Monday, January 17, 2011

Freelance writing, Sitepoint.com, topic: web technology/ business, pays $100 per post (plus bonuses)

Showcase your Expertise to the World!

SitePoint strives to be at the forefront of new ideas, emerging challenges, and cutting-edge technology on the Web. We are always looking to partner with writers to bring these messages to the web development community.

If you’ve got an idea for an article or a book we’d love to hear from you!

Our articles reach over 3 million web developers, designers, marketers, and site owners each month and our books are held in the highest regard by the industry. There’s no better way to get your name out there, build your freelance business, help your fellow developer, and become recognized in the web community than by writing for us.

Contribute Articles to sitepoint.com

sitepoint.com is one of the most popular sites for web professionals. Publishing an article on sitepoint.com exposes you to a global audience of interested and passionate web professionals.

SitePoint pays cash for every article it publishes, and we reward you for submitting great content. The more traffic that your article receives, the better you’ll get paid for it. Assuming your article is accepted and meets our quality guidelines, here’s how it works:

* Retainer: US $100

* Bonus payment:

o +$50 10,000 pageviews
o +$100 25,000 pageviews
o +$150 50,000 pageviews
o +$200 75,000 pageviews
o +$250 100,000 pageviews

All articles are accompanied by a full bio, which can contain links to your web site, providing valuable traffic and backlinks.

Article submissions should contain practical information for web designers or developers, clearly explained, ready to be implemented on their websites. The information should be current and timely, and presented in a friendly and helpful tone. Articles should be a minimum of 1,500 words in length, and should be submitted in plain text, Microsoft Word, or OpenOffice Document format.

If you have any questions about contributing content to SitePoint, email the editor (editor@sitepoint.com).

Currently Commissioning …

If you’re able to write an article about any of the following topics, we’d love to hear from you!
Client-side Topics

* CSS frameworks (CSS-based, or CSS-generating)
* modern CSS techniques & practices
* CSS3
* CSS/HTML/JavaScript for mobile devices (especially iPhone)
* HTML5
* HTML Email
* microformats
* RDFa
* Raphael
* Google Closure

Server-side Topics

* PHP frameworks (CakePHP, CodeIgniter, symfony, ...)
* content management systems (Wordpress, Django, Joomla, Expression Engine, ...)
* ecommerce frameworks (Magento, Shopify, ...)
* Ruby on Rails (tutorials, scalability, Case Studies)
* identity (OAuth, Facebook connect, OpenID, Twitter, ...)
* nginx web server (especially use with PHP)
* web hosting (configuration, tools, reselling, ...)

Web Design Topics

* Photoshop tips
* web design trends
* practical web design tutorials
* web fonts and typography
* design tips for developers

Business Topics

* web site case studies
* shopping cart options
* customer management
* managing transactions
* pricing on the web
* landing page design
* website/retail integration

Article ideas and submissions should be sent to submit@sitepoint.com.

More information here.