If you are thinking of making the leap from permanent to self-employed, then here is part one of my guide to becoming a contractor in the web industry, this guide will not just tell you how get started, but how to flourish.

I’ve been building websites for a very long time. When I first started back in the mid-late 90’s there wasn’t much of a distinction between front-end developers and back-end developers, we all had to know everything, you couldn’t specialise as there wasn’t really much of a need for that. “Build me a website” was about as much spec as you could expect.

Becoming a contractor can be a daunting experience for anyone, I am currently going through the early stages of it so I am going to document my successes and failures here in the hope that I can help other people take the plunge and guide them on their own journey to freedom.