My first project for first client!

Looks good, I'm assuming you're building everything from scratch and not using something like Bootstrap?

Yeah definitely, I'm going to, again, take Nick Pettit's advice and hard code everything for this first project. I have already learned a few valuable lessons:

• establish a budget upfront, no exceptions;
• establish a means for communication and add it to my workflow (basecamp);
• educate the client on manners of web beforehand as it will save time in the long run;
• learn for next time how long thins will take so that you don't offer to add a customized CMS thinking its pfft easy work (sigh! hehe);
• make sure clients understand that unless they understand some basics (or are willing to be educated), the designer/developer will need to maintain the website on a regular basis (SEO, content uploads etc) and charge a fee;

So far it's been so much fun, I am loving it! It keeps me up very late at night fine-tuning everything!

Looking good Thiago! I'm following you on Behance now, too :) Hope you don't mind if I check in every so often.

Great work! I really love these sketches. Just the right level of detail.

Subscribed, please update this thread as progress as I'd love to see what the website looks like when it's completed.

Looks like you have a very thorough process, I'm impressed I'm going to try and do something similar if and when I get a job.

I think on your 1st page of the balsamic mockups you should see what it looks like if you left align the 3 paragraphs and their respective titles, just a thought.

For the ecommerce platform, depending on the scale Opencart, WooCoomerce, and Magenta Open are all great open source platforms to develop an eCommerce store, or the PHP track is also a great one (I learned alot through them).

I recently did this site using php that I learned from treehouse: www.phoenixgold-beverages.com :)

Looking good, dude! Keep going!

Thanks Nick! Now it's time to begin some preliminary coding! I am just waiting for a go-ahead from my client, so excited!

Sorry for the lack of activity guys! It's been a busy week and I will be updating some stuff soon. I will keep you posted! It looks like I will have to begin cutting some shifts at the bakery as I have someone else interested, a fitness instructor website is on the horizon! Gosh!

Hey guys! I have some good news and some slightly frustrating news! I'll get the frustration out of the way first: So I was about to make a final decision on what to call my business, finally deciding to not make it too personal by calling it my name I decided to call it 'JB Design Studios'.I was about to buy the domain last week, but when I looked again today, I saw this : jbdesignstudios.co.uk! I looked through it and it looks so annoyingly cheaply made, I mean, there is still a 'Hello World' link at the bottom, not to mention some spelling mistakes.. Also, the person's name is Joe Blow! I guess the domain name wasn't meant to be huh? (I did initially want JB Design Lab, I may go with that! I can think of so many thematic illustrations for it!)

As for the good news, I will have to quit working at the bakery as I am finding more and more locals who want websites, I have 3 potential new clients and I don't even have my portfolio website up yet! I haven't even decided on a business name!

Just a quick question: What hosting provider do you use? I am opting for siteground for now.

Hey Marcus H ! My advice would be to get involved in your local community, that's what I have done. My current 2 clients are a local cafe owner, for whom I am working through a logo (which is on hold until after her wedding) and a local therapist who I met at that cafe. Today I met someone looking for web work at another local cafe and that's how it has been going. I am privileged enough to be living a town which truly values its local members, especially its artists and I am doing the best I can to network. As of yet I have no example websites because I hadn't even finished all of the Treehouse courses. I say jump right it there. Having clients has FORCED me to learn more and more :) If you'd like, follow me on Behance, I have some sketched wireframes and progress on the logo in there!

Hey guys!I have updated my Behance Portfolio with my first attempt at mockups. I have been using Balsamiq. Please let me know what you think as I would love some feedback! What do you think of them Nick Pettit ?

Thanks Nick Pettit ! I've followed all of your blog posts and videos regarding mockups and workflows and find them really helpful. I have spent quite some time setting myself up so that I have a perfect workflow and I find that I have already halved my set-up times between my first client and my second. I am now also working on a larger project involving an e-commerce store for a nutritionist who's business ethics are very closely aligned to my own. Thanks again Treehouse staff and my fellow students for making all of this possible. I will not only keep you guys updated here and on Behance, but I will soon organise all of this into a blog where you can follow my progress and see how achievable all of this is. All you need is some motivation, social skills and a little inner awareness :)

Hey guys, I have just about completed my first pro-bono side-project. It is a simple website for the South Westcliff Community Group. I was to re-design a 90's website built with tables, I was amazed at the original source code! I was glad to have a go at this as it allowed me to experiment with Scss and Foundation 5! So far I am using a front-end development environment utilising Gulp and BrowserSync to build from the mobile up while seeing what I build as I code. For my current projects I will be attempting a PSD 2 HTML to see how that goes. I think building from code can get quite tiresome as I can imagine how much faster I would accomplish the same aesthetic results in Photoshop or Illustrator.

You can access the website here: South Westcliff Community Group