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Handling the legal side of freelancing could possibly be one of the more annoying tasks required for the job. Having worked as a full-time freelancer I can attest the amount of legal paperwork and information can become overwhelming, especially for newbies entering the field.

No matter what your practice, be it web design to freelance writing, there is generally some form of legal contract you’ll need to create with your clients. Networking comes with the freelance territory, and within that is contracts and due dates for project completion. Below we’ll be considering some great tips for legal actions and pursuing your own career further in freelancing.

Always Draft up Contracts

Why are contracts so important? This question has been asked countless times throughout the decades and doesn’t come without a strong answer. Business has always been a shady game. Unfortunately levels of trust are indicative of a strong professional relationship. Unfortunately, not all clients will be so easy to work with.

Building a contract and having both parties sign from the start sets in motion a state of initial working values. These could include a timeline of project work, when and how much you’d be getting paid, along with other details you may find pertinent. These should be nailed out between you and your clientele until a reasonable agreement can be achieved.

It’s important to include each aspect that you’re both concerned with inside a single document. This will be your go-to primer for any difficulties which stem from project work. It’s an important document to not only cover your client in case of project failure, but also protecting you in the case of your client backing down from the work and payment.

Always Set Dates

Having a scheduled calendar is just another strong framework keeping you from drifting too far off task. An agreeable schedule of dates is something both parties should be able to look at and consider a reasonable amount of time for each task.

So for example, you may quote 1-2 weeks for a website mockup and graphics/icons designed. At this point the client would look over the designs, suggest any changes, and you’d plan for another 1-2 weeks for frontend development. This type of timeline is very lenient and doesn’t provide specific dates for when a piece of work must be done. This won’t work with all of your clients, although it’s a much more lax environment for creativity to flow through.

If it’s easier you may want to consider sketching out a small calender with weeks shaded in based on task completion. I have seen a few demos of these from past freelancers and it’s a great way to draw the attention of your client. This proves to them you not only understand what you’re doing but hold the creativity and business sense to plot out a course timeline for their project!

It may also be useful to set up meeting times to share information face-to-face. The frequency of these would vary depending on the type of project being worked on. A from-scratch new website infrastructure may require 3 meetups weekly while an icon set design may not even require face to face interaction. Keep your schedule loose and ready for anything, but once you’ve got something solid ensure you get it down in writing.

Follow-Up Clauses

One of the big pet peeves we see in freelancing today is the client base looking into running the show. If you’ve done any work as a freelancer you have probably run into this countless times in the business world. After creating a perfect mockup design your client may say “yeah it’s okay, but can you update changes X, Y, and Z? Oh and let’s scrap ideas A and B while we’re at it…”

This is not only very frustrating for you but will also mess up your pre-planned timeline of events. It’s important to include a clause about revisions and a detailed policy on work updates. There are no set rules here, but it is important both your client and yourself agree upon the terms.

You may charge extra for more time spent updating colors/layout spacing. However, if your client isn’t aware this is going on they may have an awfully difficult time forking over any cash. Alternatively I know many freelancers who include the first 2-3 revisions for free and will charge after that based on an hourly rate. It’s all up to you regarding how you’d like to structure your overtime. Just be sure to include something.

Final Products and Delivery

In the wacky world if web design it is often possible for confusion to settle when it comes towards a finished product. There are so many freelancers offering icons, animations, Flash graphics, videos… from a client’s perspective who doesn’t understand much of technology this can be awfully confusing.

It should be discussed before even starting the project work what is expected to be delivered as a final result. This could include multiple things, however for a general website design it’s often only a handful of graphics and coded HTML/CSS documents.

If your client is looking for something slightly more convoluted such as WordPress theming or plugin development include a few sentences referencing the types of files to be shared. These could be .css, .php, .js libraries, or anything else which may be included inside the projects’ files.

If easier just draft out a bulleted list of the files to be returned and at which stage the work will be ready for client’s eyes. This shows a sign of trust that you actually know what you’re doing and will be able to deliver quality code! If you’ll be personally uploading all files into the web server this may not be necessary, but still good practice to include just to avoid possible confusion.

Conclusion

These tips on legal writing should get you pointed in the right direction. The career path of a freelance web designer is not easy, especially entering into business for yourself. There are plenty of tools to help out with invoicing and paper trails, so make use of these whenever possible.

