One of the questions I get asked the most by clients and other designers alike is about (surprise, surprise) money. So what is the hourly rate for a graphic designer? Ahh, there's the question. If you're fresh out of college, I would say (and don't blame me if you can't pay off your loans) around … [Read more...]
Archives for 2009
How to market yourself #7: How to write and design a WordPress page or post
Constantly updated quality content is the mainstay of any website or blog. I have already described how to set up a WordPress.org blog and what to write about when you have one. Here,s the "how to" for those new-ish to WordPress... There are three things to remember when you are writing: Make … [Read more...]
Photoshop a flag inside a country
This is was a Photoshop image I did to illustrate how Chinese national oil companies were active in Africa. I'd tried recently many vector flags and country outlines solutions to similar illustrative quandaries and I thought this time it was nice to do it all in Photoshop. I created the mask … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #6: How to get links to your website
There are two sides of a coin when considering how to market your site on the internet. Firstly, concentrate on the site itself: write regularly updated quality content and optimize the site for search engines. Secondly, by concentrating off the site: getting quality sites to link to … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #5: How to optimize your WordPress site for search engines
This is the fifth in the series where I explain how an individual or small or medium sized organization can get themselves noticed in the big bad world. Other installments explained how to set up a web site from scratch, how to install WordPress and what to write on your site. Before we … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #4: What to write in your blog or website
So you've got your WordPress blog set up and you are just starting to write – what you do? Words are, in my opinion, the most important thing on a website. This is because the search engine robots that crawl the web every day can pretty much "read" what you've written, but they can't look at your … [Read more...]
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