MHunt Design Freelance Web Solutions

I created a list of the best web design, development, and management books out there. No particular order of importance was assigned to these. I own all of these except Jason Beard’s Principles of Beautiful Web Design. His book is more for developer’s looking for help on aesthetics of websites. Anyone working freelance, I highly recommend Freelance Switch’s How to be a Rockstar Freelancer. As for CSS, nothing compares to CSS Mastery. Site Point’s Ultimate CSS Reference is a handy book to have for any web development team.

1. CSS Mastery (February 2006)
2. The Principles Of Project Management (March 2008)
3. Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (September 2006)
4. The Principles of Beautiful Web Design (March 2007)
5. The Ultimate CSS Reference (February 2008)
6. How to be a Rockstar Freelancer (February 2008)
7. DOM Scripting (September 2005)
8. Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites (August 2007)
9. Web Standards Creativity (March 2007)
10. Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (November 2006)

Finding work and how to get going.
For anyone who is a little lost out there when starting their freelance career. I wanted to give some more resources and explain a bit more on freelancing. The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites is an excellent blog post made by Freelance Switch. Often times, just the existence of a profile/portfolio combination on these job sites will get you noticed. People will start to look for you.

I gathered a good list web applications that are great at helping anyone, who’s starting a business or just works for himself/herself. Check them out:

• Harvest: Time Tracking/ Time sheets
• FeedBurner: RSS feedburner
• Mint: Website Stats
• Base Camp: Project Management
• Fresh Books: Invoicing
• Less Accounting: Accounting/Invoicing
• Blinksale: Invoicing

There is a few more out there, but these are some of the applications I found, right now I am only using Harvest, works well and has a widget.