DESIGN RESOURCES
FREELANCE RESOURCES
- Never Too Small to Manage
- In Search of the Small-Business Bible - scroll down to THE 25 BEST BUSINESS IDEAS FROM MORE SMALL-BUSINESS BOOKS THAN YOU'LL EVER WANT TO READ section if you are in a hurry for good info.
- Do-It-Yourself Job Creation
- Small Business Guide - Your Online Resource
- Sample Business Plans
- Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
- Comprehensive List of Resources for Independent Professionals
ADD http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2072 Drupal Webcast
Design Links
Designing for Clients - Made Easy
How to handle a client
with poor design judgement
Designer Responsibilities
Designer Pitfalls -
this list of previous problems may save you time and aggravation
FREE PHOTO SITES
Mogue File - http://www.morguefile.com/
Inertia Stock Exchange 003
Freefoto.com
stock.xchng
iStock
Photo
is a great source of quality images, which are cheap (not free). You purchase
25 credits for $10, and one credit gets you a web-quality royalty-free photo
(2 gets medium res, 3 gets hi-res). For web use it ends up being $0.40 per
photo.
AUDIO RESOURCES
The website http://www.friendlymusic.com sells licensed music to add to your non-commercial youtube videos for $1.99 each. Compared to commercial use royalty licensing, that is a steal. These are actual downloadable tracks, as opposed to using youtube audioswap (see http://www.youtube.com/audioswap_main) which replaces your entire soundtrack with a music track. From the Friendly Music website: What does "non-commercial purposes" mean? It means that if you are being paid to make your video, or are charging people to watch your video, or if you are getting revenue from advertising or other sources (other than UGC Network ad share revenue on the video portion of your production) when people watch your video then please contact us to upgrade to a commercial license. Phil
Design Basics Links
Non-Designers Web Design Book's Do's and Don't's
Unforgettable Web Design - A must read
for all designers
What people do
when they visit an informational Web site!
Color coordinating site
Menus with Beauty
and Brains - by Wendy Peck
Design
and Impressions
Web Page Design for Designers
Imagine.com
Web
Ugly
Before and After
Site Planning Principles Links
Site
planning basics: What you should know before you design
a site
This
Site, From Scratch
Web
Sense - Web site design doesn't start with "how
it looks," it starts with "how it works."
Creating
a High- Impact, Single Graphic Web Site
25
Steps Toward Reader- Friendly Web Sites
Success
Starts With Scenarios
Designing the User Interface Links
The
Basics of Navigation
Site
Design that works for users
25
Steps Toward Reader- Friendly Web Sites
Designing
Web Navigation
Designing
Site Navigation: Learning from good and bad examples
of navigation panel design
Being Creative
by Example: A survey of professional design sites
The
World of Color: What every designer should know
about the use of colors
Geometric
Primitives in Web Design: A treatise on the use,of
simple geometric forms in web graphics and page layout
Putting
It All Together: a Case Design Project
BIDS & CONTRACTS
- How to Charge
- Cough it Up
- Charge Your Clients More
- Contracts: The Prophylactics of the Business World