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Our authors, freelance designers like you, share their extensive knowledge and experiences. You’ll learn how to get consistent work, manage your time, business and clients, and, most importantly, how to get paid better, and on time.

How to Create Compelling Content for Your Portfolio Site

How to Create Compelling Content for Your Portfolio Site

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Freelance Design

Crafting compelling portfolio content that showcases your skills and attracts the right clients.

Here Are the Biggest Mistakes Freelance Web Designers Make

Here Are the Biggest Mistakes Freelance Web Designers Make

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Freelance Design

Here are the biggest mistakes freelance web designers typically make. I’ve experienced them all. Read on to learn how to avoid them.

25+ Best Free Serif Fonts for Creatives

25+ Best Free Serif Fonts for Creatives

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Fonts

A collection of the best free serif fonts currently available. Typefaces that beautifully combine aesthetics, functionality, and readability.

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

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Freelance Design / Web Design

Including interesting side projects in your portfolio can help you make the leap from forgettable, all-purpose designer to an industry superstar.

Common Challenges in Website Redesign and How to Overcome Them

Common Challenges in Website Redesign and How to Overcome Them

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Freelance Design

Being a busy web designer is a little bit like being a parent. You’re so focused on taking care of everyone else’s needs that you may well neglect your own….

How to Stop Design Clients Making Too Many UX Decisions

How to Stop Design Clients Making Too Many UX Decisions

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Freelance Design / UX Design

Leaving UX decisions to non-designers could be disastrous. We explore some ways you can keep your clients at a safe distance from UX.

The Five Types of Projects NOT to Include in Your Portfolio

The Five Types of Projects NOT to Include in Your Portfolio

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Freelance Design

When it comes to designer portfolios, bigger is not necessarily better. While it’s tempting to list each and every project you’ve ever done, it may actually be counterproductive. That is,…

How to Work With Both Good & Bad Design Clients

How to Work With Both Good & Bad Design Clients

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Freelance Design / Web Design

We offer advice on how to determine which freelance design clients are good and which ones aren’t before you begin to work with them.

The Most Important Thing Your Clients Should Know About Their Website

The Most Important Thing Your Clients Should Know About Their Website

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Freelance Design

The designer-client relationship is so important. Our experience and knowledge of the industry is something that needs to be shared with those we work with.

It’s Relationship Building, Not Networking

It’s Relationship Building, Not Networking

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Freelance Design

Freelance designers need to perfect the art of building relationships rather than traditional networking. Surprisingly, it can be done.

12+ Best Free Invoice Templates for Freelance Designers & Developers

12+ Best Free Invoice Templates for Freelance Designers & Developers

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Freelance Design / Print Design

A beautiful collection of free invoice templates for designers and developers in Word, Excel, Photoshop, and InDesign formats.

Do Clients Need To Know How Their Website Works?

Do Clients Need To Know How Their Website Works?

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Freelance Design / Web Design
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