101 Essential Freelancing Resources
Cyan Ta'eed
Update: Well it’s actually 126 resources now, thanks to all the people who added resources in the comments.
Update: This article has been translated into Brazillian Portuguese by Rafael Marin.
This article has also been translated into Spanish by Diana at Artegami.
This article has also been translated into Italian by Matteo at Rails On The Road.
The web is such a big and wonderful place, packed with tools and resources which you all too often don’t know about. So to help all you freelancers out there we have compiled a gigantic list of resources, categorized up for your benefit. If you know a resource that we’ve missed, let us know as we’re always looking to grow this list!
Timing
These are tools to help you time and track your work. Some of them plug into invoicing programs and some even come with them built in:
- SlimTimer - A Start/Stop little timer that tracks jobs on a main web interface
- Tick - Timetracking application focused on keeping track of your budgets
- Time Assistant - Professional timesheet software
- Harvest - Simple and efficient time tracking
- FourteenDayz - Online time tracking for teams
- PunchyTime - A simple time tracking tool for creatives
- TimePost - Timer that plugs into Harvest, Basecamp and Tick
- FunctionFox - Timing for creatives (subscription pricing)
Invoicing
When you don’t invoice, you don’t get paid, so it literally pays to stay on top of your billing. Here are some tools to help:
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Billing Orchard - Electronic billing and invoicing software, starting at $14.95 per month
- Billable - Service and invoice tracking
- SimplyBill - Easy to use invoicing software
- Blinksale - More easy to use invoicing software
- Quickbooks - Small business financial software
- Side Job Track - Free web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting and project management for the part-time independent contractor
- Freshbooks - Tracks time, sends invoices by email or U.S. mail, and generally makes invoicing easier
- InvoicePlace - Easy Invoicing and Quotes From Anywhere
- LessAccounting - Is your job title Accounting? Probably not. Do less accounting!
- MS Office Accounting Express (Free) - Free Microsoft Accounting
Project Management and Organization
These resources will help you stay organised and manage those projects and clients
- Proposal Kit - Proposal and contract management tools
- Ta-Da Lists - a simple (free!) to-do list application that can be shared with the world
- Backpack - Service that integrates to-do lists, notes, files, images, and a calendar with reminders that can be sent to your email or cell
- Writeboard - Sharable, web-based text documents that save edits, so you can collaborate, roll back and compare
- ConceptShare - Share designs and get feedback with visual annotation tools
- Wridea - Free tool for writers focusing on idea generation
- GoPlan - Note-taking, calendaring, task management, issue tracking, file management and online real-time chat
- Toodledo - Another web based to-do list
- ActiveCollab - Open source collaboration and project management tool
- MonkeyOn - Your to-do list for things that you want other people to do
- Remember The Milk - Another To-Do List manager
Stock Libraries
Templates, Photos, Flash files all to help make you look good
- FlashDen - A resource selling stock Flash, audio, video and fonts for as little as 50 cents
- Dreamstime - Royalty free stock photography for $1 - $2
- Getty Images - When price is no object and quality is essential
- Istockphoto - Royalty free stock photography, videos, and illustrations for $1 - $50
- Veer - Rights managed and royalty free photography, illutration, type, and motion
- Stock.xchng - Completely Free stock photography
- Ice Templates - Website templates in Flash and HTML
- Template Monster - The biggest website template company on the web!
- MyFonts - All the fonts you could ever want and a very handy font identification tool as well.
