Why would I design my own logo?
Everyone who has started a new business runs into this question in one form or another:
How do I make my business distinctive and attractive to customers?
If you're hiding indoors this weekend, trying to beat the heat, here are some interesting links to help you while away the time until it's cool enough to go outside again.
Interesting thoughts from Taxi on selling creative and the relationship between an ad agency and it's clients: www.designtaxi.com/article/100858/How-to-Sell-Creative-Work-to-Clients-Part-2/
Drupal meet wine industry. Wine industry meet Drupal.
First, a definition.
Twitter Numbers - these are the 3 key numbers associated with the activity level and social network size on Twitter. The three Numbers are: following, followers, and tweets. Following indicates how many people you have chosen to actively follow, followers are the number of people who choose to actively follow you, and tweets are how many times you have posted messages on Twitter.
(I am not going to include listed numbers for this broad generalization.)
There are a plethora of smart phones out there with features that allow you to play games, stream media content, and do just about everything else. "There's an app for that" has become the mantra for the possibilities available. But what about your old, dumbphone?
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First, let's start with a brief glossary: rank: a generic term used to describe relative authority or placement with a search engine. If you have a higher/better rank, you will appear closer to the top of the first page on search engines. juice: the amount of a bump an inbound link will give your site. No one knows the actual numbers involved in the formulas the search engines use to determine search rankings, so people in the biz talk about relative juice associated with links and linking strategies.
Like many web developers out there I strive to stay on top of developments in the industry. I love my RSS reader dearly. But now that I'm spending much of my time running the business - as opposed to before we started HG and I spent most of my time in production - I'm finding it difficult to stay on top of my bookmarks. By the end of each week I have a set of 8 or 10 tabs open in Safari that I've kept open all week... been meaning to read them... just didn't have/find/make the time. I've got folders upon folders of "Read This Stuff" or "Bookmark Cleanup" or "Ideas for (x, y, z)"
My iMac G5 was recently put out to pasture and I spent two months on a loaner PC laptop (my first Vista experience) while I got the funds together to upgrade to a new iMac. Just this week I started working with a new iMac 24-inch
Since I could not find a decent article out there to successfully perform this task, I thought I would do it myself in my own style. Now, this can work with any WordPress install that uses RSS (which ones don't?) and a MODx install that has snippets
As many of you may know, we were recently featured on Smashing Magazine's 'Drawing Inspiration From Creative Logos' for the design of the logo for The Alliance for Arts and Culture. We are deeply honoured by the recognition. We worked closely with AAC to achieve
