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• Five advantages of coworking for freelancers

  11 January 2010 by Clive Walker

  Last year I tried out coworking at Lewes Werks on a couple of occasions and, even though I did not do this as often as I would have liked, I plan to do more of this in 2010. I have been thinking about this for a few days so I thought I would write down a few of the advantages of coworking (as I see it, from a newbie’s perspective).

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• CSS links for light reading

  08 January 2010 by Clive Walker

  A few goodies from my CSS reading list. Some CSS links from around the web

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• Create your own iPhone app quickly and easily

  04 January 2010 by Clive Walker

  The growth of the iPhone app store and market has been phenomenal in recent years. Many websites and blogs have developed their own iPhone applications as a way of promoting their brand.

• Website inspiration: Colour and coffee

  28 December 2009 by Clive Walker

  I collect website screen shots in a Flickr set called Website Inspiration. I use the screen shots to remind myself of some fantastic website designs that I see on my travels round the web. Each design has aspects that I love, for example the colour scheme, the typography, or even one specific element that I think works really well. I have never really featured the websites or screen shots on this blog in any detail so this is the first of what I hope will be a series of regular posts that highlights some outstanding website designs. Up this week are Rainbeau Mars and Art in My Coffee

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• Advanced CSS we CAN use today

  20 December 2009 by Clive Walker

  There have been several articles recently that describe advanced CSS methods, usually part of the CSS3 specification (CSS3 Info), and how these push the boundaries of what we can do with CSS. There are some great examples.

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• Plans for this blog in 2010?

  14 December 2009 by Clive Walker

  I have been thinking about what I might do with this blog next year because I want to do something that would be (for me) a bit different. I have been wanting to redesign for a while and here's an idea that I am considering.

• Advent calendar websites for web developers

  07 December 2009 by Clive Walker

  This is the time of year when online advent ‘calendars’ spring to life. As a web designer/developer, I don’t mean those nice pictorial calendars that we give to children but instead websites that publish an article a day for the first 24 days of December. Here are three that are aimed at geeks, developers, or web designers.

• Attribute selectors for image styles

  03 December 2009 by Clive Walker

  I have been reading several articles recently, and reminding myself, about attribute selectors. In case you’re wondering, attribute selectors in your style sheet allow you to style an element based on an attribute and value. This means that you can set-up style rules without the need to add class names to your (X)HTML. Cool! For example, you could style all external links by using a selector that targets the href attribute and matches any href value beginning with “http”.

• Advice for web design freelancers about prices

  26 November 2009 by Clive Walker

  As a freelance web designer/developer, deciding on your pricing structure is pretty important. Get this right and your business has a much better chance of survival… and you might even be able to go on holiday now and again! I think it’s important to review your business regularly and pricing is one part of that. Here are a few tips about pricing from my own experience as a freelancer in the UK.

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• How to write better website copy

  12 November 2009 by Clive Walker

  Would you like your website to perform better? Do you want people to buy more of your product from it? or attract a higher number of sales leads?

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