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Saturday, June 30, 2012
WordPress Theme Releases for 6/20
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Ask FreelanceSwitch: Incorporation and Working with Family
In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, we look at incorporation and working with family. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered, send an email to askfreelanceswitch@gmail.com.
Question 1
If you are just getting started, is it too early to incorporate your business? If yes, when is a good time to incorporate?
I actually incorporated fairly early for a freelancer ? about two years after I started freelancing full-time. My reasons for incorporation were based on having a few other things going on than straight up freelancing (including bringing in subcontractors). For many freelancers, incorporation is something that can be put off indefinitely.
Incorporation means that you?re going to need to pay out money every year to maintain your corporate status, pay extra money to your tax preparer and spend time on extra paperwork.
I?d generally wait until a CPA or other business advisor says that you really need to incorporate: you do get benefits if you might otherwise be liable for a problem, but I?ve only heard of a handful of cases where freelancers faced such issues. Generally, we can get by without incorporation.
Question 2
I have a degree in graphic design, however since I’ve been teaching for 15 years, 3 years ago I decided to focus on the teaching. Since I really enjoy designing, I design for my school and help out a friend who freelances.
Here’s my bind. I borrowed some money from my sister and we agreed that I would pay her back through design work which at the time seemed pretty straight-forward and simple. You are, obviously, laughing at my last point.
I adore designing websites. I have my system, my rules, my ideas backed-up with theory (most of this thanks to you guys). But all I get are NOs. No images, not that font, not that template, not that name for those links, no, no, no. I feel just heartbroken because I care for my sister and her business partners and I really want the project to work and for them to have an awesome website. It’s starting to take affect me, because I have to take time from my weekend to work on this and spend less time with my daughter.
I’ve basically had to design the site 3 times, and we are now finally at a point where we are almost done. What is really hard for me is that they have asked everyone for their opinions, even conducted surveys, seems like everyone else’s opinions are more important than mine.
So to sum up, here’s my question: What is the best way to tell someone you care about that clients really need to have a clear vision of what they want and that designers deserve respect because they have studied and worked at their trade? I love my sister and maintaining a great relationship is very important.
I?d be wary of trying to draw a line in the sand on this project. Your relationship with your sister could take some damage, at the very least. It may be better to just get the project done and get out. If the important thing to you is maintaining your relationship with your sister, biting your tongue may truly be the best option.
If you feel that your sister can take the truth, I?d suggest writing out your sense of the situation. You can frame it as a set of suggestions for your sister?s business for future creative projects if you want to tread lightly. But if you were dealing with a client who you aren?t related to, you would still need to write out everything. That?s because you need to be very clear on what you want to share with a client and you can?t count on being able to communicate effectively in person once you get emotional about a situation.
I have to say that I?ve had a lot of bad experiences with working with families. I flat out don?t do it anymore. That colors my recommendations, I?m sure. But working with someone who remembers all the ridiculous things you did when you were little is much harder than working with a client you?ve never met before.
I?m not saying that your sister (or any other relative) automatically can?t respect you, but she?s going to think that she already knows what you think and she?s going to remember plenty of times that you were wrong. That?s why I just won?t take on a project from a relative anymore.
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Selling Online: Design, Development, and Business Considerations
Selling Online: Design, Development, and Business Considerations
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/30/selling-online-design-development-and-business-considerations/
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/26
New plugins Retina Images for WordPress will create a double resolution image whenever an image is uploaded and decide which one to serve depending on the user’s screen (Retina or not) without an extra http request. WordPress GPS provides an admin panel with a scenario selection. Updated plugins WordPress Download Manager helps you to manage, track and control file downloads from your WordPress site. WP Marketplace will convert your WordPress site into a marketplace in just a few minutes. WP Overview (lite) Footer Memory Usage shows overview and memory usage on the WordPress Dashboard.
