My first free e-book on self-marketing completed

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I haven’t written as many posts as I would have liked on this blog in the last couple of months. The reason? I have been creating an e-book which will be used as an incentive for join my mailing list. It’s ready now! Why did I do this? Many reasons … I wanted to do [...]

Adding images to a WordPress post

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When writing a WordPress post it is extremely important to make it as visually appealing as possible. Visitors are much more likely to spend a bit of time on the page if it has a nice image and the text is laid out in a pleasing way. Images are important in terms of SEO. If [...]

How to create a simple flat web button

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Here is an in depth tutorial explaining how to create the flat web button below in Photoshop and introducing the concept of the web designers’ secret penultimate pixels! Go cmd/cntl-N or File > New… to create a new Photoshop document of the size of your button. This one has a width of 175 pixels and [...]

Sync up your Social Media and increase your Tweets

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The huge advances of social media sites show a transformation from media monologues to dialogues which will define human communication of the early 21st century. An overwhelming majority of marketers say they are now using some form of social media to market their business. Social media is an almost “must-have” for any small business because [...]

How to market yourself #9: How to get people to contact you from your website

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You’ve got a beautiful website and blog and you want people to contact you, either by phone or email. What do you do? Everyone has a contact page on their website. OK, maybe not everyone, but you should have one, really. Here are some really important points to think about when you’re doing your contact [...]

Cloud commuting and graphic designers

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Cloud computing is a term usually used to describe the proliferation of resources and services accessed through the internet. These resources (for example, Google maps; Google docs; Google Analytics; WordPress.com; online Adobe applications; your website host) in fact, any online service that happens “out there” – you don’t care where, as long as it works [...]

How to market yourself #8: How to offer RSS feed and email subscriptions

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So you’ve got your self-hosted WordPress blog set up, optimized and have already published a few great posts and you want to offer an RSS feed and email subscription to your posts. What is RSS? RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is a format used to publish frequently updated content from the web on [...]

The future of print in the age of the web

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How long has it been since you first used the internet? How much have your habits of information gathering changed since then? If you’re anything like me a myriad of different interests discovered on the internet crowd your mind as well as the exciting new ways you find out about them. The future is on [...]

What to do if you are on an email blacklist

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A hugely significant part of your web presence and company brand is email. It is just as important as your website. It needs to be professional looking and, most importantly, when sent to a particular place, it needs to get there. What are email blacklists? Email blacklists are databases used by organizations to decide if [...]

Web design using JavaScript

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I’ve talked many times about the limitations of Flash. It’s issues with accessibility and SEO are two of the main ones. So if you want something to look a bit “flashy” on your website, always see if you can do it with JavaScript first. Simple and interactive image slideshow fader with JavaScript I got this [...]

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