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» 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM We are a Community of Freelancers. On this site you'll find Advice, Jobs, Resources and much more! About Contact Advertise 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Cyan Ta'eed Image from iStockPhoto Update: Well it’s actually 126 resources now, thanks to all the people who added resources in the comments. Update: This article has been translated into Brazillian Portuguese by Rafael Marin. http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 1 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM This article has also been translated into Spanish by Diana at Artegami. This article has also been translated into Italian by Matteo at Rails On The Road. The web is such a big and wonderful place, packed with tools and resources which you all too often don’t know about. So to help all you freelancers out there we have compiled a gigantic list of resources, categorized up for your benefit. If you know a resource that we’ve missed, let us know as we’re always looking to grow this list! Timing These are tools to help you time and track your work. Some of them plug into invoicing programs and some even come with them built in: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. SlimTimer - A Start/Stop little timer that tracks jobs on a main web interface Tick - Timetracking application focused on keeping track of your budgets Time Assistant - Professional timesheet software Harvest - Simple and efficient time tracking FourteenDayz - Online time tracking for teams PunchyTime - A simple time tracking tool for creatives TimePost - Timer that plugs into Harvest, Basecamp and Tick FunctionFox - Timing for creatives (subscription pricing) Invoicing When you don’t invoice, you don’t get paid, so it literally pays to stay on top of your billing. Here are some tools to help: Freelancers Needed Web Design Work Avail. Now. No Bidding. Earn up to $40 an hour www.HitFreelance.com/Employment Freelance Marketplace Post your portfolio today and start earning money from freelance gigs! mediabistro.com/fm 1. Billing Orchard - Electronic billing and invoicing software, starting at $14.95 per month 2. 3. 4. 5. Billable - Service and invoice tracking SimplyBill - Easy to use invoicing software Blinksale - More easy to use invoicing software Quickbooks - Small business financial software Page 2 of 39 http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM 6. Side Job Track - Free web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting and project management for the part-time independent contractor 7. Freshbooks - Tracks time, sends invoices by email or U.S. mail, and generally makes invoicing easier 8. InvoicePlace - Easy Invoicing and Quotes From Anywhere 9. LessAccounting - Is your job title Accounting? Probably not. Do less accounting! 10. MS Office Accounting Express (Free) - Free Microsoft Accounting Project Management and Organization These resources will help you stay organised and manage those projects and clients 1. Proposal Kit - Proposal and contract management tools 2. Ta-Da Lists - a simple (free!) to-do list application that can be shared with the world 3. Backpack - Service that integrates to-do lists, notes, files, images, and a calendar with reminders that can be sent to your email or cell 4. Writeboard - Sharable, web-based text documents that save edits, so you can collaborate, roll back and compare 5. ConceptShare - Share designs and get feedback with visual annotation tools 6. Wridea - Free tool for writers focusing on idea generation 7. GoPlan - Note-taking, calendaring, task management, issue tracking, file management and online realtime chat 8. Toodledo - Another web based to-do list 9. ActiveCollab - Open source collaboration and project management tool 10. MonkeyOn - Your to-do list for things that you want other people to do 11. Remember The Milk - Another To-Do List manager Stock Libraries Templates, Photos, Flash files all to help make you look good 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. FlashDen - A resource selling stock Flash, audio, video and fonts for as little as 50 cents Dreamstime - Royalty free stock photography for $1 - $2 Getty Images - When price is no object and quality is essential Istockphoto - Royalty free stock photography, videos, and illustrations for $1 - $50 Veer - Rights managed and royalty free photography, illutration, type, and motion Stock.xchng - Completely Free stock photography Ice Templates - Website templates in Flash and HTML Template Monster - The biggest website template company on the web! MyFonts - All the fonts you could ever want and a very handy font identification tool as well. IconBuffet - Icons, more icons and even more icons VectorVault - Vector illustration sets Business Tools Resources to help with the business of freelancing… http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 3 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM Freelance Jobs Search Freelance Jobs by Location, Industry, or Keyword www.hotjobs.com Freelance Job Source Access Thousands of Job Postings. Free Information About Freelancing. www.GoFreelance.com Professional Site Design Network Solutions Web Designers Build Websites To Your Needs www.NetworkSolutions.com 1. HighRise - Track communication and conversations with leads, employees, clients, colleagues, vendors 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Campfire - Real-time group chat and file sharing Central Desktop - Shared