How do you guys handle things when deadlines come and go and the website still isn’t finished? I have 4 unfinished projects and they are delayed for various (and valid, I might add) reasons. The reasons range from personal issues to family emergencies (only one has given the reason that he just hasn’t had time [...]

A few years ago I redesigned my step-son’s website, registered his domain name with a well known and (Here privately) recommended hosting company and everything ran like a charm. Until the twerp (My step-son that is,) defaulted on the yearly payments. They, reasonably so I thought, demanded back payment before releasing the hold on his [...]

As our client list grows, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to manage information and billing for clients. Does anyone have suggestions for portfolio management / billing management application? I have not had much luck in finding one, and have resorted to building a locally ran web app to track them.

I know this is on our minds a lot. Some are beginning to prepare for the worst and others are not feeling the sting at all. Stefan offers a good article and suggestions here: http://www.killersites.com/blog/2008/web-design-in-a-recession/ Here is another by Freelance Switch: http://cli.gs/EntWLZ

This time I want to dialogue about targets. Because of my entrepreneurial heart I think it makes sense to target the new small business. Secondly, I think homeschoolers who share my independent spirit, who want to market the curriculum they wrote or have an online bookstore. Which makes me also think about targeting self-publishers. I [...]

What do I want to dialogue about? Branding The name I have licensed with the state is Frontdoor Web Design. So, I have two web site designs, but no logo. One site I love the other I think is cleaner. I think my identity as a web designer called Frontdoor should come from the idea [...]

Hello, Is it possible to find somewhere that sells a pre-made website? I just want like 5 pages for Home, About Us, etc. No shopping cart or real advanced stuff. I’ve seen those pretty-looking templates you can buy from TemplateMonster and they would be perfect except it seems like you have to be a web [...]

I have read that you don’t want a site developed entirely in Flash because robots/crawlers can’t read it – use it sparingly – incorporate HTML so crawlers can crawl it and index you accordingly. This I understand and have steered clients away from Flash based sites and really promoted HTML based sites for the reasons [...]

Hi, I am new to the forum, but not to web design. Let me tell you a brief, hopefully not too boring background story. My purpose, is that I need desperately to dialogue about getting my business launched. But I have a lot jumbled in my brain, so I am going to make a couple [...]

[color=purple][font=courier new][size=3] Help me!!!!!!!!!! I am sooo totally need help in creating my web page for my final tomorrow. I am trying to figure out how to create a web page that has scrolling works. I am working on a web page dedicated to those who have perished in 9/11. If anyone can help me [...]