Happy Friday everyone, and happy first link love day. This is a series of posts which we’ll try to get out every Friday, or at least once a week on another day, to share useful and interesting posts from around the web — whether they are new or re-discovered. We realize link love posts...

Part 1 and part 2 of this series has so far consisted of planning and finally setting up shop as a new web designer. However, you can’t be a very good freelancer unless you have clients, right? In the previous steps we’ve definitely done work, but we need to start getting paid to...

With a new year coming up, we all have new years resolutions spanning a few areas of our lives, and no doubt freelancers have a few new goals and dreams to accomplish. Whether you have yet to set up shop, you’re just getting started and are still learning, or you are an experienced...

In part 1 of this series, we talked about the preparation involved in getting into the web design industry. We went over deciding on an exact niche, buying the necessary equipment and materials, and we covered learning the basics of web design and the business behind it. In today’s part...

Today we’ll start a new series for those web designers that are just starting out professionally. This guide assumes you’ve been practicing basic web design techniques on your own, and you’re ready to get out in the professional world and start getting some clients. This...

The holidays are great times for web designers to do some side work and get some errands done that have been put off for the past year. While having a probable lull in clients, this time of year can be a great time to analyze your portfolio and renew it. By doing so, you can gain a whole new,...

Finding work is the most difficult part of being a freelance web designer, and especially a web designer just starting out. It can be tricky figuring out where to start, and how to find clients, no matter how much you’ve got in your portfolio and how experienced you are. Because I get...

Freelancing was difficult for me just starting out, and I blame it purely on jumping in too fast and not doing my research. While I am fortunate for that experience because I learned so much so quickly, I know a lot of my problems could have been prevented with some simple preparation. This is...

There has always been a ‘poor and starving artist’ stereotype among us creative people, but in today’s world, it is realistically quite the opposite. Opportunities for creative people to make more income are left and right. Best of all, these opportunities are perfect for...

No matter what kind of web designer you are — freelancer or firm worker — holiday season is not always a time for joy and happiness. This is the time of year where we have no clients, or very few. If we do have some, communication is likely cut back as are regular payments. To top it all...

Digital painting is an amazing art form that mimics real paintings on canvas, but are rather done via Photoshop. The art form in itself is incredibly difficult to master, with both art and software skills needed. For today’s inspiration, I’ve come up with twenty very creative...

Many food web designs tend to be more creative than the next design because of their unique topic. Whether they are representing the food at hand, or setting the atmosphere of a classy restaurant, the web design’s style is usually far from ordinary. The tend towards a down-to-earth and...