Elegant, exquisite, and extreme details on these sites that are sure to please. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!

Calling all designers! My time trying to figure out what the best contest for April would be has finally come to an end. I think this contest will be functional for everyone involved. You, the designer, get to have fun and show us your own vision of the next look for Devlounge. You also get [...]

Whether you’ve been put in charge of your corporate website, or you’re a freelancer who’s been hired on, designing a website for a corporation is never routine. There are turf wars, inner-departmental battles, upper management issues, and precedent that you must deal with.

When dealing with clients we constantly find our heads spinning with a barrage of different things – from “I hope they don’t say one of these” to identifying and dealing with task at hand, whether it be design, code, or both. We’ve always said that communication is essential for a good client-designer relationship, but what [...]

Working from home as a full-time freelance web developer I’ve encountered some absolutely stunning lines from clients and so have friends of mine. This is a small collection of those lines to watch out for if you choose to go into the field yourself.

I find people complain a lot about bad clients and how much they hate them (naturally). But instead of writing yet another one of those tired old posts that are so popular slating them and their inability to understand things that are ‘basic’ to us, I decided to flip the table and write about how good they are for us.

Managing multiple clients can be one of the most challenging topics, especially for designers just starting out. Even with my years of experience, I still find client management to be a tough issue to get a hold of. In the last of our Essentials series I’ll outline some of my own strategies for prioritizing clients [...]

Our newest author, Andrew Kelly, gets you to think out of the box in his first in a new weekly column. Don’t just reinvent tiny things, reinvent yourself.