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Discovering and Maintaining Your Own Sense of Self-Worth as a Freelancer Can Be a Struggle

Almost without exception, if you throw web sites together for fun or profit you’ll be approached by someone asking for your help with their own web project and depending on how much freelance/consulting experience you have up to that point will seriously determine how you handle your response.

Generally speaking, just like there’s a learning curve to web design and development, there’s one for f… Continue

if you're a Morrissey fan and you happened to catch any of his concerts in the 2007 North American leg, this might look familiar.

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(Cross-posted from the CSS Tinderbox. Originally posted on February 4, 2008)

It’s a classic struggle and one with both sides deeply entrenched. But the clear line that separates nerds from geeks is blurred or damn near indecipherable by many, many people because it’s commonplace to lump both groups together and use either label to loosely describe one or the other.

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(Cross-posted from the CSS Tinderbox. Originally posted on March 27, 2008)

Humans are creatures of habit. We tend to follow what we’re most familiar with and unfortunately that means our creativity can get bogged down if we don’t stop and reconnect every so often by reaching beyond the daily rut we may find ourselves in.

Where designers find their individual inspiration and how they work is as varied as the ideas and concepts they eventually create so the following is by no means a defi… Continue