A New Adventure in Freelance Web Design

Recently I experienced an economy-induced transition from full-time employment.  How’s that for a fancy way to say, got laid off?  Coinciding with said layoff, I may have an opportunity for an independent web design project.  If indeed mine is the winning bid, what will follow over the next several weeks is a chronicle of the full system development life cycle of a project from planning through design, development, and launch.