How do you guys handle things when deadlines come and go and the website still isn't finished? I have 4 unfinished projects and they are delayed for various (and valid, I might add) reasons. The reasons range from personal issues to family emergencies (only one has given the reason that he just hasn't had time to gather the material for me). I totally get that things happen and sometimes ...

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Hi, Given the recent crash in the credit markets, I was wondering what freelance web designers are seeing? Are the jobs still coming in? Stefan

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A List Apart (ALA) has a [url=http://www.alistapart.com/articles/workfromhomesurvey]series of articles[/url] starting on the art of working from home, the first one is a good read and I figured we could use a thread on the subject, I will update as I find things or people suggest articles or ways. ------------------------------------------- ...

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Are there any tried and true ways (free or very inexpensive) to get traffic to your site? I've done 'free web site submits' but wonder if that really helps any. [:D]

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So I know many of us have had to go through the motions of dealing with designing business cards... For our selves, our clients, and possibly for any number of other reasons... I always find myself struggling to make sure I am utilizing the best amount of space, being careful of the "bleeds" at the edges, etc. My real trauma comes from knowing what is best for online fonts but ...

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Hello everyone, I am very excited because I just received my registration documents and I finally have my WOE!!! I?m just a bit confused with some taxes issues. I don?t know if I should pay income tax in January, which is when the fiscal year starts or in October 2009, which is when my company is 1 year old. Please help me figure this out, thanks!

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Hello, Is it possible to find somewhere that sells a pre-made website? I just want like 5 pages for Home, About Us, etc. No shopping cart or real advanced stuff. I've seen those pretty-looking templates you can buy from TemplateMonster and they would be perfect except it seems like you have to be a web designer to implement them. You still have to know how to install and edit it, plus figure out ...

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A few years ago I redesigned my step-son's website, registered his domain name with a well known and (Here privately) recommended hosting company and everything ran like a charm. Until the twerp (My step-son that is,) defaulted on the yearly payments. They, reasonably so I thought, demanded back payment before releasing the hold on his site. The twerp decided to go with a new host and asked ...

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HI all i am new here. I have just had a website designed and paid for it but one problem the guy that has done this for me has done a runner with my money and the website. It is registered in my name and i was wondering is there anyway i can get this back from him whether it by way of hacking by the way where he registered the name with. Could somebody give me a couple of pointers ...

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As our client list grows, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to manage information and billing for clients. Does anyone have suggestions for portfolio management / billing management application? I have not had much luck in finding one, and have resorted to building a locally ran web app to track them.

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What do I want to dialogue about? Branding The name I have licensed with the state is Frontdoor Web Design. So, I have two web site designs, but no logo. One site I love the other I think is cleaner. I think my identity as a web designer called Frontdoor should come from the idea of a guest or client coming to your front door and welcoming him/her into your world. So, on my ...

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This time I want to dialogue about targets. Because of my entrepreneurial heart I think it makes sense to target the new small business. Secondly, I think homeschoolers who share my independent spirit, who want to market the curriculum they wrote or have an online bookstore. Which makes me also think about targeting self-publishers. I have done the work of using key words in my ...

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Hi, I am new to the forum, but not to web design. Let me tell you a brief, hopefully not too boring background story. My purpose, is that I need desperately to dialogue about getting my business launched. But I have a lot jumbled in my brain, so I am going to make a couple of posts. This one is a description of my journey. It has been a 10 year journey. In '98 my son who was weened on DOS ...

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I know this is on our minds a lot. Some are beginning to prepare for the worst and others are not feeling the sting at all. Stefan offers a good article and suggestions here: http://www.killersites.com/blog/2008/web-design-in-a-recession/ Here is another by Freelance Switch: http://cli.gs/EntWLZ

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I have read that you don't want a site developed entirely in Flash because robots/crawlers can't read it - use it sparingly - incorporate HTML so crawlers can crawl it and index you accordingly. This I understand and have steered clients away from Flash based sites and really promoted HTML based sites for the reasons stated. Now I am viewing the source of higher ranking sites - found using ...

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