Latest Requirements to Address SEO Problems

Some of the newest sophisticated requirements to address some SEOs complexities are listed below.

1.    Geotargeting - SEOs today need tools for geotargeting a Web site that help them overcome localization. Geotargeting refers to optimizing a site for local search so that it’s included in search results when users in a specific geographic location query its keywords. Localization is the norm now; you don’t even have to be signed in to Google to observe local search in action. If you query [drug rehab], for example, Google delivers local drug rehabilitation services within your geographic area. So if you’re trying to optimize a drug rehab Web site for a particular market area, how would you know whether the site is ranking in local searches without buying a plane ticket and going there yourself? You’d need a tool that lets you run a proxy search, so that no matter where you’re physically located, you can search as if you are in some other specified place. With a proxy search tool, you could be in California and run a search from Philadelphia, or even from another country like New Zealand or Peru. 

2.    Search engine choice - Google dominates the search market in the U.S., so SEOs typically focus their efforts on optimizing domestic Web sites for Google. But Google isn’t the only game in town. Especially when serving international clients, optimizing for the appropriate search engine, the one that’s most popular with the target audience, is critical. And there are literally hundreds of reputable search engines around the globe. Busy SEOs could use a way to switch from one engine to another efficiently, without having to navigate to separate URLs and open new tabs each time. 

3.    Browser/platform independence - Most of the plug-ins and other applications designed for search engine optimization are built for the Mozilla Firefox browser. But that creates an obstacle when you’re working with clients who only use Microsoft Internet Explorer. It’s difficult to show them your findings if they can’t see what you see. SEOs today need the flexibility of working in either Firefox or IE. For that matter, they need platform independence, too: the ideal tool should work just as well on a Macintosh computer as on a PC.

4.    Multi-language capability - Can your SEO tools produce reports in any language other than English? Probably not. But as Internet marketing becomes increasingly globalized, the need for multi-language support grows. Imagine using a tool that could present its interface in the language the user’s computer was set to by default. The language barrier would be gone, and anyone could use it. The ideal SEO tool would also output reports in multiple languages. You could run a report and view it in English while your client in Argentina viewed the same report in Spanish, and their business partner in Japan could be on the same phone call viewing it in Japanese.  

5.    On-page convenience - SEOs today are constantly juggling tasks. When they’re not tweaking Web pages directly, they’re running reports, viewing reports, building spreadsheets, reading RSS feeds, researching the latest developments, keeping up with social media buzz, posting tweets and comments, and more. One thing that helps their productivity is having their SEO tools and statistics at their fingertips while they work. As they run searches, it is helpful to see keyword statistics such as daily activity, demographics and cost per click right there, without leaving the search engine results page. Viewed results should present PageRank values, backlink counts, and other actionable data at a glance. As they move from Web page to Web page, site data should display in the browser, so they don’t have to go someplace else to find it.

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How to become a better Drupal developer in 5 steps

The purpose of this post is to provide a little bit of guidance to those Drupal developers who maybe are just beginning, or are at least still in the overwhelmed learning stages. The first thing I want to say, is that learning Drupal (at least for me) was not something that I considered to be easy. I was not at all accustomed to the idea of using hooks so it initially took me some time to learn how to develop for Drupal the right way. Let’s get started.

1. Resources are everything

Before undertaking any major journey, it is important that you have the right tools. You wouldn't try to fix a car without a set of wrenches, you wouldn't try to run a large company without advisors, and you definitely wouldn't take a canoe downstream without a paddle. The point is, you need to know what you are getting yourself into and prepare a little in advance if you want to make sure you don't spin yourselves in circles or drive yourself crazy trying to learn how to build Drupal Modules.

Here are some things that you should do before really diving in to Drupal development:

1. Make sure you have a development environment set up (LAMP/WAMP works nice, but there are other alternatives).
2. Create an account on Drupal.org
3. Determine if you want to start with Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 (this might depend on whether you are focusing on developing for existing sites, or building new sites).
4. Start looking through this - http://drupal.org/developing/modules
5. Bookmark http://api.drupal.org, you will probably need it

It is important that you also know where to go with questions. There are two places that I would recommend. The first is the #drupal or #drupal-support IRC channel (I am occasionally there as smthomas). This is probably the quickest way to get answers to your questions. However, I would recommend that you follow a few simple guidelines:

• Don't ask to ask a question, just ask
• Don't expect someone to be willing to discuss your questions for hours and then do it for you. Put in the research ahead of time and be willing to continue to do the work and research. We want to help, but not do things for you.
• Make sure to say thanks... A little thank you goes a long way
• After you become a Drupal ninja, make sure to pay it forward and help out others.

