Good Riddance to Deadbeat Clients [Work Smarter] Everybody has them: slow-pay and no-pay clients. If you’ve been at it long enough, eventually you end up with brilliant projects, coupled with unpaid invoices. Worse still, sometimes the sites you build are live and operational while you’re still waiting and hoping to be paid. You may even be fending off the collection efforts of freelance or other agency contributors who helped you build the site, unable to pay them until you’re paid by the client. Stop Problems before They Start The first step in keeping clients from becoming pro bono without your permission is to use a service agreement that protects your interests, and then stick to it through the whole project.
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Floated page layout. A question which was a great opportunity to create a simple little tutorial about using float and clear in a CSS based page layout was recently posted to our forum. As a bonus, I've also thrown in some information about how to work out the width of elements in a fixed width layout. This tutorial shows you how to create a page layout like this, using web standards and CSS. Such a layout could have any number of uses, of which a photo gallery is only the most obvious. The page I've linked to there clearly isn't finished, I've just tried to keep it simple so we can focus on the layout of the images and the text.
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