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It’s been a while since I’ve written about freelancing so I thought I’d better get back to it and to illustrate my point, I think it’s worth taking a look at the importance of maintaining a blog when you’re working on your own.
When you’re self employed/freelancing, it’s sometimes difficult to keep up with what’s going on in the wider world and maintaining a blog on your site is a useful means of interacting with a wider audience than just a simple portfolio of your work. It encourages you to research your subject matter for posts, broaden your knowledge base in a particular field and of course provides a few key SEO benefits for you including regularly updated and fresh content along with encouraging the growth of your site through more visitors and commenting and discussion on your posts.
With this in mind and with the fact I’ve finally got around to being a bit more organised with my RSS feeds that I read, here are 10 blogs run by freelance web designers that I enjoy reading and that show how a well run blog can add value to a portfolio.
10 Blogs written by freelance designers
- Dave Ellis – http://www.novolume.co.uk/blogged/
- Dave Woods – http://www.dave-woods.co.uk/
- Aaron Russell – http://www.aaronrussell.co.uk/feed/
- Chris Spooner – http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/
- Phil Thompson – http://www.imgiseverything.co.uk
- Luke Marsh – http://www.lukemarsh.co.uk/
- Lee Simpson – http://www.mrleesimpson.co.uk/blog/
- Anthony Brewitt – http://designbit.co.uk/
- Nathan Beck – http://www.redswish.co.uk/
- Tara – http://www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk/
I know there are lots of great blogs out there written by freelancers and feel free to add more to the comments below and I’ll be happy to update the list.
Hey James. Thanks for the shout man. Glad to see at least someone reads the blog!
Hi Lee,
no probs, it’s nice reading what fellow designers are up to
James.
Hi James – thanks for the link! It makes me realise that I really should be posting a little more often!
hehe .. I know the feeling, I spend so much time messing around with designs I often don’t get round to posting as much as I want to but I think there’s a lot to be said for less quantity more quality too!
Good list James (although my opinion is biased) there are some blogs on here that I’d not heard of before and I’m pleased to have found them.
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