workspaces and web conferencing Relenta - Manage your email, contacts, documents and activities Google Apps - Communication and collaboration tools from Google Zoho - Free office tools Campaign Monitor - Email newsletter software MailBuild - More newsletter software Breeze - Email campaign and newsletter software Business-Paper - Easy business cards GoToMeeting - Easy online meetings Wufoo - Make forms to survey your clients AIGA Spec Letter - Sample letter to communicate with clients who want spec work or free pitching CPA Directory - Find an accountant (in the US) SBA - Small Business Administration, help and advice Paypal - Online payment system Moneybookers - Online payment system Escrow - Online payment system that protects the buyer and seller, useful for those bigger jobs with anonymous clients. Resources for the Design Entrepeneur - Free sample forms and agreements Work - How-to guides to running a small business XE - Quick and easy currency converter for all your international transactions… Trendwatching - Consumer trends and insights resource FaxZero - US & Canada - Send Faxes for Free Legal Because you have to protect yourself and your work… 1. 2. 3. 4. My New Company - Legal and general start-up information Designers Toolbox - Free legal forms for graphic designers Copyright - Everything you need to know about US copyright AIGA Form of Agreement - Standard form of agreement for design services trmplate Page 4 of 39 http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM 5. HelpMeWork - US - Services to help you focus on what you know best 6. CreativeCommons - For licensing…just about anything Job Boards A whole bunch of places to find jobs, and don’t forget FreelanceSwitch will be adding its very own job board real soon! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 37signals Job Board - Mostly full-time design and programming jobs Authentic Jobs - Full time and freelance job board for standards aware designers and developers Coroflot Job Board - Designer job board WebProJobs - Freelance and full-time jobs for designers, developers, copywriters and marketers Jobpile - Aggregates the best job boards on the web Krop - Creative and tech jobs FWjobs - Web jobs board SlashDot - Jobs for IT professionals CSS Beauty Job Board - Job board for web designers MinistryCamp Job Board - Job board for Christian designers and programmers Guru - Freelancer listing service with job board Elance - List yourself for freelance jobs Web Tools Tools to get your Web Presence Up and running… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Squarespace - Very nice publishing system for websites and blogs Rackspace - dedicated hosting and customer service that is second to none Mosso - Advanced hosting at a reasonable price MyDomain - Domains for $8.50 per year Media Temple - Easy to set up and use hosting Light - Content management for designers and ad agencies SiteKreator - Instant websites - just add your content StrongSpace - Back-up and store important files psd2html - Builds websites in html from Photoshop files xhtml iT - Website builds from design in 24 hours ExpressionEngine - A neat little CMS app Inblogit - A great free blogging tool for web designers PublicSquare - Easy Web Publishing WordPress - The best damn blogging tool around AgencyFusion - Outsourcable programmers XHTMLized - The original - you supply the design and they do the XHTML/CSS Advertising and Marketing A few ways to market and advertise yourself online… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Text Link Ads - Text ads to sell your wares and improve your traffic ranking Review Me - Get your service or Web site reviewed by bloggers Adbrite - Text and banner ads on over 20,000 sites AdEngage - Text and Photext ads (image and text ad combined) Adwords - Text ads on Google searches Professional On The Web - Get yourself Listed Page 5 of 39 http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM Miscellaneous All the many things we couldn’t fit anywhere else! 1. Creative Public - Useful site for anyone starting a freelance graphic or web design career. A $49.95 fee buys unlimited access to forms, manuals, pricing guides, contracts etc 2. You Send It - Send files up to 2GB online 3. Jewelboxing - superior packaging for short run CDs and DVDs 4. eFax - Send and receive faxes by email 5. PowerXChange - Extensions for a variety of creative software, including Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver 6. Coroflot - A great resources for designers to showcase their portfolios, share work and network 7. Cloudmark - Block spam on your PC 8. SpamSieve - Block spam on your Mac 9. Dropsend - Email up to 1GB of files 10. Media Fire - Send 100MB files online 11. Box - Store, share and access files online 12. Icebrrg - Simple web forms 13. Formsite - Web forms and surveys in minutes 14. Lorem Ipsum - Lorem Ipsum generator for dummy copy 15. Textmate - The essential programmers text editor for Macs 16. ETextEditor - Like Textmate but for Windows 17. Kuler - Colour scheme picker 18. Pixie - A useful little colour picker 19. ColourSchemer - A bunch of colour tools 20. Jungle Disk - Online storage for 15 cents a gigabyte 21. AskCharity - free online contacts for journalists 22. TechInline - Remote Desktop Software 23. 