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Business of Freelancing · featured

How to get a quote from us (and actually get a good one)

Our quote form takes about ten minutes. Spend those ten minutes well and you'll get a sharper price, a faster draft, and a lot less back and forth. Here's exactly what to put in each box.

13 July 2026 · 8 min read

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Business of Freelancing

Why 6–12 hour websites are the future of freelance web design

The six-week website is a relic of an era when pixels were pushed by hand. A case for delivering in daylight, and what that asks of the person doing the delivering.

2 Jun 2026 · 7 min

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Motion

Three.js is the new typography

For a century, the display face carried a brand's voice. On the modern web, that job is moving to the hero canvas, and the craft rules are the same ones type designers have always known.

18 May 2026 · 6 min

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Design

Landing pages that convert: a $0-budget playbook for founders

Eight patterns we use on nearly every landing page we build. None of them cost money. All of them cost discipline.

27 Apr 2026 · 8 min

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Business of Freelancing

The one-person studio economy

Running a solo agency from Dhaka, selling to London, Berlin and Austin: the maths, the moats, and the honest downsides.

30 Mar 2026 · 7 min

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Business of Freelancing

Bangladesh's next design generation

The country that became a byword for outsourced volume is producing a cohort that competes on taste. What changed, and what's still in the way.

8 Mar 2026 · 6 min

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Business of Freelancing

How much does a small business website cost in 2026?

Real numbers, not ranges designed to get you on a call. What a small business website actually costs in 2026, what changes the price, and where the money quietly disappears if you're not careful.

22 Jul 2026 · 9 min

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Business of Freelancing

Do you need a web developer or a website template?

Templates are cheap and fast. A developer is custom and slower to buy. Here's the honest decision framework, from a studio that sells both and has no reason to push you toward the expensive one.

22 Jul 2026 · 8 min

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Business of Freelancing

How long does it take to build a website?

The honest answer is 'anywhere from a day to a few months', and the range is almost entirely about process, not difficulty. Here's what really eats the time, and how some studios ship in hours what others take weeks to do.

22 Jul 2026 · 7 min

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Business of Freelancing

Is a free website draft actually legit?

A studio offering to design your homepage for free, before you pay anything, sounds like a catch. Sometimes it is. Here's how to tell a real free-draft offer from a bait-and-switch, from a studio that runs on exactly this model.

22 Jul 2026 · 6 min

Free first draft · 6 to 12 hours · no contract

Enough reading. Let's build the thing.

Get your first draft live in 6–12 hours.