{"id":338,"date":"2008-03-29T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2008\/03\/29\/5-unconventional-places-to-scout-for-web-work\/"},"modified":"2008-03-29T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T16:20:17","slug":"5-unconventional-places-to-scout-for-web-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/29\/5-unconventional-places-to-scout-for-web-work\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Unconventional Places to Scout for Web Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
Written by sixrevisions<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a>If you’re a freelancer or a full-timer looking for additional income<\/em>, there’s a variety of places you can go to seek for project-based work.<\/p>\n There’s a ton of websites geared specifically for freelance workers, such as All Freelance Directory<\/a> and Guru.com<\/a>. Many of these sites do<\/em>, however, charge you a subscription fee to access their job listings.<\/p>\n Typically, a lot of work comes from referrals, advertising in your local area, or through your website.<\/p>\n But if projects are running thin or you’re seeking to expand your project search, check out these 5 places you might not have considered before<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n There’s a ton of sites you can visit to find project-based work, but it’s not efficient<\/em> to go to each of these places and wade through outdated job listings.<\/p>\n If you want a speedier way<\/em>, try out Google Advanced Search<\/a>. You can customize how your search terms are used<\/strong>, extend the number of results per page, and limit the publish dates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Here’s a few examples you can try (limited to “this week” dates):<\/em><\/p>\n So you’re really desperate<\/em><\/strong>, right? No one’s going to your website or responding to your local paper ads. No better way to get people to buy your stuff than on eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n If sellers can<\/em> find people willing to buy a Wizards & Dragons musical snow globe<\/a> (it’s nice,<\/em> I’m going to get one), there’s a good possibility that you can get some jobs from there.<\/p>\n Here’s some categories you may want to list in:<\/em><\/p>\n There’s a recent trend where top blogs<\/a> are beginning to include a job listing section where readers can post and find jobs. It gives their audience – who probably have the same interests<\/em> – a chance to meet and collaborate with other like-minded individuals.<\/p>\n Here’s a few job listing sections of some popular weblogs.<\/em><\/p>\n To help you find other blogs, here’s Technorati’s Top 100 blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yes, craigslist<\/a> isn’t only<\/em> for finding dirt-cheap furniture and late night hook-up’s (or<\/em> searching for your soul mate); you can also find web projects listed in your local area<\/em>, as well as other geographical locations. Since it’s web work, many seekers don’t mind if you work remotely.<\/p>\n Aside from craigslist, check out these other online classifieds:<\/em><\/p>\n If you’re a web worker, chances are, you encounter lots of websites everyday.<\/p>\n Almost instinctively, whenever I see a website that I think needs a bit of work, I automatically check out the page source and reach for some Firefox Web Developer extension<\/a> options like “Display Div Order<\/em>“, “View CSS<\/em>” and “View JavaScript<\/em>“, looking for traces of Frontpage mark-up, or silly JavaScript code<\/a> that can be harmful to a website’s security.<\/p>\n If you find a website that you think will benefit<\/em> from a re-design, or if you find flaws that need immediate attention<\/em>, shoot the administrator a polite email about the issues you find, and include your proposed fixes.<\/p>\n Contact them in a professional way, and they may<\/em> hire you to remedy the issue. At the very least, you can feel good about not letting a poorly-developed site go on without doing something<\/em> about it.<\/p>\n And yes, I am aware of the lack of padding on the left side<\/em> of Six Revisions which affects people with smaller screen resolutions\u2026 and I’m doing something about it real soon. So, please<\/em>, do exclude it from your list of “websites that need work”, thank you much! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by sixrevisions If you’re a freelancer or a full-timer looking for additional income, there’s a variety of places you can go to seek for project-based work. There’s a ton of websites geared specifically for freelance workers, such as All Freelance Directory and Guru.com. Many of these sites do, however, charge you a subscription fee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1) Google Advanced Search<\/a><\/h3>\n
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2) eBay<\/a><\/h3>\n
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3) Job Boards of Popular Blogs<\/h3>\n
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4) Classified Listings<\/h3>\n
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5) Websites That Need Work<\/h3>\n