Entries from June 2007

3 Ways to Find the Perfect Freelance Designer

June 28, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

Last month I wrote about Website Design Solutions for your Small Business and how important the design of your website is to the image of your business. Today I am going to focus on where business owners can find good designers that won’t break the bank.

Much like any search, knowing where to look is half the battle. Searching for “web designers” or “website design” on Google is going to lead you to a sea of companies that may or may not have good designers. What we want to do is go directly to the source.

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Five Easy Ways to Monetize Your Blog

June 26, 2007 // Sujan Patel

We all know that running a successful blog may reward you down the road if you choose to monetize and go commercial with it. There have been many a successful blogger in the past 6-7 years and more and more are in the running for “A-List” status every single day. Some of you may be curious as to how these popular bloggers are making a healthy secondary (sometimes primary) income from their blogs. So to make it easy and to get a head start, below are five easy ways you can monetize your blog starting today. Keep in mind that there are several ways you can make money from a blog, but the ways listed below seem to be the most common and easiest to implement on your blog site. Feel free to post any questions in the comments below.

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UPDATE: Show Me Wild and Crazy

June 18, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

After getting a client request for a wild and crazy design, I racked my brain thinking about what the client had and hadn’t potentially seen before. I probably started and stopped on this particular design five different times. Adding to the problem was the fact that this client was fairly familiar with my previous clients and design work. Every time I got close to finishing, I would step back and think that the project wasn’t far enough outside of my design norm. At the end of each version I was able to draw some connection to my previous works, so I would start over.

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HOW Alibi Gets Inspiration

June 14, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

I just got back from the HOW Design Conference in Atlanta and all I can say is WOW. This was my first time at HOW and I was extremely impressed with all the speakers and the amount of useful information that each session provided. I’ll write up a more detailed summary, but I’m going to post it on my design blog, so go check it out.

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Website Design Solutions for your Small Business

June 6, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

The website design for your small business can be the life or death of your company. Since design is subjective, anyone can instantly be turned off by the design of a website. Nothing says “small time” faster than an outdated and unloved website, but there are solutions for small businesses that don’t require large budgets to throw at the website design and development.

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IE Will Not Cooperate

June 4, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

IE positioning is fickle at best. I was recently designing a new site for a client when I could not get around this one bug that kept appearing in IE when I would test the site. No matter what I adjusted, nothing would correct the problem. Thank god I ran across positioniseverything.net. To my surprise I was dealing with the IE Doubled Float-Margin Bug.

I have a full summary with images of what happened on my other site, Drew Stauffer. If you’ve had any other problems with IE, or more importantly solutions on how to fix the problems, I would love to hear about them.

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