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WordPress Theme Releases for 6/24
Catch Box is a simple, lightweight, box shaped, and adaptable theme. Hot Radio is a vivid theme featuring burning flame from a radio microphone on a dark background, using yellow, orange, black, charcoal, silver, and gray. Infinity is a simple, clean, and customizable theme.
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Doing Data Modeling in Cassandra
I wish I found a post similar to this, listing the practical problems
of designing a data model using Cassandra (or other NoSQL DB) and with
corresponding answers to overcome them. Don?t misinterpret what I?m
saying, there are tons of good material out there, giving good
introductory tutorials (WTF is a super column ? An intro to the Cassandra data model).
But I found very few articles...
of designing a data model using Cassandra (or other NoSQL DB) and with
corresponding answers to overcome them. Don?t misinterpret what I?m
saying, there are tons of good material out there, giving good
introductory tutorials (WTF is a super column ? An intro to the Cassandra data model).
But I found very few articles...
Source: http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/zones/css/~3/IJ8tpDIWJZI/doing-data-modeling-cassandra
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Essential advice for restaurant websites
Restaurant websites have become infamous for their outdated designs, and frustrating user experience. How many times have you visited a restaurant website and asked, ?What was this web designer thinking?? We see the same (often laughable) problems again and again: background music as you skip past another Flash website ?intro?; PDF food menus (or no [...]
Source: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/06/essential-advice-for-restaurant-websites/
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Dramatically increase earnings with a simple to-do list hack
I was getting ready to quit my job and start a new company. It was one of those moments where you psych yourself up and rack your brain for any good excuse not to go through with it. Sort of like that moment right before you go off the tall diving board for the first [...]
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Page Elements for a Working Slideshow Feature
Page Elements for a Working Slideshow Feature
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/29/page-elements-for-a-working-slideshow-feature/
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Friday, June 29, 2012
WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/14
New plugins Facebook makes your site deeply social by integrating functionality from Facebook. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more. StatComm provides realtime statistics on your blog, collecting information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS and more. Theme-Check allows you to run checks on the current theme before uploading to WordPress. This plugin uses the same API and is kept more or less in sync with the WordPress.org uploader tool.
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WordPress Theme Releases for 6/20
Emerge is a crisp, bright, vibrant theme with personality, featuring varying shades of brilliant blue, silver, gray and white. Fanwood is an all-purpose, responsive (mobile friendly) theme with 12 optional layouts. HDboilerplate is an HTML5, Widget ready clean template.
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WordPress Theme Releases for 6/28
Glow has a translucent foreground and a flower background. Nuance is a simple yet stylish theme ideal for your latest project. Pitch is a simple, minimal portfolio theme.
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22+ Awesome Minimal Movie Poster Designs
From 2010: Why Startups Should Not Choose NoSQL
The NoSQL hype is omnipresent. And many startups are tempted to go
for Cassandra/MongoDB/HBase/Redis/? . Here I?ll argue why they should
rather stick to a SQL solution ? MySQL or PostgreSQL.
In my previous post about Cassandra I detailed why I
decided not to use it. Now, a dozen presentations watched and several
dozen articles read later, I can detail why I think it is not generally a
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for Cassandra/MongoDB/HBase/Redis/? . Here I?ll argue why they should
rather stick to a SQL solution ? MySQL or PostgreSQL.
In my previous post about Cassandra I detailed why I
decided not to use it. Now, a dozen presentations watched and several
dozen articles read later, I can detail why I think it is not generally a
...
Source: http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/zones/css/~3/5miYKUeK-fw/2010-why-startups-should-not
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Sending Multiple Files With HTML5 and Without JavaScript or Flash
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A Response Time Metric for Service Level Agreements
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) usually specify a response time
criteria that must be met. Although SLAs can have a wide range of
metrics like throughput, up time, availability etc., we will focus on
response times in this article.
We often hear phrases like the following :
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criteria that must be met. Although SLAs can have a wide range of
metrics like throughput, up time, availability etc., we will focus on
response times in this article.