- IconBuffet - Icons, more icons and even more icons
- VectorVault - Vector illustration sets
Business Tools
Resources to help with the business of freelancing…
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HighRise - Track communication and conversations with leads, employees, clients, colleagues, vendors
- Campfire - Real-time group chat and file sharing
- Central Desktop - Shared workspaces and web conferencing
- Relenta - Manage your email, contacts, documents and activities
- Google Apps - Communication and collaboration tools from Google
- Zoho - Free office tools
- Campaign Monitor - Email newsletter software
- MailBuild - More newsletter software
- Breeze - Email campaign and newsletter software
- Business-Paper - Easy business cards
- GoToMeeting - Easy online meetings
- Wufoo - Make forms to survey your clients
- AIGA Spec Letter - Sample letter to communicate with clients who want spec work or free pitching
- CPA Directory - Find an accountant (in the US)
- SBA - Small Business Administration, help and advice
- Paypal - Online payment system
- Moneybookers - Online payment system
- Escrow - Online payment system that protects the buyer and seller, useful for those bigger jobs with anonymous clients.
- Resources for the Design Entrepeneur - Free sample forms and agreements
- Work - How-to guides to running a small business
- XE - Quick and easy currency converter for all your international transactions…
- Trendwatching - Consumer trends and insights resource
- FaxZero - US & Canada - Send Faxes for Free
Legal
Because you have to protect yourself and your work…
- My New Company - Legal and general start-up information
- Designers Toolbox - Free legal forms for graphic designers
- Copyright - Everything you need to know about US copyright
- AIGA Form of Agreement - Standard form of agreement for design services trmplate
- HelpMeWork - US - Services to help you focus on what you know best
- CreativeCommons - For licensing…just about anything
Job Boards
A whole bunch of places to find jobs, and don’t forget FreelanceSwitch will be adding its very own job board real soon!
- 37signals Job Board - Mostly full-time design and programming jobs
- Authentic Jobs - Full time and freelance job board for standards aware designers and developers
- Coroflot Job Board - Designer job board
- WebProJobs - Freelance and full-time jobs for designers, developers, copywriters and marketers
- Jobpile - Aggregates the best job boards on the web
- Krop - Creative and tech jobs
- FWjobs - Web jobs board
- SlashDot - Jobs for IT professionals
- CSS Beauty Job Board - Job board for web designers
- MinistryCamp Job Board - Job board for Christian designers and programmers
- Guru - Freelancer listing service with job board
- Elance - List yourself for freelance jobs
Web Tools
Tools to get your Web Presence Up and running…
- Squarespace - Very nice publishing system for websites and blogs
- Rackspace - dedicated hosting and customer service that is second to none
- Mosso - Advanced hosting at a reasonable price
- MyDomain - Domains for $8.50 per year
- Media Temple - Easy to set up and use hosting
- Light - Content management for designers and ad agencies
- SiteKreator - Instant websites - just add your content
- StrongSpace - Back-up and store important files
- psd2html - Builds websites in html from Photoshop files
- xhtml iT - Website builds from design in 24 hours
- ExpressionEngine - A neat little CMS app
- Inblogit - A great free blogging tool for web designers
- PublicSquare - Easy Web Publishing
- WordPress - The best damn blogging tool around
- AgencyFusion - Outsourcable programmers
- XHTMLized - The original - you supply the design and they do the XHTML/CSS
Advertising and Marketing
A few ways to market and advertise yourself online…
- Text Link Ads - Text ads to sell your wares and improve your traffic ranking
- Review Me - Get your service or Web site reviewed by bloggers
- Adbrite - Text and banner ads on over 20,000 sites
- AdEngage - Text and Photext ads (image and text ad combined)
- Adwords - Text ads on Google searches
- Professional On The Web - Get yourself Listed
Miscellaneous
All the many things we couldn’t fit anywhere else!
