I recently saw a tweet about Hack Design – an easy to follow design course, so I took a look. I’m going to join this for sure. I’ve looked enough to know that this is going to be great. I haven’t started yet, but I plan to start next week....
Before I changed the layout and purpose of this website, it had my web-design and WordPress work information, and my portfolio. Since the change, I don’t have a portfolio. But I really need one. The comments on my recent post on Design To Startup and the...
I jumped into the world of freelance web design and WordPress consulting about 8 months ago. In doing so, I knew I would be starting over in terms of my hourly wage, but I was confident that I could raise my hourly rate over time. Here is a brief breakdown of how I...
I have been trying to create a form using Gravity Forms that correctly accepts coupon codes, but couldn’t figure it out until now! I asked the Gravity Forms support team for help on this and received this response: “If you do want the form to validate the...
How regularly do you change and optimize your daily/weekly schedule? I make significant adjustments once per month on average. It’s not that I’m impossible to please, its just that at different times in my life, different schedules work better than others....
I have two other places where I write: Design To Startup and my private family blog. I often have posts that could be shared on all three sites, but I can only choose one. So then I need to figure out the best way to refer to and link to that content on my other...
I’m quite excited for this new year: 2013. I’ve set New Year’s resolutions almost every year. Some years I have accomplished them, others I haven’t. I think one of the biggest reasons for not accomplishing them is I set too many. Its pretty...
For some reason, I’ve thought a lot lately about Steve Jobs’ statement that: “People want to own their music.” I love the work Steve did, and I respect his opinion. However, I don’t feel that way. I for one, don’t want to own my...
I recently had this question: If a client asks me to do some random item of support (fixing something they broke, adding something new, etc.), should I just charge hourly or should I charge a flat rate? I did a search and came across these two great articles that...
When I decided to learn design, I had no idea where to start. So I did what most people do: I asked people with experience (designers in this case), and I searched the internet. Both proved to be very helpful, and here’s why: Of the eight emails I sent (four to...