We often hear phrases like the following :
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WordPress Theme Releases for 6/12
Krakatau is a simple, minimalist, readable, and responsive layout. Lavender is a pleasing, feminine theme that would suit any personal blog, travelog site, diary or journal sites, or a multitude of professional or business blogs or websites. Simple Catch is a simple and clean theme.
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Requests for free work: Surprising revelations
A former coworker of mine, James Harmon, is a bright and very talented designer with experience in some top corporations. He recently posted on Facebook a quote of his own thinking: ?In life, everyone cuts their own deal. The trick is not cutting one’s own throat in the process.? I told him that I needed [...]
Source: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/06/requests-for-free-work-surprising-revelations/
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Free Mega Pack Vector Icons Set ? 129 Clean Icons
Free Mega Pack Vector Icons Set ? 129 Clean Icons
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/28/free-mega-pack-vector-icons-set-129-clean-icons-2/
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Global Impact of Social Media on the Newsroom
If you know me, you know I love a good study. And I found the findings in the 2012 Oriella PR Network Global Digital Journalism Study to be fascinating.
Titled The Influence Game: How News is Sourced and Managed Today, the study shows the deepening penetration of digital and social media into all areas of newsgathering and production.
The study was conducted in April and May of this year and surveyed 613 journalists who work for a variety of different media outlets (from broadcast to blogs) in the following countries: Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Vietnam, the U.K., and the U.S. On average, 38 journalists were surveyed in each country.
The Findings
The global economy is affecting newsrooms
The study found that journalists in Asia, Brazil, and Russia had a sunnier outlook on their news organization than those living in Western Europe and North America.
This year the study found that 12% of respondents globally believed their publication would go belly up, down from 21% last year. Check out how individual countries and regions fared when asked the question of falling (or growing) revenues:
Falling Revenues:
- Europe: 43%
- Brazil, Russia, China, North America: 21%
- Spain: 67%
On a more upbeat note, journalists in Russia, Brazil, and China seem to be doing great. Advertising revenue, audience, and editorial staffing is all up in these countries. According to this study, the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China will experience double-digit growth in ad spending during 2012. France will see a scant 2% and the U.K. will see 3.4%.
Online publishing is slowing?slowly
Under half of respondents globally said their biggest audience was online as opposed to nearly 60% in 2009. When you break it down into specific countries, it looks a little different. While 48% of the respondents globally said that their audience was offline (meaning they consumed news using the ?traditional? print/broadcast format) the following countries had very different results:
Percent of offline readership:
- New Zealand: 63%
- Russia: 36%
- France: 31%
- U.S.: 20%
Social media impact
Last year?s survey found that just under half of respondents used Twitter for sourcing stories and 35% used Facebook. This year found that 54% of respondents use these social media outlets (and other similar sites depending on the country) if the source is trusted by the journalist. Forty-four percent said they used blogs to source angles for new stories.
Journalists in North America use these sources for their stories more than journalists in the rest of the world. In Russia, 90% of respondents said they used microblogging for news sourcing.
But this paints a picture of trusted social media sources only. When asked about unfamiliar sources, journalists were more hesitant to trust them?26% of respondents worldwide said they would use microblogs from sources they didn?t know.
Here is some interesting data on where journalists worldwide turn when researching a story:
- Press releases
- 2011: 22%
- 2011: 11%
- In-person interviews with corporate spokespeople
- 2011: 20%
- 2012: 24%
- Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn
- 2011: 4%
- 2012: 3.5%
- PR agencies
- 2011: 7%
- 2012: 6.5%
- Analysts
- 2011: 5%
- 2012: 4%
Infographics are on the rise
I love infographics! It?s a great way to illustrate data in a creative way. This year?s study found a huge interest worldwide in the use of infographics as a story-telling tool. The majority of respondents reported that their organization used in-house developed infographics (22%) as opposed to the percentage that used externally-developed infographics (17%). Adoption of this mode of story-telling is highest in Russia and China.
