The Return of Table-Based Layout (Well, Sort Of)

This is a guest article written by Bogdan Pop, a young Romanian entrepreneur who runs WebRaptor. He loves web programming and design and has a passion for standards and SEO. He relaxes by taking photos every once in a while and by mixing french electronic music.

Please note that this article is targeted at those of us who are more code-centric and well versed in xHTML/CSS.

How to build “table based” layouts with CSS Level 2

No quirks or tricks and it’s all standard compliant. Developers need free time, and now they can have it.

How many of you have lost countless hours while developing the perfect layout for your websites? How many have lost in fact money because of the extra time needed to complete a job! How many of you “have gone crazy” because of Internet Explorer and it’s incompatibility with standards based markup. Well, all of you need to have a quick break and celebrate. All those days will soon be over.

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Poll Results: What is the best Open Source CMS (Content Management System)?

We ran a poll which started about a week ago where the question was: ‘What is the best Open Source CMS (Content Management System)?’. The aim of the poll was to find out the public’s opinion on Content Management Systems, and find out which one out of the choices they found was the best out of all. The results, I have to say were pretty conclusive. Read more

How To Make Your Portfolio Better And Get More Clients: Part 1

Your online portfolio is one of the main windows for which potential clients can view ‘you’ as a whole. I deliberately said ‘you’ and not your work. This is because a portfolio isn’t just to show your skills at writing, designing, coding, or whatever else you may be freelancing in. It also represents your personality, interests and style. That is why it is very important to make sure your portfolio is PERFECT (and I mean that to its full extent). Want to know how to do that? Well, here’s how.

Note: This article comes in two parts, the second part will be posted in the future.

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Time Management And Efficiency – The Key To A Successful Freelancing Career

Time management is one of those topics many people looking to go into freelancing fail to address and think about when making that ever so crucial decision on whether to go into freelancing or not; yet the topic itself is of utmost importance. The freelancing work style has no boundaries, no set times, no periods, no start times and no end times. There is no set structure. You may think to yourself that that’s a pretty easy problem to solve: just create your own structure if need be, but let me tell you know, sticking to that structure will be ever so difficult.
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20 Blogs You Need To Add To Your RSS Reader!

Along with FreelancerMagazine’s RSS feed, here’s the great list of 20 Blogs You Need to Add to Your RSS Reader!

Freelancer-Related

• Freelancer Magazine (RSS)
• FreelanceSwitch (RSS)
• FreelanceFolder (RSS)
• WakeUpLater (RSS)
• Sentences (RSS)

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3 Ways To Structure And Keep To Your Deadlines

I mentioned in my last post that I was experiencing some kind of procrastination problem; a very weird problem indeed. I realized though that one way to get on top of your work and never miss a deadline is simple, I call it ‘Shadow Deadlines’ (more on them later). I also realized that there are small steps you can take in order to increase your chances of hitting your deadline drastically, and keeping yourself moving in terms of working toward that deadline… Read more

Ultra-Procrastination: Avoid at ALL costs!

I’ve recently become a victim of what I call ‘ultra-procrastination’ this is where you procrastinate so much so that the task which you needed to complete has totally lost track of its deadline. I have no idea how I got myself into this, but it’s a very mind-boggling situation that I urge all of you to stay away from. A little procrastination never hurt anyone (I think…), but don’t get yourself stuck in this cycle where you just procrastinate all day long. Here are a few ways of beating procrastination, ‘upping’ your productiveness and improving your general workflow.

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