Archive for the ‘Freelancing’ Category

Have a ‘working time’ symbol. When I first started freelancing and was reading all these articles and books about different ways of going about it, one thing that came up often was changing your clothes for work at home as you would for a day in the office. I tried this at first, but after [...]

There is life outside your apartment. Or house, or office. If you work from home as I do, it’s far too easy to become a hermit because you sleep, eat and work at home. This isn’t particularly healthy, especially as most of that time is sitting in front of a computer. Try and go outside [...]

First question! What are your tools of the trade? Photoshop? Illustrator? Fireworks? — Anonymous on formspring You were probably after just the name of some software, Anonymous, but I’m going to give you a long answer anyway. In terms of software, I use mostly the subscription edition of Adobe CS5 Design Premium. For doing design [...]