As freelancers we often get caught up in how to find the best clients but once we have them, we don't consider that some clients may cost us more money than we earn from them. I have had clients who called me every 10 minutes when I was working on a design for them, asking, in effect, "are you done yet?" over and over. I have had clients who wanted to email me with ideas all day long, and if I didn't respond to them immediately they would complain that I wasn't taking them seriously. One memorable client wanted me to bill his company at a rate 75% lower than my normal rate. When I complained that that wasn't the rate I charged he said "oh, just submit hours so that you're paid the right amount." In other words, he wanted me to lie on my time sheet so that the company was paying me a lower hourly rate, but I was billing for more time than I actually worked. All of these clients I eventually fired, some more quickly than others. Why? Because by firing those clients I freed up more time in my schedule to work with clients that were cost effective.

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Once you know the basics of typography, you will want to apply them to your Web pages. There are a number of CSS properties you can use to affect your typography.

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Typography is more than just choosing what font you should use, you need to know about the spacing around your text and letters as well as how the type will be placed on the page. And there is a lot of jargon surrounding typography. So before you can really learn to adjust your Web typography, you should know the technical terms and jargon.

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