll be sharing the experiences – good and bad – as I go. Wish me luck… Before I take that step off the mountain top, I still have to reach the summit. It’s in sight though. Since I set...
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I was recently hired to make what I thought was going to be a simple change for a client. Modify the navigation on a Wordpress blog to match their static site. The menu items were already listed but were in the wrong order. So, knowing that the blog was running on Wordpress I said sure! My first thought was OK, I will just get in there rearrange the order of the pages by id, and be done....
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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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I have over 10 years of experience in front-end web development. I specialize in valid and semantic XHTML, CSS and WordPress coding that is both clean and SEO-friendly. Also a lover of books, interior design, tea, cooking and cheesecake! (I stay busy!)
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