By DonnaD on Aug 24, 2010 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Productivity, Tools of the trade | Comments Off
MockFlow: Online Wireframe Tool. Looks pretty good. If you try it out, write it on up and we can do a guest post for you!
By DonnaD on Aug 9, 2010 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Graphics Stuff, Tools of the trade | Comments Off
9 Solid Logo Design Tips for Beginners | UK Logo Designer and Brand Identity Graphic Design by Graham Smith. So many list members come to the list and ask for opinions on a logo. Not once has someone come in with a b&w design. it is always these colored gradient/beveled/looks good on a web site [...]
By DonnaD on Aug 9, 2010 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Business Tips/Advice, Productivity, Tools of the trade, Tutorials | Comments Off
30+ Killer Web Development Screencasts to fine tune your skills. We can all use some fine-tuning of our skills. Spend at least an hour a week learning something new in your field. You will thank me in the long run.
By DonnaD on Apr 23, 2010 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Business Tips/Advice | Comments Off
The Good, Bad And Ugly Of The Web Design Industry | PV.M Garage.
By DonnaD on Feb 19, 2010 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Business Tips/Advice | Comments Off
16 Blogs To Help You Master the Business of Design – Visual Swirl. good stuff. especially for those just starting out
By Cheryl on Dec 17, 2009 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Business Tips/Advice | 1 Comment
Do you always have a good written document to fall back on should your client suddenly get amnesia? Even in the best of worlds, clients are busy people like the rest of us and a bit of critical information from a phone call six weeks ago is not going to be necessarily retained if it’s [...]
By Cheryl on Dec 5, 2009 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Design Inspiration, Productivity, Tools of the trade | 1 Comment
I’m three paragraphs into this article and it rings as true as a bell and as solid as a stack of bricks. One thing. One thing to be a good designer. Want to know what it is? Read the article then pop back over here and comment on whether it rings true with you or [...]
By DonnaD on Nov 24, 2009 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Code code code, CSS | 1 Comment
Coding Clean and Semantic Templates. a good article. so many times a woman applies for membership on the mailing list, I look at their portfolio, and I see “div-itis” and yet they say they know CSS. If they did, they’d not have a whole article written just for them. Most just allow Dreamweaver to do [...]
By DonnaD on Oct 21, 2009 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Tools of the trade | Comments Off
7 Free Tools to Identify A Font | Webdesigner Depot. Countless times on our mailing list the question is asked “what is this font” and then the url to the page or the graphic. And since it has been asked a thousand times (I guess Google must be blocked for some people), this post at [...]
By DonnaD on Sep 13, 2009 in Advice for Newbie Web Designers, Business Tips/Advice | Comments Off
Tools to Help you Estimate Price for your Web Work | Admix Web. I have not had a chance to go thru all of them, but quick scan looks good. Of course you should develop your own methods for pricing. When you start out, chances are that you are going to underestimate quite a bit, [...]