George Carlin was the first stand up comedians I’ve seen live, and always something I shared with my Dad as an adult. We watched his TV show together, we went to see him live twice, and every year we exchanged at least one gift relating to his dark and obscene humor.
I read an awesome article this morning that really made me happy to be a freelancer:
A guide on how freelancers can compete against large design studios
Customer service is so absolutely important in the freelancing business. I’d rather lose time and money than have a single unhappy customer any day.
I recently had a client who told me he wanted all of his images “protected” from being downloaded. My answer was simple: “It’s not worth your time to persue that goal”. If someone who knows what he or she is doing wants an image, they’re going to get it by either examining your code, checking their cache or utilizing their print screen button.
It’s no mystery that reading & responding to user feedback is paramount in running a successful website. Visitors are the lifeblood of your website, and many of them are more then willing to communicate what they do and don’t like about your website to you. How do you go about setting up the mechanism for this communication? Specifically, do you use a contact form or offer an email link to your visitors? Let’s figure it out.
I wanted to see if a certain domain was available, so I fired up the Godaddy website I’ve used for years, and typed in LVWD.net. Alas is was available! I wrote the idea down and filed it away for when I had more time to research. That was on Tuesday. Today, Friday, I decided to actually purchase the domain name and no dice. Someone magically flew into my head, grabbed the idea, and went to town. Let’s see, who grabbed it:
