Web development patterns and workflow

Minimizing Expenses

There are literally hundreds of web apps, online tools, and open source downloads that can assist you in time management, invoicing, document templates, process mapping, and all sorts of tasks that occur throughout the design and development process as well as overall finances. Pick a few of these, but not all of them, and work them into your business model.

Pen and paper, or sporadic spreadsheets and documents, can only take you so far before they begin wasting your time rather than saving it. I find web tools particularly useful for time tracking, project management, invoicing, and streamlining communications.

Be sure to develop a process or work flow to save time and prevent yourself from re-inventing the wheel with every project. There are some great web design process guides in the resources section – check them out! Other streamlining time-saving activities can involve drafting common emails, to do lists, and leveraging collaboration tools.

Another things that could made new expenses for you, it is usually new request from customer or client. In order to prevent that, you have to made sure, that you’ll have proper document of agreement about the payment. You should treat this request with charged them for it. Then later you won’t have extra expenses for it. Remember that new request could ruined your schedule plan and could delay your work, which eventually could cause you losing your credibility in front your clients.