Jun

13

Blogs: Mad About Design offers graphic designers hundreds of inspiring ideas for your blog, or your client’s blog

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Designers looking for hundreds of creative and inspiring blog design ideas in one place should visit Blogs: Mad About Design, just published by Spain’s Maomao Publications. You’ll find page after page of creative and inspiring blog design ideas, from conservative to the cutting edge, each professionally executed created by designers around the world. 

Blogs: Mad […]

Dec

30

John McWade’s Before & After graphic design resource publication and blog

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Those interested in graphic design resources for self-improvement should get to know John McWade. John publishes Before & After, which has been sharing his practical approach to graphic design since 1990.
John’s writing resembles his simple and to the point design philosophy. His examples emphasize color and type.
One of the best ways you can familiarize […]

Dec

9

Graphic designers will appreciate the color photos on display at Environmental Graffiti

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Arresting color photographs from around the world are on display at Ellen McCormick’s Environmental Grafitti posting. Definitely worth a visit.
Site was recommended by Guy Kawasaki on Twitter.
BTW, Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Rogercparker

Aug

4

New Typepad feature permits multiple page blogs

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Bloggers with blogs hosted at typepad.com can now add multiple pages to their blogs using the same easy-to-use interface that makes blogging a breeze. Details.
In a recent Design to Sell newsletter, I had previously described the importance of multi-page capability when WordPress introduced the feature.
Once again, today’s competitive environment often benefits users, who can do […]

Jun

26

Small business marketing with Squidoo.com

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Squidoo.com is one of the great small business marketing bargains of the Internet world. It doesn’t cost you a cent to establish a powerful web presence at Squidoo.com, you don’t need any previous design or HTML experience, and your Squidoo presence may earn you advertising income.
There are two ways to profit from Squidoo.com:

You can use […]

May

25

Just arrived: David Meerman Scott’s New Rules of Marketing and PR

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If you attend my expert interviews, you undoubtedly remember the great call where I interviewed David Meerman Scott, who had written his way to success with an e-book that was downloaded by over 50,000 readers of his blog.
In the months that followed, David expanded his New Rules of Marketing and PR into a beautifully-produced, […]

May

10

Save time planing and recycling blog posts

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The latest issue of Design To Sell describes how you can use Mindjet’s MindManager to save time when planning your blog. Planning blog posts in advance ensures that you won’t overlook important ideas, or inadvertently repeat previous ideas.
Tracking your blog posts with MindManager also makes it easy to recycle your blog posts into articles, e-books, […]

Apr

7

Is there a blog in your future?

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If you’ve been impressed with the convenience of blogs, but were frustrated by their previous limitations, you’ll want to download my latest Design to Sell newsletter.
You may recognize your website as one of the three categories described, and you’ll enjoy learning about the latest enhancement to one of the most powerful blogging software programs […]

Apr

6

Dan Gookin’s free Blogger’s Guide to HTML

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Dan Gookin, author of many of the world’s best-selling computer books, including several in the For Dummies… series, is offering a free e-book entitled The Bloggers Guide to HTML.
If you have a blog, or a presence at Squidoo.com, you know that one of the best things about blogs is that you do not need […]

Feb

22

Blog marketing tip #2: Recycling blog posts

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A recent post in Guy Kawasaki’s Change the World blog points out the importance of viewing the creation of each blog post in a way that it can be reused.
Entrepreneur Magazine, for example, liked his blog posts so much they are being run as columns in their publication! Write something right the first time, […]

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