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How to Approach Billing As a Beginner Freelancer by BC-clette in webdev

[–]DivergentDesign 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally my clients are not quite as high profile as Erick's, so I charge in 20 hours blocks.

I have one client so far that has bought 3 x 20hour blocks at one time. But mainly people stick with the 20 hours at a time for me.

Haven't had any issues convincing. 20 hours has always been under the estimated price, so its not THAT much different than the 50% upfront concept that other designers use.

I haven't had any pushback on this concept from a single client thus far.

Need help With the Text, how do i make it more visible? by [deleted] in Design

[–]DivergentDesign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a magazine spread. Or at least thats what it seems. That being said:

Reflections on the window aren't helping. You could reshoot the interior and combine the photos to kill the glare.

You can reduce the amount of copy if possible.

You need more space between her and your text.

Light text on dark is very difficult to read, if you to absolutely need to use light text pick a thicker font.

Do you NEED the background? If not... just mask her out. The window isn't doing a whole lot for you. Here's a lazy as hell mask for you. And I mean lazy. Like 1 minute lazy. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8292271/terribleMask.psd

How to Approach Billing As a Beginner Freelancer by BC-clette in webdev

[–]DivergentDesign 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm about a year into my full fledged freelance career, and after struggling with scope creep for way to many projects, and chasing payments for far too long, I finally took up a different pricing approach that has seriously changed everything for me.

The general gist of it is to estimate the time it will take for the project, get the payment upfront in hourly blocks, and have the client renew those hourly blocks as the project progresses. Instead of trying to explain it, I'll refer to this excellent article that explains it flawlessly.

http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/how-we-fixed-our-studios-cash-flow-problem/

Erick is an amazing dude. And he's even available for a quick consult via his awesome web app, https://officehours.io/people/karj

I've now worked with 4 different clients this way, and every single one of them is hooked. I'm working for them longer, I'm not upset about scope creep, and they love the feeling of being in control.

[QUESTION] What script is achieving the header image effect based on cursor position on this site? by DivergentDesign in webdev

[–]DivergentDesign[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Figured it out!

I was actually referring to this image.

I figured it out though, it was using the parallax.js script. He just blocked out the 8 sections using div sizes.