What Should You Include In A Design Project Proposal?
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Last week, we were asked for the first time to send over a detailed project proposal in response to an initial brief document; for a fairly large client. This was the first time we received this request: normally things flow in the normal sense of client contact – meeting – quote – project.
The first we [...]
QuickGamma – Calibrate Your Monitor Free
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A while back, I made a post showing a free utility available for mac that was very comprehensive in calibrating a LCD screen. You can view that here. However, it was only available for Mac, QuickGamma is the nearest substitute for the estranged Windows users. I have not personally had a chance to test [...]
How To Deal with Non-Paying Clients
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At some point you will come face to face with the worst type of client. The client who despite numerous attempts on your behalf, is refusing to pay outstanding fees on a project.
As a business you will at some point have to go after a non-paying client, and as such should be prepared for the [...]
11 Articles To Stop You Making Designer Mistakes
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1) Just Creative Design – Bad Graphic Design
Yes, this is a controversial topic, however I hope to raise awareness of some mistakes you may be making in your graphic design pieces that are making you look amateurish, but please keep in mind that none of these are hard and fast rules, this is only a [...]
Your Quote is too high! – Charging/Negotiating for design work
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It is inevitable and if it hasn’t happened to yourself yet, it is not far round the corner especially in the economic times were in. Quite often, a potential client will challenge you on your pricing. i.e your rate per hour, total price etc
The first time it happened to us, we were hit with this [...]
10 Tutorials and Resources to Help You Understand/ Implement Copywriting Techniques
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Copywriting is the use of words to promote a person, business, opinion, or idea. Although the word copy may be applied to any content intended for printing (as in the body of a newspaper article or book), the term copywriter is generally limited to such promotional situations, regardless of media (as advertisements for print, television, [...]
Print Design Templates (Bleed, Trim, Guide’s)
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Below is a list of links I have compiled over time to free psd templates for everything from business cards to flyers. The templates do not contain designs, just simply all the correct bleed, trim and text/content guides, to help ensure what you design on screen gets printed properly! All PSD files are 300DPI and [...]
10 Resources and Tutorials to Understand and Create Corporate Identity
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1) How to create a strong corporate identity
You need to decide what is the core proposition of the company; what you do and what you sell,he said. If you don’t know what the company stands for it is difficult to create an identity. You can come up with the funkiest identity but if you have [...]
10 Resources to Help You Decide What To Charge for Design Work
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As website designers , we know all to well how difficult it can be to competitively price your work; we compiled the following list of resources to help us in our endeavors.
1) Design Talkboard: ‘How much to charge for Graphic Design’
in reality, freelance designers will need to research carefully and develop a pricing structure most [...]
Copyright Your Artwork
As artists and creative minds it is becoming ever more important to make sure you copyright your work! This protects you from infringement, criminal clients and a host of other problems that can arise when you realise someone has stolen your work. We are about to produce a poster for mass sale through various outlets, so we have managed to find out the following on copyright in the UK. If you have anything to add or correct, let us know!!!
Great Custom Adobe CS3 Icon Packs
A list of high quality custom icon packs to replace the icons Adobe CS3 was shipped with!
10 Tutorials and Resources to Teach You CSS
In my quest to learn how to design using CSS to style my web designs in my development of my web skills, I compiled a list of 10 resources and tutorials that I have found invaluable in learning the basics and some intermediate tips and tricks in CSS. Hope you all find them useful in helping you to learn CSS.
10 Great Free SEO Tools and Resources
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Great basic to intermediate SEO Tools
Hi all. In my efforts to search engine optimise websites for myself and various clients i’ve compiled a little list of free SEO analysing tools that I use. Hope you find them useful.
1) SEOmoz | SEO Cheat Sheet
This wonderful PDF courtesy of Danny Dover contains every little SEO tactic you [...]
10 Ways To Score and Evaluate A Client
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My past two posts have covered how to deal with non-paying clients and clients who want to become the designer. Good clients do exists and for the most part form the majority of your clientele; in a book I read through the idea of evaluating your clients. Times are hard, sending christmas cards to the [...]
Nov 11, 2009 | Categories: Business, Commentary, Freelancing | Tags: Advice, Freelancing, organise, resource, Resources | 5 Comments »