A bold site for a digital agency that makes strong use of typography.
I like the minimal header, and how it gives way to a portfolio of previous work.
This design was featured on the Friday 27th of January 2012. It falls under the category of Design, and has a layout style of Other.
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I’ve just put pen to paper on a new contract with publisher Peachpit. This book will focus on the business of design, answering the most frequently asked questions about starting and running a successful design business. The copy deadline is October, so the release-date should be just before the end of the year.
Many of you will run your own studio, be in self-employment, or freelance in your spare time. I’d love to share your experiences in the book, and for now, there’s one topic I’m (...)
Welcome to the last Friday Focus of the month! This week we’re featuring sites employing blocks of color as a dominant part of their designs. Who says we need to use gradients in everything we do? See how it’s done. Designs of the Week
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Always a good idea to grab inspiration from your logo and and translate it directly into your design. Here you have a sumptuous photo slideshow on the homepage, but (...)
In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Mark Mayers will create a post-apocalyptic photo composition that will take inspiration from movies such as Planet of Apes, where an astronaut finds himself marooned on Earth thousands of years in the future only to find scattered relics of mankind. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members. If you are looking to take your photo composition skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now to get started!
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Episode 147 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Ryan Seddon (@ryanseddon) about his course on Modernizr, his work on fontdragr.com, and his other CSS projects too.Listen in Your Browser
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Happy Friday everyone! Today I’m releasing this set of unique and tough to define brushes. The source for these was a microscopic piece of pollen. Up close the strands looked like barbed wire. After photographic it, I brought the images into Illustrator and Live Traced each one, so the edges are very defined. Each brush is 2500×1800, hope you enjoy.
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We just relaunched the Mixel blog yesterday along with a refresh of our main Web site. The main goal was to bring the look and feel of both in line with one another and, specifically for the blog, to create a more editorial-friendly presentation. As I explained in this post, the Mixel blog turned out to be a more text-intensive product than we anticipated, and so we needed a design that would accommodate that. We also needed to switch to a publishing tool that was more suitable for that (...)
Community Manager Appreciation Day 2012
This week, community managers everywhere participated in the third annual Community Manager Appreciation Day (also known as CMAD)! Now, while some of you may be thinking “oh no, not another made up holiday”, let me explain why Community Manager Appreciation Day is such a wonderful holiday to celebrate.
First of all, I’m sure all of you know at least one Community Manager. Whether you work with them, are friends with them, or interact with them through (...)
The definitions of average position in the search query report in Google Webmaster Tools and search optimization report in Google Analytics is being changed by Google. The change was revealed in the Google Webmaster Blog and Google Analytics Blog.
What’s the new definition?
As per the new definition, your search ranking will be determined by the average of the top ranking of the site for all searches, as opposed to all URLs listed and average that. Please note that only the top rankings (...)
I really like the look of this carefully thought out sketch pad:
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I can imagine how this could benefit the design thinking process, helping designers to remember and consider that site design should be working at many widths.
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A reader calling himself “areyoukiddingme” writes about color symbolism: Why are you making such a big deal out of what color your page uses? You should be more focused on the content on your website, the drop down menus, the organization, homepage outline, etc. Color is the last thing you should worry about. Personally, though, I would go with black letters and a white background. The only color that should be different is your logo. By the way, links should always be blue.
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Yes, had you forgotten it's Data Privacy Day tomorrow? See StaySafeOnline for events in the US and Canada. Not sure why it's a Saturday — maybe to give the weekend journalists a story they can prepare in advance, and then take the day off.
While there is a programme of events, data protection has been in the news this week following the publication on Wednesday of the European Union's proposed reform of data protection legislation, promoted under the banner of aiming:
to increase users' (...)
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Icons are a very important element of web design and play a big role in a website. Designing the perfect icon is definitely a challenge and is always good to have resources and tips in this matter. Today we decided to gather a few Icon Design Tutorials to keep your ideas flowing and to increase your resource library. From new and fresh tutorials to a little bit older but still classic ones, you will find a lot of tips and inspiration in this list, enjoy. Create a (...)
