8 Simple Tips for Freelancers to Keep Focused
October 19th, 2009 — 12 Comments
One of the difficulties of working for yourself as freelancer is keeping focused on your work. Chances are that if you’re a freelancer, you’re working from home complete with all the distractions that it brings.
Here are a few tips to make sure you get the best out of your work by keeping focused.
8 Ways Blogging about Web Design will Improve Your Work
October 12th, 2009 — 33 Comments
Here at Inspect Element, I’ve been blogging for just over four months now and have noticed a significant improvement in my overall day-to-day work since I began. Everything from my time management to development work has improved in a short amount of time and I expect it to improve in the future too.
I think it is the most effective way of improving your work and here are eight reasons why it will.
Read more...View Photoshop Files in Safari
June 30th, 2009 — 3 Comments
A quick and little known tip is that you can view Photoshop files (.psd) in Safari. This is great for previewing a design in a browser without having to constantly save out to a jpg. As you can see in the image below is a .psd of a mock up of Inspect Element’s 404 page loaded into Safari. Now you can easily and quickly save your work in Photoshop and switch to Safari to see your work, how want to see it, in a browser.
Unfortunately this is a Mac OS X only feature. I had hoped that Safari 4 on Windows would support it but no luck. A quick search reveals that there doesn’t seem to be a plugin that can replicate this functionality in Firefox which is a shame. Hopefully someone out there is developing one, or planning to!
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