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Logo Design, the Basics

One of the hardest parts of graphic design whilst creating a website is the logo design, its often very hard to create an image that truly represents a company but if we keep in our minds eye certian factors you can normally create a suitable design.

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Web Design: Getting Paid

I know of a few designers whom have been ripped off by some client whom has received a service and have simply refused to pay. I want to share my method of payment for Web design services I undertake, its simple, requires few steps and never fails, well not yet anyway.

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Design Mock-ups Dont Work?

In the early stages of a web design project most designers I know offer 3 different designs for the client to pick from, the client picks which is their favorite of the three mock ups and this design is used for the project. I think this design process is unproductive for the project, and worse it wastes time.

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Tips for New Designers

As I am celebrating Designbit’s birthday and looking back over the journey I have been on over the last year. I realised just how much I have learnt about the technologies and design industry itself, for anybody new to web design I want to save you some time and offer some design tips and hints.

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First rule of web design

You dont talk about prices. Second rule of web design is? You don’t talk about prices. If you are looking into buying a website for your company and are wondering how much a website will cost you, then in most cases you may as well give in looking as most UK and worldwide companies hide their prices until they know who you are by the means of an annoying quote form or worse. There are two sides to this argument the first arguing that it’s because you cannot possibly estimate a “real” project cost, and the other camp voices that you should be honest about your prices from the get go.

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