If you want to advertise yourself and your business www.Elance.com is a great place to do it. In this day of being casual, Elance is dressed up in its appearance and attitude.

One of the largest freelancing websites, Elance.com is impressive in its professional and polished look. While I wasn’t “bedazzled” with the color scheme, someone looking for a job probably wouldn’t care if they were “bedazzled” or not by the colors. The fonts are easy to read, the pages are clean with not a lot of patterns and distractions. My favorite thing on the website is the tabs. It almost feels like you’re standing in front of a well- organized filing cabinet, while in reality you’re much more comfortable in your chair. The tabs make the job categories easy to locate, and navigate. When you choose a tab it opens up a two column section, one for Professionals Seeking Jobs, the other is Skills for Hire, plus it includes number of jobs posted in each listing.

The freelancer has the option of using a free service, or three other paid subscription plans. The details of each plan are very well explained, which helps the freelancer decide which plan they should choose. There are fees associated with using this website for job providers. The service fees and payment processing fees are deducted when the clients pay the freelancer. The payments and fees associated with this site for both parties are again professional in its presentation and complete in its instruction.

The website gives a great deal of information for anyone searching for a freelance job, as well as detailed information on all those candidates posting jobs, while that information is interesting, do we really want to be reminded of all the other people searching for jobs as we are?! However, this is a very thorough site, jobs are updated daily, there are jobs in the foreign market as well as the United States and with some diligence and business savvy, a good freelancer should be able to find a job on Elance.com.