Originally Posted by Jamie B I'd recommend getting yourself your own designed blog theme up quickly, even if it's not the best, I'm inclined to hire you because your blog isn't shouting out at me. Also, it'll be hard to persuade many people to put their money into your hands without some portfolio. Why not create something simple like a guestbook, or login system that you can put up? This doesn't take long to achieve and would make your visitors a bit more positive on hiring you.. Just a few suggestions . .

Well we are in the process of developing our own blog theme (just not finished) as well as a couple turnkey sites but they still have not been complete. We do have previous work we can show, i'd just rather show it to the client wanting to hire us rather than a whole community being that some of the sites are not launched yet and I am not quite sure if the clients would want their website shown on a large community like this.

I do understand where your coming from though and thanks for the tips.