Most freelancers start out with an idea of how much they’d like to charge as an hourly rate, some work out how many hours they’re likely to work and divide this by the salary they’d like to earn to get this figure, others just choose a value that they feel reflects their talents. Neither way is right or wrong and over the course of your freelance career this figure will change as your level of experience grows. But what do you do when a client wants a fixed price quote? (more…)

I’m always excited when I see a new email in my inbox with a subject title along the lines of ‘Website Needed!’ but there are some sure fire ways to lose my interest and here are a few… (more…)

So you want to buy Adobe’s CS5 Master Collection do you? Well if you’re American that’ll set you back a cool $2,599USD which isn’t a bad price considering the amount of software in the bundle. Adobe really do have the market cornered, there are plenty of options when it comes to coding, but if you’re looking to design – you really will need at least one of the following Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks and/or InDesign.

Should you want to pick up a copy of CS5 Master Collection in the UK then you can expect to pay £2,706.02GBP. Now I know that the pound isn’t particularly strong against the dollar at the moment but I have to say that is completely ridiculous. A quick conversion (using Google’s current exchange rate) of the US price to pounds comes out at £1767.32, which means that UK customers are paying almost £1,000 more than customers in the US. Am I the only one that finds this a little bit unfair?