So, you have a shiny new client. Time to start a new project with them. What to do? What are the first steps? Do you jump right into the job after an OK email - does that have the legal weight as a contract? There are many things you must do to get the project rolling until you get paid: From a services contract to the final payment.

In this article, I take you through the steps to do so. One friendly reminder, you can add your own steps here, these are the steps I usually follow and have been doing so for the last few years as a freelancer.

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Whenever we're going to buy a product, especially the new ones we will inevitably pay more attention to the packaging of the product itself. Product packaging has tremendous power to grab our interest. It combines art and technology for protecting products for distribution, storage, until finally reaching the end user.

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Let's face facts. Not all client or freelancer relationships are good ones. What starts out as a positive venture can suddenly alter in an instant the minute money changes hands. What most freelancers do not always grasp is that they are in a position to "fire" their clients just as much as their clients are in a position to "fire" them.

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It is a well known fact that the Information technology (IT) industry is male dominated. However, saying that, over the years women have ventured out and have slowly been making their mark.

With regard to Web Design, there are many female web designers out there, but it seems there is not enough representation or prominence in bringing them into the limelight. So, we decided to prepare a group interview showcasing some of the well known and not so well known female designers that are out there.

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Singapore – known as the Lion city may be just a tiny small dot on the geographical world map, but it has braved several adversities and hardships since its independence on August 9th 1965.

The republic is located on an island off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres north of the equator, in the Southeast Asian region of the Asian continent. It is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north, and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south. A city-state, Singapore is the world's fourth leading financial centre and a cosmopolitan world city.

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We all know that personal projects can be the key to success when it comes to web design and freelancing. Regardless, personal projects can also be fun and a good, productive thing to 'waste' time on. When a creative person, like a web designer, is doing something that they've chosen to do - something that excites them - it can be great inspiration and motivation that can carry into other areas of work as well.

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Whether HTML5 will beat Flash or not, it has been one of the most frequently discussed topics in the web design community lately. In the heat of this debate another popular opposition, Flash vs. JavaScript, was somewhat lost. It’s rather paradoxical, taking into account that HTML5 is still in the draft version (even though a working one) and JavaScript, particularly its most popular library jQuery, is a complete and active platform which is widely used in modern web construction.

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