- Creative Public - Useful site for anyone starting a freelance graphic or web design career. A $49.95 fee buys unlimited access to forms, manuals, pricing guides, contracts etc
- You Send It - Send files up to 2GB online
- Jewelboxing - superior packaging for short run CDs and DVDs
- eFax - Send and receive faxes by email
- PowerXChange - Extensions for a variety of creative software, including Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver
- Coroflot - A great resources for designers to showcase their portfolios, share work and network
- Cloudmark - Block spam on your PC
- SpamSieve - Block spam on your Mac
- Dropsend - Email up to 1GB of files
- Media Fire - Send 100MB files online
- Box - Store, share and access files online
- Icebrrg - Simple web forms
- Formsite - Web forms and surveys in minutes
- Lorem Ipsum - Lorem Ipsum generator for dummy copy
- Textmate - The essential programmers text editor for Macs
- ETextEditor - Like Textmate but for Windows
- Kuler - Colour scheme picker
- Pixie - A useful little colour picker
- ColourSchemer - A bunch of colour tools
- Jungle Disk - Online storage for 15 cents a gigabyte
- AskCharity - free online contacts for journalists
- TechInline - Remote Desktop Software
- Protolize - Web Resource Directory
Do you have a resource we missed? Leave a comment and let us know!
The idea for this post came from the always helpful IHelpYouBlog’s 101 Great Posting Ideas that Sizzle …
Jack
April 11th, 2007
Wow guys, you’ve outdone yourselves, that is a HUGE list, how long did it take to compile?
You should add Expression Engine (http://expressionengine.com/) to the web part, its pretty handy…
collis
April 11th, 2007
It took forever is how long
No actually Cyan and I worked on it for about 3 hours last night and 3 hours today just sorting through everything. Worth it though, this is a page to keep in the bookmarks!
Scott Carpenter
April 11th, 2007
Hi Collis, under Invoicing I would like to suggest adding Invoiceplace - http://www.invoiceplace.com (which I have developed).
Under Project Management and Organization there are two reminder services I have found very useful: MemoToMe - http://www.memotome.com and Remember The Milk - http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Lastly for Stock Libraries I would suggest adding IconBuffet - http://www.iconbuffet.com/
Lisa
April 11th, 2007
Thank you for the mention of DropSend - great list, lots of these apps and sites are life savers for us, as a small company.
allan branch
April 11th, 2007
What about http://www.LessAccounting.com?
Andy Ford
April 11th, 2007
Very handy list. Bookmarked in Delicious. Here’s hoping this list will be maintained and grow over time…
Gabriele
April 11th, 2007
very usefull, tnx!!
i need now a little bit of time to read ”^-^
Matte
April 11th, 2007
Hi Collis, I suggest this new web app, Professional on the Web, a directory where web agencies and freelancers can list their profiles and easily manage showcase of their projects. Users can search web professionals by tag and also rate projects instantly. No need to register or sign in. You can subscribe to the ever increasing list of designers and projects being added to Professional on the web via RSS.
It’s a way for freelancers to get new Jobs and for customers to find out new freelancers from the top rated list and looking their portfolios.
Katrineholm Review
April 11th, 2007
I must add your URL to http://katrineholmreview.blogspot.com
Arthur
April 11th, 2007
Really good list!! Great Resources! Tks!
feedMashr.com
April 11th, 2007
Total Basecamp addict. This 37 signals app has totally saved my butt with the multi-tasking aspect of freelance life.
Saulo
April 11th, 2007
Simply PERFECT .. i wanna get teme for select each section of tools ideas and just explore this huge supply …
Shara Karasic
April 11th, 2007
Hi, thanks for mentioning Work.com. We are always looking for more great how-to guides for freelancers, so you are welcome to write your own Work.com guide about any aspect of the freelance experience.
RAN
April 11th, 2007
Ey Cyan,
you guys ‘nd girls over at flashDen and of course here are doin’ some very very good things for the community and its great to see people like you so passionat about what they do…thanX a lot
cheers
Cyan
April 11th, 2007
Thanks for all the new links and positive feedback! We will keep expending this list as we go, as there are lots of amazing tools/resources out there we haven’t heard about. The current list is basically what we’ve found useful or heard good things about - we waded through all our old bookmarks
Jason Drohn
April 12th, 2007
Fantastic list. This has to be one of the most indispensable I have seen online in a long time..
cyberbuff
April 12th, 2007
Really nice. saved in delicious
Collis
April 12th, 2007
Well, I’ve just added 7 new resources to the list, thanks for the suggestions people, keep ‘em coming!
