Often times designers spend so much time designing their site that they lose sight of having a plan for when it goes live. On The heels of the launch of my own portfolio site – www.goyettedesign.com, I decided to sit down and ask an expert for their advice and tips about launching a new website. That expert was Elliot Jay Stocks. Read more »

Chris Spooner, the guy behind Blog.SpoonGraphics and Line25 was kind enough to take the time to answer some questions for us this past weekend on the topic of Creativity and Inspiration. Chris is a self employed designer, who earns a fulltime living with a mix of blogging and the odd design project. On top of the 2 amazing blogs he runs, his design portfolio is quite impressive as well. So we wanted to know where he gets the inspiration for the amazing work he does. Here is what Chris had to say: Read more »

Chris Coyier is a web designer/blogger most prominently know for his awesome web design blog CSS-Tricks. Being a fairly new design blog ourselves we wanted to find out what it takes to run a successful one. So we decided who better to ask then Chris, as his blog CSS-Tricks serves over 1.5 Million page-views per month and is one of the most well known blogs on design out there. Read more »

Social networking can be one of the most important strategies for Freelancers to generate clients and new business leads. But I know that I can’t be alone with my reaction when I first heard about twitter back in 2007. I thought to myself “why in the world would anyone care what I am doing right now?” and vice versa. It may have been a shortsighted or close minded view but I thought it was a complete waste of time and I think a lot of people still carry that sentiment to this day. So can Twitter really help you as a designer? And How? Read more »

One of the questions we often hear is, “how can I become a Web designer?” The answer isn’t that simple. There are many different paths one can take to become a professional Web designer, each as different as the individuals themselves. Some have formal educations and some are self taught. A lot of designers just starting out may have the desire but are often overwhelmed by the vast array of knowledge for different programs and coding skills it requires to be successful. Read more »

Franz Jeitz, owner of Fudge Graphics, (an awesome source of freebies such as photoshop brushes, textures and vectors) was kind enough to assist us with out first ever investigation on how to break into a freelance design career. Franz is originally from Luxembourg, Europe, is 23 years old and  just graduated with a masters in physics. He has been living in london for  the past 4 years and has a great passion for live music and plays the guitar himself. On top of his Design career and a masters degree in physics he also played in a band in Luxembourg which is how he first got in contact with design (doing cd artwork, t-shirt graphics and myspace design). In a very short time Franz has built quite a name for himself within the design community and we thought he would be the perfect person to provide some tips for fellow designers. Read more »

Steven Snell is a web designer and blogger from New Jersey. He designs and blogs at Vandelay Design and he also runs another design blog, DesignM.ag. Steven has also done a lot of freelance writing for a number of blogs including Smashing Magazine, PSDTUTS, Web Designer Depot, Freelance Switch, Six Revisions, Noupe and others. Read more »