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This weekend I had the pleasure of being one of the speakers at the biggest blogging conference in Florida, FL Blog Con. My presentation was on Google Analytics, to help people who may be familiar using GA and those who have heard about it but haven’t really used it...
A Behind The Scenes Video – PlayaLinda Beach Photo Shoot
This past weekend I got to work with some really talented photographers for the first time. George from D&D Photography and Jimmy from Clickr Photography. I've done a bunch of photo shoots before but never at a beach. While I will have another blog post about my...
5 Mistakes Freelance Graphic Designers Make When Starting Out
1.No Down Payment You should receive half of the agreed upon price up front. This is a fair way to do business with all of your clients. 2.No Contract You should never start a job until you and your client have both signed a contract on what is expected of you....
A Comedic Interpretation of a Discovery Meeting
I must admit that this 7 min video is one of the funniest I've seen in a while when it comes to project team meetings. If you're in the design industry, chances are you've had a meeting like this or maybe even a few. As the design contractor, it's mainly your job to...
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Are the pictures on your site legal to use?
Anytime you see something with "legal" in it, it normally grabs your attention. I don't mean to scare you with this one, but it's something we do need to go over. A lot of websites out there have images on them. A lot of those images may not be...
Are you listening to your current client design needs?
One of the biggest mistakes I think in this business is to treat your customer as a one time sale. Or even worse, as a number and not a long-term business relationship. This is actually one of our "theories" that a customer is worth more to us than...
How to you get in the mood to design?
It doesn't take years of being a designer before you can complain about "designer's block", or lack of inspiration to work on the projects you've got to get finished or started on. We've all been there. Browsing other designer sites trying to get...
Communication Between a Designer and Client
One of the things we web designers often talk about when we’re around each other is our client stories. And while I won’t get into most of the topics or details, I do want to highlight a few important ones that are pretty common. Those being,...
Content Redundancy: Social Media and Your Website
So you've got a blog right? You're on Twitter circulating your links to your followers. You've got a Facebook fanpage and personal page to post your blog links on. You've posted a similar post on Tumbler and Posterous. I'm sure I'm leaving out some...
Google+ sees more than 20 million users; means what?
I keep reading headlines this week of Google Plus' user gains in the millions. First 10 million, then 18 million and now about or over 20. While the numbers are impressive, what does this actually mean? Well in first, I think it may mean that many...