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GenPink » Blog Archive » 101 one hundred and ones La toolbar di Skype e un altro giro di link | laboratorio caffeina Best of May/June 2007 at Design Resources 101 Essential Freelancing Resources : amboscuatro Graphic Design Blog » Freelancer Focus 10th August 2007 101 Risorse essenziali per il blogger at PentaSoft blog Thinking About Freelancing? : Slow Down Fast Today! Links for 2007-05-06 : Blog Personal de FeLiPe RM http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 10 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM WEngineering Blog » » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources 101 Essential Blogging Resources : SocialDailyNews.com d-log » Blog Archive » 101 life savers… links for 2007-05-04 | After The Dot Net Phil Gainley » Blog Archive » Free Lancing Resources With Phil Gainley Leave a Comment 1. Jack April 11th, 2007 Wow guys, you’ve outdone yourselves, that is a HUGE list, how long did it take to compile? You should add Expression Engine (http://expressionengine.com/) to the web part, its pretty handy… 2. collis April 11th, 2007 It took forever is how long No actually Cyan and I worked on it for about 3 hours last night and 3 hours today just sorting through everything. Worth it though, this is a page to keep in the bookmarks! 3. Scott Carpenter April 11th, 2007 Hi Collis, under Invoicing I would like to suggest adding Invoiceplace - http://www.invoiceplace.com (which I have developed). Under Project Management and Organization there are two reminder services I have found very useful: MemoToMe - http://www.memotome.com and Remember The Milk http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ Lastly for Stock Libraries I would suggest adding IconBuffet - http://www.iconbuffet.com/ 4. Lisa April 11th, 2007 Thank you for the mention of DropSend - great list, lots of these apps and sites are life savers for us, as a small company. 5. allan branch April 11th, 2007 http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 11 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM What about http://www.LessAccounting.com? 6. Andy Ford April 11th, 2007 Very handy list. Bookmarked in Delicious. Here’s hoping this list will be maintained and grow over time… 7. Gabriele April 11th, 2007 very usefull, tnx!! i need now a little bit of time to read ”^-^ 8. Matte April 11th, 2007 Hi Collis, I suggest this new web app, Professional on the Web, a directory where web agencies and freelancers can list their profiles and easily manage showcase of their projects. Users can search web professionals by tag and also rate projects instantly. No need to register or sign in. You can subscribe to the ever increasing list of designers and projects being added to Professional on the web via RSS. It’s a way for freelancers to get new Jobs and for customers to find out new freelancers from the top rated list and looking their portfolios. 9. Katrineholm Review April 11th, 2007 I must add your URL to http://katrineholmreview.blogspot.com 10. Arthur April 11th, 2007 Really good list!! Great Resources! Tks! 11. feedMashr.com April 11th, 2007 Total Basecamp addict. This 37 signals app has totally saved my butt with the multi-tasking aspect of freelance life. 12. Saulo http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 12 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM April 11th, 2007 Simply PERFECT .. i wanna get teme for select each section of tools ideas and just explore this huge supply … 13. Shara Karasic April 11th, 2007 Hi, thanks for mentioning Work.com. We are always looking for more great how-to guides for freelancers, so you are welcome to write your own Work.com guide about any aspect of the freelance experience. 14. RAN April 11th, 2007 Ey Cyan, you guys ‘nd girls over at flashDen and of course here are doin’ some very very good things for the community and its great to see people like you so passionat about what they do…thanX a lot cheers 15. Cyan April 11th, 2007 Thanks for all the new links and positive feedback! We will keep expending this list as we go, as there are lots of amazing tools/resources out there we haven’t heard about. The current list is basically what we’ve found useful or heard good things about - we waded through all our old bookmarks 16. Jason Drohn April 12th, 2007 Fantastic list. This has to be one of the most indispensable I have seen online in a long time.. 17. cyberbuff April 12th, 2007 Really nice. saved in delicious 18. Collis April 12th, 2007 Well, I’ve just added 7 new resources to the list, thanks for the suggestions people, keep ‘em coming! 19. Jermayn Parker http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 13 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM April 12th, 2007 Yeah thanks for that very useful list. I actually use my myob program for my invoices but the examples you used are probably easier (and cheaper). Think WordPress and other free templates, cms etc could be a handy addition to the list. Some times its easier to use an existing template to start a website. Other than that, great work 20. Paw Projects April 12th, 2007 Thanks, this list is fantastic. There are some great tools in here that I hadn’t heard about before. For instance, I paid for ColorImpact, while the Adobe Kuler tool is WAY more advanced and even web-based. 21. Charles Wilson April 12th, 2007 Very useful list. I am coming from a more marketing angle. Why not include ablewise.com to the list under marketing. It should help some up and coming free lancers advertise their services or business. 22. Steve Wordpressguy April 12th, 2007 Nice list, on a quick scan I spotted enough sites that I know do the business to investigate the others. I’ve used MediaTemple for a couple of years now and apart from the odd glitch with the gridserver setup over the past couple of months you can’t touch ‘em. Nice ordering too, start with the boring but essential stuff we all try to ignore. 