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We bill in 15 minute increments for everything, and we round up all billable work to the nearest time unit. This makes sense to the majority of my clients, because we focus on home health care marketing. Most of my clients, and many other healthcare providers, bill insurance in 15 minute time...

I'm sure many designers here offer hosting solutions for clients who don't want to mess with DNS settings or deal with control panels. What's a good host for designers looking to resell hosting and domain services. I'm thinking mostly of a shared hosting account type set up. Dedicated servers...

The newer versions of Dreamweaver support CSS very well. In fact the design view of CS4 and CS5 forces users into CSS at times when it is not the most efficient avenue. Dreamweaver is so flexible that it will give you fits if you don't learn the basics of html on notepad or Notepad++ first...

Freelancers pay 6.2% more in federal income taxes than employees. Keep that in mind when setting your rates.

The OP specified that he wanted an easy-to-learn software. Illustrator has horrible tutorials and a horrible learning curve. Even for formally trained designers who didn't buy every upgrade since Illustrator 10, the software is difficult to use. Illustrator, while the industry standard, is...

Ditto HelloWorld. Plus, you don't want them reading while you are trying to talk to them. You want them engaged with your design and with you personally.

What content management systems are you guys using? I've been telling clients that if they want to make changes themselves, they either need to learn HTML or pay extra for a DIY system. I warn them upfront that DIY systems are more limited than straight HTML, and I will be able to achieve...

Figuring out how to chop up your PSD, make it work in HTML, and maximize the amount of fast, readable HTML while minimizing the amount of images containing text is literally half the design work. No one will pick that up for free. In fact, I would charge $189 to create your HTML template for...

http://cliffordvocationalservices.com/test/FutureMedicalCostsMenu.html In this example, we drew the image in Photoshop and then created horizontal rules and vertical rules used to chop the image up. We simply centered the lines and inserted the images. Active areas of the image were loaded as...

Not enough meat there. Were you planning to juxtapose the company name with the logo? If so, doing that well may make the logo well. I'm wondering if that would look better if you made a burgandy square adjacent to a blue square and put the letters in there in white. Then playing with some...

That text alone would barely count as a logo. The skyline is more memorable. Nike makes for an interesting example, but we should keep in mind the comparison between Nike's marketing budget and the normal small business. Is the Nike logo iconic because it is so good or because it is so...

Could you spend all night working on perfecting a video production just because you obsess over getting as good as you can get it? If so video production is in your blood and worth sticking with. Web design is a highly competitive and fast changing field. Take a few classes in web design and...

That sounds about right. If you offer to set up third party hosting for them, make sure to only offer it from one of three hosts you like to work with. You can waste too much time working with some oddball host they choose or explaining to them why CityMax isn't really a website host...

I held my office back to XP for years, because I didn't want to get stuck upgrading all my peripherals or drivers at once. Lately, we've pretty much replaced all our peripherals just through the natural course of things, so we're moving toward Windows 7 one machine at a time. Windows 7 works...

Three times in my life I've ended up buying some Apple product because my wife or niece has specified wanting an Apple product. Of course, then they want me to set it up. After all these years, Apple still does not play nice with Windows (IMHO). The way they want to set up with your PC is...

At first, I thought the design was fine, but as I read more of the pages, I started feeling like the design was a little too plain. Especially on the pages that did not have color photos. A logo with a little design and a little color might do the trick. The functionality and general look of...

Once you get busy, insisting on payment upfront with a rather detailed service agreement is the only way to go. You can have all the contracts you want, but you will find that half the customers don't really read them, and plenty of people won't think twice about wasting your time. If you let...

Just saw Battle for Los Angeles. A little long in the beginning characterization stuff, but all-in-all a great adrenaline rush. Fun move showing a ton of respect to the armed forces especially the Marines.

Photoshop is great for creating your website images. The Save for Web and Devices feature of Photoshop let's you experiment with different file types and quality to preview not only how it will look but also the file size for each image. Don't use Photoshop to make your actual HTML. It...

Wonder Wheel In the article referenced in the original post, read the blue check marked instructions carefully, no skimming. The tool exists, but you see it all the time with your search results. It's not something special to which you need the address. I used to think that hits from...