As your web design projects get bigger and pricier, contracts will become a vital part of your business. For some, having the perfect contract is one of the...

Hourly rates, flat-rate bids, and overtime... ugh! A web designer's time is not free nor is the software, hardware and effort needed to build websites. When...

Freelance web designers always have the job of finding clients to work with. It's a necessity in order to actually maintain a somewhat constant workflow and...

These are exciting times to be a web designer. CSS is finally starting to catch up to the visions of the beautiful websites we have in our heads. No longer...

The 960 Grid System has been around for a while now... but it's been mostly used on the coding side of projects as an HTML/CSS framework. Today, we're going...

Getting the correct creative requirements from your client can often be one of the biggest hurdles in any creative project... but it seems to be an...

The way that people see our designs strongly effects the meaning that they take away from them. The Gestalt Principle examines this phenomena; As such, it's...

One of the most difficult steps in any design process is selling that design to your clients and getting it signed-off. This is something that I have grown...

I'm going to share a design theory that I've been working on implementing into my own workflow for the past couple of years: pixel perfect mockups. To some...

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is often regarded as a mysterious and arcane discipline by most web designers... and yet, with just a few strategies, you...

It seems silly, obvious, trivial, even trite (thank you thesaurus!), but taking a little extra time to show your design to a peer before presenting it to the...

Congratulations! You've designed your site and you feel like it's ready to be sent off to a coding team. You might have a developer in mind, or you might be...