There may be more guidelines posted online somewhere but those are ones that I have heard/seen often. If you know anymore or have a link, feel free to drop it in the comments.

The other alternative for support would be the forums on Drupal.org. If you do post to the forums, make sure to follow up and let us know what solved your problem so others can benefit.

2. Finding the right balance

I find that good balance is important. I think it is a good idea to make sure you are comfortable building Drupal websites using core and contributed modules/themes from the Administration interface. This will ensure you can reuse existing modules as much as possible and don't have to rewrite the book every time you encounter a new problem. The process should almost always be to first search for an existing solution, and second to build your own. This will most likely save you the most time and make you as efficient as possible. This process also helps the quality of contributed modules get better over time.

Another important aspect to being a good developer is understanding a little about the theme layer and how theming works. This is especially important if you are building modules that themers will be using and designing websites for. This does not mean you need to be a theme designer yourself (I am far from a website designer), but it does mean you should understand the concepts. This will help you become a better overall Drupal developer.

3. Contrib is your friend

As mentioned before, use existing modules whenever possible. However, make sure to take that a step farther by actually looking through the contributed modules that you are using. This is one of the best and quickest ways to learn how to develop. Don't be afraid to modify the code of these contributed modules and see what happens on your development sites. If you can look through and understand some of what is going on with contributed modules, it will put you in a much better place to begin writing your own.

4. Drupal Core... Look but don't hack

One of the most important things you need to know when developing for Drupal is that you should not modify the core Drupal code. Drupal is designed to be very flexible and almost anything you need to do can be done through the use of module hooks or theme overrides. There are some very very very rare times when modifying the Drupal code is needed, but even then, there are usually alternatives (If you are just getting started with Drupal, you probably have not found one of those situations).

Just because you should not modify the core Drupal code, does not mean you should not look through some of it. Knowing how Drupal is structured and how certain pieces of functionality work is very important as you begin becoming a good Drupal developer. This may not be the place you start, but it is definitely something you want to consider doing as you gain more experience.

5. Get Involved

When you begin to refine your Drupal skills, you should consider contributing back. The easiest way is to help in the Drupal forums or IRC channels. You can also help with Drupal documentation or helping with developing/testing patches for contributed modules. By helping others you are not only giving back to people who are in the early stages of their learning, but you are also reinforcing your learning. I have learned a lot of things about Drupal just by helping others try to solve a problem.

Summing it up

Learning Drupal module development is a long, fun, never-ending journey that is definitely worth traveling. If you got this far, it's time to stop reading and start learning some Drupal.

Comments, suggestions, or questions? Leave a comment! If you are stuck on something and want some help, you can also use the contact form and I will see what I can do to help you out.

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How to Set Up the Color Management System in Photoshop Elements 9

In Photoshop Elements, when it comes to color, the challenge isn’t understanding color theory or definitions, but matching the RGB color on your computer monitor as closely as possible to your output. Output can be a printout from a color printer or a screen view on a Web page.

To match color between your monitor and your output, you need to first calibrate your monitor and then choose a color workspace profile.

When you don't need to color calibrate

If you’re interested in sharing photos only onscreen (that is, on Web pages, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and so on) and you plan to leave the printing to others, you don’t need to bother with color correction and going through a maze of steps to get the color perfected.

The only consideration you need to make is your overall monitor brightness. If your monitor displays images darker or lighter than other computers viewing your images, then you need to understand how to adjust your overall monitor brightness.

Calibrating your monitor in Photoshop Elements

Your monitor needs to be calibrated to adjust the gamma and brightness, correct any color tints or colorcasts, and generally get your monitor to display, as precisely as possible, accurate colors on your output.

You can choose among a few tools to adjust monitor brightness. These tools range from a low-cost hardware device that sells for less than $100 to expensive calibration equipment of $3,000 or more — or you can skip the hardware and use tools provided by Mac OS X or Windows.

