Just as every freelancer is a little different, you will find each client has different needs and cares. However, many clients fall into one of a number of types, each requiring different approaches or handling to ensure the best working relationship. Knowing your client types will help you tailor your approach and produce the most successful project outcome.
While Google search is still the number one driver of online traffic, social media is the clear number two. For some sites, social media is an even bigger source of traffic than the almighty Google. Whether you prefer Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, or Pinterest – social media should be a key part of any blogger/webmaster’s traffic generation strategy.
It’s the lifestyle we all dream about: we can say goodbye to the corporate rat-race and use our unique skills to start up a web-based business at home. However, as many of us already know, “living the dream” of working from home as a freelance web designer or other type of web worker can be stressful, especially at the start. Will we get enough clients to become profitable? Can we get all the work done by the client’s deadline? These are just some of the things that can cause our blood pressure to rise and worries to deepen.
Dotmarkup.com is a team of designers based in Bucharest, Romania that offers PSD to HTML5 conversion services, through the latest technology available. After establishing your desired end result, their developers start coding the PSD and offer daily updates, until your project is finished. After receiving the HTML5/CSS3 code for your website, you even have a satisfaction guarantee to fall back on.
It’s time to announce the lucky winners of the giveaway hosted in collaboration with our friends from Winithemes. 5 of those who participated will be receiving today the 4 awesome responsive HTML templates: Blox, Space, Yummy Press and Beaumonde, which you can check out here. Let’s not drag things along and meet the lucky design enthusiasts:
As a digital artist or designer, receiving feedback or ensuring visibility for your work is crucial. Setting up your own online portfolio is an option, but then there’s the problem of driving traffic to it. So before you get there, you can showcase your work alongside fellow designers on websites created especially with this purpose.
It’s been a while since we posted a giveaway, so today I have some great news for you: in collaboration with our friends from Wini Themes, we’re offering 4 premium responsive HTML templates. All you have to do to win is leave a comment to tell us what you’d like to do with the templates and tweet about the giveaway using the hashtag #pixel77giveaway.
Metro is a user interface created by Microsoft (much like Windows Phone, Zune and Xbox), which is meant to allow the user to interact directly with the content and have the same experience on all media formats. It achieves this by relying more on typography rather than graphic elements: “content before chrome” and has been adapted as a design style due to its clean and dynamic build.
Our sister website Design TNT is back with another collection of brand-new design resources created to save you both time and money. Among these 8 awesome resources you will find a set of 38 vintage borders for Photoshop, vector advertising coupons, a set of vector superheroes, Mother’s Day vector elements, a set of Photoshop photo frames, Photoshop Brushes and more!
WordPress plugins are created to broaden the functionality of WordPress, to improve certain pre-existing features or add new ones. They constitute of php scripts that can help you build a custom website, tailored to your needs. If you have (or are just starting) a WordPress site that distributes cool vector packs , design deals or whatever your creative heart desires, this collection will surely come in handy.
