Using Blogging For Your SEO

Do blogs help with your SEO efforts?

The buzz about them sure implies that they do! While there is some truth to that, blogs mainly just help with your overall marketing efforts. Like anything else SEO related, no one practice is going to make or break you (we'll maybe break you if you're spamming!).

It's no big secret that blogs can be a used to give your website an improvement in the ranking of your website in the search engines. In this article I discuss how you can best used a blog to drive more traffic to your website.

A Beginner’s Guide on How to Pursue a Graphic Design Career

Done with college? Time to opt for a real career and get out of your part-time money-earning world? It isn’t easy out there especially when you want to opt for a career option which isn’t as safe as the job of software engineers is. Don’t get me wrong, I am a software engineer myself and I know that a 9-5 job with reputed I.T. company can make you feel safe. My point here is that a career option like Graphic Design is very nice and the process isn’t as automated as it is in various MNCs. This makes it a bit difficult for the infant web designer to find a way through the newly coined term Designer Poverty.

10 excellent SEO plug-ins for every blog

SEO can be a very daunting task.  With the help of plug-ins, this daunting task becomes a piece of cake.  As we all know search engine optimization is extremely important for any website or blog in order to be found on search engines like Google, Yahoo and others.

How to make your type more appealing on the web

It’s not uncommon for a designer in today’s world to pay little attention to how type is laid out, especially with the ever-so-convenient default settings of heading tags and web safe fonts found universally on the web.
If we as interactive designers we’re able to take a little more time when it came to typography, than the results would show a unique, well thought of design as oppose to a “run of the mill” creation.
There is a good chance that the majority of designers and designs you admire showcase good examples of typography.

Designing for search engine optimization

When it comes to designing a new web site, most beginning and unaware designers only care about how amazing the site will be.
Often times as designers, we can take off with a crazy idea for a site design and it ends up jam packed with design on top of design on top of design. Unfortunately, some of us don’t always consider one of the most important purposes of the site: to be found so that it can deliver content.
I mean, let’s be honest. How many people are putting up web sites just for the sake of putting up web sites? Not many.

Free download: Aresio Web UI Kit

We have an amazing Web UI Kit designed by Vlade Dimovski, a freelance graphic designer from Macedonia. The kit called “Aresio”has a clean, elegant and modern look. You will find the PSD file well layered and organized, with included hover and pressed states.

10 of the coolest CSS3 and CSS effects

We all know it and we all love it, and of course by now you probably already know I am talking about CSS and CSS3. Actually, we should probably take a moment to thank CSS3 before going any further for speeding up the load times for all of your favorite sites. They, if they know what they are doing, are more than likely using CSS3 in place of a ton of images to enhance user load times, which is pretty awesome.

Showcase of 25+ New Business Card Design

Business cards are a must for any particular company to represent their company’s name or suppose their individual names. The information that is usually there in a business card is the address, phone number, email id etc. Other than this the logo of the company is important. The business cards are generally kept simple giving it the executive look with a white background and black text. The main information with the company’s logo comprises the new business card.

15 dummy text generators you should know

As designers attempting to creating functional work, oftentimes we are required to make our designs look as finished as possible. For example, if you are designing a brand new website for someone, most times you will have to make sure the prototype looks finished by inserting text or photos or what have you. The purpose of this is so the person viewing the prototype has a chance to actually feel and understand the idea behind what you have created.

Showcase of Landing Page Design

In online marketing a landing page, sometimes known as a lead capture page, is a single web page that appears in response to clicking on an advertisement. The landing page will usually display directed sales copy that is a logical extension of the advertisement or link.