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What is a freelance web designer?
Posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 under freelance by Dustin Brewer.For most people the answer is obvious but I occasionally get questions about what a freelance designer is and what a freelance web designer does. I thought I would write a quick (?!) explanation of what all it entails and the different types of freelance web designers that exist within the niche. I thought I would also touch on how we get work, how we do work and when we do work. So this article is for anyone wondering what a freelance web designer is and for those considering becoming a freelance web designer and want to get an idea of what it takes and how it works.
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Winners of the Billings3 Giveaway
Posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 under Giveaway by Dustin Brewer.I’ve collected all of the entries for the Billings3 contest and have selected two winners at random. I’d like to thank everyone for participating in this contest and hope that you have subscribed to my RSS feed to hear about more contests like this as well as to catch up on other articles about web design that I write.
The first winner is Amber Weinberg of Nashville, Tennessee. The second winner is Jeff Claeson of Spokane, Washington.
Congratulations to the both of you, hope you enjoy using Billings 3.
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8 job boards, for freelance web designers, that don’t suck
Posted on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 under freelance by Dustin Brewer.Being a freelance web designer is a competitive field, everyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of how to open Dreamweaver, or use Photoshop’s motion blur tool think they can hack it as a web designer. Not to mention a number of third-world countries’ easy ability to underbid you by a fraction of what you charge hourly.
All kidding aside, it is difficult to find decent work on job bidding sites due to the sheer amount of people bidding and the overwhelming amount of people looking for the lowest price and expecting the highest quality. This listing of freelance job boards is just that, a listing of just freelance job boards (that don’t suck) where you are hired (mostly) based on your talent rather than how low you can bid.
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Tutorial: How to turn Rachel McAdams into a really cool abstract wallpaper in 30 seconds
Posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 under design tutorial by Dustin Brewer.I know most of you have been sitting around thinking about how gorgeous Rachel McAdams is, so your first thought when you see a picture of her probably isn’t how cool it would look as an abstract desktop wallpaper. But after taking a look at this quick and easy design tutorial you may start looking at a lot of photos a little differently. If you’re like me, you probably change your wallpaper frequently and your preferences can change just as often. I’m about to show you how to take any photo, such as this one of Rachel McAdams, and turn it into a really awesome looking abstract desktop wallpaper.
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Billings3 Invoicing App for Mac Giveaway and Review
Posted on Sunday, November 1st, 2009 under Giveaway by Dustin Brewer.There are a lot of invoicing options available to agencies, freelancers and anyone needing to send a bill to a client or customer. Market Circle approached me wanting me to give an honest review of their app and write a blog post about it. They also gave me the opportunity to giveaway 2 licenses to my readers, more on that later. The Billings3 application is only for Mac OS X, so if you aren’t an Apple user you might not get a lot out of this article.
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Winner of the UploadRobots Pro account giveaway
Posted on Sunday, November 1st, 2009 under Giveaway by Dustin Brewer.After all the entries were put in to win an UploadRobots Pro account I came up with the winners which are WPStudios based out of Italy, “Vicky” and Tim Watson based out of Oklahoma City, OK. Congratulations to the winners, I hope you make some great use out of the UploadRobots system.
I’ll be reviewing and giving away 2 copies of Billings, a fantastic Invoicing app for OS X I have been testing out for MarketCircle this week, so come back and enter to win those.
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7 awesome freelance web designers that blog
Posted on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 under freelance by Dustin Brewer.There are thousands of designers around the web, most of them have a blog but actually being successful at it can be a different story. Getting information from first-hand accounts of freelance web designers is an invaluable asset to any freelance designer. Coupling that with a freelancer web designer that can not only write well but also shows off their talents in their portfolio as well is incredible. I’ll take a look at 7 incredible freelance web designers that have fantastic site design’s with a blog.
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How to fix z-index stacking in Internet Explorer
Posted on Monday, October 26th, 2009 under CSS by Dustin Brewer.Having trouble with elements (divs, tables, ul, lists, etc) stacking incorrectly in only IE6 and IE7? Your issue is relatively (pardon the pun) easy to fix without going too far out of your way to fix the issue. This issue has been around for awhile but I feel it is something that should definitely be out there, despite the fact we are talking about going back 8 years (nearly 9) with IE6. They even carried the z-index issue over to IE7. Fortunately the CSS issue is now fixed in IE8 (in standards mode) so we don’t have to worry about fixing it for the newest version of Internet Explorer.
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File sharing service Upload Robots Giveaway and Review
Posted on Sunday, October 25th, 2009 under Giveaway by Dustin Brewer.I was contacted by the owner of Upload Robots, Nick Cammarata, about a great alternative to Dropbox or Rapidshare. I took a look at the system and it is incredibly well designed and ridiculously easy to use. Not to mention the site doesn’t have all the crappy advertising that sites like Rapidshare currently have. They have a really nice demo video you can take a look at that really explains how easy, and well designed the user interface is for the system.
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Discussion: Following up on a web design proposal
Posted on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 under freelance by Dustin Brewer.A common problem for freelance web designers and agencies alike is getting a proposal approved, there is a lot that goes into the pre-proposal-discussion and into the proposal itself. For most, myself included, a simple follow-up email will go out if nothing is heard out of the client to make sure they had a chance to read and go over the proposal. Usually after that the conversation is basically over (assuming they don’t approve) you move on to the next client.
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About Dustin Brewer
Dustin Brewer is a freelance web designer based out of Oklahoma City, OK passionate about web standards, and beautiful web design. Dustin Brewer has been in the web design industry for over 8 years through freelance and professional experience. If you are interested in hiring Dustin Brewer please visit the web design services page to find out more information. You can also checkout the web design portfolio.
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