In the past few years I have worked quite a bit with several companies in regards to their Email Marketing Campaigns. There have been several trends that I have noticed that seem to stick out like a sore thumb when it comes to actually having a campaign. I decided to ...
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05 Nov
Myths about Social Media
There are a few common myths going around about Social Media that I've been hearing or seeing recently that I wanted to clear up. Myth #1: I have to advertise constantly on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. This is not true at all. In fact, the lack of advertising is why Social ...
26 Oct
Cheesy Designs create a safe feeling?
As I was driving home today from a clients, I had the radio on to a local public radio station and they were speaking on the topic of privacy. The longer I listened the more they said made sense. Apparently, according to recent studies people are more apt to divulge information ...
20 Oct
To design or not to design
Whenever I'm out and about and I run into someone the conversation always somehow turns into what I do for a living. Inevitably I'm either asked computer questions, website questions or email questions, but usually I'm asked about how to design a "correct" website layout. This started a thought process ...
12 Oct
Icons
So I have come across the realization that you can never have too many icons for websites. Especially nice ones! Here's a few sites that I have found with some really sharp icons for free! Enjoy! http://www.iconfinder.net http://365icon.com/
24 Sep
Overlapping Knowledge
This week I've been working with a lot of individuals who have a fair amount of knowledge in their fields, but little elsewhere. While this makes a good person to work with, a great person to work with is someone with overlapping knowledge in all aspects of that field. Now, ...
24 Sep
Illustrator vs. Photoshop
This week I wanted to talk about the different effects that can be used on websites. Most of these effects believe it or not are created in Illustrator, and are very easily accomplished. I'm currently working on redesigning our site right now and wanted to share a few of the ...
24 Sep
A Programmer’s Nightmare
Most of us are using CSS now to try and keep websites compatible between browsers, but sometimes the browsers still get the best of us. Over the past few months I've downloaded several versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and now Chrome all to find that somehow things look just ...
24 Sep
The “MySpace Problem”
I've personally noticed a trend in website design over the past few years going toward something a lot of designers call the "MySpace Problem". Bad design is somehow working to promote a website. How exactly does this work? Basically its an "anti-marketing marketing". Markus Frind, the founder of PlentyOfFish.com has come ...
24 Sep
Let’s Talk Color
Today I wanted to talk about the Psychology of Color which is something that most of us don't usually think about. When first designing a site sometimes inspiration takes a while to hit, so I'll browse through several different sites jotting down ideas from these sites. Usually asking a client ...