Gamma is the brightness of midlevel tones in an image. In technical terms, it’s a parameter that describes the shape of the transfer function for one or more stages in an imaging pipeline.

You might consider making one valuable purchase for creating a monitor profile: a hardware profiling system. On the low end, some affordable devices go a long way in helping you adjust your monitor brightness and color balance, with prices ranging from $60 to $100 U.S.

The best way to find a device that works for you is to search the Internet to find hardware descriptions, dealers, and costs. You’ll find items such as the ColorVision Spyder2express and Pantone Huey Monitor Color Correction, to name just a few.

On LCD monitors, you need to adjust the hardware controls to bring your monitor into a match for overall brightness with your photo prints. Be certain to run many test prints and match your prints against your monitor view to make the two as similar as possible.

Choosing a color workspace

After you adjust your monitor color by using a hardware profiling system, your next step is to choose your color workspace. In Elements, you have a choice between two workspace colors: either sRGB or Adobe RGB (1998). You access your color workspace settings by choosing Edit→Color Settings.

The options you have in the Color Settings dialog box include:

No Color Management: This choice turns off all color management. Don’t choose this option for any work you do in Elements. When using No Color Management, you need to work with files that have color profiles embedded in the photos. Most likely you won’t use these types of photos.

Always Optimize Colors for Computer Screens: Selecting this option sets your workspace to sRGB. sRGB color is used quite often for viewing images on your monitor. But this workspace often results in the best choice for color printing, too. Many color printers can output all the colors you can see in the sRGB workspace. In addition, many photo services, such as the Kodak EasyShare services, prefer this workspace color.

Always Optimize for Printing: Selecting this option sets your color workspace to Adobe RGB (1998). The color in this workspace has more available colors than you can see on your monitor. If you choose this workspace, be certain that your printer is capable of using all the colors in this color space.

Allow Me to Choose: When you choose this option, Elements prompts you for a profile assignment when you open images that contain no profile. This setting is handy if you work back and forth between screen and print images.


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Pimp your web page titles in 6 easy steps

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Step 1: check the HTML code of your web pages

It's astonishing how many pages have more than one title tag in the code. If your pages have more than one title tag, they will confuse search engine robots. The tags might not be read at all or, even worse, search engines might interpret this as a spamming attempt.

You can check the HTML code of your web pages with the HTML validator in IBP.

Step 2: use your keywords in your web page titles

Use the most relevant keywords at the beginning of your web page titles. Many people only scan the beginning of the titles so make sure that the beginning of the title tag contains the right words.

Step 3: make the titles clear, predictable and irresistible

The readers of your web page titles should know what your web page is about and the title should lead to a page that meets the expectations of the searcher.

The web page title is the first thing that people see in the search results. Make sure that the wording of your web page titles is appealing, emotional and irresistible.

Step 4: keep the titles short

Although there is no official limit, you should keep the length of your web page titles below 70 characters. The reason for that is that most search engines truncate the titles after 65-70 characters on the search result pages.

Step 5: remove unnecessary words

Words such as "homepage", "Index" and your company name usually don't help your search engine rankings. Remove these words from the title tags of your web pages. Your title tags will become more relevant to the actual keywords then.

Step 6: use unique title tags

Don't use the same title tags on more than one page. Each page should have a unique title tag that reflects the content of the web page. In general, optimize different pages of your website for different keywords. The more pages of your website you optimize the better.

The title tags of your web pages are only one factor that influences the position of your web pages in Google's search results. Analyze your web pages with IBP's Top 10 Optimizer to get a detailed analysis of all factors that influence the position of your pages on Google.


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Drupal: Advantages and Disadvantages of Choosing Drupal as Your CMS Solution

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The name Drupal was adjusted from the Dutch word ‘druppel’, or water droplet, and was named accidentally by Dutch creator Dries Buytaert when he misspelled the Dutch word for village ‘dorp’ while checking a domain name. Upon further consideration Buytaert thought his misspelling of Drupal simply sounded better, and kept it—giving us the name Drupal. Since its initial inception as a message board Drupal has come a long way as the accidentalness stopped there.

