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The Secret Law of Page Harmony. “A method to produce the perfect book.” The perfect book. This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system. Not the ok book, nor the pretty good book, but the perfect book. This method existed long before the computer, the printing press and even a defined measuring unit. No picas or points, no inches or millimeters. It can be used with nothing more than a straight edge, a piece of paper and a pencil. And you can still use it. The Secret Canon & Page Harmony Books were once a luxury only the richest could afford and would take months of work to be brought to fruition. And they were harmoniously beautiful. The bookmakers knew the secret to the perfect book.

So elegant is this method of producing harmony that a few designers saw to rediscover it. They found the way to design a harmonious page. There’s a dance to all this Let’s look at this dance, shall we? This is where the harmony is found. How is this dance beautiful? A module is to a grid, as a cell is to a table. The J. Recent Design Inspirations. WordPress.com — Get a Free Blog Here. Carbonmade : Your online portfolio. Athens DDA.

Guide to Google Local Search | Small Business Search Marketing. Setting Freelance Web Design Rates — Good Karma Host. Some time back, I wrote an article on setting web desgin rates and it continues to get a fair amount of traffic, so evidently this is an issue people are interested in. For all you aspiring web designers/consultants out there, here is how I set rates for web design and development during my freelance web consulting years–including plenty of the mistakes I made–maybe you can avoid some of ‘em! For most web design/development projects, I used a flat rate fee structure. This has a number of advantages: Client knows the costs are up-frontLess stress over tracking time or overagesDeposits are easy to figure (half upfront, nonrefundable, half upon completion worked well)Feature creep is easier to manage with clear deliverables attached to a specific price–additions to agreed-upon functionality meant negotiating additional feesMaintenance contracts for site updates allow clients an average, predetermined block of time each month and allow me an ongoing, dependable source of income Undercharging.

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