Quite a good class and the students enjoyed the sites you chose.

I came across your website for the first time today and am very impressed with all you have done. All your websites, illustrations, and applications look amazing. I recently graduated from college and am trying to get my foot in the door as a web designer. I potentially would love to do freelance, but I don’t feel I have enough experience. Do you have any advice for a starting web designer? How did you get started and get clients? What languages/skills did you need to learn to become a good designer? I know HTML and CSS, and next I want to learn.

Any suggestions or advice you have would be appreciated. I hope you are having a great new year and succeeding with reaching your goals.

Watchy sounds good. Just this week we have been dealing with a dispute over time invoiced on an hourly basis with a client. If we could let them see the hours tot up themselves, it wouldn’t just help prevent disputes at the end, it’d hopefully encourage them to work better and more efficiently with us so the work doesn’t take so long (and so they’d save money).

Briefy might be useful for me too. I looked into using one of those online questionnaire builders to provide to clients for giving me their brief but I can’t remember why I didn’t follow through, apart from that I probably ran out of time. I’m curious to know why you went the route of building your own instead of using something like that, or just creating a straight up custom online form? Perhaps you’ll answer this in a blog post later.

I’m curious about Capra (the Watchy credit). Very nicely designed little site. I presumed that must be you because of the goat reference, but it seems to be talking about a collaborative team. If I were a prospective client I’d be wanting to know WHO you are, this expert team of people – what are your names and backgrounds.

Well done Kat, you have an impressive set of projects there for the end of your 1st year freelancing. And you’ve still been blogging! I’ve barely been reading any blogs this last few months let alone writing any, but I need to get back in touch. I was using Feedly as my Firefox homepage so at least I’d have a brief glance at my RSS feeds but while I was moving around over the summer (both physically around the world, but also virtually across different computers and browsers) I got out of the habit. So I’ve just installed a new version of Feedly on my main (now Chrome) browser now and have been happily rewarded with your exciting news. And look, I’m commenting. That’s almost blogging!