Jermayn Parker
April 12th, 2007
Yeah thanks for that very useful list.
I actually use my myob program for my invoices but the examples you used are probably easier (and cheaper).
Think WordPress and other free templates, cms etc could be a handy addition to the list. Some times its easier to use an existing template to start a website.
Other than that, great work
Paw Projects
April 12th, 2007
Thanks, this list is fantastic.
There are some great tools in here that I hadn’t heard about before. For instance, I paid for ColorImpact, while the Adobe Kuler tool is WAY more advanced and even web-based.
Charles Wilson
April 12th, 2007
Very useful list.
I am coming from a more marketing angle. Why not include ablewise.com to the list under marketing. It should help some up and coming free lancers advertise their services or business.
Steve Wordpressguy
April 12th, 2007
Nice list, on a quick scan I spotted enough sites that I know do the business to investigate the others. I’ve used MediaTemple for a couple of years now and apart from the odd glitch with the gridserver setup over the past couple of months you can’t touch ‘em.
Nice ordering too, start with the boring but essential stuff we all try to ignore.
Paul Jennings
April 12th, 2007
You should add XHTMLized.com under tools. We’ve tried several different design companies to code companies but these guys were by far the best.
Viking KARWUR
April 12th, 2007
Thanks for sharing… This is usefull resources for Freelance like me (web designer)…
Cool…
AR Web Consulting
April 12th, 2007
This list is excellent, Thank You. I just signed up for Breeze…
Ines
April 13th, 2007
These links are awesome!! Thanks for sharing!
bruno
April 13th, 2007
Great! It is one of the best list i have ever seen.
onesummer
April 13th, 2007
pixie (color getter) http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
or
colorschemer’s colorpix: http://www.colorschemer.com/download.php
they both will let you grab the color values and screen coordinates at any pixel on your screen. use it daily. Both are free, too.
and http://www.protolize.org is a site that lists resources as well.
Brad
April 13th, 2007
Three quick additions:
1. K7.net lets you setup a free phone number to receive voicemail and/or faxes. Any fax sent to the number is scanned and emailed to you as a TIF file.
2. FaxZERO is a service that lets you send faxes of up to 3 pages for free, although it includes an advertisement on the cover page. You can send longer faxes with no ad for $1.99 each, and there’s no monthly subscription fee.
3. Microsoft Accounting 2007 Express is a free download for bookkeeping and invoicing.
Sean
April 13th, 2007
DivShare - File Sharing Unlimited for free. No registration required either. http://www.divshare.com/
adhi
April 13th, 2007
thanks for the articles, its motivated me
Mike
April 13th, 2007
Amazing list of resources.
Another great website vendor is Agencyfusion.com. They’ve been easy to work with and I can alway trust that they’ll get my sites done the way I design them. (I’ve been burned by other freelance guys before) And the sites they build from your design come with a CMS baked right in. Good if you don’t want to deal with the programming stuff yourself.
And thanks again for the resource list. I’ve already bookmarked several. As a freelancer, I love the insights into support areas.
Mike
Fubiz
April 13th, 2007
Thanks a lot for the links
wotaewer
April 14th, 2007
wow. nice stuff in the project management category. Even some things, I didn’t know about
Where did you find http://www.professionalsontheweb.com ? I like that site very much.
Roberto Alamos
April 14th, 2007
I’m an active freelancer and every tool I have used is included in the list :O
Nice work and nice blog! I just discovered it through innovationzen.com and I’m impressed. Kudos to you
J.Y.
April 14th, 2007
Hi, I’ve been using http://www.openair.com for a number of years to handle invoicing and think it would hold up well against the ones included here. Nice list btw, and I’m enjoying this site.