Drupal has since developed into one of the most complex open-source content management systems (CMS) on the market and is represented by an array of top notch sites, including: The Economist, Examiner.com, The White House, Popular Science, Harvard, MIT, Ubuntu, Sony Music and more. Drupal now displays contents in 182 languages by over538,813 people in 228 countries.

For those of us new to CMS tools, Drupal is essentially WordPress—on a three-day speed binge. Drupal uses a very sophisticated programming interface that has a tough learning curve and is considered more of a developing platform than simple CMS tool.  The system has in-depth reporting generating tools for advanced admins. While no programming skills are technically required for basic use, the system is generally used by more advanced developers and administrators. Basic users usually go with the more basic CMS platform WordPress, although they can create basic sites simply using Drupal.

Beginners to advanced users gather virtually in Drupal communities, increasing their commitment to the system and their knowledge base.

While Drupal is a great CMS, for some it can be too much. Consider the advantages and disadvantages to using Drupal as your CMS:

Advantages:

All the Basic Features you need:

Drupal Core is their standard release of features, which includes: user account registration and maintenance, RSS-Feeds, menu management, system administration and page layout customization. These basic features can be used to create simple sites, single or multi user blogs, brochureware, forums, community websites and more.

Great Building Tools and Templates

Drupal offers you the basic building blocks of websites in a module-styled format where content and rules can be created quickly. Through the use of templates and themes there is no need to start from scratch—no matter if you are building a simple or complex site. Pre-defined configurations of site features help users build fairly complex sites rapidly, allowing them to use their time to build in extra features.

Flexible Yet Robust Content Creation

Drupal’s bread and butter is in its content creation. Drupal allows its users the flexibility to create and manage different content types including: video, polls, user management, text, blog, podcasts, real-time stats, and revision controls.

Advanced Administrator Controls

Administrators have the options of setting up new user accounts and user permissions. These permissions can be designated per role or group and offer fine-tooth comb-style, allowing users to help create your content for you. Drupal’s new release of version 7 allows for easier administration and greater controls. 

Create Your Own Dynamic Designs

While Drupal offers themes and templates that are easily recognizable to the public many users like to use its design tools to create their own dynamic designs. The system’s presentation layers allows for easily usable and interactive experiences.

Organize Content Easily

One of the difficult parts of many CMS tools is the ability organize your content for later use and recall. Drupal allows you to categorize your content through path urls, create custom lists, associate content and create defaults. This structure helps you to organize, structure, search, find and reuse content.

More Plugins than you can Shake a Stick at

Drupal has over 7,000 plugins and extensions available to boost your building capacities. As the program is open source you can both use plugins and create your own, adding to the abilities of the Drupal platform.  

Allow your Users to Collaborate with you

Drupal is commonly mistaken for a blogging platform due to its incredible ability to publish socially. Drupal-based sites engage users to contribute while giving the administrator the ability to create, view, publish, administer and otherwise control the social content published to the site.

Tools that make it Easy to Connect with your Audience

The most important part of a site is connecting it to users, other sites, social networks, and search engines-- and Drupal makes this simple. Through increased network integration, feeds, search engine optimization tools, aggregation and other connecting tools, Drupal helps connect you to your viewers.

Disadvantages:

Usability

Drupal is not the most user-friendly platform and it has a high learning curve. Platforms like WordPress and Joomla are significantly easier to use, although they don’t offer the power and options that Drupal does. The good news though is that the new release of Drupal 7 is addressing some of the usability concerns and should be an easier adaptation for newer administrators.

Backwards Compatibility

Drupal is a relatively new system and is not backwards compatible with other software so if you have other content, systems and programs in place that you have become accustomed to then Drupal might not be the system for you.

Performance

In terms of loading and scalability Drupal is one stroke behind that of WordPress. The slow loading is simply because of the breadth of tools and capabilities. If you have a slower computer, or are simply a microwave generation kid and need things to work quickly then consider a zippier platform. Advanced users have however found ways around its problematic performance indicators, but with the big learning curve this takes a significant amount of time.

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OpenERP 6.1 Adopts Social Features, Expands Outlook Support

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OpenERP has released a new version of its open source enterprise management software suite, which comprises 1,800 free applications for accounting, human resources, and other organization management needs. OpenERP 6.1 was in development for more than a year and introduces 85 new applications, including social features and a kanban view for organizing activities.

