Here is an Australian website I can recommend. Sitepoint is an excellent resource that I visit often. It’s aimed at the web professional market, which includes developers and designers and has a whole host of features,
- 17 blogs from design to usability
- Marketplace for hosting, websites, domains and both hiring or trading services
- Design contests held by companies looking for freelance designers
- 9 tutorial videos
- A range of books and kits on many specialist topics
- 4 email-based newsletters with 479,000 subscribers
- Articles organised into 7 topic areas
- Marketing advice
- 10 active forums with 217,000 members
I have bought, read and can recommend ‘The Web Design Business Kit’ from sitepoint, written by Brendon Sincair, who owns and runs a successful web design business. It’s squarely aimed at teaching you how to market and build a freelance web business and it’s well written, so for me, it stands out from the crowd.
