Posts by Arfa Mirza

In the digital world, there are icons which work as the signs and sentinels to guide visitors. It is years and years of using computers that has made computer users click on a tiny printer if they want to get a print out, a tiny disc sign to save the work, a tiny manila folder to open a document and other such things. These are the symbols created by geniuses to make it easier for the users to navigate. Like they say a picture is worth a thousand words, for this ease of navigation we can say that an icon designing is worth a thousand clicks.

We come across tons of portfolios of photographers every day while blogging about photography. Photographers concentrate on showing their skills in the photos most of the times and leave the job of Web Design for their portfolio to the web designers. Even then it is seen that a lot of interesting approaches when a photographer tries to bring out his portfolio.

We can use the word attraction for inspiration because just like you get attracted to something you like, you get inspired by something you like as well. Inspiration is a natural way to respond towards things which catches our attention or something which opens our minds to new ideas and perspectives that we had never thought of before. You get inspired from something which gives a new dimension to your thought and new ideas when you had decided that there is nothing more left to experiment with the particular subject. Inspiration in Web Designing broadens our view and helps us to improve our work.

It has always been said that everything has its pros and cons. This is in fact true because when it comes to freelancing, a lot of people fancy it as you are not answerable to anyone and being  your own boss is sometimes the best thing in the world. Freelancers do face a lot of problems and one big problem that they have to handle is pricing of the projects. There are a few designers who offer their services with package based pricing. However, most of the designers have to give clients a custom quote, depending on the project and its demands. Time duration for completing a project will always be different for each project hence; estimating time is a challenge for all designers. Apart from that, getting a client agreed on your quoted price is even a bigger challenge. Lets find out how to manage a client who challenges your Design Pricing.

When it comes to designing industry, with every passing day new technology is introduced hence, trends change rapidly. If you are website owner, it is time for you to change your web design practices following the new trends of 2012. Now, I am not saying that you should continue to follow the trends started in the first month of the year till the last year of the month. Designing trends will change every now and then but you should adapt the set pattern for the New Year.

It is quite difficult to find a good design education as the cost of getting one is more than what can be gained out of it. There are also no proper online design education opportunities which can be availed to cut down the costs. Moreover, not everyone is able to learn on their own if one does find a way to get online design knowledge. There are a lot of amateur designers around who never quite manage to make it big. So in order to not be one, you need to know how to get the best out of your design education.

This is what I thought until a little time back when I discovered that there is a kind of interruption that can be good instead of bad. Towards the end of this article, you will actually feel that all this is right and that it is nothing rocket science; purely common sense that the interruptions mentioned can actually have a good effect on creativity.

Setting up a freelance business requires a number of hefty processes which though are not quite that hard but requires effort. And finally you are done with all this and the business starts coming in. Either after quarter or half work, you get the payment from the client. And here comes another process, the process of managing the invoices. And this is the point where you need help again; how to go about managing the payments, how to be keen in getting everything right and where to go if anything goes wrong. And with our article today, we aim at providing you with the strategies that can help you get through it. So read through the article so take your web development or freelance design business to the next level.

It is a common knowledge of the marketing industry that advertising business is one of the most profitable and easy business. Many refer to the professional life of a designer luxurious and rewarding. In most of the cases, a designer can choose his own hours of work, choose the clients he wants to work with himself and has a sort of a rule over his profession and career that people from many other professions dream of and envy. Moreover, a designer has variety in his work and he can employ the best of his creativity in his work. There are some major advantages that a design agency job can offer.

A logo is the symbol of your company and is the way of providing an image of your business. Logo is a missed element of the business if the company doesn’t have one or the one they have is not good enough. A Corporate logo is important for branding purposes and as it is a graphical representation of the entire business. It becomes a single element that gives identity to the business and becomes manifestation of the company within the target market. A company without a logo can raise questions as to the business of the company and can diminish the company’s overall marketing strategy.

People in the design world have started considering that downfall of economy has also affected their successful survival, that their jobs are endangered and there is a less flow of work to come. These are the questions which can come to the mind of a designer at any point but there is another side to the picture.

It is one big challenge for a freelancer, and especially a new one, top find a paying clientele because clientele is what a business runs on. Although, it’s critical that you get clients for your business, there is also a fact that there are also loads of other freelances out there who are looking for clients as much as you are which makes finding work even more difficult. Although there are a lot of ways which you can adopt to find work like the freelance work websites like oDesk and Elance but the one sure shot way of bringing more work are the referrals, from past clients, and even from friends and family.