Freelance Radio, Episode 16: ORE-GONE
The sixteenth episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! It’s our third mailbag episode–all reader/listener mail, all the time!
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The Shownotes:
- This episode, we answer questions from the mailbag. Jaye (of escariotdesigns.com.au) asks about dealing with the people aspect, Alex from South Australia asks about getting clients from a former job and Jonathan from firestudios.org asks about utilizing a very specific skill. Josh (of grokcomputers.com) mentions the usefulness of your local bar association or equivalent lawyering body for finding a good lawyer. Von Glitschka mentions theillustrationconference.org as an example of collaboration (between Von and Matthew Johnson). Thanks to all our listeners–keep the questions coming!
- Freelance Radio Recommends…: This week, Dickie recommends Elbow’s album Seldom Seen Kid (buy Elbow on iTunes); Von goes with iconfactory.com, makers of the excellent Twitterific program; Kristen suggests younggogetter.com (for young-at-heart entrepreneurs); and John’s recommendation is The Trolleys–you can check them out at myspace.com/thetrolleys and at thetrolleysband.com (buy The Trolleys on CDBaby or buy The Trolleys on iTunes). Oh, and he likes Rock Band for the Xbox 360/PS3/Wii/PS2 as well.
- Outro: This week’s song is by The Northwest Division and is called As Time Goes from their album Of Which I’m the Master. Visit them online at http://www.northwestdivision.com.
And that’s the sixteenth episode! If you like it, please feel free to rate it in iTunes or your favorite podcast aggregator (check us out on Digg at http://www.digg.com/podcasts/Freelance_Radio), and don’t forget to email your questions/comments via the Freelance Radio form. If you’d like to record a question/comment or submit an original outro song, you can upload them via this form!
John,
You should include a digg-button on podcasts for listeners to digg the podcast easily.
Great podcast.
Thanks
Love the podcasts! I will give this one a listen at work today! You guys are pretty entertaining, and fun to follow on twitter!
Heh…what’s up with The Trolleys official website?
ha – finally listened to it! Love all the twitter talk!
Oh no! Not the attack of Ore-GONE pronounciation! I live in Oregon, and that’s one of my peeves.
Anyway, regarding the question about doing web development, I am a web designer and hire consultants to code xhtml and css for me all the time. It’s definitely alright to just specialize in web development. If you’re good at that, stick to it! Don’t try to be what you’re not.
The biggest thing is finding designers to work with on a consistent basis. Find a few and you’ll probably end up with lots of work!
When will the next podcast come out?
John,
I noticed the twitter usernames weren’t in the show notes. So I put the following together for everyone for everyone to follow:
http://twitter.com/dickieadams
http://twitter.com/vonster
http://twitter.com/acousticgroupie
http://twitter.com/johnbrougher
And you can follow me at http://twitter.com/pixelbud ( shameless self plug
)
@haris — you can digg it — the button is to the right of the date — above the dark brown block for related posts.
Thanks!
@pixelbud You rock! Thanks for putting that together.
Also, I should note that those wishing to Digg should Digg the podcast, not the page–when you click the generic “Digg” link above, it’ll Digg the page.
The link to Digg the podcast is as follows: http://digg.com/podcasts/Freelance_Switch
Another comment on the web design/coding question: A thought is to market yourself to graphic designers everywhere. I am a designer who doesn’t know the first thing about getting html and css to work but I can design an interface and direct the aesthetics. I have a developer who can take my designs and make them into something usable. I think most clients lump all aspects of “web design” into a single category and therefor aren’t prepared to shop for freelancers who specialize in each discipline. Another thought is to collect a pool of designers to go to for all design aspects and figure their rates into the overall cost of a site (a reversal of the first approach). I don’t think clients care how you get it done, they tend to want one contact and expect to have a full-functioning product at the end of the day.
Another comment on the xhtml/css. There is a market for developers that aren’t designers. There’s a company called psd2html where a designer will create their design in photoshop then developers will write the code, so you’re desire to develop without design is actually a sought out skillset.
If you really enjoy development you might look into back-end development like ASP or PHP. I also prefer development over design and moving from just XHTML/CSS to back-end scripting was a natural progression for me.
Wow something happened to my browser, but the entire episode was sped up. everyone sounded like chipmunks. Great episode! keep up the good work.
Love the podcast! I’ve been listening since the start but never thought to add you guys on my twitter…….. done.
collaboration indeed. people have different expertise and collaborating with each other would produce great outputs.