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Ten Tips for Coordinating Clients in a Corporate Environment

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.

Listen to your visitors

Yes, everyone makes mistakes, including (and more frequently than not), us. The key is to admit those mistakes in terms of your site (design, accessibility, etc), get them fixed, and improve upon them. Sitting back and taking a “I know everything” attitude certain isn’t the best way to go.

WLTC Essay Contest Results

Many of you probably heard of the Weblog Tools Collection’s recent Essay Contest that was started a while back. Our very own Ronald (Ronalfy) entered his article on “What Not to Blog About“, and while he did not win, his article was viewed the most times out of any of the entries (5000+ Views on [...]

Killing the Pattern Maker

As a designer, clients will request you do work to their specifications. Sometimes, their visions border things designs you’ve already made. So then what do you do?

Considering During Design

It seems like these days you encounter a new “some name here cheat sheet” on digg almost everyday. They all aim to help you with something, be it coding, designing, using some application – whatever. I figured it was about time Devlounge jumps aboard, but with one of our own – more of a checklist [...]

Choosing A Host

A strategy guide to choosing the right host. Don’t leave your site stranded.

Paying for Content: Worth It?

Is paying for content and forum members really worth it?