Indianapolis Web Design Blog

As a members and designers, my wife and I both have the privilege to design work for the Vineyard Community Church (on the north side of Indianapolis.) While volunteer design work is hard at times due to scheduling and general life busyness, it occasionally rewards us with the opportunity to turn out projects that we […]

Design isn’t as critical life-and-death, but still… funny stuff….
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Freelance Freedom #41

N-vent related news:
Tonight I finally got around to updating my design portfolio, adding 5 new web designs. I’ve been blessed with a lot of work this summer and fall, and therefore have hardly had time for my own site updates due to the workload. My freelance brethren out there can attest to this.
I’ve been very […]

This is quite funny, but true. I have been in this situation myself.

Have you ever had a client balk at an invoice for a bit of design work that they know did not take a long time to produce? What is the actual value of design?
I recently had a conversation with a friend about hourly vs. “by the project” billing, and how we’ve had clients balk at […]

In every good-sized city there exists what I call the Freelance Stratosphere. It seems like every day I hear about a new freelancer, sometimes a direct competitor - someone else doing web design in Indianapolis.

Freelancers have a leg-up on the other working drones of the world. Stodgy, old-skool business types are mysteriously attracted to our care-free and footloose ways. Like hip, modernized pied pipers, we’re strangely attractive and repulsive at the same time. Just like train wrecks, people want to look at a freelancer but are not sure it’s […]

The Background
For years now I have been designing die-cast car packaging for a local company here in Indianapolis. It started with niche pieces revolving around racing, - as you know, this is the racing capital of the world. Pace cars, IRL series, Indy 500 winners and special promos.

I was talking to a friend the other day during a business trip, and conversation turned to blogging. We talked about the various benefits of blogs, and agreed that a personalized blog was more useful than an impersonal blog.
What does that mean exactly? Well, A personal blog allows you to see who you’re reading, […]

5 Things I Wish I Had Known About Freelance Taxes: Part 5
I think a tax audit would be one of the worst things to happen to a freelancer. It would be expensive in both time and money, and would likely leave one bitter and less productive. So how does it happen and how can I […]