Posts Tagged ‘free’

I recently reviewed some web analytics on the volume of traffic that we get on our web design company website, and I saw that a recent blog post generated a very significant volume. In that blog post, I gave out one of the email templates I use to respond to inquiries.

So I decided to continue in the same spirit and start a new series of blog posts where I’ll be giving out material that we use on a daily basis here to run our state-of-the-art web design firm from our New York location! This time, I am attaching our web design contract in a MS Word format!

For a long time we used lengthy contracts, with plenty of stupid legal jargon, and a lot of unnecessary stuff nobody really understood. We kept changing our contract to make more sense, make it easier for us to explain it to our clients, while still protecting us and our creative methodology. It took a long time until we finally got it right! We’ve been using this final version for all of our web design projects ever since.

Here are a few good things about this contract:

1. There is basically no legal jargon – everything is written in plain English.
2. There are no project scope, deliverable, timeline, etc in the contract. That stuff we put it in our web design proposals, or we discuss them with the client. The contract is a general contract of service – not a project management or strategic planning document.
3. It’s only 4 pages!
4. The contract is simple, clear, uncluttered, flexible, and open.

I’ve uploaded the contract on our server in a Microsoft Word format just for you guys, freelance web designers, and competing web design companies who are following our web design blog! So feel free to use it for your own web design projects!

Coming next! Useful email templates, a bunch of in-depth web design proposals, website architectures, and more!

Many of our Web Design Blog readers are Web Designers – freelance web designers, and web design companies alike. So here is a Free Email Template for you! This is one of the most common emails we send out to potential clients who inquire about our web design services - let me know if you find it useful and I’ll post more!

If, like our Web Design Company, you use Google Apps as your email client, you can enable the canned responses lab feature to save email templates and load them quickly when replying to inquiries. (more…)

Hey Everyone, 

Found some free vector graphics.  Just thought I would share!

Web designers are always looking for resources that can help them increase their productivity. Here is a great website to download free png icons: www.iconspedia.com. Very useful.

Hi everyone, I love when I come across a tool that helps me decrease the time it takes to develop websites. Let’s face it, as developers we’re faced with several obstacles developing for the web, from browsers wars to png fixes. So, I wanted to share these 5 Dreamweaver extensions that you can use to aid in front-end web development. They can cut development time significantly. Enjoy! (more…)

1. BlendFlu (www.blendfu.com)
2. Brush King (www.brushking.eu)
3. Celestial Star (celestial-star.net/brushes)
4. Brusheezy (www.brusheezy.com)
5. My Photoshop Brushes (myphotoshopbrushes.com/brushes) (more…)