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It’s always going to be difficult when you work for yourself as a freelancer to get traffic to your site and of course generate leads and enquiries for your services as a result.

If you’ve not already thought about doing so, you really should be looking at design galleries as a means of getting more visitors to your site and what to do with them once they’ve come to see what you’ve designed.

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This is something I’ve been thinking about for a little while now. It appears the entire developed world is heading into financial meltdown and businesses (and individuals) are preparing for the worst.

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It’s all too easy to waste a lot of time re-writing css and xhtml for each new project and I’ve certainly done so on a number of occasions but there are definitely times when you can re-use code each time to get you started.

Not that I’m saying that you should give every client a pre-built template, far from it.

What I’ve found, and I’m sure many designers/developers are the same, is that there are always common elements you’re going to use in a project CSS file. Having a solid set of basic rules is not a new idea or something that nobody else has written about and I’d imagine many people already have a few bits of code available that saves them time.

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I’m a worrier. I’m the first to admit that I worry not only when I’ve got no work on but I also worry when I’ve got too much. It’s a fine line being a freelancer and the worrying is always going to be a part of the job.

One of the things I worry about which I’m sure most freelancers and self employed workers in any industry worry about is what they’re going to do when their current job is finished and there’s nothing to immediately do afterwards and you’ve got to repeat the cycle of finding and securing more work to keep the bank balance healthy.
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