OpenERP has added new social features to facilitate collaboration. Users can share documents with anyone, even those who aren't OpenERP users, and specify read-only or read-write access to those documents.

OpenERP has also added the ability to embed any OpenERP content on an organization's Web site. This feature is useful for contact forms, so online entries are automatically entered into OpenERP. It also enables organizations to easily export statistics or graphs to their Web site.

Other new social features include improved e-mail integration, which has been unified into a single and improved e-mail subsystem, and according to OpenERP, is easier to use than the old e-mail capabilities of version 6.0. Also, the main business workflows now automatically send e-mail notification upon confirmation by default.

OpenERP is also touting its new kanban view, which is a visual board that enables users to view and manage their activities on a single interface using drag-and-drop.

New features in OpenERP 6.1 include:

• Significant performance enhancements as a result of the new Web client and architecture that can support multiple servers and multi-processing;
• Drag-and-drop kanban view to reorganize records such as tasks, opportunities, and recruitment while maintaining a global view;
• Customizable dashboards for each application;
• Reusable advanced filters;
• Dynamic Gantt charts; and
• New Outlook plugin that has been completely redeveloped from scratch using Microsoft .NET so it is now compatible with all versions of Outlook.
• OpenERP 6.1 is currently available for demo, online subscription, or download. Further information is available on the OpenERP site.

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Starting up a Software and Creative Hub Digital Outsourcing Boutique

Fred Tshidimba, managing director of Eastvantage shared his exciting ventures in Expat Travel and Lifestyle Magazine Philippines. Read on as he harbors the days when living offshore and having an international working experience were just part of his dreams. And let's witness how he motivates his fellow expats to dream further as he shared the story behind "Starting up a Software and Creative Hub Digital Outsourcing Boutique". 

"I came to the Philippines three years ago with my wife and kids. We had always dreamed of having an international working experience, discovering new horizons and living in another continent. 

Manila was expecting us with a new challenge for my wife, who started teaching at the British School Manila, and myself, freshly promoted housedad after 10 years working in marketing management at Coca-Cola and Nestle. I didn’t know exactly what to expect but I was ready to experience Asia." - Fred

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Why Social Sharing Buttons are Important

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If you know anything about online marketing and search engine optimization, you understand the importance of content. After all, without content, what is there to optimize and how do potential clients or customers learn anything about you? The content that you produce is what sets you apart from the rest in the online space, which is competitive no matter what industry you are in. One popular method of producing content is to create a business blog and update it regularly. Of course, your blog posts will only be worthwhile if people actually see them. One way to improve your content marketing efforts is to include social share buttons on every blog post. Here are 3 reasons why:

User Experience

Any web property that you operate should have user experience at the top of the priority list. It’s very likely that your target audience members can find the same, or very similar, service or product that you offer elsewhere. Don’t frustrate them with a poor layout or navigation. The same theory applies when it comes to your content. Any interaction with your brand should be easy. A website or blog visitor should never have to think too much because if they find themselves thinking too hard, you’ve lost them. A blog should be easy to navigate and include post categories and archives by date. Including social share buttons also makes it easy for them to share the content with their fans and followers. If these buttons aren’t included, it’s unlikely that someone is going to take the time to open up a new window, sign in to their account, and copy and paste the link. This doesn’t mean that they didn’t find your content “shareable”; it just means that they didn’t feel like spending that extra time to share it.

Improve Brand Visibility and Reach

The ultimate long term goal of any content is for it to rank organically in the search engines for targeted keywords. But this takes time. If you create quality content, don’t you want people to see it immediately? This is why it’s important to have a robust social media presence and a respectable amount of followers. A simple post or tweet will share your fresh new content with the people that care about your brand or industry the most. But you don’t want it to stop there. Hopefully, your content is good enough that they will want to share it with their own fans and followers, which will improve your brand exposure. Including social share buttons increases the likelihood that this will happen.

Social Signals

Social media is no longer just a brand building and communication tool. A social media presence, or lack thereof, now has search engine ranking implications. If a link is shared frequently in social media, the search engines determine that it is a valuable link, which can result in better search engine ranking position. Since including share buttons increases the likelihood of a blog post getting shared, it also increases the likelihood that it will improve your search engine optimization efforts. 

