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10 tips to design a great web site

A clean and simple design
A good web design must have images and text in equal proportions. If you should a plain text page or 50% of a the page have just text, people will not pay attention to it. In addition, if you include a lot of dynamic effects, applets or Flash the users’ [...]

[ More ] December 10th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

Past, present and future of the web

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[ More ] December 6th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

What are pixel fonts?

Pixel fonts are a special type of fonts that are designed so that every part of the character occupies a pixel from the monitor. These are specially designed fonts for monitors, you can also print them, but you might suffer from pixels on your printed works.

[ More ] December 4th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Typography |

A balance between your job and your freelance works

As we all know, starting a business is not easy. And many of us have many responsibilities that we have to fulfil. And at the same time we have to live the adventures of freelance.Some people would rather have a “safe job” than “risky” freelancing activities.
Having a night shift:
It might be weird at the beginning, [...]

[ More ] November 29th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Freelance |

Is it really necessary for a graphic designer to be able to draw?

I hope I’ll avoid polemic with this article. I invite any reader to share his/her opinion about this article.From my perspective there’s no need for a graphic design to be a great drawer, but he/she has to be a good designer. I honestly think it’s a misconception to think that if you’re a good designer [...]

[ More ] November 28th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

Steps to have a great and successful web site

Trazos Web is telling us 4 basic steps for our web site to become a #1. Personally I agree with them all, I hope you do as well.
Step #1: Good content – We always talk about the tools that you can use in your Blog, products and services to keep success, but keep in mind [...]

[ More ] November 22nd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

10 ways to market your freelance work

One of the most difficult things to do is to market your work. A lot of of people will not want to be freelancers because they usually says: “Nobody knows me”. Relax!
Blog
Email friends and family
Email publication
Guest writing
Collaborate
Partnetships with other freelancers
Teach
Join organizations
Create buszz
Contect potential clients
With this 10 essential marketing tips everybody will get to know [...]

[ More ] November 22nd, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Articles, Freelance |

10 ways of self-promoting

One of hardest things to do is to promote your own art. Many designers fear doing this because: NOBODY KNOWS ME. Relax! There are many ways to let people know you-
1. Blog: this is the best and most of time free-promoting engine.
2. Send E-mails to your family and friends: let them know what type [...]

[ More ] November 21st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Freelance |

5 signs that tell you: DO NOT STUDY GRAPHIC DESIGN!

Maybe this article is a little controversial, but it’s all true… You really need to be sure this is the right career for you, and that you really do what you like. Remember that if you like what you do at work, you’ll never really “work”.
If you rather watch your “my-space” web page, instead of [...]

[ More ] November 20th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

The 3 levels of the graphic message

There are 3 concepts that will help us to understand any image. At firts, they are apply to the verbal and textual languatge, we’ll be able to find them in any other vital sign (such as a Logo, Illustration, Icon, Symbol); any set of signs (might be printed, digita or 3D: it can be [...]

[ More ] November 19th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

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