Thoreau
April 15th, 2007
One you missed. http://www.allfreelancework.com
I’ve always had good luck on the job board there.
Diana
April 15th, 2007
This is great! Thank you so much for doing this. Bookmarked
Sean
April 15th, 2007
What about portable-emploer-of-record services like http://helpmework.com/ and http://mybizoffice.com/ ?
lee
April 15th, 2007
Fellow freelancers, Please please please dont use rackspace (as suggested in the list). They have received tons of customer complaints, problems and issues. Just read any review sites on them and you’ll see. I’m not going to suggest who to use for hosting but please think twice before using rackspace.
Andrew
April 15th, 2007
Hi, nice list - thanks for putting it together.
One point, FYI - ‘Breeze’ is just a re-branded (and more expensive) version of MailBuild, brought to you by the good folks behind Campaign Monitor. Maybe you could list MailBuild instead?
http://www.mailbuild.com/
Xeno
April 16th, 2007
You missed htmlhelp.com, a reference which I find absolutely indespensible.
van20
April 16th, 2007
super article!
http://www.van20.com/story/192/
pixelsnot
April 16th, 2007
AWSOME LIST. PERIOD. I do have a few you should add though.
Job Boards:
Communication Arts Job Board, http://www.creativehotlist.com
Time Management:
Function Fox, http://www.functionfox.com
Hosting:
Host Gator, http://www.hostgator.com
(great reseller ability with tons of free php/mysql things with the aid of ‘Fantastico’)
Rock on. Great site. I have been looking for this website for years! Thanks for all the work.
sun
April 16th, 2007
CMS For Designers: http://www.obdev.at/products/webyep/index.html
real basic stuff, but worth it in my opinion for what it delivers.
CH
April 16th, 2007
Excelente recopilación. Bye.
Todd
April 16th, 2007
This list is an absolute treasure, thank you so much! I am surprised I haven’t heard about some resources like zoho and sitekreator, they seem to be a real find!! Well-done!!
JH
April 16th, 2007
Great list … but …
Bit US biased - would be nice if list indicated resources that are really
only of interest to a particular country. And also it would be useful to indicate if the resources were free or not.
For now though I’ll visit them all ….
Thanks
matthew
April 16th, 2007
Great list. I’d add Creative Commons to your list of legal resources. http://creativecommons.org/
boston-artsie
April 16th, 2007
Aquent’s another friend of freelancers looking for gigs. They match you up with mostly design and marketing work. Good clients and they treat people well (health, 401k, and vacation).
http://www.aquent.com
steve
April 16th, 2007
Awesome list! Thanks a lot!
But you missed remote desktop access tools in the Business Tools category:
http://www.techinline.com
It’s a great service for freelancers!
Penelope
April 16th, 2007
Great tool but I can’t see many research sites like the one we run http://www.askcharity.org.uk This can save freelancers lots time because it is a search engine of charities’ PR people and their mobile numbers and allows journalists to send out case study requests to hundreds of charities at once
ByzantineX
April 16th, 2007
Hello, I just noticed a little problem on your site.
Your post 101 Essential Freelancing Resources at:
http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/
Has 102 posts so the text saying so overlaps your image.
I looked at your HTML and CSS and found that you have a static image which the text lays over top of here:
http://freelanceswitch.com/wp-content/themes/FSw%202/images/comments.jpg
If you were to make this into three different images
1) Left part of image with little girl and a little bit of the green
2) A rectangle block of green just a few pixels wide
3) The Right port of the image
You could have that text say 1,000,000 posts and the image would never break again.
Give it a shot if you feel like it some time.
I’m not sure if you have many post numbers that high, but I’m sure as your website continues to grow you will see it more and more.
Please, feel free to email me any questions or comments.
Have a great day!
- ByzX
Lara
April 16th, 2007
This is a great site and I have book marked it and will be coming back. I thought I would add a timetracking tool I use to your list. It is called timepanic…www.timepanic.com…I have found it very useful. It is inexpensive and easy to use.
