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I’ll be AFK or away from my keyboard starting tomorrow till probably Sunday. The family and I will be heading upwards to get away for awhile from the polluted air and for a short holiday. It’s considered a short holiday though most Westerners actually take a month long holiday on some beautiful island.

It’ll just be us and cooling air up in Genting Highlands. The other reason for heading up is to also dine in one of the finer restaurants to celebrate my eldest brother’s birthday. However, I’ll try not to leave everyone empty handed and shall recommend these few links while I’m away.

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It was the first time I’ve visited YourTotalSite.com and my first visit already became memorable one. Not only does it have articles I wish I could write, its articles help us help develop a better web.

One of the articles I’d like to bring to you is Capturing Design Inspiration. You know how we as designers need inspiration to trigger our creativity at times. Not counting the illumination process we have when we’re sitting on our humble thrones.

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When you are in the freelance business, you either meet with a lot of people or you converse on the phone or even exchange emails. By any of the methods mentioned, I’ve found out that intuition counts half the time when trying to figure out your client.

But I won’t start a rant and start listing clients I hate or despise (though it’ll be a good stress reliever). Instead, I’d like to talk about the good things or attitudes I’ve found in some of my more worthy clients.

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As long as I can remember, I started going online in 1995 and was pretty busy in my small lil Geocities space. Back then, Geocities was Geocities and not yet a part of the Yahoo! network.

Before website design and development began for me, everyone were happy with a website that had blinking or animated gaphics and colorful headers. Imagine a header with various colored letters in a header title own. Gosh! Thank goodness we’ve moved on..or haven’t we?

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Joshuaink forwarded that question to all his readers in a single entry. It was simple and straight forward to determine if everyone really understood both of these standards based language.

It was really interesting reading all the comments left on his entry, Is XHTML and CSS easy?

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A title such as this sound quite related to either Jakob Nielsen or Jeffrey Zeldman. Both people if I’m not mistaken has spoken about the above topic. The user experience used to broken up to only 3 main parts, which is the context, content and users.

It was made even into the ‘3 circles of information architecture’ that I found back from Semantic Studios. And to believe that this article was written by Peter Morville actually in 2004. Gosh, website design and development was taking a huge turn now.

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I’m really sorry for the lack of updates the past 2-3 days. It’s really beginning to become habit or a bad practice. However, just a quick update is that I’ve finally pulled my computer out of my box and it’s up and running.

I’ve got quite a number of works on hand at the moment. I also need to get in touch with a few clients regarding their projects. I need to remind them about pending projects or enquire the status of projects.

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That’s the rough amount you might have to pay for a designed and coded template. These aren’t my rates but one of the offers I found from the Sitepoint Contests forum thread.

I believe most of you who are reading this are already wondering, why would anyone pay for just a blog redesign? Well, other than being able to fund for it, some people actually recognize the difference when hiring a professional to help them out.

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One of the things a freelancer goes through constantly is the draught in projects. Like a harvest season, during the dry periods of the year there will be less than few projects. One of the worst pitfalls of being self-employed is the non-existence of financial security. So if you’re not prepared to be without cash or save for many rainy days, don’t be a freelancer.

One of the ways I’ve thought about helping myself gain projects is by emailing website owners I’ve visited. If I’m visiting a website and think of on-the-spot solutions for them to make it better, I’d email and ask if they’be interested.

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