23. Paul Jennings April 12th, 2007 You should add XHTMLized.com under tools. We’ve tried several different design companies to code companies but these guys were by far the best. 24. Viking KARWUR April 12th, 2007 Thanks for sharing… This is usefull resources for Freelance like me (web designer)… http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 14 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM Cool… 25. AR Web Consulting April 12th, 2007 This list is excellent, Thank You. I just signed up for Breeze… 26. Ines April 13th, 2007 These links are awesome!! Thanks for sharing! 27. bruno April 13th, 2007 Great! It is one of the best list i have ever seen. 28. onesummer April 13th, 2007 pixie (color getter) http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html or colorschemer’s colorpix: http://www.colorschemer.com/download.php they both will let you grab the color values and screen coordinates at any pixel on your screen. use it daily. Both are free, too. and http://www.protolize.org is a site that lists resources as well. 29. Brad April 13th, 2007 Three quick additions: 1. K7.net lets you setup a free phone number to receive voicemail and/or faxes. Any fax sent to the number is scanned and emailed to you as a TIF file. 2. FaxZERO is a service that lets you send faxes of up to 3 pages for free, although it includes an advertisement on the cover page. You can send longer faxes with no ad for $1.99 each, and there’s no monthly subscription fee. 3. Microsoft Accounting 2007 Express is a free download for bookkeeping and invoicing. 30. Sean http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 15 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM April 13th, 2007 DivShare - File Sharing Unlimited for free. No registration required either. http://www.divshare.com/ 31. adhi April 13th, 2007 thanks for the articles, its motivated me 32. Mike April 13th, 2007 Amazing list of resources. Another great website vendor is Agencyfusion.com. They’ve been easy to work with and I can alway trust that they’ll get my sites done the way I design them. (I’ve been burned by other freelance guys before) And the sites they build from your design come with a CMS baked right in. Good if you don’t want to deal with the programming stuff yourself. And thanks again for the resource list. I’ve already bookmarked several. As a freelancer, I love the insights into support areas. Mike 33. Fubiz April 13th, 2007 Thanks a lot for the links 34. wotaewer April 14th, 2007 wow. nice stuff in the project management category. Even some things, I didn’t know about Where did you find www.professionalsontheweb.com ? I like that site very much. 35. Roberto Alamos April 14th, 2007 I’m an active freelancer and every tool I have used is included in the list :O Nice work and nice blog! I just discovered it through innovationzen.com and I’m impressed. Kudos to you 36. J.Y. http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 16 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM April 14th, 2007 Hi, I’ve been using http://www.openair.com for a number of years to handle invoicing and think it would hold up well against the ones included here. Nice list btw, and I’m enjoying this site. 37. Thoreau April 15th, 2007 One you missed. http://www.allfreelancework.com I’ve always had good luck on the job board there. 38. Diana April 15th, 2007 This is great! Thank you so much for doing this. Bookmarked 39. Sean April 15th, 2007 What about portable-emploer-of-record services like http://helpmework.com/ and http://mybizoffice.com/ ? 40. lee April 15th, 2007 Fellow freelancers, Please please please dont use rackspace (as suggested in the list). They have received tons of customer complaints, problems and issues. Just read any review sites on them and you’ll see. I’m not going to suggest who to use for hosting but please think twice before using rackspace. 41. Andrew April 15th, 2007 Hi, nice list - thanks for putting it together. One point, FYI - ‘Breeze’ is just a re-branded (and more expensive) version of MailBuild, brought to you by the good folks behind Campaign Monitor. Maybe you could list MailBuild instead? http://www.mailbuild.com/ 42. Xeno April 16th, 2007 You missed htmlhelp.com, a reference which I find absolutely indespensible. http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 17 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM 43. van20 April 16th, 2007 super article! http://www.van20.com/story/192/ 44. pixelsnot April 16th, 2007 AWSOME LIST. PERIOD. I do have a few you should add though. Job Boards: Communication Arts Job Board, http://www.creativehotlist.com Time Management: Function Fox, http://www.functionfox.com Hosting: Host Gator, http://www.hostgator.com (great reseller ability with tons of free php/mysql things with the aid of ‘Fantastico’) Rock on. Great site. I have been looking for this website for years! Thanks for all the work. 45. sun April 16th, 2007 CMS For Designers: http://www.obdev.at/products/webyep/index.html real basic stuff, but worth it in my opinion for what it delivers. 