Freelancer's Office: Blog

As I write this I am waiting for a business card program to download so I can test it out.  The program, BusinessCards MX 3.92, is the featured program at Giveaway of the Day today - see link in the sidebar on the left.

BusinessCards MX is a card design program for small business owners, I have already discovered that they have a wide selection of card designs at their website for apparently free download. I’m going to see if I can create a good business card for my Family Caregiver Information site (www.familycaregiver.info) as a test for the program, then I will let everyone know what I think of it.

The standard price for the BusinessCard MX program is $29.95, so if this is something that you might be interested in I encourage you to check out the Giveaway of the Day website and pick up a copy while it is still free. (It has about 10 more hours to go as of when I am writing this.)

I’m back into the stage where all I want to do is clean up the office and get the desk and shelves all finished in there so I have everything where it belongs.  I sort of stopped on the built-in desk a while back, and I am glad now that I did.  I have discovered a certain method to my working that I need to account for in my office, so now I am planning my office desk and cabinetry around the particular needs of my business.

I spent most of the night last night looking up designs and plans for built-in desks and cabinets online, now I am sketching out plans for the way I want to have the office look and matching those to the plans that I have printed out from the built-in cabinets to see what I can come up with for building the office that I need to suit my needs.

I have been hard at work on the office, moved a book case to shift the encyclopedias into the basement library and put my old secretarial into the corner at the head of the stairs to act as a center for my tax stuff to be stashed and worked on.  There are a few more things I have to do, but it’s starting to come together nicely.  Right now I am in the process of cleaning the mess that moving everything caused.

I found a new plugin for Firefox when I loaded Firefox onto my laptop last night.  The YourMinis dashboard that allows me to create a virtual desktop of widgets such as calendars, calculators, timers, comic strips, text editors and more.  I can already see where the thing is going to become an indispensable  part of my online work.  If you run Firefox I would suggest checking the plugin out, I’m still fiddling with it and learning how to use it.

I knew there was a reason why I bought so many notebooks when they went on sale at the start of the school year.  Normally they are what I use for outlining chapters in my novels, short stories and articles that I want to write (as well as countless other uses around the office like tracking supplies and so on and so forth), but now I have found a new use for them.

I have dedicated some of them to being editorial notebooks for my websites.

Yup, that’s right, editorial notebooks.  I take the notebook and write down on a page what topics I want to cover on the website and as I get those topics completed I check them off (or tear the page out).  This lets me keep running notes on what I am working on for each website with a single notebook dedicated to each of my sites.

It seems to be working fairly good so far and reminds me that I have to get things on one site or another done.

I want to build a place on a shelf for the notebooks to be kept, then I am going to cut strips of card stock to about two inches wide and create backs over the spiral binding on them so that a) they won’t grab one another on the shelf and b) I can tell at a glance at the spine what website each of the notebooks is for.