5 Articles to Help with Goals in Google Analytics
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Thanks to a smashing article on six revisions about setting up goals in Google Analytics – we delved further into the subject and found these great 5 articles to help you get to grips with just the same.
50 Freely Available Professional Fonts For Your Designs
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Being designers we usually need more than just the usual font collection. Many typefaces are made available online for free it can be very helpful for designers to build up their type arsenal. Of course many would argue that designers should avoid using free grungy typefaces and instead apply type treatment to existing and well [...]
20 Free Grunge Like Fonts For Your Creative Projects
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Everyone seems to be talking about grunge nowadays. Are you a fan of worn out and destroyed style aswell? If the answer is YES, I am sure you’ll enjoy this little collection of 20 free grunge fonts from fonts2u.com that I have built up below. I am sure few of them will become your favorites [...]
How do your organise yourself as a freelance designer? – Part 2
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Hi all..
Welcome to Part 2 of the first post: How do your organise yourself as a freelance designer?
This is more of a search for ideas and methods than an informative article. No matter how often I tidy and plan ahead, my desk after about 2 weeks always seems to revert back to the same [...]
Graphic Designer Arguing With Client Video
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Hi all, found this video in my travels of a graphic designers conversation with a client! Hilarious!
Be warned Language is very strong in the video!
Aurora Borealis Typopgraphy Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial
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I recently created this wallpaper for Lucidry an online inspirational, business, social media and creative professional website. I thought it would be great to share my process in a tutorial! You can download my version here. Hope you enjoy.
Step 1
Create a new document that is the screen resolution of your PC/Laptop Screen – So for [...]
5 Free Web Design Proposal Contracts
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I recently wrote an article: what to include in a design project proposal. Which helped me think through the things I normal include in say a branding project. However, for the web its evident different things are involved. In my web travels I have found the following sample contracts and proposal examples – thought it [...]
Freelancing From Home and Staying Productive
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If you have chosen to work from and not from an office, then you are probably faced with the same problems that I am, most notable is the problem of staying productive! More experienced freelancers have probably long tamed the beasts that tempt us when working from home…
how do you stay productive at home?
The [...]
Long Term Freelancing Success – Part 2 – Marketing
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Welcome to the second installment of this series – Marketing. You can view the other parts here: Long Term Freelancing Success.
Marketing is one of the key elements of any business and as a freelancer it should be a huge part of your strategy towards growth and success. So in this post I’m going to talk [...]
Give Old Photos A Punchy Stylistic Feel – Photoshop Tutorial – with Video
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I found a number of old photos and after scanning them in – they had a grainy finish and had lost the punch and impact they once had. So I devised this little process to give them their punch back! Hopefully its of use to yourself. You can follow along with the screenshots or just [...]
5 Articles To Understanding Your Websites Bounce Rate
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Understanding your website’s bounce rate can be the key between creating a more user friendly or profitable website. The 5 articles below should hopefully help you to do that:
How to Analyze and Improve the ‘Bounce Rate’ for Your Website
Getting users engaged with your content can result with a sale, subscription, bookmark and return visit. One [...]
Interview With Will Kay of OddKingdom – Becoming Your Brand
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When first starting out in any of the creative arts as a freelancer or sole designer; marketing is one of the biggest concerns. Getting clients, letting people know that you exist. Many of us started out and drudged through the first year or so through referrals, family and friends and exhausting every contact we have. [...]
Factors To Consider When Pricing For A Project
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One of the things I suffered from in the beginning when pricing clients is often forgetting to bill for all aspects of a project and thus half way through I was feeling cheated or clients were commenting on how remarkably low my prices where in comparison to other quotes they had received.
We all remember to [...]
Long Term Freelancing Success – Part 1 – Dedication
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Hi all, welcome to what I hope to be a series about some factors I think will be key to long term success..The first is to address your working discipline.
Read many interviews of freelancers and a common answer to ‘what do you love about being a freelancer?’ – one of the expected answers is the [...]
QuickGamma – Calibrate Your Monitor Free
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A while back, I made a post showing a free utility available for mac that was very comprehensive in calibrating a LCD screen. You can view that here. However, it was only available for Mac, QuickGamma is the nearest substitute for the estranged Windows users. I have not personally had a chance to test [...]
How To Deal with Non-Paying Clients
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At some point you will come face to face with the worst type of client. The client who despite numerous attempts on your behalf, is refusing to pay outstanding fees on a project.
As a business you will at some point have to go after a non-paying client, and as such should be prepared for the [...]
When Your Client Wants To Become The Designer
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Every now and then you receive a client who gets involved in your end of the deal, and is questioning / making firm suggestions about directions to take. This could be due to their eagerness, misunderstanding of professional boundaries or personality; but it needs to be addressed when they begin to intrude too much upon [...]
11 Articles To Stop You Making Designer Mistakes
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1) Just Creative Design – Bad Graphic Design
Yes, this is a controversial topic, however I hope to raise awareness of some mistakes you may be making in your graphic design pieces that are making you look amateurish, but please keep in mind that none of these are hard and fast rules, this is only a [...]
Grade/Score/Analyse Your Blog
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Whilst on twitter, I came across this nice little tool to help grade your blog via a tweet by Rutiso It then provides an analysis of your blog and outputs a score out of 100. It functions/looks vry similar to hubspot’s ever popular Website Grader.
The tool can be found here: http://blog.grader.com/
What is the best 22″ 24″ 28″ 30″ graphic design photography monitor
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Whilst searching the web for a comprehensive resource to help me to decide what monitor to buy, I came across this great thread on the AnandTech Forums:
Best Monitor for Purpose
The thread is segmented into different purposes you may require monitors for. Here is the section related to Design:
Is Alexa Traffic Rank Important – 4 resources to help you find out
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‘Is Alexa Traffic Rank Important??’ is something a client asked me the other day, and I realised I didn’t have a definite answer to give them… I found the following 4 articles to be very useful!
1 ) SEO Book: http://www.seobook.com/archives/000944.shtml
Over the last few days my Alexa has doubled from around 13,400 to around 6,800. Wow [...]
Freelance Contracts
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Hi all,
While surfing forums and the like found a great free contract resource , over at WDF.
This is a contract that I came up with several years ago, with the help of a lawyer [personal friend]. I didn’t want anything too technical or full of legal speak. Just wanted something simple, straightforward, that made sense [...]
Design Community Survey
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Below is a questionnaire that will take you no more than 5 minutes to complete. What I hope to do is when enough have filled it out is make some insights into the design community and get my maths boffin friend to compile some lovely little pie charts and comparative graphs.
Feb 22, 2010 | Categories: Commentary, Resources | Tags: questionnaire, research | 3 Comments »