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from rtraction, Bear CSS, Graz Secrets, Circles and Unify.
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PHP Bug Lost is a free and open source script for debugging and monitoring PHP code.
It is a one-file-script, works by inserting a function inside web pages and displays the information in a console window right over the web page.
The script can present custom logs, SQL queries, variables, Ajax queries and measure loading times + CPU/memory usage.
PHP Bug Lost is not only built to be used in the development environment but it can also be set to auto-send (...)
Managing a blog with a single author can be time-consuming enough, but adding in multiple authors can exponentially increase the amount of time and effort it takes to manage.
There’s editorial workflow, scheduling, and author management to consider, among other things.
Below are fifteen plugins that can make managing your multi-author blog a lot easier.
They include editorial workflow plugins, scheduling and calendar plugins, and plugins that will benefit your authors or make it easier to (...)
It takes a lot of time and dedication to build a freelance career. The hours are long, work can be tedious, and often you need to multitask like crazy. But the freedom of release from a regular work schedule can be fantastic.
In this guide I’d like to go over a few solid techniques for getting organized in your day-to-day tasks. Time management is crucial if you are looking to succeed as a freelancer. You need to stay on task and feel comfortable working within constraining deadlines. With a (...)
Snow everywhere!
It’s January 2012, it’s cold and there’s snow everywhere. Who needs another excuse to stay home with a cup of coffee or hot cocoa and browse through inspiration? Not me.
Also, yes, there wasn’t any December 2011 showcase. This won’t happen in 2012, promise. The showcase
The January 2012 Go Media Flickr pool showcase is a post (...)
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Resumable.js is a JavaScript library providing multiple simultaneous, stable and resumable uploads via the HTML5 File API. The library is designed to introduce fault-tolerance into the upload of large files through HTTP. This is done by splitting each files into small chunks; whenever the upload of a chunk fails, uploading is retried until the procedure completes.
Resumable.js allows uploads to automatically resume uploading after a network connection is lost either (...)
Controlling who is able to view a post is a simple task once the system is established. Limiting access to certain users has several applications, such as enabling a design studio to distribute artwork to its various clients, or enabling a small school to arrange for homework to be posted online using a cheap and easy solution.
The easiest method to get this system working is to make the recipients of the information “subscribers” (since they need not be able to post) and the (...)
To most PPC marketers, the Facebook paid ads program represents an ideal marketing opportunity. Finally, you aren’t limited to targeting your ads based on geographic location and time of day alone (I’m looking at you, Google Adwords!). In fact, if you wanted to run a campaign targeting 16 year old boys in San Francisco who [...]
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The debate about what should — and shouldn’t — show in a Google search result for “santorum” has been well-documented, at this point. But I’d like to use this now famous search to illustrate something else: how it appears Google is taking its eye off the ball of...
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Learn how you can track and collect significant conversion data and then bring it all together in one dashboard. Use these three levels of conversion data tracking that vary in terms of pros/cons, costs, effectiveness, and sophistication.
As all of you know, the mobile space moves incredibly fast. Our users are changing, and their needs are changing. New devices and new technologies are coming to market seemingly every day, not to mention the rate at which app stores are growing. All of us are looking for the freshest, most interesting apps and content all day, every day.
At Yahoo!, we’re focused on creating deeply personal digital experiences and there’s no doubt that one of the biggest, if not the biggest, priorities for us (...)
We are pleased to announce the winners, pending official confirmation, of the three Bing Rewards sweepstakes that ended on January 11. Our new sweeps have begun and end on January 31. Keep reading for details on the great prizes we’re offering and how to enter, but first congratulations to our latest winners. John A. of Chalfont, Pennsylvania was drawn as the grand prize winner of the Wintacular Weekend Trip. Have fun picking who to take and where to go on your trip for two with two (...)
At a ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, more members of the European Union signed ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), ratifying the treaty for the countries that signed it. However, because the European Union parliament as yet to weigh in, ACTA is not …
Inspiration strikes in strange ways; in this case, I reached the end of Neil Patel's excellent article covering 13 questions you should ask yourself while writing a blog post. In his discussion of the last question, he compared a blog post to a restaurant meal. Will your reader complain about your blog post because you've served them skimpy fare? Are you feeding people content so they are full when they leave your site...or are they hungry, looking for more? Patel asked. If they are (...)