Change in online content
What people are offering for online content has changed drastically, too. The prevalence of offering TV and video clips has fallen dramatically in 2012 from about 48% to 23%. Twitter channels, which shot up from 40% to 55% between 2010 and 2011 has seen a decline to about 45% in 2012. Organizations that have a presence on Facebook and Google+ have grown in 2012, as has the ownership of a mobile app.
Personal branding
For the first time, this study asked journalists to report what they used for digital media on a personal level. The U.S. and Russia were the countries with the most journalist-bloggers, clocking in at 69% and 72% respectively. In Germany, only 24% of respondents had a personal blog while Portugal reported 41%, Spain 42%, the U.K. 47%, and France 48%.
North American journalists led the way with the most personal Twitter handles at over 80% with Europeans coming in at just under 50%. Personal Google+ pages had North American respondents in the lead at just under 60% with the rest of the respondents in the 20% to 26% range.
When it comes to the overall impact of digital media in journalism, this study shows that the answer is generally positive. Globally, 37% of respondents agreed that the quality of their title?s output had improved. This year, 34% of the journalists surveyed globally said they enjoyed the job more than last year. Unfortunately, this is a decrease from the 2011 data, which found the percentage of people who enjoyed their job more than the previous year to be 44. Perhaps this means there will be more freelancers on the market come 2013?
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Facebook Custom Widget PSD Webbyarts ? Download Free
Facebook Custom Widget PSD Webbyarts – Download Free
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/28/facebook-custom-widget-psd-webbyarts-download-free/
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Windows Azure PowerShell and Ruby Cloud Services
Some of you may remember a little project I created last year called RubyRole,
which let you host Ruby applications as a Windows Azure hosted service
(now called a cloud service.) I updated it the other day to fix a few
issues with the recent spring update to Windows Azure, and discovered
some interesting things with the new Windows Azure PowerShell.
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which let you host Ruby applications as a Windows Azure hosted service
(now called a cloud service.) I updated it the other day to fix a few
issues with the recent spring update to Windows Azure, and discovered
some interesting things with the new Windows Azure PowerShell.
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DreamWorks Studios Cloud Runs on OpenStack Powered Production Kit
At HP Discover (disclosure ? HP covered my T&E to attend
Discover), almost half of the opening day keynote was given over to DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg
to articulate why DreamWorks has gone ?all in? with HP.
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Discover), almost half of the opening day keynote was given over to DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg
to articulate why DreamWorks has gone ?all in? with HP.
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WordPress 3.4.1 Released
WordPress 3.4.1 has been released. Besides fixing a few security issues, this release fixes 18 other bugs, including issues with page template detection, category permalinks, and compatibility with certain server setups. At the time of the announcement, WordPress 3.4 had been downloaded 3 million times since its release two weeks ago! It’s a startling achievement, and as many folks often wait for the first point release, that is sure to continue growing now that 3.4.1 is out. This is security release, so it is recommended for all users. If you run into trouble with WordPress 3.4.1, stop by the master list of known issues and post to the support forums if your problem isn’t covered there.
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A XAML Guy digs into ASP.NET MVC4: Part 2
Part 1 available here.
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We cover a variety of topics in this section, from ViewPorts to CSS3 Media Queries, to exploring a mobile browser offered by Opera. We also added some quick fixes for page title and fixed our logo text. The article finishes by looking at recipes in MVC4 to help us create mobile specific views.
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Source: http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/zones/css/~3/s7Ztre8L88E/xaml-guy-digs-aspnet-mvc4-part
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/18
New plugins Pocket Read It Later Links allows you to automatically display Pocket ‘Read It Later’ links next to your blog posts. WP Marketplace is a marketplace plugin with an easy interface. Updated plugins Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. Socialize gives publishers the ability to selectively add actionable social media/social bookmarking buttons to their posts without having to edit the meta keys/values like most other plugins require. WordPress SEO is an all in one solution to search engine optimize your WordPress blog: SEO titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps and much more.
