20th August 2008

Link: The Ultimate List of Freelancing Resources via Joshua Clanton

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20th August 2008

Link: 11 Websites to Promote your Design News

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20th August 2008

Link: Top 5 Graphic Design Forums from You The Designer

  1. GDF: GDF is one of the oldest and biggest graphic design forums around with over 20k members. The community is very active, very large and consists of a a variety of general categories.
  2. HOWDesign: The HOWDesign forums are great for showcasing your work and getting constructive feedback from other designers. They also have a very active business and freelance section where you can ask questions and find a lot of useful tips.
  3. Estetica: Estetica is very popular, but tends to lean more towards chatting for enjoyment rather then for knowledge. Their off topics section is perfect for chatting with other designers about anything, but design. So if you are looking to chat with people who share common interests, than this is the graphic design forum for you.
  4. All Graphic Design: The All Graphic Design forums are very old and have an extremely active general design section where members chat about all kinds of design news and articles. They also have a great pre press section for designers looking for advice on printing and setting up files.
  5. Your Design Forums: Your Design Forums is You the Designer’s official Graphic Design Forum. YDF is one of the newer graphic design forums in the design community, but is growing quickly and has a very active core user base that is quick to respond to questions and other posts.

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20th August 2008

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Tool: Evernote

I use Evernote because I can clip things from the web with the very effective bookmarklet, shoot it into my notes without even having to open them, and sync up with the sexy Mac desktop app they provide. I was so impressed with this service I bought a subscription, though I was far from needing it. Give it a shot. It’s far superior to post it notes stuck to your office walls.

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20th August 2008

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Bookmark: Design Bump

A great Digg-like site for design news.

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20th August 2008

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Bookmark: A List Apart

Highlights include:

Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign

Walking the Line When You Work from Home

Saving the Spark: Developing Creative Ideas

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20th August 2008

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Bookmark: Design Shard

Highlights include:

Awesome Artistic Inspiration From Music Magazine Adverts

22 Online Web / Design Magazines

16 Interesting Ways to Browse Flickr Images

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20th August 2008

Link: 36 Font Resources You Should Have in Your Bookmarks

I personally only allow myself to download from these sites about once a month, as I can spend an entire day on dafont.com. I’m hovering around 2,000 fonts right now, but I try to keep under 100 active at a time. Addictions come in many, many forms.

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20th August 2008

Collection: New & Useful Mashable Articles

18 Tools to Turn Firefox 3 into a Communications Portal

Top 10 Online Note Taking Applications

40+ Topics for Corporate Bloggers

And this one is more fun than useful, but I couldn’t post this list without linking it:

PostSecret’s Frank Warren Live Q & A (Y! Live)

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20th August 2008

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Bookmark: Anywired

Highlights include:

A Practical Guide to Earning Six Figures: Reboot Your Career

Freelance Blogging for Side Income: My Top 10 Tips

Create an Automatic Flow of Work With a ‘Hire Me’ Page

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20th August 2008

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Tool: Mad Mimi

Mad Mimi is a dead simple way to create e-mail newsletters for your clients or customers.

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20th August 2008

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Bookmark: FreelanceSwitch

One of the highlights of my RSS reading, this site has a myriad of bright, funny authors with real know-how spanning the freelance spectrum.

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