Monthly Archives: May 2011

Hiring A Freelancer Vs. Hiring A Company Web Designer

On my previous post, I listed down a few advantages and disadvantages between life as a freelance web designer or a company web designer.  I didn’t conclude it, because I feel there’s no right answer.  It highly depends on someone’s lifestyle preferences, economy, etc. I thought I would balance it with a list of pros [...]

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Earning A Living As A Freelancer Vs. Company Web Designer

I’ve been working as a web designer for a local company for 9 months now and I’ve been part-time freelancing since 2008 except for the brief time in early 2010 when it was my livelihood (possibly my most proudest moment to date).  So I have composed a ‘versus’ list which consists of the advantages and [...]

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10 Reasons Why You SHOULD Be On Facebook

I did a Google search on “reasons why you should be on Facebook” and I couldn’t find someone with a list of 10 reasons.  I did however, find “7 Reasons Why Web Designers Should Use Facebook Apps” and Four Reasons Why You Should Be On Facebook.  I did find several “top ten reasons why you [...]

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How To Create Custom-Shaped Pictures On Photoshop

Today I’m going to treat you guys to a short and simple Photoshop tutorial, and we’ll be using vector mask to create custom-shaped pictures.  I’m just going to pinch a few pictures on Flickr that are on the “Creative Commons-licensed content for commercial use, adaptation, modification or building upon” and we’ll be on our way. [...]

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Your New Website Has Been Completed…Your Job Is Not Done!

Once in a while I meet a client who literally panics when something goes wrong on their very new website, the immediate post-publish phase.  They tell me things like “business is slow because there must be a problem with the website”, etc. Several years ago while freelancing, I had a local client.  The situation I [...]

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Blogging Et Moi

I started blogging some time in the year 2004, on MSN Spaces.  I also had other small underdeveloped blogs on other subdomains.  I then moved to blogsource.com, which eventually shut down…and that led me to create my own personal blog on a second-level domain.  Note: Rawpinions is no longer mine…I dropped the domain name.  The [...]

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I Finally Got My Own Facebook Email!

Some time late last year around November 2010, some people were presented with their own Facebook email addresses (similar to their usernames).  If you didn’t have a username at the time, you could set up your email address and that would be your FB username also.

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