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New Contributing Developers for WordPress 3.4
As WordPress 3.4 draws nearer to its inevitable released, Aaron Campbell and Helen Hou-Sandi have joined the ranks of the Contributing Developers! Their improvements to custom headers and the overall Themes interface will really make WordPress 3.4 stand out. If you’re on this release’s credits list, now’s the time to make sure that your profile actually has a name. Here’s hoping that WordPress 3.4 will be the best release yet!
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All Themes Updated: WP 3.4 Compatible, Jigoshop ready, and more updates
All Themes Updated: WP 3.4 Compatible, Jigoshop ready, and more updates
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Latest Top Web Design Inspiration ? 23 First Class Examples
Latest Top Web Design Inspiration – 23 First Class Examples
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/27/latest-top-web-design-inspiration-23-first-class-examples/
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Lean Tools: Motivation
There is a great difference between a team where people want to work and one where they're looking forward to 5 PM and to go home. I suppose we don't need any Lean sensei to tell us this.However, what is not obvious is how to let the team members motivation flourish and how to keep it high for years in a sustainable way."Hire good people, and leave them alone."This is one of 3M...
Source: http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/zones/css/~3/Ht2mO043xzM/lean-tools-motivation
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
No Browser Left Behind: An HTML5 Adoption Strategy
There?s a lot to be excited about with HTML5. With new markup, CSS
capabilities and JavaScript APIs, the scope of what?s possible on the
Web is growing by leaps and bounds. Add to that the steady one-upmanship
among browser vendors, and the list of exciting features expands almost
daily. From nightly builds to dev channel releases and regular platform
previews, browsers are changing fast...
capabilities and JavaScript APIs, the scope of what?s possible on the
Web is growing by leaps and bounds. Add to that the steady one-upmanship
among browser vendors, and the list of exciting features expands almost
daily. From nightly builds to dev channel releases and regular platform
previews, browsers are changing fast...
Source: http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/zones/css/~3/N7JgqtoH_c4/no-browser-left-behind-html5-0
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What?s new for designers, June 2012
The June edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, icons, analytics tools, frameworks, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a [...]
Source: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/06/whats-new-for-designers-june-2012/
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Resourceful Collection of Photo Manipulation [Tutorials]
Resourceful Collection of Photo Manipulation [Tutorials]
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/26/resourceful-collection-of-photo-manipulation-tutorials/
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Make Your Life Easier by Logging EVERYTHING as JSON
The story of an engineer.
Here is an anecdote. I am sure some of you have had a similar experience.
Alex, an engineer, logs all kinds of events. Since he is the
primary consumer of the log, the format is optimized for
human-readability. One canonical example is Apache logs:
10.0.1.22 - - [15/Oct/2010:11:46:46 -0700] ?GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1? 404?
10.0.1.22 - - [15/Oct/2010:11:46:58...
Here is an anecdote. I am sure some of you have had a similar experience.
Alex, an engineer, logs all kinds of events. Since he is the
primary consumer of the log, the format is optimized for
human-readability. One canonical example is Apache logs:
10.0.1.22 - - [15/Oct/2010:11:46:46 -0700] ?GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1? 404?
10.0.1.22 - - [15/Oct/2010:11:46:58...
Source: http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/zones/css/~3/ihCzIZUlgS4/make-your-life-easier-logging-0
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Exceptional Work From German Designers ? 55 Examples
Exceptional Work From German Designers ? 55 Examples
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/26/exceptional-work-from-german-designers-55-examples/
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50 Impressive Design Of Coming Soon Pages
70 Design And Motivational Quotes Visualised A Must Read
70 Design And Motivational Quotes Visualised A Must Read
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/26/70-design-and-motivational-quotes-visualised-a-must-read/
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Design a Silhouette Style Flyer in Photoshop
WordPress Theme Releases for 6/12
Krakatau is a simple, minimalist, readable, and responsive layout. Lavender is a pleasing, feminine theme that would suit any personal blog, travelog site, diary or journal sites, or a multitude of professional or business blogs or websites. Simple Catch is a simple and clean theme.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Simple Style Photography WordPress Theme
Human Development Center, The Non-Profit Marty Weintraub Supports
I talked to Marty Weintraub, AKA @aimClear, about the Human Development Center. I asked him to tell us about this fantastic organization and the help it provides to the surrounding communities. Here was his response: The greater Duluth/Superior area and outlying communities are incredibly lucky to have the Human Development Center. Established in 1938, in [...]
