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Nov 7, 2017

Should I always charge clients for meetings?

I regularly send challenge questions to my mailing list. The most recent one came in the form of whether or not there is a ever a case for taking meetings for free. Here was the exact challenge: You're half-way through a project building a Shopify site for your client. Now…

Freelancing

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Should I always charge clients for meetings?
Should I always charge clients for meetings?
Freelancing

6 min read


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·Sep 4, 2017

Using Jekyll for rapid prototyping

As a front-end designer, I increasingly find myself working on UI/UX projects and design systems (styleguides). There is no debating the fact that the toolset, frameworks, and configuration for front-end projects have gotten pretty complex: Gulp, Webpack, transpilers, PostCSS, CMS, Servers… the list goes on and changes frequently. Some or…

Web Development

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Using Jekyll for rapid prototyping
Using Jekyll for rapid prototyping
Web Development

6 min read


May 29, 2017

Become the Check-in Hero

In this article I want to offer some strategies for managing client communication during a project. Often thought of as a pebble in the shoe of creative flow and productivity, frequent check-ins with your clients can actually help you be more productive, deliver a more successful product, and be a…

Freelancing

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Become the Check-in Hero
Become the Check-in Hero
Freelancing

6 min read


May 3, 2017

Saying I don’t know like a pro

We all want projects to run smoothly. We want clients to trust us when we advise them. We want them to confidently put the success of their project in our hands without second guessing every-single-decision™. …

Freelancing

3 min read

Saying I don’t know like a pro
Saying I don’t know like a pro
Freelancing

3 min read


Feb 18, 2016

Step into my office— a freelancing FAQ

I’ve recently been getting a lot of questions around what it’s like to start working for yourself as a designer/developer. I don’t have all the answers, but here’s a bit about my journey and some things that have worked for me. How did you get your start as a freelancer? Many years ago I started as a photographer. Not…

Freelancing

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Step into my office— a freelancing FAQ
Step into my office— a freelancing FAQ
Freelancing

7 min read


Nov 16, 2015

Using jQuery and the Mailchimp API to get around the “Already Subscribed” error.

Let’s let users subscribe multiple times to a single list in Mailchimp! — A HUGE thanks to Wes Bos without whom I never would have understood this. He is a master at breaking things down and I hope to pay it forward without butchering the steps :) Mailchimp makes it very easy to get started with email marketing, and everything works pretty flawlessly…

Mail Chimp

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Using jQuery and the Mailchimp API to get around the “Already Subscribed” error.
Using jQuery and the Mailchimp API to get around the “Already Subscribed” error.
Mail Chimp

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Sep 1, 2015

Don’t make me write it, I won’t make you read it.

Writing proposals that cut to the chase. This is part three in a three part tale (read part 1 and part two). If you’ve read the first two posts in this series, I want to take a moment to thank you for sticking with it as I ramble on. If…

Freelancing

12 min read

Don’t make me write it,
I won’t make you read it.
Don’t make me write it,
I won’t make you read it.
Freelancing

12 min read


Jul 9, 2015

Relax, I got this!

Establishing trust in the client on-boarding process. This is part two in a three-part tale. (see part one and part three). In Road Trips With Clients I discussed the value of breaking out the discovery or road-mapping phase of a project into it’s own mini-project. But how do we get…

Freelancing

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Relax, I got this!
Relax, I got this!
Freelancing

6 min read


May 29, 2015

Road trips with clients

Selling the discovery phase as a deliverable in web projects This is part one in a three-part tale. (see part two and part three) Being a freelancer in the web-making business is no easy feat. You have to keep your technical skills sharp, grow your business sense, and constantly put…

Freelancing

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Road trips with clients
Road trips with clients
Freelancing

7 min read


Apr 23, 2015

Styling Background Images with CSS

Full-screen hero sections with large tag-lines and over-sized background images have been one of the most common design patterns in the past few years (though that is fast changing, with video replacing photographs). Don’t camouflage your message! Some of the possible challenges when combining photography and text might be the busyness or luminosity of…

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Styling Background Images with CSS
Styling Background Images with CSS

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Lucas Lemonnier

Lucas Lemonnier

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Independent Front-end Designer | Educator | Kayaker @luclemo | lucaslemonnier.com

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