I wanted to clear up the difference between categories and tags in WordPress, something I find myself explaining very often to clients new to the WordPress publshing platform. WordPress Categories are your table of contents. WordPress Tags are your index words, think of a book metaphor; Read More
Freelance designers often know HTML / CSS inside out, along with graphical editing, so it makes sense to monetize that skill set as much as possible. You can add another string to your bow by offering a email marketing service, there’s some differences Read More
This weeks design critique is the new blue Manchester City Football Club website, design by Poke London whom have set the standard for the rest of the premier league clubs. A classy minimal feel with sharp square edges in this context representing solidity and boldness. Read More
The Sistine Chapel ceiling in Vatican City is Michelangelo’s most renowned Renaissance art piece, I was lucky enough to honeymoon in Rome and see this piece up close, truly inspiring design on a colossal scale the whole chapel is famously frescoed with scenes from the book of Genesis, Read More
This web marketing tip comes hot on the heels of an insightful chat with a taxi driver earlier in the day. Hailing down the cab with a ferocious whistle, I took residence on the backseat. “Where to”, Mr Taxi Driver asked. “To the pet shop on Main Street”, I replied. Read More
‘Writing for the Web’ is a guide for website owners, authors, and web designers on writing engaging SEO enhanced copy. My intention is to carve out a quintessential source of information pertaining specifically to online copy. The series is set to unfold over the coming months so sit back and enjoy a compelling tale of copywriting in a virtual age…
A client hiring a freelance designer wants to see your work, check your prices, then access your personality and ask “can I work with him?”. Personality is a selling point that you should express, not the collecting magazines under your bed part, but the nice; funny, polite and interesting parts.
A million downloads of 2.9 is astonishing, and less so is the immediate release of version 2.9.1 fixing a handful of minor bugs and one annoying one where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. Check out the development blog for full details.
This weeks design critique is the new Panda.org website, design by Clear Left. Natural and earthy color palette, lovely high quality photos and crystal clear calls to action, looking at a design like this one it is clear to see the effect blogs have had on web design; clear structure and readability. Lets Discuss.
Shopify have released a new theme design called Onyx, its dark and minimal, there’s about 20 default themes in all now and as a starting point in Ecommerce with little budget use a default theme and add your branded header, get some orders flowing and look at your stats and then move to a tailored design.