Recommended Reading
- Looking towards more flexible web-based editorial design: Made by Many discusses how print design has influenced web design, including the limitations in template styles. They call for a more flexible approach to page layout that looks at each post on an individual basis to take full advantage of the medium.
- The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It: Michael Schwalbe shares with The 99 Percent how many of the strategies employed in competitive and recreational sports are applicable in business. Schwalbe encourages embracing risk and pushing outside comfort zones in order to improve both professionally and personally.
- How to Benefit From a Freelancer’s Mind-Set: This article from the Harvard Business blog looks at how thinking and working like a freelancer can benefit traditional employees, such as working for reasons other than money to having a high level of accountability and investing your reputation in every job you do.
Tools & Resources
- Freelance Feed: The Freelance Feed is a new endeavor from designer Grace Smith that features news and resources for freelancers via the website, Twitter, and RSS.
- 5 Essential Document Templates for Freelance Designers: Lee Munroe, a freelance designer, shares five documents (pricing models, emails, etc.) he prepared to streamline his work process. There are also excellent examples from other designers and studios.
- 15 Excellent Websites To Learn CSS: Interested in learning CSS? Web Design Fan has put together a list of 15 excellent websites to help you, whether you are a beginner or looking to improve your current skills.
- 10 short ‘n’ sweet tips on how to design for web: These tips from CSS Globe runs through some of the greatest issues with design for web, from the amount of time you have to engage your audience to how you can grab attention with design elements like call to action buttons.
Student Focus
- 21 Writing Prompts for Design Students: David Barringer has developed 21 writing prompts to help design teachers make writing more interesting for their students. What he came up with helps design students think about the uses of language, audience and authorial intention, and context.
- Why Should I Become A Designer?: Designer Niki Brown was contacted by a student who was considering design as a career and used Twitter to get the design community to weigh in with their advice, suggestions, and insights into what a career in design is like.
Inspiration
- 50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs: Magazine and newspaper styled web designs are content heavy. These websites are fantastic examples of designs that have taken the content parameters of pure text and made them visually appealing.
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