Recent content by marktea

I've always relied on downloadable "General service agreement" type contracts in the past, but as my business is growing I'm looking to get a water tight contract and T&C's in place. Probably something more geared towards graphic design/web design services rather than general business law...

Hi everyone. I'm doing some work on a property company website built in Divi, and they are looking to start listing individual properties for sale. Can anyone recommend a Wordpress plugin that will work with Divi to do this, and are there any examples of existing websites that I can view...

Yes, this was sorted out in the end, thanks to everyone who gave advice. They have seen a reduction in work, and since furloughed most staff and are down to a skeleton team of 5 who have all taken a cut in pay, including directors. But there is still work coming in as they are involved in...

Thank you very much for the advice. Your comments have been very helpful in working out how to break it down to the client so that my response seems reasonable and hopefully more palatable. I'm the sole director of a limited company with no employees. I believe that under these circumstances I...

Hi all I'm looking for advice on how to handle a client and what to say to them as we have a phone call booked in for tomorrow. My biggest client has yet to pay their February and March invoices and they are asking if I can discount the invoices due to Coronavirus. They have asked straight out...

Thanks for the advice, I hadn't yet tried this approach with agencies so I wanted to make sure I was doing the right thing (although it seemed like I was). I think having the other ex studio company and wanting to continue with that meant I wasn't really thinking outside the box about new ways...

Not been around these parts for a while, it's nice to be back. I'm looking for some advice about freelancing for design studios. I have my own limited company (started as a studio but I've recently scaled things back to being a freelancer working from home under the same company name - anyway...

I probably rambled on a bit in that first post :) But I need to look at all my options carefully before I decide which direction is the best to take, and some outside opinions from people who understand where I'm coming from might help me to make the decision. Basic questions - How do I...

Hi everyone. I've reached a bit of a crossroads in my career as a graphic designer and I'm possibly looking for some advice or direction. Earlier this year, I set up my own company with a business partner and we got a studio and set up a limited company, then ran a graphic design and web...

Thanks for the responses and opinions. I've decided to go with finding out as much as I can about each business I'm targeting, at the very least an email address and contact details of the person I probably need to speak to. Once I have all of this info I have composed a short standard email...

I use Wordpress a lot. As others have mentioned it enables your clients to incorporate functionality that would be outside of their budget as usually there's a plug in to do whatever it is you need to do. I've recently built a couple of Wordpress sites for a radio station which would have cost...

I'm a graphic designer and I've been running my own business for around six months alongside a web developer. Until now I've been surviving off work I've gained through referrals or word of mouth. Unfortunately this has started to dry up over the last month or two and for the first time I'm...

Got it! The font is Epilog! Epilog Font | dafont.com

Just getting back to this today! Thanks Paul, but it's definitely an actual font. This is a logo I designed a couple of years ago before I lost a hard drive with the original logo file and font on it... oops... I just need to identify it so I can do some more work for this client using the...

Hi all, looking to find out which font is used in this logo. Can anybody help? It looks a bit like a distressed version of Blur but it's not, and I can't find what it is. Thanks for any help!