46. CH April 16th, 2007 Excelente recopilación. Bye. 47. Todd April 16th, 2007 This list is an absolute treasure, thank you so much! I am surprised I haven’t heard about some resources like zoho and sitekreator, they seem to be a real find!! Well-done!! 48. JH April 16th, 2007 http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 18 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM Great list … but … Bit US biased - would be nice if list indicated resources that are really only of interest to a particular country. And also it would be useful to indicate if the resources were free or not. For now though I’ll visit them all …. Thanks 49. matthew April 16th, 2007 Great list. I’d add Creative Commons to your list of legal resources. http://creativecommons.org/ 50. boston-artsie April 16th, 2007 Aquent’s another friend of freelancers looking for gigs. They match you up with mostly design and marketing work. Good clients and they treat people well (health, 401k, and vacation). http://www.aquent.com 51. steve April 16th, 2007 Awesome list! Thanks a lot! But you missed remote desktop access tools in the Business Tools category: http://www.techinline.com It’s a great service for freelancers! 52. Penelope April 16th, 2007 Great tool but I can’t see many research sites like the one we run www.askcharity.org.uk This can save freelancers lots time because it is a search engine of charities’ PR people and their mobile numbers and allows journalists to send out case study requests to hundreds of charities at once 53. ByzantineX April 16th, 2007 Hello, I just noticed a little problem on your site. Your post 101 Essential Freelancing Resources at: http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 19 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM Has 102 posts so the text saying so overlaps your image. I looked at your HTML and CSS and found that you have a static image which the text lays over top of here: http://freelanceswitch.com/wp-content/themes/FSw%202/images/comments.jpg If you were to make this into three different images 1) Left part of image with little girl and a little bit of the green 2) A rectangle block of green just a few pixels wide 3) The Right port of the image You could have that text say 1,000,000 posts and the image would never break again. Give it a shot if you feel like it some time. I’m not sure if you have many post numbers that high, but I’m sure as your website continues to grow you will see it more and more. Please, feel free to email me any questions or comments. Have a great day! - ByzX 54. Lara April 16th, 2007 This is a great site and I have book marked it and will be coming back. I thought I would add a timetracking tool I use to your list. It is called timepanic…www.timepanic.com…I have found it very useful. It is inexpensive and easy to use. Just thought I would add to your list. 55. Rasmus J April 16th, 2007 Greeeeat list! You need webzine administration: PublicSquare 56. Collis April 16th, 2007 @ByzX, Thanks for that, yep that is my dodgy CSS, I hadn’t really thought about what would happen when we had comments numbering in the three figures I’ll get that sorted, thanks for the tip off! http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 20 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM 57. Scott Carpenter April 16th, 2007 I must say Timepanic ( http://www.timepanic.com ) looks very impressive - I may have finally found a replacement to my 8 year old Microsoft Access time keeping database! 58. IhateDesign April 16th, 2007 thanks great resources!! 59. Mark April 16th, 2007 Anyone on the Mac looking for a great project timer that works with Basecamp, Tick or Harvest? Timepost ( http://www.timepostapp.com/ ) is a great piece of software for Mac OS X that automatically posts project hours online. 60. Rajesh April 17th, 2007 I have found a very good web based office suite. It offers everything you can think about similar to word, excel. powerpoint, crm, Project management, planner, wiki, Chat and many others. Add the site http://www.zoho.com. Great Suite!!! 61. Rajesh April 17th, 2007 One more great site: http://www.tutorialized.com Regards Rajesh (http://www.rajeshshakya.com) 62. veemobil April 17th, 2007 I can’t believe you didn’t mention wordpress. 63. Nikki Locke April 17th, 2007 http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 21 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM I’ve written a shareware time sheet application which automatically records how much time you spend working in each kind of Window on your computer, and lets you assign the time to jobs. If you can recognise which job from the window title, you can tell it to make the assignment automatically. I think it’s the best time sheet program available (but then I would, wouldn’t I!). It’s fully functioning shareware (no nag screens, no crippling, no timeout), so it’s free to try, and I’m very much looking for user feedback. http://www.trumphurst.com/TimeSheet.phtml 64. Tristan Bethe April 17th, 2007 Anotherone for the Stock Libraries: imageafter.com. Free hi-res images for commercial use without the need to credit the site. 65. Greg Horowitz April 17th, 2007 Shamless plug: For freelancers who work in media, my company, mediabistro.com, offers a number of invaluable tools. Our premium AvantGuild membership offers benefits including discounted health insurance, personal LexisNexis accounts, How to Pitch Guides for more than 180 publications, and lots more. Meanwhile, our Freelance Marketplace service allows users to post their profile and clips in a searchable database so that employers can find them. I invite anyone with questions to check out the site (www.mediabistro.com) or send me a message at http://www.mediabistro.com/aboutus/contactus.asp?to=gh&subject=message%20for%20greg Best, Greg Horowitz Membership Director mediabistro.com 66. zenalien April 18th, 2007 Hi.. very good work… You could complete your list with billster, www.billster.net, a web2,0 site for invoicing and keeping track of expenses… 67. Scott April 18th, 2007 Seems appropriate to add WriteMaps here - http://www.writemaps.com - Create visual sitemaps online. 