Comments on: How to become a Freelance Web Designer

By: david

david — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:59:28 +0000

I bought “How to Start a Home-based Web Design Business” yesterday, by a guy called Jim Smith. Its supposed to be good but it won’t contain UK-oriented legal/financial information – which is my main reason for wanting it – cos its written by an American.

I’ve checked the link u provided & will have a think about it, but I’ve a feeling it’ll be similar to the book I’ve just bought. ie:- lacking the main information I want out of it.

Cheers anyway dude.

By: Dave Woods

Dave Woods — Mon, 17 May 2010 09:13:47 +0000

Hi David, unfortunately that’s really something that I’ve picked up as I’ve gone along so I’m not sure of any resources for that side of things. This year though, as I’m now working from home fulltime I intend to get an accountant to take a look at my tax return as I believe there’s a whole load of things that you can claim for including part of your utility bills so am pretty sure I’ll save money by paying an accountant.

The only book that I can think that might help is this one:
http://freelancefolder.com/book/

I’ve not read it personally but have heard good things about it. Hope that helps?

By: david

david — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:20:31 +0000

all i need to know about is the financial, legal & business side of web design (like tax, IR35 & whatnot). all the other stuff – the skills, portfolio, etc – i’m ok on

do you know of anywhere that explains all this stuff for UK web designers? a book would be ideal (or preferably a handful of them)

[ better still would be a book that also includes tips on how to make websites pay for themselves using ad's, referrals, etc. though i understand if that's classed as a different subject ]

anyway, if u could give me any links or pointers i’d appreciate it

By: Dave Woods

Dave Woods — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:04:06 +0000

Hi Michael, personally I really like the SitePoint books and you’ll definitely find this one useful: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html2/

Also, a lot of what I learnt when I was first starting out I picked up online. Obviously there’s a lot of bad information out there too so you have to be careful but if you want a basic understanding of HTML/CSS then the following is a great place to start: http://htmldog.com/guides/

By: Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:40:24 +0000

Great article, makes it sound so easy! Are there any books I can pick up from the local library which will give me a basic understandgin of HTML, XHTML AND CSS. I think my real speciality is the layout and colour scheme of a design so maybe my ideal role would to be to create the Photoshop mockup? But as you said there’s nothing wrong with knowing a little bit of everything. Any suggestions for books?

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