Looking to hire a web designer or developer in the Austin area? Are you a web designer or developer looking for work in the Austin area? I’ve posted a few helpful resources after the jump.
Quick Tip: Pay Attention
If you have a website you should be keeping track of who’s visiting it and what they’re doing while they’re there. Google Analytics is a great tool for doing just that. If your site is built with WordPress, like mine is, you can also install a plugin like Site Stats, which will create a new page for your dashboard full of useful information.
Organizing Your Job Search
If you’re being smart about your job search, you’re tailoring your resume and cover letter for each company you are applying at. If you’re really smart, you’re not making that obvious to the person receiving the resume and cover letter. This is a simple matter of how your organize your files on your computer.
Designers: Design Your Resumes!
I’m reading through resumes and cover letters, looking for freelancers to add to our pool of talent at Spiceworks. And most of the resumes suck. They are horribly designed. (Two pages in all caps, seriously? And you call yourself a designer?) As a whole they have terrible leading, headers, use of white space, suffer from poor font choices, and are riddled with typos, misspellings, grammatical errors, missing punctuation, inconsistent punctuation on lists, and on and on.