Why Freelancing is Awesome
I found out this morning (via a board I read via Twitter) that my colo is down. Luckily for me, my sysadmin was already aware of it, so any customer complaints I might get will be handled effectively. But of course, since the servers are down, I can't get my email or work on the sites, or even fully finish some articles for this site. So what did I do? I started browsing the Web, of course. :-) And the first thing I came upon was Why Freelancing is Awesome (Via Freelance Folder.) And I have to say I completely agree. Freelancing is awesome. Yes, there are some great facts about freelancing.
I think one of the things I like best about freelancing is that I can set my own hours. Yes, chances are you have today off, and here I am working. But chances are also good that when you go into your job, you work for 8-10 hours. A long day for me is around 5 hours. Plus, if I want to work at 11pm today and then 6am tomorrow, I can. (Trust me, you probably won't see me online at either of those times...) What do You Like Best About Freelancing?
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June Stats: What's Happening at Web Design @ About.com
Well, I forgot to do this yesterday. Oops. I hope those of you who were hoping for the monthly pagerank bump aren't disappointed that I'm late.
What Are People Commenting On?
Comments shot up again in June with 102 comments (not counting a few spam comments that got through).
The most commented on posts were:
- Poll: How Fast is Your Web Design Internet Connection
- Poll: Do You Use PDFs on Your Web Pages?
- Are You Still Determined to Write Flash Websites?
- A New Tool for Testing Browsers: BrowserLab from Adobe (including a comment from the BrowserLab Project Manager)
- Do You Include a Copyright Notice?
The most prolific commenters were:
Thanks for all the great comments!
If you're wondering why you're not on this list - I sort by email address, so if you enter different email addresses every time I won't know you're the same person. Also, I try to answer every comment personally, so if you posted a comment and I didn't reply, then I may not have seen it to rank it.
We Also Talked About
17 people provided feedback on which was better Dreamweaver, Drupal, or WordPress and 13 explained why they did or did not resell hosting. I haven't heard from many people about what weblog software they use or your favorite link checkers, favicons, and graphics editors.
In the Forums
There were 124 new posts to the Web Design forum in June, from 272 visitors. The most prolific posters included:
There were 79 new posts in the HTML/XML forum in June, from 132 visitors. The most prolific posters included:
- hemone
- jeemo
- YanKiwi
- GouriB
Thanks for your help and comments in the forums.
Did You Miss Some of These Articles?
Some of the more popular new articles in June included:
- HTML Examples
- Dreamweaver vs. Drupal vs. WordPress
- Best Practices for Using PDFs on Web Pages
- Positioning - Positioning Web Page Layouts - Learn CSS Positioning
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What would you think of human placed ads?
Poll: Which social media sites do you use to promote your Web pages?
Do you know how to complain effectively?
I would just like to comment about "congratulations you have just won our hourly prize" animated advert. I know it may not be flash but it is so annoying that even if I wanted to buy the product I would deliberately go elsewhere to buy it! I wouldn't be surprised if it caused an epileptic fit in those prone to such ailments. On a site that promotes good design why does about.com do it?Unfortunately, I can't print it in the location it was submitted (as it doesn't answer the question) and I can't do anything about the question either (because I don't control the design or the ads on this site).
Have you ever done that? In other words, have you felt frustrated by something and found the first text field you could find and entered your complaint there? As a Web designer and webmaster since 1995, I can tell you that many people do. Unfortunately, most of the time, entering a complaint like that will just get your message deleted. Some companies try to forward them on to the right places, but most are just too busy.
If you design forms for your websites you need to realize that more than just spammers will fill up your mailboxes with answers you can't use. Do you have techniques you use to get people to fill out forms so that they get the help they need?
Read more...Transparency - not just for corporations
Tips for designing mobile versions
Web Design Software Pick of the Week: W3C Validation Service

I just finished reviewing 9 different HTML validators, and my conclusion is that none of them are great. There are a lot of features that I wish that most validators have that most don't have. So it was hard to pick the best. The W3C validation service has the advantage of being a validator provided by the people who set the standard. Plus, it's free. It doesn't include features like checking links, spelling, or CSS, but you can use other tools on their site to do that as well. What I like best about this tool is that it checks your document against the DTD that you put in your document.
- Find out more about W3C Validation Service
- Learn my rankings for the other HTML validators
- What's your favorite HTML validator?
- See previous software picks of the week