68. Gabriela Schechter http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 22 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM April 18th, 2007 This is so good! Thanks for sharing and for helping the freelance community! 69. vtmiller April 18th, 2007 Mega source you must checkout http://www.jumpola.com Also I’ve worked with http://www.voice123.com and it might be the best voice talent site on the web. I got 350 quotes & actual samples of a voice-over I needed within 24 hours and the service is basically free to find talent for publishers, and advertisers. 70. Mark April 19th, 2007 New Timepost update is available with support for Blinksale (http://www.blinksale.com/) and Checkboard (http://www.checkboard.com/). Get it while it’s hot: http://www.timepostapp.com/download 71. AnissaT April 20th, 2007 AWESOME list!!! I’d add http://www.w3schools.com to the list for “foot-in-the-door” quick intro/tutorials for HTML, CSS, server-side technology… It’s where I send my students when there’s not enough time to cover everything in class. 72. cat April 20th, 2007 Resources for Freelancers? Sure. Graphic Define Magazine: Focuses on the business of running a graphic, interactive, or web design studio Creative Latitude: a worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practices BoDo: Business of Design online 73. cat http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 23 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM April 20th, 2007 There are a ton more (you can find them in the Creative Latitude and BoDo resources) but one that should absolutely not be missed is Creative Business 74. Krista April 23rd, 2007 Thanks for the [very] helpful list - I’ve got two to add, both of which provide free media. The first is www.morguefile.com - an online resource for hi-res, royalty-free stock images. The site is wonderfully intuitive, and a large number of the images are former stars (but are now dead and in the “morgue”…) The second is dafont.com - yet another beautifully intuituve site that offers a myriad of free fonts, and comes complete a preview for the line of text of your choice. These two are on the top of my list. Hope that helps! 75. Gerhard Sletten April 24th, 2007 Under “Timing” my free desktop timer for mac should be added downloadable from http://www.gersh.no/ 76. Gerhard Sletten April 24th, 2007 Aah, its named Worktimer (forgot to mention) 77. Nicu Cismaru April 25th, 2007 Hi Cyan, I would also like to suggest Fanurio which does both time tracking and invoicing (I’m one of the people involved in this project). We have designed Fanurio to help freelancers manage their work and be paid for it. It can do basic project management, time tracking and invoicing in order to have all the functionality in one place. Thanks, Nicu 78. Adam April 25th, 2007 There are many resources out there for designers that feel more like a dumping of links and some banner ads. It’s hard on the eyes and hard to digest. This site gets it done right. After all, you are http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 24 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM catering to people who spend a great deal of time simplifying information for the eyes. How refreshing that you consider that with your layout. Like the friendly characters and delicious colour palete. But most of all - i dig the content. I hope that this site grows into something successful, without loosing it’s philosophy. Proud to support it. Respect. 79. Victor April 25th, 2007 To manage your finances in an easy way, try http://moneytrackin.com It’s a simple yet powerful tool 80. Ryan April 26th, 2007 Thank you for compiling this huge and helpful list. Another program that may be helpful for anyone with some programming background is Visual Web Developer by Microsoft (A mini version of the Visual Studio IDE). http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/ And no, I don’t work for Microsoft =P 81. Jdjohnson April 26th, 2007 Another good resource for fast coding of designs is codeyourdesign.com. Very friendly, fast, and best of all he is a student doing this side project to help costs of school. 82. Pali Madra May 3rd, 2007 A great list and resource. Thanks! 83. Adam May 3rd, 2007 Does anyone have any positive experiences with any web ad services? I’m trying to push my vector art collections. Budget is certainly a factor. Looking for something that gets results at a reasonable price. Anyone? www.vectorvault.com 84. Adam http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 25 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM May 7th, 2007 My vector software collection got a fantastic review. Check it out: http://www.bittbox.com/news/vectorvaultcom-product-review-interview-with-adam-jarvis-and-thefuture-of-free-vectors-online/ www.vectorvault.com 85. Shelby May 16th, 2007 Nice list, Thanks. I found a couple things I hadn’t seen yet. Thanks again, Shelby 86. Uri Lewin May 16th, 2007 My online list management application http://listigator.com is sort of a Tada on steroids, with item categories, list import&export, extensive sharing options and more. 87. John Rawsterne May 17th, 2007 Excellent list. Thanks I think you should add http://www.stockxpert.com to your Stock Libraries section. 