Posts Tagged ‘Business’
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Content Strategy: Optimizing Your Efforts For Success
- June 3rd, 2011
- 23 Comments
Content strategy is a beast with many heads, names and trajectories. To approach it is to be sucked in full force. Even so, as crucial as content strategy is, conveying its gravity to a big audience, or to key administrators, is often hard. Being so inherently complex, it’s often easiest ...
Read more...Two Cats In A Sack: Designer-Developer Discord
- May 13th, 2011
- 73 Comments
The differences between designers and developers often erupt in pointed jabs on the Web or at conferences. Jokes or not, the jabs create friction whose consequences are real. I am a designer, and by no elaborate means of job-title-rejigging do I consider myself a developer, but I see the cruelty ...
Read more...How To Get Sign-Off For Your Designs
- May 6th, 2011
- 83 Comments
“How did you do that?” My colleague Leigh sounded impressed. He had been working with a problem client for weeks trying to get design approval. Then I came along and was able to get signed-off in a single conference call. “Can you teach me how you did that?” he asked. ...
Read more...Taking Credit Card Payments Online: What’s Involved?
- April 11th, 2011
- 70 Comments
If you’re looking to integrate a credit card payment solution onto your website, the following steps are a guide to applying for, enabling and taking payments online. At first glance, the prospect of integrating a payment solution on a website can seem unwieldy, what with the vast array of payment ...
Read more...Why Wait For The Opportunity? Create Your Own!
- February 25th, 2011
- 52 Comments
As many people who work in a creative field like design and development may already know, sometimes our clients just do not understand what it is that we are trying to achieve. The boundaries that we are seeking to push are not ones they approve of for their project, so ...
Read more...Five and a Half Habits of Highly Effective Designers
- February 18th, 2011
- 54 Comments
We have theories about everything: why the sky is blue, why apples fall, why bees buzz (and do other unmentionable things), why my boss said a certain thing, why that girl in the restaurant looked at me, why didn’t that girl in the restaurant look at me…. We’re wired to ...
Read more...Upcoming Conferences and Events for Designers and Developers in 2011
- February 14th, 2011
- 90 Comments
We’re well into 2011, and many designers and developers around the world are planning their travels for the year, including the possibility of attending any Web design or development conferences. To help you out with your plans for the upcoming months, we’ve put together a list of conferences and events ...
Read more...The Design Matrix: A Powerful Tool For Guiding Client Input
- February 9th, 2011
- 26 Comments
I used to think the beginning of a website design project was the best part. Hopes are high. People are full of great ideas. Nobody is disappointed yet. But as I gained experience, I found that learning about a client’s brand, competitors and customers doesn’t always give clear direction about ...
Read more...We Can Do Better: The Overlooked Importance of Professional Journalism
- January 28th, 2011
- 52 Comments
The Web is a galaxy of information that is rapidly expanding. Blogs and online magazines are helping shape the future of this Information Age that we live in. Those of us who read, write and design blogs and online magazines possess extraordinary power and potential. How will we choose to ...
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