I always think a web design business should expand the services it offers. One obvious way to do this is to resell web hosting services to clients. So, what do you do? Purchase a Hostgator Reseller Account (affiliate link), charge your clients, sit back and watch the money come in? Right? Wrong! I’ve been offering [...]
Every designer knows that sometimes your clients will give you awful photos to work with. But when this happens there are many things you can do to improve the picture quality in Photoshop. Images can be improved by increasing contrast, increasing saturation, cropping and by employing a host of other Photoshop tricks. Increasing contrast Increasing [...]
How do you get your website in front of as many eyeballs as possible? How do you expose your products and services to the world? The answer is, of course, to get to the top of the Google search results. Keyword research and competitor analysis Don’t stop reading just because it’s a boring subheading!!! This [...]
If you are reading this on my blog you’ll notice 7 beautiful grayed out social media icons on the right side of the header which turn into full technicolor when hovered over. I seem to be getting more and more traffic from these various social media avenues so it makes sense to fill up that [...]
I’ve posted a few articles recently about making a child theme in Genesis for WordPress as I “filmed” almost the entire process of a client website creation. Here I’m going to put all the videos together and run through the process from beginning to end. I start off with a mock-up of the home page [...]
I’m often asked how to create an interactive PDF with InDesign with internal links so that you can, for example, click on a chapter title in the contents page and immediately get the PDF to jump to that page. How to create an interactive PDF with internal links video So I’ve made a video to [...]
Asian economies comprise more than 4 billion people (60% of the world population) and you would have to have been living under a stone for the last 15 years not to have noticed the growing economic weight of the region. I’m glad to see the rise of emerging markets and hope it restores some much [...]
One of the ways WordPress can be made to act like an all-singing, all-dancing CMS is with custom page templates. These give you the ability to make any page on your website look and/or function differently to all the others. Here I’d like to explain how you make a custom page template for Genesis. Genesis [...]
I would like to belatedly wish you all a very Happy New Year! I had planned to publish this post earlier. Time was increasingly an issue in 2011 and it looks just as elusive now! I’ve been reading my post from year ago on my business plan for 2011 and it was very interesting although [...]
The first time I saw WordPress widgets I thought “what on earth are these useless pieces of dog’s do?” Now I think that widgets are awesome website building devices that should have pride of place in any website designer’s toolbox. What are WordPress widgets? WordPress widgets are self contained bits of website code that can [...]
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