Category: business
Make them dance, make them dance.
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Improved “Freelance to Agency” podcast
Now with significantly enhanced audio quality.
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“Freelance to Agency” Podcast
Presenting the full audio recording of “From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small”, a panel at SXSW Interactive featuring Roger Black, Kristina Halvorson, and Whitney Hess, and moderated by yours truly.
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Eat fine meals, ride fast trains, be a web professional
WOW’s Bill Culver interviews Scott Fegette and me about the joys, sorrows, challenges, and opportunities of a professional web career.
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On Spec
Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.
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41 Shades of Blue
Douglas Bowman leaves Google.
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ALA 278: design for readers; stay alive
Design for readers. Stay alive in hard times.
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Recession tips for web designers
“For web designers, there are four keys to surviving bad economic times: do good work, charge a fair price, lower your overhead, and be sure you are communicating with your client. As a reader of…
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ALA 274: The emerging content strategist
A website without a content strategy is like a speeding vehicle without a driver. Learn why content matters and how to do it right.
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20 signs you don’t want that web design project
Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet.
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ALA No. 273: trad vs. agile
How traditional, research-based IA leads to better site design—and why many are abandoning traditional methods in favor of agile design.
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Real type on the web?
A proposal for a fonts working group is under discussion at the W3C.
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Regarding the dishwasher
It is as if everything is broken, and everyone knows it, and we perpetually postpone the reckoning.
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Housing Works launch
Sometimes we get to participate, in however small a way, in something much larger and more important than ourselves.
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In the bag
Early tomorrow, I leave for San Francisco. Headed into my laptop bag, along with my MacBook, are… An iPod Classic containing 8624 “songs” (I like music) and 46 “movies.” Sample titles: A Mighty Wind, A…
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The Survey for People Who Make Websites
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of…