When you run a corporate blog sometimes it’s difficult to come up with interesting topics on a regular basis. In the past I’ve spoken about a few options like creating a series, how to posts and evergreen content. In this article I’d like to tackle another option, blogging to your existing customers, and turning them into return/repeat customers.
If you are selling products or services, chances are you good you probably have 10 – 20 questions your customers ask about how to use products, (...)
This guest post is by Belinda of The Copy Detective.
Your blog is a good read. Everyone says so.
Although “everyone” is really just people you already know. Like your Mum.
So why isn’t your blog being found by other people? The millions and millions of people hungrily consuming blog content out there in the global online space we call the Internet?
The cold, hard truth is that Google hates your blog. And it’s nothing personal. You just don’t have anything that Google wants.
Creating (...)
We’re back and we’re ready to talk email marketing.
I asked two pros to come on and spill their best advice on the three biggest email marketing questions we get here at Copyblogger.
DJ Waldow joins me and Sonia Simone to discuss: The best way to build an email list The 2 reasons why people open an email The most important element of an email that sells How to write emails that get opened How to stay out of your reader’s spam filters Sonia’s secret weapon of email marketing that works (...)
I receive around 20 guest post submissions per week. Usually I let them pile up and once a month I go through all of them, replying to the ones I think would be a good fit for the blog.
There are two types of submissions I discard right away, though, without even taking a look. I also consider those the two biggest mistakes you can make while trying to guest post on some blog. They are: 1. Not including the name of the blog owner
If by opening your email I see something like “Dear Sir” or (...)
Once in awhile you need to highlight the really good stuff. It’s that time again. Time to share some of the best blog posts I’ve read on this site and on a few others.
First up is, of course, the owner of this blog, Zac Johnson. He is a highly successful blogger who you can learn a lot from. He recently discovered some secrets of probloggers. Now, he may not admit it, but he is up there in the ranks of problogger. I think you’ll get a lot out of this post, especially if you’re a new (...)
Even with the advent of social media, digital newspapers, smart phones, and tablets, targeted email marketing is still the most effective form of marketing online. We shouldn’t expect that to change anytime soon, so in the meantime, it would be a shame to pass-up email marketing as a revenue source. To help you capitalize on it as a blogger, I put together this resource kit that lists everything you need to get up and running with your own targeted email list and campaign except…….. Opt-In (...)
Statistics show that children of single parents face higher rates of crime, school dropouts, teen pregnancy and substance abuse. This is a depressing fact, but it is nonetheless a truth that we must all accept.
Another fact is that the effect of the education on single parents – especially for mothers – can all but negate the risk factors involved with single parenthood. In short, single mothers who graduate from college are more likely to do a good job raising their child to be a happy and (...)
Twitter has announced in a blog post a glorious new ability: “the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” At last!
There are two ways of looking at this new “ability,” one optimistic and one pessimistic. One is that Twitter is now more able to effectively tailor itself to the needs of certain countries. The other is that Twitter is now more able to effectively tailor itself to the needs of certain countries. (...)
I’m always amazed that interns at my company can do so much with the web. I’m even more amazed at the limitations social media has put on young aspiring entrepreneurs and how it hinders the necessary fundamentals to start a business.
If you want to open a B2C (Business to Consumer) company, than yes, social media helps. In B2C,… Read the rest of this entry »
Motorola said that its newly re-envisioned Razr led its increases in total phone shipments and revenue in the fourth quarter. But considering Moto’s vastly reduced market share, those increases didn’t lead to much.
Motorola shipped only 5.3 million smartphones and 200,000 tablets in the fourth quarter. In comparison, Apple shipped 37 million iPhones and 15.4 million iPads in the same period.
Total device shipments were 10.5 million for the quarter, while for the year, the total was 42.5 (...)
