Archives
March 2012
- Lead Every Decision With User Experience
- Talk About Passion For Providing Value
- Welcoming New Users With a Custom WordPress Dashboard & Tour
February 2012
- Creating Within Constraints (in Music and in WordPress Themes) (huh??)
- Selectable Color Palettes in WordPress Themes
- Restaurant Engine (my latest thing)
January 2012
- How Steve Jobs Designed His Corporate Strategy
- Thanks to my Favorite Content Creators of the Past Year
December 2011
November 2011
August 2011
- Business Owners: We Want Your Feedback On Skipper
- People Don't Want to Use Software
- Great People Grow a Great Business, Not Vice Versa.
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
- App Design Philosophy
- Wireframing a Web App
- Tips for Launching a Successful Podcast
- Mapping Out The App
- Key Considerations in Mobile Site Design
- Revealing Plans For a New Team Building App
March 2011
- When it Aint Broke, Fix it
- Thoughts on Podcasting, 3 Shows In
- Embracing the "We"
- Building a Freelance Team: Crafting The Interview
February 2011
- Four Constants in the Ever-Changing Web Industry
- Apps That Stand The Test of Time
- Introducing The FreelanceJam Web Show
- On The Cusp of Something Big
January 2011
- Q&A on New Project Briefs
- Useful Links For Mobile Web Development
- Running a Home-Based Business With Lisa Kanarek of WorkingNaked.com
- Web Developer’s Guide to Getting a Startup Up and Running
- Sparrow Brings Awesome To Gmail
- New Mini-Site For Clean Slate
December 2010
- 2010/2011 Reflections and Goals
- Talking ExpressionEngine, Charging by the Hour, and More with Mike Hughes
- Take the WordPress Users Survey at WPCandy
November 2010
- HTML5 Semantics In Practice
- HTML5 For Web Designers: A Reference Guide For Non-Book Learners
- How To Launch a Co-Working Space In Your Community With Dave Yankowiak
- Yep. Another Redesign.
- Keep Your Sanity by Managing Client Expectations
October 2010
- Designing a 'Request a Quote' Form
- 2009 A List Apart Survey Findings
- Giveaway: WordPress Manual Plugin Lifetime License plus Review [video]
September 2010
- Client Types As Lebowski Characters
- Launchlist - Your one stop website checklist!
- Lost World's Fairs: A Beautiful Showcase of Open Font Support in IE9
- Arcade Fire and Google Put On a Spectacular Display of HTML5 Awesomeness
- The Freelancer/Agency Hybrid Model
- Designing Obama - Free PDF and iPad App Now Available!
August 2010
July 2010
- The Marketing Plan For WP Bids
- My Interview on Anywhereman [VIDEO]
- Launched! WP Bids, A WordPress App For Freelancers
- Having a Sale
June 2010
May 2010
- What Goes Into Your Proposals?
- My Philosophy On WordPress Theme Options
- Notes On This Redesign
- iPad Review, 1 Week In
- How I Won a Free iPad!
- Tracking Sales vs. Creating Sales
- Personal Blogging And Personal Branding Are One And The Same
April 2010
- New Publication Page
- App Review: Bidsketch, Web-Based Project Proposals
- Launching a Commercial WordPress Theme
- Secretly Awesome Custom Service
- The Importance of Stalking Your Peers
- WordPress Theme Development Process
- Scaling Your Business Can Work Both Ways
March 2010
- WordPress Theme Design Process
- Thoughts on ThemeJam, 2 Months in…
- Notes on the CasJam.com Redesign
- Keeping Cool Under Fire
- Rules for Managing Guest Bloggers
- Competition or Insecurity?
February 2010
- Widespread Instant Criticism
- Launch Now. It’s Good for You.
- Passion Plus Profit Can and Must Co-exist
- ThemeJam Has Arrived!
January 2010
- My Expectations for This New Venture
- New Rules For Your Blog
- WordPress Themes and the GPL License
- Sessions of Social Media and nothing else.
- The Entrepreneur’s State of Mind
- It’s on in 2010
December 2009
- Non-Work Goals for 2010
- 2009 Freelance Business Recap and Lessons Learned
- Turning Down Client Work
- Will You Pay For Your Own Product?
- Do Entrepreneurs Really Have a Choice?
- Rules for Successful Client-Freelancer Working Relationships
- Seeking Beta Testers!
- Officially mentioning ThemeJam (And what it is)
- Working Schedule of a (hustling) Freelancer
November 2009
- Macs are Cheaper. Yes, they are.
- The Proven Original vs. the New Competitor
- Sleeping on Global Warming is Bad Business
- Project Quoting Ups and Downs
- Less is More
- Redesign: Lifestream Blog Inspiration
- Changing the Game on so Many Levels
- See My New Workspace
- Does the Recession Benefit Freelancers?
October 2009
- Finding the Perfect App for That
- Battle Climate Change With… Change.
- 10 Reasons Why List Posts Are Useless
- The Secret to Finding & Keeping Clients
- Your Work Day in 5 Years
- Converting Clients to Customers
September 2009
- The Online Business Startup Checklist
- “The 4-Hour Workweek” Put to Action
- How Hard is That?
- Orchestrate Social Media
- FreshBooks: A+ Customer Satisfaction
- Email Marketing With a Purpose
August 2009
July 2009
- Work Overload and How to Deal
- Five Web Design Worst Practices
- What Makes a Perfect Business Partner?
- FreelanceSwitch.com: Where it all began
June 2009
- Multiple Blogs, Multiple Voices
- What’s Wrong With Apple’s Secrecy?
- The Social Web. Tap in or Stand Aside.
- Predicting the Future of My Web Design Business
- New Rule. No More New Skills.
- CSS Font Sizes Using Ems, Explained
- Keep Track of Blog Post Ideas with Zenbe Lists