With the current global economy, many people are focused simply on getting a job. But if you start a design business based on prices that are too low, you may be out of business before too long simply because you can't make ends meet. Also, if you have been in business for a while, increasing your prices may be needed just to keep up with inflation. But getting your clients to pay more can be a challenge. They want to pay less for more, while you want them to pay more for less. Learn how you can reconcile these conflicting goals.

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• What Pricing Structure Should I Use?

Raising Rates - How to Charge More for Your Work originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 14:30:38.

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Freelancers often make good multitaskers because we have to get a lot done in very little time. But some of us prefer to task switch - where you have multiple projects going, but you only work on one at a time. And of course some of us only work on one thing at a time.

Poll: Do you work on one design project at a time or do you multitask? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 14:07:25.

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I've been working a lot on writing HTML editor profiles in order to get my Best Editor lists ready for this year. This week, I completed the following editor profiles. This is a varied list. There are Windows, Mac, and even Linux editors. There are WYSIWYG and text editors, free editors and expensive ones. If you've used any of these editors I'd love to see your review of them.

• AceHTML Freeware
• AceHTML Pro
• Alleycode
• Aptana Studio
• BestAddress HTML Editor
• Boxer Text Editor
• CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor
• HTML-Kit
• Jalbum
• Komodo Edit
• KompoZer
• RAGE WebDesign
• Screem
• SeaMonkey
• ShutterBug
• TextMate
• Web Easy Professional

Editor Round-Up originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 08:15:56.

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The two log files that most Apache setups generate are access.log and error.log. You can also choose to add more logging for things like URL rewriting, or gzip compression. As these logs grow in size and number, they become harder to manage. Learn how to manage logging more easily in Apache.

This month I received some reviews of Web hosting companies I'd never heard of before, which is great. Plus, I got some updated reviews of popular hosting companies like Host1Plus and 1 and 1. If you haven't reviewed your hosting provider (or one you left), why not try it? All reviews remain as anonymous as you prefer and you could be helping people out. Write a Review

I would love to get reviews of these types of hosts:

• Free Web hosting and cheap hosting providers
• Reseller hosting providers
• The worst hosting providers you've ever had
• The best hosting providers you've ever had

And here are this month's reviews:

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Web Host Reviews - 16 New Reviews - Have You Submitted Your Review? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 09:03:58.

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Rob Gravelle presents a solution for making Orangoo's GreyBox library work with HTML Applications (HTAs)using AJAX and the DOM scripts collection. By making the changes in a local script, specialized behavior can be limited to a specific application.

Creating a 3-column Web page is easy with tables, but can be challenging with just CSS. Entry 1 by Salman Arshad in the first HTML challenge shows that it can be done, and done well. Have you created a 3-column Web page with just CSS and HTML? Show off your work in the first HTML Challenge.

This week's challenge is a challenge for designers. Choosing a good color palette can be hard. But one of the most underused palettes is the monochromatic palette. This is where you take one color hue and modify it with just shades of white and black to get colors that look good together. Have you designed a Web page using a monochromatic color scheme? Submit your entry to HTML Challenge #2.

HTML Challenge - First Entry and a New Challenge originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 14:23:04.

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