If you’re just getting started I’d also recommend building up a small network of clients to get some buzz going around your name. Here are some tips on finding local freelance clients if you’re looking for a way to break into the market. At the end of the day legal structures are all about protecting both parties of a freelance project to ensure they will deliver their regards on-time and respectably.

Web Design Ledger

Taylor's Genuine knows there's more to lunch than sandwiches

The Place: Wine bars tend to get stuck in our minds as nighttime destinations so we can be forgiven for — until now — failing to consider Taylor’s Genuine as a lunch spot. I’m glad we did stop by during the day because it turns out that Taylor’s Genuine is one of the few places that refuses to dumb-down the mid-day meal. Genuine is perfect for a cozy lunchtime rendezvous or relaxed meeting when there’s time to unwind and (gasp!) have a glass of wine over expertly prepared market-fresh dishes.

The Deal: The lunch menu is a slightly pared-down version of dinner. The short seasonal menu changes frequently, but there are always two kinds of soup, a risotto or pasta, and a daily seasonal sustainable fish dish. The mix and match charcuterie platter is always available, but the killer gourmet bacon cheeseburger is only on at lunch. The price points seem to be on par with Taylor’s “parent” restaurant, Domus, but the atmosphere is slightly more relaxed and neighbourhoody.

The Dish: Creamy carrot bisque is hardly a revelation, but with a dollop of crème fraiche and a drizzle of intense balsamic it is earthy, rich, and well balanced. And so it goes with the featured fish, Arctic char, a relative of salmon and trout that is celebrated as an environmentally sustainable species. Its appealing coral coloured flesh is moist, meaty, and mild in flavour; its dark skin seared to brittle crisp and accented with a hint of decadent truffle oil. The filet is served atop firm brown lentils studded with bacon lardon and cauliflower florets, accompanied by some simple sautéed cabbage and truly delicious diced pickled beets, which shimmer sweetly against the white plate like tiny jewels. I am struck by how pretty this dish looks and how beautifully it satisfies a fancy for a Euro-style bistro lunch. You won’t find the splurge-worthy chewy chocolate peanut butter brownie anywhere across the pond; Genuine’s is served with top-notch chocolate ice cream and shards of homemade peanut brittle.

Taylor’s Genuine Food & Wine Bar, 1091 Bank St.,  613-730-5672.

Lunch served from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Ottawa Magazine

Always good to have some special items for use at the appropriate times … those items that will save you from the trouble and let you rather elegant. So you can have in your wardrobe choices in terms of clothes, you can use at parties, important meeting or cocktails or any special occasion, we’ll show the brand collection of Jovani cocktail dress 2011.

Actually, this 2011 will come much brighter fabrics with appliqués, sequins and embroidery. Dresses daring but very important manual labor. Jovani’s library is not far behind. This is responsible for strongly enhance the silhouette of women and to impose an elegant and sophisticated.

The designers have chosen a lot of textures and combined variants, such as velvet, satin, taffeta, brocades, feathers and drapes that have been reinvented to give rise to a very modern and contemporary cuts.

In this collection of cocktail dresses 2011 you can find dresses, gowns accompanied by jackets, long sleeve, strapless, mini skirts, etc. It is tasteful and interesting the variety offered by Jovani and how it handles, this collection highlight the figure of the woman and give it a bold and elegant designs.

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Classic, elegant, fine. With these words describe the new autumn winter 2011 collection Carolina Herrera, one of the most distinguished designers of fashion, recently presented on runways in New York.

In her words, she is inspired by everyday women when creating her fantastic designs. On this occasion, you might be surprised with a collection of more feminine, with lots of skirts, belts and various tissues with a touch of the 50′s to look at the cold days of the 2011.

The predominant colors in the 2011 collection of Carolina Herrera are warm and strong. Ideal to combat low temperature! Win reds, oranges, pinks and beige, which share land with the already established black and gray, never absent in their proposals.

As specialists of the ViewonFashion summarize, in this parade classic designs have been linear, tight sleeves and dresses, suits and coats made of wool, cashmere and tweed. The novelty came in the so-called skirts wings that highlights the feminine curves and has exaggerated creases in the rear.

You can spy a bit of fall winter 2011 collection of Carolina Herrera. You may love the trend!

MAR Magazine