If you’ve been a freelance web designer / developer for a while or have been working for a company and think it’s time you moved out and started your own full-fledged business, we back your decision. You know how best you can use your skills, which projects you want to work on and how you can maximize your income. Assuming you’ve taken into consideration risks like unsteady income and difficult clients, here are 9 additional things…
Designers are very interesting professionals! You do what you love and love what you do. The projects that you take up and complete are top notch, but then when it comes down to the invoicing process, you might flip out. Anytime a money matter comes into the picture, it does make you go a little crazy inside. The competency of the invoicing process is integral in order to maintain a healthy and balanced cash flow and…
User Experience simply refers to a user’s interaction with your website. How can you deliver the best possible user experience? By making the flow as natural and intuitive as possible. A website has good UX if it’s easy to use and meets the needs of the user. For an e-commerce website, a great user experience is essential if you want your customer to: Make a purchase Return to your website Recommend it to others User…
Ctrl+F5 in association with .BIZ and .CO took place on 2nd July at Hyatt Regency in Mumbai & what an event it was! Not only was the turnout excellent but the insights, learnings and take away were especially meaningful. If you were at the event, you probably agree but if you weren’t, we’d still like to share with you all that happened. We opened registrations at 10am and by 11am, the hall was full for…
We know web designing and development can be hard work. We know what makes it a challenge is not just the nature of the work but the tight deadlines and client expectations. Managing multiple projects within the given time can increase your stress and affects the productivity of the team. Planning your time is an effective way of meeting deadlines. Planning is not just important for you to meet deadlines but important for clients who…
Social media is an inexpensive, great way to get you & your web design/ development service visibility to a large audience. While the big brands are ruling social media with huge budgets & expert advice, it may seem like there isn’t any more room. We assure you, there’s always space for more. Before we get into more detail on how you can use social media, let’s tell you how you can strategise by learning how to use…
Before I begin writing anything of significance, I have a little exercise for you. Just scroll through these fonts below & mentally make a note of two things: The tone it sets – is it casual or formal? The age group it could possible be targeted at – kids, young adults, adults? Ready. Set. Scroll. Notice how it took you less than 5 seconds to figure if the design was casual or formal, for kids…
While roping in the big clients is certainly not an easy job, I believe it’s still only half the job. The considerable other half of the job is the management bit – communication, deliverables and deadlines. Most people do not see Web Project Management as an important or necessary part of the web services business. But is it? In this blog post, we point out the three most important reasons why project management is not…
SiteWars in association with Donuts is an online worldwide web design contest set to take place on WDD – the community for Web Designers & Developers. How does this work? We have answers to all your questions below! What is SiteWars in association with Donuts? SiteWars in association with Donuts is an arena where the best minds in Web Design & Development from around the world can battle for the honor of becoming a champion…
Most of us love our jobs and what we do and often find it challenging yet fun but roping in our marquee clients is also critical to our business. You maybe fantastic at designing but if you can’t get in the big clients, your service doesn’t get the credit and work it deserves. Pitching to the big clients is quite an art. We’ve put together a couple of things you can do to bag the biggies! 1)…