Lesson 14 - Freelance Web Design
Tutorials
Resources
Must Read Articles
- 14 Tips for Moving From Full-Time to Freelance Work
- 7 Habits of a Highly Successful Freelance Web Designer
- Full-time freelancing: 10 things learned in 180 days
- Top 10 Mistakes Made by New Freelancers
- Best Practices for Freelance Business: Part 1- Part 2
- Small To Medium Business Branding
- 10 Ways to Eliminate Distractions
- A Guide to Simple Project Management
- How to Manage the Monster
- How-To Price Freelance Projects Successfully
- Finding that Sweet Spot When You’re Setting Your Hourly Rate
- Outsourcing for Great Profits
Articles/Blog posts/Podcasts
- A Guide to Starting Your Business
- Figuring your real hourly rate
- Designers: How much to charge
- To Charge Per Hour, or Not To Charge Per Hour
- Pricing a Project
- Top 10 Mistakes New Businesses Make
- Media Artist Secrets - Podcast 46
- Freelance Business Names
- Keep Projects Profitable
- Graphic Design Articles from About.com
- Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
- About Going Solo
- Full-time freelancing: 10 things learned in 180 days
- Full-time freelancing: 10 more things in 360 days
- Treehouse Magazine
- Small Biz 101: How to Get Started
- Small Biz 101: Cash Flow
- Small Biz 101: No one starts with a masterpiece
- Small Biz 101: Tips for Increasing Sales
- Why I Quit Entrepreneurship and Got a Real Job
- When clients (and bosses) go bad...
- Sitepoint:
- One Day, Perhaps
- Getting Started with Entrepreneurship Roundup
- How to be a successful freelancer, Pt. 1
- Freelancing your way to online profits
- Reserving enough for Uncle Sam
- A day in the life of a freelance designer
- Freelance Switch
- How to Find a Web Host That Doesn’t Suck
- Pay By The Hour
- Charging By the Project or the Hour
- 8 Good Reasons to Become a Contractor
- Listbid.com / the freelance job marketplace
- Freelance Tipster
- New Clients Now! Marketing Strategies for Freelance Success
- Take the Leap: First Steps in Freelancing
- Freshwebjobs
- 10 Signs You Should Drop a Client Like a Bad Habit
- Development Process 2 - A Freelancer's Perspective
- A Guide To Making Passive Income
- How To Think Like A Client
- An Ounce of Professionalism
Blogs and Podcasts
- Boagworld
- Tweakcast
- Web Jam Session 2007
- Creative Suite Podcast
- Answers for Freelancers
- Freelance Radio
- Brendon Sinclair’s Business Mix
- Web Axe
- Media Artist Secrets
- Creativebits
- Career Opportunities
- Sitepoint Blogs
- The making of Signal 7
Specific Podcasts
- Boagword - Show #95 - marketing your web business.
- Boagword - Show #88 - setting up a web design company
- #35 Brendon Sinclair’s Business Mix - 15 May ‘06 - Secrets of a Successful Web Development Business
- #39 Brendon Sinclair’s Biz Mix - 15 Jun ‘06 - How to Land Your Next $10 000 Web Design Job
Forums/Discussion Boards
Tools
To Do Lists:
Calculators
Track Your Time:
- Slim Timer
- Harvest
- Tick
- PunchyTime
- Freshbooks
- Take Breaks
- Workrave
- Take A Break
- Time Out - Mac software
- MacbreakZ - Mac software
Project Management:
Send Files:
Online File Backup:
Send Invoices:
Getting Paid
- PayPal
- PayPay- similar to PayPal
- Moneybookers
- Escrow.com
List of Tools
- 101 Essential Freelancing Resources
- The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need
- Freelancers’ Toolbox - 30+ Online Freelance Resources
- Freelancer Tools
Forms - Contracts, etc.
- Ten Tips for Making Solid Business Agreements and Contracts
- American Institute of Graphic Arts Standard Form of Agreement
- Example Work for Hire Agreement
- Resources for the Design Entrepreneur
- Getting Started
- Document Downloads
- Form, Contracts, etc
- Misc. forms
Find Projects
- The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites
- Guru.com
- Freelancers Network
- Freelancers Direct
- projectSimple
- myFreelanceAuction
- Freelance Work Exchange
Business Resources
- Small Business and Self-Employed One-Stop Resource
- Starting A Business: A Guide to Texas Business Licenses and Permits
- Small Business Encyclopedia: Taxes
- Sole Proprietorship
- Texas Online Tax Registration Application
- Texas Field Offices
Books, etc.
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
- The 4-Hour Workweek
- Go It Alone - free
- Get Clients Now!: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants - also on NetLibrary.com
- The Business Side of Creativity: The Complete Guide for Running a Graphic Design or Communications Business
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century - not really about freelancing or web design
Web Design Companies
- Happy Cog
- Media Rail Design
- Flame Media Design
- Etre
- Third and Grand
- Axiom Development
- Rain City Studios
- FaithConnector
- Forty Media
- 30 Second Rule
- Black Widow Web Design
- KoreLogic
- The Blog Studio
- Moxie Design Studios
- Seven Oaks Productions
DFW Area Companies / Freelancers
- IO Media Group
- Firewheel Design
- Blackdot
- BrainFood
- Telerana
- LevelTen Web Design
- Zunch Communications
- Weblogs Work
- TinyFly Studios
- Apollo Interactive
- Sproket Data
- QuickSilver Interactive
- NetSuccess
- WebFX
- Plonka Interactive
- Imaginuity Interactive
- ITWurks