Finding the Con in Contests: “As a designer, if I can’t sit down and chat with a client about a project, then I’m a grumpy designer. Not only that, the less input a designer has, the less likely he or she is to help meet your goals. Designers help solve problems, they aren’t there just to make stuff look good.”

In the spirit of the last post, here’s more Grey Goodness from Design Melt Down.

Note to self: try this out. SketchUp

Blinksale | The easiest way to send invoices online. This service has been around for a while. Sometimes I hate being a late adopter. Blinksale is very slick, and it’s free if I don’t do more than 3 invoices a month (shouldn’t be a problem).

Update: I’ve been using this for several months and I am very pleased with it, as are my clients.

Apparently, $10,000 is the magic number (per web page). Even taking into account that I’m doing small, ‘high-quality professional’ web sites for local organizations, not “high-quality professional corporate web site[s],” I’m am WAY under-charging…