Just thought I would add to your list.
Rasmus J
April 16th, 2007
Greeeeat list!
You need webzine administration:
PublicSquare
Collis
April 16th, 2007
@ByzX, Thanks for that, yep that is my dodgy CSS, I hadn’t really thought about what would happen when we had comments numbering in the three figures
I’ll get that sorted, thanks for the tip off!
Scott Carpenter
April 16th, 2007
I must say Timepanic ( http://www.timepanic.com ) looks very impressive - I may have finally found a replacement to my 8 year old Microsoft Access time keeping database!
IhateDesign
April 16th, 2007
thanks great resources!!
Mark
April 16th, 2007
Anyone on the Mac looking for a great project timer that works with Basecamp, Tick or Harvest? Timepost ( http://www.timepostapp.com/ ) is a great piece of software for Mac OS X that automatically posts project hours online.
Rajesh
April 17th, 2007
I have found a very good web based office suite. It offers everything you can think about similar to word, excel. powerpoint, crm, Project management, planner, wiki, Chat and many others.
Add the site http://www.zoho.com. Great Suite!!!
Rajesh
April 17th, 2007
One more great site: http://www.tutorialized.com
Regards
Rajesh (http://www.rajeshshakya.com)
veemobil
April 17th, 2007
I can’t believe you didn’t mention wordpress.
Nikki Locke
April 17th, 2007
I’ve written a shareware time sheet application which automatically records how much time you spend working in each kind of Window on your computer, and lets you assign the time to jobs. If you can recognise which job from the window title, you can tell it to make the assignment automatically. I think it’s the best time sheet program available (but then I would, wouldn’t I!).
It’s fully functioning shareware (no nag screens, no crippling, no timeout), so it’s free to try, and I’m very much looking for user feedback.
http://www.trumphurst.com/TimeSheet.phtml
Tristan Bethe
April 17th, 2007
Anotherone for the Stock Libraries: imageafter.com. Free hi-res images for commercial use without the need to credit the site.
Greg Horowitz
April 17th, 2007
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I invite anyone with questions to check out the site (www.mediabistro.com) or send me a message at http://www.mediabistro.com/aboutus/contactus.asp?to=gh&subject=message%20for%20greg
Best,
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zenalien
April 18th, 2007
Hi.. very good work…
You could complete your list with billster, http://www.billster.net, a web2,0 site for invoicing and keeping track of expenses…
Scott
April 18th, 2007
Seems appropriate to add WriteMaps here - http://www.writemaps.com - Create visual sitemaps online.
Gabriela Schechter
April 18th, 2007
This is so good! Thanks for sharing and for helping the freelance community!
vtmiller
April 18th, 2007
Mega source you must checkout http://www.jumpola.com
Also I’ve worked with http://www.voice123.com and it might be the best voice talent site on the web. I got 350 quotes & actual samples of a voice-over I needed within 24 hours and the service is basically free to find talent for publishers, and advertisers.
Mark
April 19th, 2007
New Timepost update is available with support for Blinksale (http://www.blinksale.com/) and Checkboard (http://www.checkboard.com/).
Get it while it’s hot:
http://www.timepostapp.com/download
AnissaT
April 20th, 2007
AWESOME list!!!
I’d add http://www.w3schools.com to the list for “foot-in-the-door” quick intro/tutorials for HTML, CSS, server-side technology… It’s where I send my students when there’s not enough time to cover everything in class.
cat
April 20th, 2007
Resources for Freelancers? Sure.
Graphic Define Magazine: Focuses on the business of running a graphic, interactive, or web design studio
Creative Latitude: a worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practices
BoDo: Business of Design online
cat
April 20th, 2007
There are a ton more (you can find them in the Creative Latitude and BoDo resources) but one that should absolutely not be missed is Creative Business
Krista
April 23rd, 2007
Thanks for the [very] helpful list - I’ve got two to add, both of which provide free media. The first is http://www.morguefile.com - an online resource for hi-res, royalty-free stock images. The site is wonderfully intuitive, and a large number of the images are former stars (but are now dead and in the “morgue”…) The second is dafont.com - yet another beautifully intuituve site that offers a myriad of free fonts, and comes complete a preview for the line of text of your choice. These two are on the top of my list. Hope that helps!
