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Getting paid is the single most important thing that happens for a freelancer. If you didn’t want to be paid, you wouldn’t be a freelancer! To manage their finances, many freelancers use subscription-based web apps like Freshbooks or Harvest. This may be changing fairly soon, though. WordPress already offers a few invoicing solutions, the most [...]
When I started freelancing almost two years ago I knew absolutely nothing about WordPress. When the time came to put my design work online, I had no clue where it should go. For a while I organized files in an Elance portfolio, but that was a complicated and ugly mess, especially back then. After that [...]
In the course of your freelancing career you’ll run into plenty of people for every project you work on. It can be pretty hectic to keep everybody organized in your head so it’s highly recommended that you use some form of contact management system. For some of you that might be Outlook or Gmail or [...]
If you freelance, youʼre no doubt familiar with 37signalsʼ Basecamp. Since launching in 2004 it has become the standard for online project management, claiming a legion of notable users such as USA Today, National Geographic, Patagonia, Threadless and Kelloggʼs. Itʼs just as popular with small businesses, non-profits, independent web workers, and… me.
As a freelancer who makes [...]
A well-known tip in the blogosphere regarding WordPress is to remove the WordPress version from your meta-tags that are automatically generated by your WordPress blog. This information can be used by potential hackers to pinpoint which version of WordPress you are using, and can help them find an exploit to start hacking your website. Since [...]