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/22
New plugins WordPress Hovercards is a lightweight plugin that integrates hovercards for your WordPress posts & pages. Updated plugins Add to All is a powerful plugin that will allow you to add custom code or CSS to your header, footer, content, or feed. Contextual Related Posts helps you increase reader retention and reduce bounce rates by displaying a set of related posts on your website or in your feed. FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.
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WordPress Theme Releases for 6/24
Catch Box is a simple, lightweight, box shaped, and adaptable theme. Hot Radio is a vivid theme featuring burning flame from a radio microphone on a dark background, using yellow, orange, black, charcoal, silver, and gray. Infinity is a simple, clean, and customizable theme.
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20 Creative Advertisement Photographs from AT&T Mobile ? by Andric
20 Creative Advertisement Photographs from AT&T Mobile – by Andric
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/25/20-creative-advertisement-photographs-from-att-mobile-by-andric/
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30 Astonishing Examples of Still Life Photography
30 Astonishing Examples of Still Life Photography
Source: http://design-newz.com/2012/06/25/30-astonishing-examples-of-still-life-photography/
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/22
New plugins WordPress Hovercards is a lightweight plugin that integrates hovercards for your WordPress posts & pages. Updated plugins Add to All is a powerful plugin that will allow you to add custom code or CSS to your header, footer, content, or feed. Contextual Related Posts helps you increase reader retention and reduce bounce rates by displaying a set of related posts on your website or in your feed. FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.
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Top 10 CSS3 Forms Tutorials
CSS3 brings to life countless new possibilities to make
better web forms. In this article, I have compiled a list of the best 10
tutorials to make great forms using this new and amazing technology.
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CSS3 brings to life countless new possibilities to make better web forms. In this article, I have compiled a list of the best 10...
better web forms. In this article, I have compiled a list of the best 10
tutorials to make great forms using this new and amazing technology.
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CSS3 brings to life countless new possibilities to make better web forms. In this article, I have compiled a list of the best 10...
Source: http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/zones/css/~3/Bxo0SLEAHyE/top-10-css3-forms-tutorials
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WordPress 3.4 RC 2 Released
WordPress 3.4 RC 2 has been released�with a few changes since the first release candidate. The core developer team is planning for the final release of WordPress 3.4 to debut early next week, so it’s time to give this a good solid test, especially if you are a plugin or theme developer. As you test out WordPress 3.4 RC 2, there are a few important things to watch out for, and this guide covers them in detail, or rather links to the appropriate guides. If you find any bugs, please report them, and contact the support forums if you need any help.
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CSS Tricks: Generated Content on Replaced Elements
Using pseudo-elements like :before and :after helps you specifying which content should be inserted before (or after) the content of an element. Replaced elements like input or img have no content, therefore, you shouldn?t be able to use generated content for them.
But, there?s almost always a but, it seems that you can use generated
content on a number of replaced elements that varies from...
But, there?s almost always a but, it seems that you can use generated
content on a number of replaced elements that varies from...
Source: http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/zones/css/~3/fCA9uk5tau0/css-tricks-generated-content
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
8 Things You Should Include In Your Terms of Service Agreement
If you?ve been a solo freelancer for any significant stretch of time, you?ve probably learned the hard way that a work project can go horribly wrong. They turn out to be life lessons in the long run, but there are ways to protect yourself.
Working with bad projects or bad clients generally boils down to mismatched expectations and inadequate communication. Your best safeguard is to make sure you and your client are on the same page before any work has even begun using a Terms of Service Agreement, which essentially puts into clear, written language what you expect from your client and what they should expect from you.