Gerhard Sletten
April 24th, 2007
Under “Timing” my free desktop timer for mac should be added downloadable from http://www.gersh.no/
Gerhard Sletten
April 24th, 2007
Aah, its named Worktimer (forgot to mention)
Nicu Cismaru
April 25th, 2007
Hi Cyan,
I would also like to suggest Fanurio which does both time tracking and invoicing (I’m one of the people involved in this project).
We have designed Fanurio to help freelancers manage their work and be paid for it. It can do basic project management, time tracking and invoicing in order to have all the functionality in one place.
Thanks,
Nicu
Adam
April 25th, 2007
There are many resources out there for designers that feel more like a dumping of links and some banner ads. It’s hard on the eyes and hard to digest. This site gets it done right. After all, you are catering to people who spend a great deal of time simplifying information for the eyes. How refreshing that you consider that with your layout.
Like the friendly characters and delicious colour palete. But most of all - i dig the content. I hope that this site grows into something successful, without loosing it’s philosophy. Proud to support it. - Respect.
Victor
April 25th, 2007
To manage your finances in an easy way, try http://moneytrackin.com
It’s a simple yet powerful tool
Ryan
April 26th, 2007
Thank you for compiling this huge and helpful list. Another program that may be helpful for anyone with some programming background is Visual Web Developer by Microsoft (A mini version of the Visual Studio IDE). http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/
And no, I don’t work for Microsoft =P
Jdjohnson
April 26th, 2007
Another good resource for fast coding of designs is codeyourdesign.com. Very friendly, fast, and best of all he is a student doing this side project to help costs of school.
Pali Madra
May 3rd, 2007
A great list and resource. Thanks!
Adam
May 3rd, 2007
Does anyone have any positive experiences with any web ad services?
I’m trying to push my vector art collections. Budget is certainly a factor.
Looking for something that gets results at a reasonable price.
Anyone?
http://www.vectorvault.com
Adam
May 7th, 2007
My vector software collection got a fantastic review.
Check it out:
http://www.bittbox.com/news/vectorvaultcom-product-review-interview-with-adam-jarvis-and-the-future-of-free-vectors-online/
http://www.vectorvault.com
Shelby
May 16th, 2007
Nice list, Thanks. I found a couple things I hadn’t seen yet.
Thanks again,
Shelby
Uri Lewin
May 16th, 2007
My online list management application http://listigator.com is sort of a Tada on steroids, with item categories, list import&export, extensive sharing options and more.
John Rawsterne
May 17th, 2007
Excellent list. Thanks
I think you should add http://www.stockxpert.com to your Stock Libraries section.
Ricardo
May 18th, 2007
Check this:
http://www.8ung.at/ukrebs
You should/must include Kalender in
http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/
Kalender is a fantastic diary-and-to-do application, which I selectd from a few dozen other freewares. It is much better than several paid softwares.
Hamayun Butt
May 18th, 2007
There can only be one not 101
Interesting reading - but honoustly you only need one!
http://www.comapping.com / see the video first to make sure
that all 101 resources are covered -
If any of the above 211 comments do not agree please
send a comment -
ps. I am using this tool for a collaboration project with
a IT school in Burkina Faso and Ghana -
Big ups to all!!!
Hamayun
rachel
May 21st, 2007
Toggl (http://toggl.com/) is the best free time-tracking tool I’ve used.
Teodor
May 21st, 2007
Good job! Your site is great!
dale tan
May 23rd, 2007
this is a really good (and possibly only) xml/xsl based cms - symphony