Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

Web design is an industry that is loaded with opportunities for upsells and extra revenue. Odds are that your clients will benefit from services that go beyond basic design and development. However, just because you can offer extras doesn’t necessarily mean that you should. One such area is web hosting. While there is the potential… Continue reading Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites

Okay — you have clients, and they need websites for their weddings — like, asap! How do you choose the best wedding website builder, though? Superb query. Well for starters: You want to use a wedding website building platform that saves you time, saves them money, cuts out uncalled for stress and effort, helps you… Continue reading A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites

Soft Skills Needed to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Practical Guide

What You’ll Be Creating Looking on the internet, it’s fairly simple to find articles and information on creating a book—from how to do layout to character design, writing your own story, and so on. In my travels I found that unless you sat down with an experienced illustrator over a cup of coffee, you would… Continue reading Soft Skills Needed to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Practical Guide

How to Boost Instagram Engagement for Your Brand/Business

If you’re an online brand or business then you’re well aware of how important it is to garner engagement on your posts. Not only does engagement help build your overall brand identity, but it also provides vital feedback to your and your team as well as keeps you in front of the Instagram algorithm (we’ll… Continue reading How to Boost Instagram Engagement for Your Brand/Business

Designing Happy

Health problems stemming from stress and loneliness include: obesity, high blood pressure, alcoholism, depression, heart disease, insomnia, and stroke. The solution In surveying the landscape, one might think there are already solutions for this problem including traditional mental health solutions as well as new up-and-coming behavioral health startups. Newer solutions often require high levels of customer… Continue reading Designing Happy

Web Designers, Stop Wasting Time on Billing and Accounting When You Don’t Have Too

Posted · Category: Tools Keeping a small business running is hard work. You have projects to negotiate, emails to answer, and deadlines to meet. You have to find the time to explore new trends and methods. Sometimes, you have to take whatever time it takes to learn how to use new tools of your trade… Continue reading Web Designers, Stop Wasting Time on Billing and Accounting When You Don’t Have Too

5 One-Page Web Design Templates for Businesses and Brands

September 8, 2017 by Zac Johnson Have you ever wanted to create a website for your brand or agency, but didn’t know how to get started? For most people, WordPress might seem like the best solution around. After all, it’s free to use and powers a great majority of sites on the internet today. However,… Continue reading 5 One-Page Web Design Templates for Businesses and Brands

Digital suffocation.

It’s dawned on me how incessant and intrusive phone notifications are. I may be realising this late. About two months ago I installed an app called 360 Security on my Android phone. One of the many functions it had was a ‘Notification Manager’. I switched it on and let it do it’s thing. A week… Continue reading Digital suffocation.

Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier

Posted · Category: Tools There’s no doubt that the Q4 holiday shopping season is the busiest time of year for online store owners and ecommerce businesses. If your freelance business or agency works with these online merchants, the last few weeks have almost certainly been hectic and stressful. Performing last minute site updates, troubleshooting broken… Continue reading Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier

Mobile UI Design Inspiration: Charts And Graphs

Design can be considered a craftsmanship because you do it until you are good at it and then you keep doing it to be better. The problem is that many developers are really eager to solve functionality problems rather than spending time to solve the interface issues. A mobile designer must embrace minimalism because he… Continue reading Mobile UI Design Inspiration: Charts And Graphs

Stop Running Out Of Money

Posted · Category: Information You Need a Budget (YNAB) is the best budgeting tool you’ve never tried. It’s different because it works: You’ll stop overdrafting, you’ll pay off your credit card debt, your stress levels will plummet, and you’ll feel in total control of your finances. By combining a simple, effective methodology with award-winning software… Continue reading Stop Running Out Of Money

Managing Your Freelance To-Do List While Keeping Some Shred of Sanity

A day in the life of a freelance web designer can be a real whirlwind. Without ever leaving your desk, you might be working on dozens of sites, communicating with lots of clients, writing several proposals and still find time to network on social media. This is my 17th year of freelancing. Last year, I… Continue reading Managing Your Freelance To-Do List While Keeping Some Shred of Sanity