The primary objective of this website is to attract clients to my design business. The two ways I try to achieve this are: Get other good websites to link to me with my desired keywords as the anchor text. For example, freelance graphic designer, designer in London, UK design services, are good … [Read more...]
Designing web icons
Here are some icons I designed for a friend's website. He asked me to make them at three sizes: 20 pixels wide, 80 pixels wide and 300 pixels wide. There's a real skill to designing icons. You have to make them simple enough to be understandable at small sizes but interesting enough to be beautiful … [Read more...]
A free and easy way to give up smoking
Fanfare! I have just published a new website detailing the method I used to quit cigarettes. I started smoking when I was 18 and very quickly developed a 20 a day habit. I immediately noticed a dip in my health – not to mention an increase in my asthma. But still I soldiered on. I tried to give … [Read more...]
Flash … no flash
Here's another thing that I hate about doing websites ... Flash. When I first set eyes on it I thought it was great but for me it hasn't really lived up to expectations. The problem is not everyone has the Flash Player installed in their browser – not everyone can see it! And it is bad for SEO – … [Read more...]
More about SEO, Google and recriprocal links
This article is massively out-of-date and virtually everything said in it is now incorrect but it is useful to show how quickly things can change in this area! If you now type "freelance graphic designer and artworker in London" into Yahoo! I'm number one. In Google I'm hundred and fifty … [Read more...]
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