Got this question just recently via Facebook and decided to expand on my response for another installment of Ask A Freelancer. Question Liz, How did you decide to specialize in wordpress design, and do you charge your clients for any time you spend training them on it? WordPress isn’t something I decided to specialize in, [...]

For the past 3 weeks I have had a Formspring account and have been asking all sorts of anonymous questions that come into me about dealing with clients, marketing, blogging, etc. I have a backlog of questions in my inbox over there and just try to pop in and answer a few of them each [...]

Today I got an excited email from one of my recent clients when he saw that his Game Development Studio’s newly launched blog was featured at the Spyre Studios site among one of my other blog designs and 28 other killer creative works! This blog design was completed the week after my vacation as many [...]

It is day #7! Recorded this video this afternoon – trying to pump things up a bit today, I think the last couple videos have been slowing dowwwnnn.. SO – Today I talk about best practices when rushing a job. Honesty is always the best policy! Let your other clients know what is going on [...]

It’s day 2 of my RUSH project video diary. I put in a 12 hour day yesterday and had a minor disaster this morning when my alarm failed to go off. I read through yesterdays comments and talk about clients who drag their feet and the benefits of bare-bones WordPress theme templates. Check out this [...]

As you already know, if you follow me on Twitter — this weekend I attended the 1st Annual WordCamp Seattle. WordCamp was a day-long conference all about WordPress community, and a place for designers, developers, bloggers, all those in between. I took a lot of notes during the speakers I saw and brought home several [...]

Today I had the task of moving an existing WordPress Site from one hosts server to another. For a basic blog, this isn’t much of a big deal at all — but the particular site has a very large database, multiple plugins and a ton of customizations done to it that made the prospect of [...]

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Just found out today that I placed 5th place in the UGLY Website Contest. You can go over to Niki Brown’s blog to view the other winners. My 5th place design can be seen here – the best part of which is the “Cat Dance” page inspired by Hamster Dance (does anyone remember that site?) [...]

It feels like February has been really hectic, so hectic that I can’t even think of anything that actually happened — does that make sense to anyone else but me? I started up my store where you can get my HEX Color coffee mugs, plus other nerdy gifts and goodies. My business cards design was [...]