88. Ricardo May 18th, 2007 Check this: http://www.8ung.at/ukrebs You should/must include Kalender in http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Kalender is a fantastic diary-and-to-do application, which I selectd from a few dozen other freewares. It is much better than several paid softwares. 89. Hamayun Butt May 18th, 2007 There can only be one not 101 http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 26 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM Interesting reading - but honoustly you only need one! www.comapping.com / see the video first to make sure that all 101 resources are covered If any of the above 211 comments do not agree please send a comment ps. I am using this tool for a collaboration project with a IT school in Burkina Faso and Ghana Big ups to all!!! Hamayun 90. rachel May 21st, 2007 Toggl (http://toggl.com/) is the best free time-tracking tool I’ve used. 91. Teodor May 21st, 2007 Good job! Your site is great! 92. dale tan May 23rd, 2007 this is a really good (and possibly only) xml/xsl based cms - symphony 93. Jared May 23rd, 2007 Here’s a couple definitely worth taking a look at: Editor + FTP + CSS + Terminal + More http://www.panic.com/coda Simply send large files (Free) http://www.senduit.com 94. र+व May 24th, 2007 Hi, http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 27 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM nice list. CAN I TRANSLATE it in Hindi and post it in my above Hindi Blog? ध.यवाद (Thanks!) 95. cody r June 22nd, 2007 thanks for the great resource! 96. Adam June 22nd, 2007 A low cost alternative to WebMeeting and any kind of Voice conferencing is Infinite Conferencing (www.infiniteconferencing.com). It’s actually very reasonably priced and high quality of customer service. 97. Sarah Day June 22nd, 2007 For all the freelance web designers out there, I’d add Protonotes - a great free tool I use every day to communicate with my clients to discuss their website designs. It lets you easily add/share notes on any webpage. http://www.protonotes.com/ 98. Tom Granger June 22nd, 2007 Try this for Web Freelancer Humor and Therapy: (Flash Game) http://www.templatekit.com/tstore/wrapper.php?file=propgame.htm 99. Cristina June 22nd, 2007 u forgot www.getafreelancer.com. it’s one of the best freelancing sites. www.essaywriters.net is also a pretty good one 100. mike June 22nd, 2007 In time tracking I would suggest Rachota. It is free, open source, runs anywhere, and can run from a USB drive (portable). It is an excellent task management tool. rachota.sourceforge.net http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 28 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM 101. mike June 22nd, 2007 Fixing link: rachota.sourceforge.net 102. Dan Gebhardt June 23rd, 2007 Please consider adding http://LiveTimer.com to your list of Timing applications. We’ve spent quite a bit of time making LiveTimer.com as flexible, yet easy to use, as possible. LiveTimer.com is especially well suited for freelancers because every account, regardless of size, is protected with SSL security. There’s a 30 day free trial if you’re interested. Thanks! 103. Diane Sastram June 23rd, 2007 Great list! All my tools are on there except for Protonotes - I use it to collaborate on web design with my clients. It lets you add/share notes on any webpage. http://www.protonotes.com/ 104. syahid ali June 23rd, 2007 nice collection of freelancing tools. sad to know that activecollab is not going to be fully free next time. 105. Patty Ayers June 23rd, 2007 Hello - A site you may want to add to your list: my web site, WebDevBiz.com, offers resources for freelancers, web developers in particular, including free articles and a package of documents and forms for sale called “Professional Web Business Tools”. It looks to me like it would belong under your “Business Tools” section, if you decide to include it. The site is www.webdevbiz.com. Any questions, feel free to contact me. Best regards, Patty Ayers WebDevBiz.com 106. Steven Stark June 24th, 2007 http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 29 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM VancouverOnlineMedia.com is another great resource for those developers on the west coast of Canada. What is Vancouver Online media? Vancouver Online Media, or ‘VOM’, is an online resource for Vancouver based developers. Here you can: * Discuss projects and receive help in the message forum * List your portfolio items through the Portfolio Manager * Publish your resume through the Resume Manager * Browse job listings through the Job Manager. * Use your profile on VOM as a ‘home base’ to send clients to when looking for potential work. 107. Brian Turner June 24th, 2007 It’s a nice list, but to be honest, what would have made it even better is if you’d indicated the cost of the individual software packages beside each listing - would have made referencing the list even more valuable. 2c. 108. Free Nature Photogra June 25th, 2007 wow, very helpful, have been trying to figure out for the last year how to get my billing in order.. 109. Tilo June 25th, 2007 Please think about adding our tool for remote control over the Internet, TeamViewer (http://www.teamviewer.com) Our solution offers a very quick and simple way to give support over the Internet, even through firewalls. TeamViewer also includes full file transfer. The solution is completely free for non-commercial use, commercial licenses start at $460.Thanks a lot for this great listing you provide! 