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20 Things a Modern Designer Should Rock At

// February 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Design, Tips, Trends

More and more designers have come to understand that to be successful and to be meaningful, you need to do more than a website. You need to connect it with the offline world. Paid media is no longer enough to drive traffic for any online project. And, also a creative website doesn’t make a campaign successful if you don’t build an integrated action around it. Each client is looking for different things in his search for the right graphic/web designer. So, to become a cool designer that clients want, you need to fill up a “few” requirements to fit the job.

Enjoy my list of things that a modern designer should know and rock at: (more…)

A creative list of keywords to use in headlines

// February 7th, 2010 // No Comments » // Blogging, Tips

So I was thinking about what to write on this blog, and I couldn’t think of anything. Literally. I have maybe 7 drafts worked up already and I just didn’t want to write about any of those topics. So I had a flash thought, “why did you start a blog you don’t even want to update?” Trying to come up with a headline, I realized something… We are all victimes of words like awesome, amazing, the ultimate when it comes to create headlines and it’s no secret that bloggers love to use them frequently. (more…)

Design Tip: What’s that font?

// June 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Design, Tips

As a web/graphic designer you find yourself in situations is which you need to find out which font is being used in an image or on a Web site. If if did not know already, there is a site (that I know of) that can help you with that. To easy up your work you can upload a scan or a image to WhatTheFont.com – or submit the URL. Their system analyze your submission and shows you the name of the font. For FREE! It’s also a great place for designers to sell their font creations. Check it out!

You can too make up catchy advertising phrases or slogans

// June 23rd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Advertising, Tips

I was trying the other day to come up with a catchy phrase, an original one. The process is simple or hard, depends on your level of creativity and state of spirit. The guide is simple: you start to make connections with some keywords (which depend on your product/message), you’re actually playing with the words and make various options. (more…)

5 ways to improve the impact of older blog posts

// June 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Search Engine Optimization/SEO, Tips

A blog is a nice instrument of communicating most of the time associated with the free of speech. Despite the fact that blogging is not an activity exempt from risks on a juridic manner, a lot of blogs are being created as we speak and that is why a few tips (at least for beginners) can help with the search traffic and other forms of traffic on long-term basis.

It is true that it’s very easy to get caught up in focusing strictly on new content in order to maintain your blog and that is why most bloggers don’t touch their old posts. If you update your blog on a regular basis, you will have a considerable amount of content on the site that still has serious potential for driving traffic.

5 ways to improve the impact of older blog posts: (more…)