Posts Tagged SEO

Comparing SEO Business Models

One of the great things about SEO is that it allows you to see many lenses on busi­ness that you can’t nor­mally see with most other pro­fes­sions (out­side of per­haps some­thing in high finance or man­age­ment con­sult­ing any­how). One day you are build­ing a boot­strapped busi­ness from scratch won­der­ing when it will make its first Dol­lar, and the next day your on the phone with McK­in­sey con­sul­tants or an exec­u­tive from a for­tune 500 com­pany talk­ing strategy

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Com­par­ing SEO Busi­ness Models

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13 Theme and Template Clubs for Designers

For those who pur­chase pre­mium themes and tem­plates, clubs can pro­vide an oppor­tu­nity to get access to a lot of themes or tem­plates for a low price. Most clubs cater to design­ers who want to start a free­lance busi­ness and use the themes and tem­plates on client projects (with cus­tomiza­tions of course). In this post we’ll pro­vide some infor­ma­tion on the lead­ing club mem­ber­ships for Word­Press themes as well as for HTML/CSS templates. 

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13 Theme and Tem­plate Clubs for Designers

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Clearing up SEO Misconceptions

Recently, Derek Powazek wrote a fairly aggres­sive rant attack­ing SEO as a pro­fes­sion and busi­ness. Unfor­tu­nately, while he makes a few good points, he mud­dies the water with even more mis­in­for­ma­tion. Let’s clear some of that up right here

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Clear­ing up SEO Misconceptions

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The A-Z List of Free Serif Fonts for Design

It’s almost impos­si­ble to have too many fonts installed on your sys­tem, espe­cially when it comes to Serif fonts. So to help you add a few fonts to your font col­lec­tion, I’ve made an A-Z List of some of the very best free serif fonts out there on the web. You can down­load all the fonts for free and use most of them in your per­sonal and com­mer­cial design work. 

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The A-Z List of Free Serif Fonts for Design

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How to Code a Clean Portfolio Design (Plus Free Five-Page Template)

Last week we pub­lished a tuto­r­ial for design­ing a clean port­fo­lio site in Pho­to­shop . In the past I’ve had sev­eral requests to fol­low up the Pho­to­shop tuto­ri­als with one for cod­ing the HTML/CSS of the page, so that is what we are going to do today. In this tuto­r­ial we will start with the Pho­to­shop file that was designed as part of the pre­vi­ous tuto­r­ial (which can be down­loaded from Folio Focus ), and we will work our way through the process of con­vert­ing that design into a coded page

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How to Code a Clean Port­fo­lio Design (Plus Free Five-Page Template)

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Twitter Plans Search Features

Evan Williams, a co-founder of Twit­ter ‚  releases ideas about the future of Twit­ter in an inter­view with CBS. Williams was quoted as say­ing “Search­a­bil­ity and orga­ni­za­tion of tweets is a key goal in the short term.” Twit­ter has con­tin­ued to be one of  the name­sakes of Social Media and it’s vol­ume of infor­ma­tion and avail­able ana­lyt­i­cal tools  con­tinue to grow. 

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Twit­ter Plans Search Features

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13 Principles of Effective Time Management for Freelancers

Free­lancers and inde­pen­dent design­ers have the need to achieve effi­ciency with their time. Effec­tive time man­age­ment does not come nat­u­rally for many of us, but to avoid work­ing ridicu­lous hours and to greatly increase the chances of suc­cess in busi­ness, it is an area that needs atten­tion. While work­ing to improve the effec­tive­ness of my time is an on-going jour­ney for me, I have learned some things along the way that I think may be help­ful to others. 

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13 Prin­ci­ples of Effec­tive Time Man­age­ment for Freelancers

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30 Fresh and Useful Photoshop Actions

In the past we’ve pub­lished three col­lec­tions of Pho­to­shop actions and response to those posts has been very good. Today we’ll fea­ture 30 more actions, many of them have been released since our last col­lec­tion was pub­lished. For more Pho­to­shop actions, please see: 60 Pho­to­shop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhance­ments 30 Pho­to­shop Actions for Touch-Ups and Enhance­ments – Part II 20+ Pho­to­shop Actions for Photo Edit­ing Action 01 Foliage Action Set 6 Ofcurse Action Kris­ten Nat­ural Action Sarah1 Action Blue Action Vin­tage Action Four Actions Pack Image Punch! Action Gra­di­ent Actions Pho­to­shop Actions 133 Magic Skin Pho­to­shop Actions 132 Action 21 Action Set 2 Retro Actions Colour­Cast Canon Soft Recov­ery Car­ni­val Action Unspo­ken Action Bilt Tings Wake Me Sarah Set 4 Think­ing of You Action Cof­fee Action Set 7 Pretty­Ac­tion Lab Sharp­en­ing Action One-Click Wow! Action Look­ing to Hire a Designer or Developer

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30 Fresh and Use­ful Pho­to­shop Actions

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Free E-Commerce Icons from IconShock

Icon­Shock has designed a set of icons specif­i­cally for DesignM.ag read­ers. The set includes five icons that were cre­ated for use in e-commerce web­sites. The icons are free for per­sonal or com­mer­cial use

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Free E-Commerce Icons from IconShock

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Army’s Top Inventions of 2008 Named

In the deadly con­test last year between Amer­i­can experts try­ing to pro­tect sol­diers from road­side bombs and enemy tech­ni­cians design­ing the lethal devices, Army sci­en­tist Scott E. Schoen­feld often pon­dered his adversary

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Army’s Top Inven­tions of 2008 Named

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NASA Scientist Charged in Md. With Aiding Wife’s Firm

A promi­nent NASA sci­en­tist from Sil­ver Spring has been charged in fed­eral court in Mary­land with using his posi­tion for the finan­cial ben­e­fit of his wife, who owns a com­pany that devel­ops sci­ence exhibits and edu­ca­tional tools. 

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NASA Sci­en­tist Charged in Md. With Aid­ing Wife’s Firm

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Skype Founders Not Done Filing Lawsuits

After suing eBay, the Inter­net phone com­pany founders accuse a ven­ture fund and one of its part­ners of theft of trade secrets.

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Skype Founders Not Done Fil­ing Lawsuits

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Dell Grabs Perot Systems for $3.9 Billion

The deal aims to ramp up Dell’s ser­vices busi­ness on the heels of rival HP’s buy of EDS last year.

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Dell Grabs Perot Sys­tems for $3.9 Billion

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EU Sheds Light on Intel’s Massive Fine

Euro­pean reg­u­la­tors release some details on the evi­dence it has against the world’s largest chipmaker.

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40 High-Quality InDesign Tutorials

Adobe InDe­sign is one of the lead­ing solu­tions for cre­at­ing pro­fes­sional lay­outs for print and dig­i­tal publishing. 

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40 High-Quality InDe­sign Tutorials

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