TSTiffany Sparkinmarkupandmatcha.hashnode.dev·Mar 3 · 5 min readSEO for People Who'd Rather Be Designing: The Bare Minimum That Actually WorksI'll be honest with you. I don't love SEO. I got into web design because I like making things look good and work well, not because I wanted to spend my evenings reading about crawl budgets and schema markup. But here's the thing: if I build a beautif...00
TSTiffany Sparkinmarkupandmatcha.hashnode.dev·Mar 3 · 5 min readThe Client Onboarding Process That Saved My SanityI used to start every project the same way: a friendly phone call, some enthusiastic nodding, a vague agreement on price, and then three months of slowly realising we'd been talking about completely different things the entire time. The client wanted...00
TSTiffany Sparkinmarkupandmatcha.hashnode.dev·Mar 3 · 4 min readWhy Your Small Business Website Doesn't Need to Be Fancy (It Needs to Be Fast)I'm going to say something that might sound odd coming from a web designer: stop trying to make your website look impressive. I know. That's literally what people pay me to do. But hear me out, because I've watched too many small business owners pour...00
TSTiffany Sparkinmarkupandmatcha.hashnode.dev·Feb 17 · 7 min readThe tech stack nobody talks about: what actually matters when you're building websites for clientsThere's a version of this post that starts with some grand take about how the industry is broken and we're all building over-engineered nonsense. I'll try not to do that, because honestly, it's more nuanced than that and also I'm 21 and probably shou...00
TSTiffany Sparkinmarkupandmatcha.hashnode.dev·Feb 15 · 6 min readFrom zero to fully booked: how I got my first 5 web design clients without spending a pennyFour months ago I had a portfolio, a domain name, and exactly zero paying clients. No ad budget. No connections in the industry. No established following. Just a skillset and a lot of free time. Today I'm booked out for the next six weeks. Here's how...01M