Welcome to the first podcast for The Web Squeeze. We are planning on doing regular podcasts every other week, all on topics related to freelancing and running your freelance web design business. This podcast features the questions you asked about freelancing! We’d love to read your thoughts on it, and suggestions for future topics, or questions you may have that you want us to answer! So make sure to comment and let us know what you think!
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Websites Mentioned
satellitedev.com – Japh’s Web Development Company.
john.onolan.org – Popular Freelance Blogger
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About The Hosts
Jacob Haug (Host) – My name is Jacob Haug, and I spend the majority of my time in website development. I donate many hours each day helping the web community with technical aspects of website design and development. My current project is The Web Squeeze. A “NEW”, “FRESH”, Web Design and Development community dedicated to helping make the internet a better place! @JacobHaug
Linda Chadbourne (Host) – Linda Chadbourne has been a web designer since 1998. A large portion of her day also involves graphic and logo design for Cozy Penguin Web Studio which she owns and operates. Linda is also one of the co-founders of The Web Squeeze which is a Web Design and Development Help Forum. In her free time she is an avid family person, horseback rider and reader. @Lchad
Japh Thomson (Guest) – I’m a web developer. I’ve been developing websites for over 10 years, from learning HTML and CSS, through to programming web applications and CMSes in PHP and MySQL. I really enjoy learning new languages, techniques, and technologies. I also enjoy learning new spoken languages, traveling and experiencing different cultures. @japh
Good job guys! Can’t wait to hear more of these!
Congrats on the first podcast, guys! Looking forward to many more
(Also, my apologies for the quality of my recording lol will do better if I get asked back
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Listening to it while I type. Great job guys!
Love it, great idea to start doing podcasts.
Looking forward to the next one
There must be something wrong with the download: it is only 20.4 MB, and lasts 00:22:16 hours.
Marc
I’d say try downloading again, Marc. Sounds like your download failed, do you have software that allows you to resume downloads? Might be worth trying
@Marc I’ve downloaded it twice now, both times it worked and was 55.3MB. Sounds like a problem with your computer/network.
Very very very cool! Absolutely love it! Quality is great, and some REALLY interesting topics covered. Looking forward to much more! Will definitely subscribe to this in iTunes once you guys have it all up and working!
I tried 3 times yesterday on the university network, and it didn’t work. Tried again today, didn’t work.
Tried on network at home, didn’t work. Downloads from other sites, etc. work fine.
Strange.
@John Thanks for the support! We have the iTunes feed up, and you can subscribe via iTunes to all future podcasts using this link.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=336079054
@Marc I don’t know what to tell you Marc, it’s working for everyone else. You could try downloading the podcast through iTunes, however, even iTunes downloads from our server. You could also try downloading the compressed zip version here.
http://www.thewebsqueeze.com/podcasts/01-starting-freelancing/starting-freelancing.zip
Let me know if you manage to get it working for you!
Freelancing can be very difficult to get into, but once you’ve built the contacts and you have the networking down it’s really all just about skills and time.
Anyway, like the podcast. weird to hear Jacob’s voice, he’s always been a faceless enigma to me.
@alexgeek – I totally agree! The first time we talked via Skype it was like the mystery was unveiled! LOL! It’s great to see you around!
Really great info, looking forward to hearing about that contact podcast.