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A cliche design

Most certainly you have heard the term: Cliché. And you have wondered what is it?
This happens when you start the graphic design career.
The term cliché refers to an idea that has been overused. And some people say it loses strength or attraction when using it. When you use a cliché you can be described as [...]

[ More ] February 26th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

Does gender influence the design?

In certain jobs, there are stereotypes; like for example, we always think that a secretary has to be a woman, but nowadays we know that there are also men doing these jobs without problems.Have you ever thought, but it might happen that some people think that an X design had to be made by a [...]

[ More ] February 25th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Creativity |

Doing some team work

Team work will help you achieve all your goals. In order to develop great ideas when doing team work, it’s very important to keep a certain points clear, so success can be achieved as soon as possible.All should know the subject to develop. Even if it doesn’t sound very logical, you’d be amazed of the [...]

[ More ] February 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Creativity |

The 10 most common mistakes in SEO

Talking about SEO, I’ve found myself with Search Engine Watch. Here I found a very interesting article about SEO, according to their experiences, from the most common mistakes that happen in SEO.
They are:

A bad information structure
Poor useability
Internal link bad management
Hiding the content of the web page
Incorrect site addressing
Bad titles and sub-titles
Bad content
Replics from other sites
Flash [...]

[ More ] February 21st, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, SEO |

The Best way to use Flash, according to Google

There has always been a controvesy around the sites that are designed with Flash and their indexation in Google. There are many opened questions like: Will my content be fully indexed? What choices do I have to make it fully indexed?, etc.
As many of us know by now, Google is the major Search Engine that [...]

[ More ] February 19th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Flash, SEO |

How much should I charge for a web site design?

One question posted by many that can have many different answers. It’s true that for this there is no ultimate truth, many countries have different rates.
What I could do for you would be to give you some hints of the points to take in consideration when taking this decision:
Your reputation as designer, we know that [...]

[ More ] February 18th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Freelance |

Design a Dynamic or Static web site?

When we find ourselves dealing with customers, they will ask us sometimes: What do you recommend me, a page with or without motion? Then comes the time when we have to think and give a good answer. Here are some tips for you to get the best answer possible:

Dynamic:
Is the site where motion is added, [...]

[ More ] February 17th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

Freelance, don’t forget your business card

It doesn’t matter if you’re a programmer, writer, etc. freelancer, this will help you all so you can generate great business contacts.Never leave your business card at home, you can leave home anything and meet a potential customer or you can even find somebody who can recommend you for a job.
Don’t be shy, I know [...]

[ More ] February 17th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Ads, Articles, Freelance |

Webmaster: Focus on purpose and on use, than on the design.

I couple days ago I was just commenting to one of my friends how we designers can be really picky about certain designs. We use colors that we like, and we don’t think of the physiological impact this color has in a person’s mind. This affects the message we’re trying to convey. For example, do [...]

[ More ] February 13th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

Effective communication in your design

Carrying the message your customers wants, might be one of the greatest challenges you might find yourself with in the designing world. Specially when you work for a big company where many people have to approve your designs.In my personal experience is that the idea of the customer has “evoluved” while the concept was been [...]

[ More ] February 11th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

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