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How to Avoid any Financial Drop down as a Freelance Web Designer

We are passing a very difficult period for the worldwide economy and the near future seems to be troublesome, not offering any pleasant moments. All people around the world are paying double attention to each dollar spent and the transactions are significantly dropping. As a result of these problems, the demand for web services is lower than the offer so any web designer really has to “fight” for a project. Many freelance web designers are lacking clients, but a serious and talented specialist has no problem in gaining projects. Usually, the number of clients is proportionally to the money received, so the reason of having more and more clients is obvious.

Five Rules for Creating a Killer Digital Portfolio

A digital portfolio is the introduction to a designer’s premier skill set. Along with a well-crafted resume and cover letter, a killer digital portfolio can be the winning combo to landing your dream design position.

When creating a digital portfolio, be mindful of what to include and the effort it will take to showcase your design skills. I have collected information throughout my career to produce these five rules to follow during any digital portfolio creation process.

Market Yourself for Free: Most Interesting and Creative Youtube Contests

Youtube has been known for some time as one of the biggest and most popular time wasters on the web. But there are also many practical, educational and marketing values that have been found as it has expanded, especially since Google took it over a few years ago. This has led many companies to turn to the social media site to share commercials, contests, ideas and, best of all, get plenty of feedback from consumers and fans.

Web Usability: Getting Ahead of the Game

What is great usability for a website? Usability means being able to find exactly what one is looking for while spending the least amount of time doing so. It can also mean accomplishing something through a web site, but still while spending the least amount of time doing so. The keywords are find and accomplish, as that is what the end user of a web site aims to do by visiting a web site. There are key elements in helping the end user accomplish what it is they have set out to do. The best usability for a website contains the elements of search, descriptive titles and keywords, site map, related pages, and contact.

Common Web Design Mistakes And How To Avoid Them

Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine a user-updated news blog, remarked that, “Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.” Although thought provoking ideas and well written articles are important, a great deal of your success as a site has to do with design and performance.
In the book Mindless Eating, Brian Wansink describes a lot of the senseless food phenomena that influence our eating habits. One of his findings is that presentation not only would influence how likely someone was to buy a particular food product, but also that it’s packaging would influence the way it tasted.

Utilizing Your Web Graphics Offline

We often think in terms of art imitating life and most of the time our web design is intended to reflect real-world advertising. But for businesses that spend more time online than in other mediums, it can be a challenge to make life match their art.

It’s easy to forget that in spite of this digital world we live in, it’s important to make sure that we are engaging in off-line work that supports everything we do on the web. Often times that may mean creating marketing materials that are tangible. But if the majority of what we do is web based, then everything else we create should support that in content and visual conception.

Tips On Business Card Typeface

Typeface is a term we generally think of for a set of fonts—a combination of the type, style, and size for professional computerized lettering. When considering a typeface for your custom or business card template design at business cards, it is important to understand some common attributes associated with type and some common categories of type.

Sharing and Socializing: Keep the Design Simple

If your website is meant to draw users to search for and share videos, images, people, or data, then keep the design as simple as possible. Take some web design courses to give yourself an idea of what has been done in the past and what is trendy right now.This will increase the likelihood of revisits and promote the notion that you’re an established source that doesn’t rely on gimmicks to get visits.There’s a reason why Internet powerhouses like Google, its subsidiary YouTube, Wikipedia, Twitter, 4chan, and Flickr have the means to develop and design state-of-the-art homepages teeming with the latest in interactive bells and whistles, but choose instead to keep their designs stuck in the mid-2000s.

How To Win Over Website Visitors

A person visits a website. This website is cluttered with links, moving ads, and to make matters worse the content of the website that the user is trying to access is dim, unimaginative, and takes clicking through a few links to access. This type of website will not win visitors over and will definitely not get visitors coming back. A great website should be clean, to the point, with visually stimulating content that makes people want to come back again and again.

How to Build Traffic to Your First Website With Search Engines

Building traffic to a new website can be a concern for anyone not familiar with the online world of marketing. This article aims to inform the reader of key factors that will improve a websites ranking in major search engines, which in turn creates more traffic. Through the use of local search, using specific phrases on a website, and building internal and external links, one can build the reputation of their website with the major search engines. Doing this raises the probability that targeted audience will find a specific website through a search engine such as Google.com. Utilizing local search, specific phrases, and building internal and external links will build traffic to any given website when done correctly.