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Juggling Between Freelance Designer and Business Owner

The world of digital design is full of both young and experienced talent. Freelancing has slowly become a more affordable career path for many web designers and developers. But it’s not enough to just create pretty websites in HTML/CSS. You also need to have some sense in marketing a business!

There is a thin line between the responsibilities of a web designer and a freelancer. Some overlapping examples between the two jobs are design skills like Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and JavaScript. But you’ll also need to understand client relationships, basic time management, project organization, and a few other corporate-class ideas. It can be a tough, but I hope these tips will help you juggle the numerous tasks assigned into the freelancing world.

Never Overload Yourself

This is a big lesson which takes some practice before you can understand. Many young web designers are often eager to jump into the freelancing business and start earning money. Over time you pickup project after project, and soon you’ve got no time left for yourself. It’s a self-defeating cycle of endless stress.

You need to figure out what is realistic to accomplish in any given day/week/month. Each person’s schedule will be different depending on their obligations. But we can all find time for work, even just hours a day. So it’s only a matter of planning out a proper to-do list.

Manage what you can at first and slowly increase your workflow as time goes on. I started freelancing with 1-2 web projects per month and slowly moved up from there. This process gets easier as you meet more people and build credibility for your name. But you have to know when you’ve reached your limit and learn to say “no” – even when the additional work & money is tempting. It’s not worth the strain on your mental health and some clients will understand in waiting a few weeks for your services.

Practice New Skills

It’s important to prioritize your design skills first above all else. Working freelance is a privilege compared to the routine 9-5 lifestyle. As time pushes forward you may become complacent with such a schedule. But try to keep your passion for design in check and held at the utmost importance.

Each of us is coming into the web design field with a different skillset. Most beginners already understand HTML and even a small amount of CSS. It’s important to keep on practicing these languages even if you are well-versed.

The industry is always advancing, so there are likely new trends to pick up on. And if you grow tired of the easy stuff why not challenge yourself? Try to master a new skill such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, or even another language such as JavaScript. The HTML specs have also introduced new media elements such as native video/audio components.

Staying on top of your game will keep you ahead of the competition and surely improve the quality of your portfolio. It can become a distraction if you have too much work on your plate. So make sure between client work you take at least a few hours to brush up on some interesting topics. I prefer to spend a day or two researching into new ideas I’ve never studied before. This opens me up to a deeper understanding of web design which I can apply to future designs.

Work Out Steady Pricing

How much you charge on any given project will greatly reflect upon your experience. It’s crucial that you can pay bills at each month’s end! Managing your earnings can be an exhilarating process to some, much nicer than the cut-and-run weekly paycheck. You gain leverage and control over your financial life in areas many haven’t experienced before.

But don’t obsess over your prices and payment methods for too long. Clarify upfront with each client how much you’ll be getting paid and through which method. This pushes all the business talk out of the way so you can jump right into the design work. At the end of your day it may be wise to go over each contract again – possibly a 5-10 minute rundown on your current status.

Relationship Building

We all know how important networking can be in the business world. Ultimately it’s who you know that will help you succeed and make a name for yourself in the design industry. You must spend some time networking your brand and getting your portfolio links out there. E-mails, social networks, online forums, and job boards are just a few places you can start out.

You don’t want client work to become an annoying chore in your day. Keep a healthy relationship with all your contacts. If your work is good, they will most likely come back for any future design needs. And positive word-of-mouth references are always helpful towards gaining steady business in the future.

How people find your work will greatly impact their first impressions. Make sure you present yourself in a compassionate and professional manner. You’ll impress even the toughest clients and make a strong name for yourself.

Focus on Individual Tasks

The months may grow overwhelming as your work piles up. Don’t let your focus wane too much off course, or you’ll find it difficult to get anything done. I find it helpful to break up the day into segments of focus. You could start with design and web layouts for a few hours, then switch to coding, and finally end with e-mails and other paperwork.

This is just one loose example schedule, but you should feel out whatever works best. The ability to hold a solid focus for a few hours is crucial – even if you end up switching between different tasks over time. Ultimately you should be able to reflect on each day and feel at ease with the amount of work accomplished.

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