Category Archives: Opinion

Dress For Success – What To Wear To Your Client Meeting

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You’re a freelance creative. You’re lucky enough to work from home, or out of your own office. You can spend the day working in your underwear if you so desire. At the very least you’re pretty free to choose your […]

Web Design Is Incestuous, Boring And Generic

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Most of the many millions of websites that exist are terrible. A large proportion of the rest are merely competent. It’s rare to find something that genuinely pushes the boundaries. It’s amazing how such a young artistic discipline as web […]

How Many Blind, Deaf, Cripples Visit Your Website?

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Websites have to be accessible. You need to follow the WCAG guidelines, make sure that any user can fully access your site, through a screen reader and a Braille keyboard. People who are unable to use a mouse with precision […]

Wooh! Another Lazy List Of “Great” Websites

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Web designers are all about self congratulation. We talk about our work, we tell others how awesome they are. We link to work that we think is awesome…

…no, wait. We *should* link to work that we think is awesome. […]

Haystack – Forcing Freelancers To Pigeonhole Themselves?

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There was a lot of excitement last week about the release of 37Signals new Haystack website. It’s touted as an effective advertising tool for web design agencies and freelancers, and an easy way for a client to find a good […]