Your website design speaks volumes about your business, no matter the business you are in. Unfortunately, I think this message is getting lost. I have had more conversations than I can count that end with “I don’t need a high end site design, people in my industry don’t care what my site looks like.” This just isn’t true! I’ve talked before about what makes a good blog...
On February 22nd, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about websites – more to the point – how expensive websites can and can’t be and what the benefit is for the business. The article discussed two female business owners, what they spent for their websites and how the sites were doing for them. Both were running successful businesses, and both had active websites. That’s...
First, just because I offer site designs that can run into the 4 and 5 digits does not mean that I don’t want to help clients who can’t afford a large makeover – I love design, and if I can make someone’s site better with small fixes, I will. Second, these tips are not for those who need a fully branded marketing strategy. These are for...
A year ago, I started this blog simply as an outlet for my creative ideas for business. I hoped that I might help my readers to improve their writing, business and life through the tips and advice that I offered. A year ago, I never imagined to be here – owning my own business, on the adage top blog list and closing the gap towards...
*For those of you who saw “palate” when it first went out… apparently spell check doesn’t cover “lack of caffeine”. I completely forgot that there is “palate: roof of mouth” and “palette: color” Thanks to @ksablan and @ShelleyDelayne for helping find my error! Life is about color, from what you wear to your website design. Many of us hear ‘color palette’ and assume we are talking graphic...
1. Twouble with Twitterers: yeah, ok, so I may be this bad sometimes…2. Redesigning the Stop sign – if a marketing team was in charge of designing a stop sign…definitely true for some of the large agencies.3. Font Fight – for the Web Geek in all of us (first shown to me by Creative Whirlwind)4. Hulu and Dennis Leary – bliggity blogs, facey spacey’s, tweety...
Although a bit tongue in cheek, this list (Pointed out to me via Twitter, can be found at nheerdesign, and originally put together by someone on facebook) is the ultimate list of ‘ways to know you are a graphic designer. Although my career is not 100% a graphic designer, I definitely had to shake my head at a few of these. Oh, and I...
I love color. I love creating unique color schemes. And I love finding them in random places. I often use adboe’s Kuler when I am stuck on a scheme for a design, but I get bored with it fairly easily. A lot of times, I wish I could take a picture and just pull some true colors out of it…now I can! Using stumbleupon and...
There are hundreds of great graphic design posts – and endless lists of tips and tricks. But, most of those lists are for graphic designers that design for a living, or for people who need advanced tips and ideas. I have found that while helpful, we often forget some of the basic design rules that everyone should know. Regardless if you design for pay or...
The last few months have been tough for us all (and I don’t even want to think about tomorrow…) but so far, I am surviving. It may be just barely, and it may not be the most fun, but it is still surviving. Although it isn’t exactly the first of the month, it is the first Monday and therefor the first day of this month that...