110. Faina Shpiler June 26th, 2007 What a great list! I would like to add a few more resources: 1. Alertbox - Jakob Nielsen’s personal newsletter http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 30 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM 2. AListApart.com provides really useful wide collection of articles on web design. Enjoy, Faina Shpiler www.formvisual.com 111. Bjoern Fredriksen June 29th, 2007 it-globalized.com is another job resource site for freelancers, web designers and programmers to connect and build relationships with project buyers. The site doesn’t yet have the scale of some of the other players, but the site is definitely growing. Kind Regards Bjoern Fredriksen CEO - IT-Globalized.com www.it-globalized.com 112. jate July 2nd, 2007 TRUE! 113. frandango24 July 3rd, 2007 monkey on your back.. i love that! 114. admin July 6th, 2007 nice list for a freelancer or a to-be freelancer. i simply would recommend this page to everyone i know. good work. 115. Melanie Kelley July 20th, 2007 Add some organization to your business. Big Contacts is the BEST on-line tool to help you manage your contacts. I have used Act!/Salesforce etc… Big Contact is the BEST!. Basic Version is free. Works great with a team! www.bigcontacts.com 116. Andy http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 31 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM July 24th, 2007 Another site to help technical freelance consultants find local clients (and vice-versa) is www.FreelanceLocalTech.com. It’s organized around the idea that most clients want to work with local freelance consultants instead of somone on the other side of the world… and freelance consultants can be much more successful working to create lasting relationships with clients in their respective communities instead of jumping from project to project with no obvious long-term prospects. It’s free to post your services or your projects. The site only launched two months ago, but they’re actively marketing it and reporting that traffic is running about 50-50 between clients and consultants. Check it out! 117. Sanjay Kumar July 26th, 2007 Cyan, I would like to request that you add SimplifyThis.com to the invoicing section. While there are a lot of options out there already, we strongly believe there is additional value being provided by Simplifythis.com, including the ability to see and do everything from one single screen. Thanks! 118. nicolas July 27th, 2007 I just found one free domain name lookup service.http://www.ajaxlookup.com, Free and instantly checks domain name availability and see whois detail. Pretty cool stuff! … 119. lhjava July 27th, 2007 Need an Ajax loading gif, favicons, or a cool sounding web 2.0 name? If you answered yes to any of those, then head on over to WebScriptLab. This site is simple yet utterly practical. The first tool out of the lab is a gif generator; if you haven’t already got a little round icon to indicate your Ajax is loading you can create one; simply pick an indicator type, background color, foreground color, speed, and presto, you’ve got yourself a handy yet elegant loading icon. To create favorites icons upload a picture (150KB max.), convert it to the 16×16 Favicon standard and hit generate. The same goes for your web domain, just click generate and see what’s available. WebScriptLab may not have tons to offer, but what they’ve got so far is pretty useful. 120. Adrian Brown July 28th, 2007 www.solocrm.com is a new crm tool designed for freelancers and independent professionals. The client portal included is really helpful in managing clients. -Adrian http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 32 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM 121. Vasudev Ram August 5th, 2007 Thanks for coming up with the idea for this list. Looks like a good resource. Vasudev Ram http:/www.dancingbison.com http:/sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf http:/jugad.livejournal.com 122. Vision22 August 22nd, 2007 This is fascinating piece of work. It seems like you can find anything you need to get started or to improve yourself! Great job and thanks! 123. GD September 27th, 2007 This is a great Canadian Job Board. Creative, Development and Marketing Jobs. Here the link: www.CDMJOBS.ca 124. NestaVista October 3rd, 2007 Excelente colección de 101 recursos para webmasters. Gracias. Saludos! NestaVista.com 125. Bleach October 4th, 2007 Ohhh this is so so useful to me! Especially the Misc where I discovered several new things. Thanks. 126. Josh October 8th, 2007 Cyan, Great list and great looking website! I run a startup (www.BeenVerified.com) that helps freelancers find and stand out to clients by marketing verified only information about their identity and credentials. Think of it as a network of freelancers whose resumes have all BeenVerified. With all the noise on current freelance websites, we thought it would be a nice change of pace to have a network of individuals who you could trust their claims are real. Freelancers can learn more at http://www.beenverified.com/freelancers. Keep up the awesome work! http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/ Page 33 of 39 » 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Freelance Switch 10/11/07 3:55 PM 127. Ryan Cross October 10th, 2007 Hey Cyan, Just wanted to let you know that activeCollab is no longer free or open source, however ProjectPier (www.projectpier.org) is a fork of the old code that has been improved and is being actively developed further. 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