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Archives for September 2009

Top 10 Freelance Graphic Designers: A (small) Milestone

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Today for the first time, by following all the rules and working hard, and also by having a bit of luck owning an old domain  (9 years) that has always been about freelance graphic design, we cracked the Google top 10 for the following searches simultaneously:
  • “freelance graphic design”
  • “freelance graphic designer”
  • “freelance graphic designers”
  • “freelance graphic design portfolio”
…and a few more, as well as a dozen or so font and typeface related searches. We did this in 3 weeks. … [Read More]

20 Top Design Competitions and Calls to Artists for Exposure!

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Want a reason to create some great new portfolio pieces, get some exposure for your freelance graphic design business and maybe win an award or get published? Now is your chance to work! In lieu of pro-bono work, which is actually surprisingly tricky to give way while also getting a decent portfolio-worthy piece at the same time, responding to these calls to graphic designers for new work is a fantastic way to offload those unused logo design concepts or rejected brochure comps with a little touch up and make-ready. Like the land of misfit toys, you can make your old design work happy and proud to be yours once again by giving them a useful existence – and maybe some glory! … [Read More]

6 Tips for PDF Brochure Design on the Web

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A quick way to give customers fast complete access to a printable version of your business or products is to get a PDF version of your brochure on your website. Smart move! But you don’t want to put just any PDF brochure design on the web. If you want to communicate your services or products effectively using a PDF, it must be designed and optimized correctly. Here are some points to consider: … [Read More]

28 Top Typography Blogs Ranked by Top Graphic Design Blogs

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top_typography_blogs Grab your beveled pica ruler, Letraset rub downs, and your favorite browser. We did some fresh research to discover what the best typography blogs are, according to the top graphic design blogs. We went through our own lists (see Related Posts below) of top graphic design blogs, some other lists, and tallied up all of their recommendations, comments, and anecdotal data to discover the 28 top typography blogs. We sorted the list from “most recommended” down to  “regular recommended”. … [Read More]

How to get Google Analytics stats for today only with one simple click

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I check Google Analytics a lot to see how this or that article is tracking. I’m almost never interested in what happened yesterday, but rather what is happening today. In Google Analytics, you have to click through several screens and drop-down menus to get to todays data. Right now it takes 6 clicks and 4 screens to get at the data I want. That’s too much! I’ve written a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to see only todays stats. It takes you right to your domain stats with info delimited to today. Nice! … [Read More]