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Why 99designs sucks

Zach Hornsby — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:12:35 +0000

Everyone knows my feelings about crowd-sourcing services like 99designs (founder Mark Harbottle). They promote a system that ruins the client impression with an idea that it is simply a matter of spending an hour tossing pixels at a digital…

5 red flags that can signify a bad client

Ashley Cooper — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:49:42 +0000

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…

7 methods of inspiration to fuel your creativity

Ashley Cooper — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:44:34 +0000

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…

Spring cleaning the blogosphere

Zach Hornsby — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:05:52 +0000

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…

Principles of good blog design

Zach Hornsby — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:51:47 +0000

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 you will…

Founder Mark Harbottle of 99designs issues an image takedown notice

Zach Hornsby — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:15:51 +0000

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

Instead…

99designs is effectively ruining client, designer relations

Zach Hornsby — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:30:25 +0000

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

35 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

Zach Hornsby — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:57:13 +0000

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…