推薦：IT自由職業者完整資源

推薦下面資源，為IT自由職業者提供全方位的服務。比如包括自由職業工作機會釋出網站列表，自由職業者法律諮詢網站列表，自由職業者資金管理網站列表，自由職業者專案管理網站列表等等。收集的相當全面，如果你是一個自由職業者，或者只是有空閒工作之餘做些小專案，這些網站都值得看看。


Job Boards

A whole bunch of places to find jobs

1. - Mostly full-time design and programming jobs
2. - Full time and freelance job board for standards aware designers and developers
3. - Designer job board
4. - Freelance and full-time jobs for designers, developers, copywriters and marketers
5. - Aggregates the best job boards on the web
6. - Creative and tech jobs
7. - Web jobs board
8. - Jobs for IT professionals
9. - Job board for web designers
10. - Job board for Christian designers and programmers
11. - Freelancer listing service with job board
12. - List yourself for freelance jobs

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. - A Start/Stop little timer that tracks jobs on a main web interface
2. - Timetracking application focused on keeping track of your budgets
3. - Professional timesheet software
4. - Simple and efficient time tracking
5. - Online time tracking for teams
6. - A simple time tracking tool for creatives
7. - Timer that plugs into Harvest, Basecamp and Tick
8. - 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:

- Electronic billing and invoicing software, starting at $14.95 per month


1. - Service and invoice tracking
2. - Easy to use invoicing software
3. - More easy to use invoicing software
4. - Small business financial software
5. - Free web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting and project management for the part-time independent contractor
6. - Tracks time, sends invoices by email or U.S. mail, and generally makes invoicing easier
7. - Easy Invoicing and Quotes From Anywhere
8. - Is your job title Accounting? Probably not. Do less accounting!
9. - Free Microsoft Accounting

Project Management and Organization

These resources will help you stay organised and manage those projects and clients

1. - Proposal and contract management tools
2. - a simple (free!) to-do list application that can be shared with the world
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   Service that integrates to-do lists, notes, files, images, and a
   calendar with reminders that can be sent to your email or cell
3. - Sharable, web-based text documents that save edits, so you can collaborate, roll back and compare
4. - Share designs and get feedback with visual annotation tools
5. - Free tool for writers focusing on idea generation
6. - Note-taking, calendaring, task management, issue tracking, file management and online real-time chat
7. - Another web based to-do list
8. - Open source collaboration and project management tool
9. - Your to-do list for things that you want other people to do
10. - Another To-Do List manager

Stock Libraries

Templates, Photos, Flash files all to help make you look good

1. - A resource selling stock Flash, audio, video and fonts for as little as 50 cents
2. - Royalty free stock photography for $1 - $2
3. Getty Images - When price is no object and quality is essential
4. - Royalty free stock photography, videos, and illustrations for $1 - $50
5. - Rights managed and royalty free photography, illutration, type, and motion
6. - Completely Free stock photography
7. - Website templates in Flash and HTML
8. - The biggest website template company on the web!
9. - All the fonts you could ever want and a very handy font identification tool as well.
10. - Icons, more icons and even more icons
11. - Vector illustration sets

Business Tools

Resources to help with the business of freelancing…

- Track communication and conversations with leads, employees, clients, colleagues, vendors


1. - Real-time group chat and file sharing
2. - Shared workspaces and web conferencing
3. - Manage your email, contacts, documents and activities
4. - Communication and collaboration tools from Google
5. - Free office tools
6. - Email newsletter software
7. - More newsletter software
8. - Email campaign and newsletter software
9. - Easy business cards
10. - Easy online meetings
11. - Make forms to survey your clients
12. - Sample letter to communicate with clients who want spec work or free pitching
13. - Find an accountant (in the US)
14. - Small Business Administration, help and advice
15. - Online payment system
16. - Online payment system
17. - Online payment system that protects the buyer and seller, useful for those bigger jobs with anonymous clients.
18. - Free sample forms and agreements
19. - How-to guides to running a small business
20. - Quick and easy currency converter for all your international transactions…
21. - Consumer trends and insights resource
22. - US & Canada - Send Faxes for Free

Legal

Because you have to protect yourself and your work…

1. - Legal and general start-up information
2. - Free legal forms for graphic designers
3. - Everything you need to know about US copyright
4. - Standard form of agreement for design services trmplate
5. - US - Services to help you focus on what you know best
6. - For licensing…just about anything

Web Tools

Tools to get your Web Presence Up and running…

1. - Very nice publishing system for websites and blogs
2. - dedicated hosting and customer service that is second to none
3. - Advanced hosting at a reasonable price
4. - Domains for $8.50 per year
5. - Easy to set up and use hosting
6. - Content management for designers and ad agencies
7. - Instant websites - just add your content
8. - Back-up and store important files
9. - Builds websites in html from Photoshop files
10. - Website builds from design in 24 hours
11. - A neat little CMS app
12. Inblogit - A great free blogging tool for web designers
13. - Easy Web Publishing
14. - The best damn blogging tool around
15. - Outsourcable programmers
16. - 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. - Text ads to sell your wares and improve your traffic ranking
2. - Get your service or Web site reviewed by bloggers
3. - Text and banner ads on over 20,000 sites
4. - Text and Photext ads (image and text ad combined)
5. - Text ads on Google searches
6. - Get yourself Listed

Miscellaneous

All the many things we couldn’t fit anywhere else!

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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
1. - Send files up to 2GB online
2. - superior packaging for short run CDs and DVDs
3. - Send and receive faxes by email
4. - Extensions for a variety of creative software, including Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver
5. - A great resources for designers to showcase their portfolios, share work and network
6. - Block spam on your PC
7. - Block spam on your Mac
8. - Email up to 1GB of files
9. - Send 100MB files online
10. - Store, share and access files online
11. - Simple web forms
12. - Web forms and surveys in minutes
13. - Lorem Ipsum generator for dummy copy
14. - The essential programmers text editor for Macs
15. - Like Textmate but for Windows
16. - Colour scheme picker
17. - A useful little colour picker
18. - A bunch of colour tools
19. - Online storage for 15 cents a gigabyte
20. - free online contacts for journalists
21. - Remote Desktop Software
22. - Web Resource Directory

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