Comments on: How I’m Saving My Freelance Career

By: Chris Carvache

Chris Carvache — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:17:57 +0000

Hey Matt in regards to building traffic on your site do you submit your content to social media and user generated content sites or do you rely on your user base to do that for you?

By: Don--PHP

Don--PHP — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:29:06 +0000

Hey Matt,

Came across your site while surfing the net. You have a very nice site and I hung around checking things out for longer than I planned. I even read your whole spill on this post.

You seem to have pretty good skills and motivational and I will be back.

Nice design on the Rss Icon!

I do like the look of this site and brown is not a color I usually go for.

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:40:58 +0000

With your design style, I’d LOVE to see some t-shirts and would buy every single one I’d also love to see some tutorials on design/wordpress as well.

By: Rena Cugelman

Rena Cugelman — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:44:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Thanks for your honesty. You’ve given me some good ideas…I need to get out of my own very dry spell

Your site redesign is great! Mine has been in the photoshop phase for a looooong loooong time. Redesign is a good way to utilize down times for sure! Thanks for the inspiration.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:16:30 +0000

I think I remember you mentioned something a while back about your newer CSS reset file, too.

Ah, thanks for the reminder! Totally forgot to write about that. Indeed, I expanded my “Barebones Stylesheet” into a pseudo template system.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:30:47 +0000

Lessons learned. Always keep up your contacts and profiles… you never know when you may need them again!

By: Dave Ellis

Dave Ellis — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:17:54 +0000

I like this post, thanks for sharing the advice. I’ve now set myself up over at CarbonMade, not sure what to expect, but it can’t hurt!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:01:10 +0000

You must be Canadian. Nope, no chance of returning to music television. Have you seen the state of it? Not interested at all. The one thing I love about not being involved int he music industry at all, is being completely oblivious to the garbage that’s out there. Someone asks me, “hey, have you seen that awful new insert artist name video?” and my answer is always no. I like it that way.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:57:05 +0000

Yo Nick! Thanks for the suggestions. Writing about design inspiration and process is really hard. I’ve tried before, but as you can see by the lack of design posts in my archive, failed miserably. I hardly ever just sit down and come up with something right away. There’s usually a couple failed attempts before I get on the right track.

I have a couple posts started on the topic of my redesign. One pertaining to CSS trickery, the other focuses on the back-end. Not sure when I’ll finish them, but keep an eye out.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:53:54 +0000

I’m not sure that I’d branch out into doing themes for other publishing platforms, but I wouldn’t be opposed to working with someone to do some ports.