Posts Tagged ‘free’

I regularly give business consulting services to a wide variety of people – from veteran business owners to startupists or companies looking to ride the Ecommerce wave. When I meet with a client for a professional consultation, I make sure to sign a consultation agreement before I even schedule the meeting.

I know it sucks to sign a legal type of documents, especially when you’re just getting to know someone. But I’d recommend it in this particular case. It will protect you from late payments or arguments on the price of the consultation, or even not getting paid at all… It seems crazy but a lot of people are just plain dishonest.

The agreement also clearly states the terms and frame of the service you are going to provide. You’re not taking on any project just yet and you haven’t agreed on any specific price. Right now it’s just a consultation – and it’s important to have that in writing.

The agreement also includes a Credit Card Authorization Form. (more…)

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In the spirit of the holiday season, Magentist is doing a special prize giveaway contest! The people who provide the best high-end Magento templates on the web are now giving away free premium Magento templates, extensions, 50% discounts, and more!

This is great news for those looking for a new Magento template, but why would Magentist give away their products for free? The key is positive exposure. The contest requires participants to “tweet” about Magentist on their Twitter accounts, expanding Magentist’s consumer audience through the medium people trust most: their friends. (more…)

Every time I do my routine check on the traffic stats of our web design company’s website, I am amazed by the growing numbers of web designers, web developers, and web design companies who are consistently reading our blog and repeatedly visiting our website. So here is another post in our web design company resources series for all the web design professionals who are loyally following us! This time I am attaching a professional non-disclosure agreement template in a Microsoft Word format. Enjoy!

This non-disclosure agreement template is faithful to our philosophy when it comes to this type of document – it’s clear, concise, and simple. It’s written in plain English (as much as possible) instead of a complex legal jargon, and it will protect you and your clients. (more…)

Here is a great free Flash 3D image slider! Cu3er offers plenty of customization options that are very easy to implement – all you have to do is modify an XML file.

It’s a convenient and multifunction solution that can be applied in a range of website building areas, from content slider to feature slider and image & banner rotator. Consider using it when you want to grab the user’s attention. Here is a quick demo: (more…)

ajaxload.info is a great and useful website if you need to generate a simple loading gif that will fit with the design scheme of a website. It’s quick, simple, and just straight to the point. If you are looking for fancier loading animations, preloaders.net might be more appropriate.

Here are some free fonts I stumbled upon. It’s a list of more than 30 free fonts compiled by Vision Widget – some of them are pretty nice: (more…)

To all web designers and web design companies who are loyal followers of this web design blog, here is another post in our web design company resources series! Enjoy this free professional email template that I’ve been using for some time with great success.

For the past few years, I’ve been responsible for following up with potential clients who contact our web design company about their web design projects. Being one of the most demanded web design and web development companies out there, we are often flooded with inquiries, and I often end up not having the time to get back to every client. Over time we came up with the perfect email template to use in just that case! (more…)

Here is our new post in the web design company resources series where I’m giving out material that we use on a daily basis here to run our state-of-the-art web design company from our New York location! This time, I am attaching a great web design proposal template in a MS Word format!

To tell the truth, we don’t really submit proposals anymore as we try to minimize paperwork, specifications documents, scope documents, and other things that just make everyone waste time, talk in the air about things that can’t really be planned in a creative process such as features, goals, milestones etc.

Rather, we work with an iteration process which is much more efficient, powerful, real, and in general produces results rather than bullshit documents. So instead of spending a week discussing a specs document back and forth and finalizing a proposal for a website project, we spend 1 day drafting a few design concept for the landing page and take it from there. In a week of work, we’ll already have the main design approved for the beta launch, and most of the design concepts for the entire project. (more…)