When I rise in the morning, it feels very good to realize that it’s a brand new day. New things can occur, and new opportunities can arise. Lately, it seems like my opportunities were shut down; however, I find today that more and more opportunities are being opened in light of the closed doors. This gives me hope.

It reminds me that no matter what happens, the sun will always rise and set. The world will continue to turn as it will, and while things may change slow, I feel like if I keep working hard, and using every opportunity that I receive instead of passing it up, that things will work out okay. I’ll admit that lately there have been times when I’ve wanted to simply shut down; the going is certainly pretty tough right now. However, I keep being reminded of how hard I have worked to get to where I am now, and everything that hinges on my steady work. Read more »

Well, just as I was leaving this morning, something came up, and now the trip I was going to make with my family has been cancelled. Thus, normal operations will follow for today and Monday.

This weekend I will be going out of town again in order to visit a cousin of mine due to a personal issue – let’s just state that it is pressing.

I will be leaving early Friday morning, and returning later Monday afternoon. Once I return, normal business operations will commence. I just ask that you please bear with me for this weekend (I realize I was just recently out of town last weekend for personal business as well). Thus far things are going well, and I won’t be back in California until the second weekend of August as far as things are going.

Anyway – take care all.

I’ve decided as of today that I will be creating several new changes to the layout scheme here on BeLink’d. I’ve got a new design pending, but essentially what I’m looking at is an almost complete rebranding.

I’m going to retain the logo; it’s the logo I’ve used ever since I created the design. It was inspired by the old Firefox loading, and the position it occasionally paused in when a page loaded quickly. However, I’m going to try some other very different things in the next scheme, and we’ll see how well they play out.

For now, though, this weekend I’ll be in California, spending some time with family and friends to see the fireworks and to celebrate Independence Day. It should be fun, even if it does put me back a notch on the redesign (workaholic? I don’t know what you’re talking about!)

In a past post, I compared several different job boards which I utilized in my daily life. I summarized the most effective job boards as those which cost a freelancer a very insignificant amount of money, did not spam the freelancer, were not overly intrusive to the normal business operations, were easy to sign up for, and did not compare freelancers to one another. Generally speaking the post was met with nods of approval; after all, why should my earnings on one site determine whether or not I was a decent web designer? For all that site knows, I could have already grossed double the amount reflected using a different service. And, additionally, why should I limit myself to one service when I know that job posters will be posting to different sites? And after educating myself and working towards certifications with W3C and Adobe, why should I pay for another web site to certify me?

Then, I recently noticed that CSS Mania had released their own job board. There is no subscription fee; the site is paid for by the advertisements on the main CSS. Read more »