Many of us have experienced bad clients while working as designers or developers; deadbeat clients that won’t pay up, clients that seem to vanish completely, and clients that are just flat out rude. I’ve written a list of 5 red flags to keep a…

As someone who writes a lot, I suffer from writer’s block from time to time, and we all know what that means. It’s when you’re lost for creative words. Or at least, that is one form of writer’s block. But for those of you that design a lot, I’m sure…

It’s spring. That means that the flowers are blooming and your house is overstuffed with neat gadgets and other trinkets you picked up over the past year. After you have managed to tackle the clutter inside your home then you must tackle the c…

You will find more blogs on the Internet than traditional websites today. Blogs are all about pulling attention toward content and providing hubs for all kinds of information. As you browse through the seemingly endless amount of blogs yo…

It was not long after @designerdepot tweeted my article that Mark Harbottle responded. “Zach. It’s ironic that you speak of image theft. Where did you get the image of the 99designs team from?” – Mark Harbottle I find it…

It works off a term known in the industry as spec work. Spec work means any work done is on a speculative basis. In other words, requested work that has not had a reasonable fee agreed on before the work begins. Spec work has the chance to result i…

This article is an ever-changing list of some common, controversial, and often forgotten mistakes that are made in web development. Most of them will apply to any website or blog, but please keep it mind that there will be cases where these w…

When looking for services, I like to stick to local businesses if possible. So I was shocked when searching for local design companies and found a common trend amongst the majority of them. The trend being they have no idea what they’re doing…