By submitting a comprehensive Terms of Service Agreement to your client beforehand and having them return confirmation to agree to abide by your terms, you will be saving yourself (and your client) a lot of headaches down the road and avoiding the kind of surprises that can cause a project to get derailed.
1. Billing structure. What are your rates? Do you bill by the hour or by the project? This is important because it?s usually one of the first three questions a new client will ask. Agree with the client what a final estimate includes and what will happen if changes are requested beyond the scope of the initial parameters of the project.
2. Late payment. Determine the grace period within which a client can submit their payment after the invoicing date. The standard practice is 30 days, but you can determine this according to your particular company. Also spell out late fees and/or interest rates for late payments. This will give incentive to your clients to pay their invoices sooner than later.
3. Interim charge caps. I?ve known too many freelancers that have rung up large invoices for major projects adding up to thousands of dollars only to be shafted by deadbeat clients who walk away with your hard work. If you?re working on a major project or are doing several smaller projects for one client that add up to major charges, put a cap on how much outstanding debt the client can carry.
I personally put a $500 cap on my clients so that when their total bill exceeds that amount, they will need to make an interim payment to bring it under or face work suspension. This will prevent clients from promising lots of high-paying business without delivering on their word. This is paramount when it comes to new clients, even those referred by people you trust.
You have the option to waive this cap if you have a long-standing relationship with a trusted client who pays on time and in full.
4. Scheduling. Can you service your clients twenty-four hours a day? Weekends? Holidays? You need to have a balanced life, which means you need to set hours that make sense with your lifestyle. Set appropriate hours when your clients can contact you and expect you to work. If you don?t want to be woken by a panicking client at one in the morning, tell them specifically at what time your shop closes.
5. No spec work allowed. This is a controversial subject among many freelancers and prospective clients. The consensus for most is not to accept work on spec. Speculative work involves doing actual work with the hopes of impressing the client enough that they will provide further opportunities without any guarantee of payment or that you will retain rights over the work if it isn’t paid for. It is bad practice to allow for this type of work with the extremely rare exception of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Your time and talent are precious and shouldn?t be doled out for free under any circumstance. Spell it out in the agreement: no spec work.
6. Termination of services by client. If you?re a writer or a designer or another creative professional and you?re submitting a first draft to a client and they are unsatisfied and want to end the project then and there saying something to the effect that your work does not meet their needs, they may be looking to get out of paying for the time you spent already, or worse, intending to steal your ideas for free. An honest client will pay for your time and move on to another freelancer. Otherwise, you?ve effectively just worked for spec and received a rejection. Set a minimum rate for work done that is immediately refused and where the client does not wish to allow you to continue.
It should be stipulated that work that is refused by the client cannot be used in whole or in part. This may or may not be respected, but can be actionable as long as the client has agreed to this term and then subsequently violated it.
7. Ownership rights. Establish who owns the work after it has been completed and what rights the owner has to use or modify the final product. You may also want to consider retaining rights to utilize the work in a repertoire or portfolio for future promotion while the client retains all other major usage rights.
8. Unforeseen or sudden termination of a project. Most freelancers work on their own, so if some mishap, illness or accident occurs that makes it impossible to continue a project in progress, the client needs to know what protections they have. You may have to associate yourself with a backup freelancer who will agree to take over. Otherwise, you can make a provision where files or assets for a project are turned over to the client to be continued by someone else and billed for the work done up to that point.
Whatever you decide, let the client understand that however unlikely, hiring a single freelancer has certain risks and that there will be some compensation or provision made in case of a stoppage.
Most clients will act in good faith, so keep an open mind and be willing to negotiate in instances where there is disagreement. But by explicitly setting the terms in advance, potential disputes can be avoided and you can focus on what?s most important: doing great work.
Note: A few times a month we revisit some of our reader?s favorite posts from throughout the history of FreelanceSwitch. This article by Gary Horsman was first published June 12th, 2008, yet is just as relevant and full of useful information today.
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