Social networking and bookmarking tools have been growing since they hit the mainstream in 2005/2006. Nearly everybody uses Facebook, and those who don’t at least have an account. Webmasters are harnessing bookmarking technologies such as Digg.com which allow people to post links to their favourite...

Excuse me for the Battlestar Galactica pun, but to become a freelance webdesigner and enjoy some success you really have to act like a Cylon: prepare, plan and act. First of all: structure your workload for a happy life! You will find yourself buried if you don’t plan your work. Think about working in a...

I have been freelancing for a couple of years and between then and now, I’ve come across all sorts of people and done quite a lot of varied work over multiple sectors. The experience in both industry and life that I have gained has been absolutely invaluable and this has helped me develop into the person I...

If there’s something I really hate, is to capture screens and crop them to create thumbnails of web pages. However, thumbnails are an important decorating element, and for something like a web directory they are simply a must in 2009. There are many free website thumbnail generators around, with...