It's a good time to be a smartphone manufacturer -- if your name is Apple. The company's financial momentum is insane. Yet Apple's competitors are flailing about, all in search of a viable smartphone strategy to challenge Apple's momentum.
Yesterday Techmeme launched a redesign. I like it. Nicely done Gabe.
I thought I'd use this news as a jumping off point to talk about my favorite feature on Techmeme. When a news event happens, I like to see various pundits' take on it without having to click thru and read every post.
Techmeme has always done this better than any other news service. Let's take this news that Twitter can now comply with local censorship laws and takedown notices without taking down a tweet globally (good (...)
The 2012 Community Manager Report
Community Manager is an essential, yet still uncharted territory for many companies that are expanding their presence on the social web. What should you know about the current state of this position? 67% of Community Managers work for a brand The most popular city for Community Managers is New York 65% of Community Managers are Female
Be sure to check out the rest of this report presented by Social Fresh. Google & FBI: All Your Social Data Are (...)
When a user searches Google, the ads are just as important as the answers.
At least that's what Google says in its annual financial report filed with the SEC this afternoon.
The company lists new ad formats as one of the big things it changed in 2012:
For instance, with visual ads, not only can users find theater times for a new movie, users can watch the trailer directly in the ad. Location-aware search ads can help users find what they are looking for more easily by putting thousands (...)
The debate over whether streaming music is good for artists and labels rages on, but the debate over whether the concept is catching with consumers might be at least be decided. Popular streaming music service Spotify now has 3 million users worldwide, the company revealed today.
Spotify is built on a “freemium” business model where users can listen to ad-supported music for free but after 6 months, the amount of free music drops to just 10 hours per month. Ideally, the service wants to (...)
Want to boost your profile? Add additional income streams to your freelancing business? Release your own self published book? It’s time to have a chat with author and freelance marketer Danny Iny.
He quit school at the age of fifteen to start his first freelance web design business. The only problem with it was that it didn’t work. He then tried several other businesses, continually pushing himself. A lot of hard work and devotion paid off.
Soon he saw himself guest lecturing at the John (...)
The social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it withhold particular tweets from specific countries.
The company has insisted that it will not use the gagging system in a blanket fashion, but would apply it on a case-by-case basis, as already happens when governments or organisations complain about individual tweets.
The new system, which can filter tweets on a country-by-country basis and has already (...)
Where Dave and I are joined by Chris Eppstein. Sponsored by LessAccounting and United Pixelworkers (who are offering a 10% discount on shirts with coupon code "shoptalk").
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This year, to celebrate the St Valentines Day, Hongkiat and Grafpedia are really proud to provide you this beautiful and lovely icons set. Roses, Love messages, hearts, chocolates, rings, gifts, candles everything to switch your website and commercial tools in the power of love.
Each icon is available in various sizes: 48×48, 72×72, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512. You can use them for personal and commercial use. Redistribution without permission is prohibited.
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I was really disappointed to see a recent post from somebody I admire and respect defend the validity of the new UX Developer job title that has been cropping up of late. As well as being misleading, the title, UX Developer has implications that are damaging to the field of User Experience and will hasten the current devaluation of the term.
Despite what many newcomers to the industry may think, User Experience Design is a well-defined specialism as distinct from visual or interface (...)
Whether you are a novice blogger looking for a potential source of income or a pro who wants to increase their revenue, here are 8 ways to monetize your blog.
1. Pay Per Click Advertising
Pay per click, or PPC advertising, is one of the simplest ways to monetize your blog. By using a program such as Google AdSense, Chitika, AdBrite and other similar programs, advertisements are placed on your blog. You make money every time a reader clicks on those ads, so the more traffic you have, the (...)
Turmoil is all around us, old assumptions no longer valid.
Richard Florida deftly lays out the scenario for the current economic and spatial Great Reset. Bob Garfield outlines the Chaos Scenario in traditional media and advertising (upon which I comment favorably here). Friendly, iron-fist in a velvet glove American liberalism-cum-imperialism is laid to waste in Chris Hedges’ Death of the Liberal Class. Seth Godin refers to a “forever recession,” somehow managing to remain optimistic (“and (...)
