Yearly archives: 2011

A new direction in typography

Even though I only redesigned this website a few months ago, something hasn’t felt right ever since… the choice of typeface. So I decided to finally do something about it

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Writing more information for new clients

Last week, after moaning about the deluge of emails I get from unqualified leads I decided to do something about it. So I’ve beefed up a section of my site with details for about web design for small business clients.

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A guide to recognising tyre kickers

This website does very well for the search term, ‘freelance web designer manchester’. This means I get more than my fair share of emails from people requesting quotes for projects whereby the people requesting the quote have never commissioned a website before and don’t know how much it should cost or what’s involved.

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Thoughts on unpaid internships

On Friday, I saw a job advert from a local web design agency that made me quite annoyed.

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The cost of conference attendance

Last week I attended the New Adventures conference in Nottingham, as every man and his dog has blogged about their experiences already, I thought I’d do something a bit different and detail how much it cost for me to attend. After all, a lot of people don’t go to these events due to the cost.

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Making email newsletters more human

Every few months I receive an email newsletter from visitscotland.com, nothing unusual about that except that the email is always addressed from ‘Rebecca at VisitScotland’.

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