This year, we’ve been working regularly with Alex Denning, a young gentleman in the UK who founded WPShout way back in 2009 and who is now a really, really outstanding marketing consultant.

A big part of my job is “saving what my computer screen looks like,” also called screenshotting. Most of the time the “prt sc” button works fine, but on occasion I’ll want to screenshot something longer than the height of my computer screen itself, such as a long scrolling single-page site.

David and I searched for quite a while for a good time tracking solution. In fact, at one point we were paying a fair amount every month for a project management/proposal-generating/time-tracking solution that we just used as a glorified time tracker.

Earlier this week, a new client asked me to sign an NDA. Ignoring why that’s a bad sign (as usual, the client wasn’t Elon Musk or someone with actual secrets that I could steal and sell at a profit), let’s talk about what it means: signing and returning a PDF before you can get paid for client work.

If you’ve ever been an hour late to a client meeting because of incorrect time zone math, you know how big a headache time zones can be to a WordPress freelancer who works with non-local clients.