It’s easier than ever to launch a new business today because there are so many services that can save you money. Here are a few that startups can use to grow faster by tapping into a team of designers, legal experts, and other reasonably-priced services. Design Services Canva Create your own designs with this remarkably […]
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The CSS features in the newest version of Adobe Dreamweaver have been completely revamped. The biggest change to the newest version of Dreamweaver is the consolidation of all of the features for creating and editing Cascading Style Sheets. The new CSS Designer Panel, shown in the right-hand side of this image, provides access to all […]
Read MoreMy free template is twice the size Facebook recommends
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Download my new template (it’s free) and you’ll discover why a bigger template can help you manage Facebook’s seemingly contradictory size and design recommendations.
Seriously profile photos display at 160-pixels wide, but Facebook requires that you upload a photo that is at least 180-pixels wide. And that’s just one of the reasons I doubled the size of my Facebook template.
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Read More social mediaSocial media tools to build your network, measure influence, and track trends
Social media has grown from a quirky time-waster for cubicledwellers to kill time waiting for the 5 o’clock whistle, to an unstoppable force that topples governments and makes nerds into overnight billionaires. Which then led millions of people to scramble to try to keep up with the latest, greatest social phenomenon … and then to […]
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It’s increasingly important to make your website mobile friendly, but do you need an app, too?
The Art of Mobile Design
A mobile website looks great on small and large screens.
An App, or as the geeks say, a “Native App,” is an application that you have to download from iTunes or another store.
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One of the keys to building and keeping the attention of your followers on social media is to ensure that what you’re talking about is relevant to what they are interested in. All of us are prone to drifting off into our own interests, and forgetting that not everybody is fascinated by the same things […]
Read More social media, social media aggregation, social media design tools.Not sure what to say today? Use one of these ideas to craft a clever post
If you haven’t updated your status on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter lately, consider using one of these ideas. Ask a question related to your project, business venture, or book. As we were writing our Social Media Design For Dummies book, we asked our followers to send links to social media profiles they thought were especially […]
Read More SEO, social media, social media aggregation, social media design tools., social media measurement toolsThree clever ways to search for your own site (and improve SEO)
There are many ways to improve SEO. These three search tips can help you make more informed decisions about your SEO efforts. 1. Search to see how many people link to you. This is a great way to find potential friends and allies you might not even know you have. To find inbound links […]
Read More content strategy, SEO, web content, web design7 Signs You Need a Redesign
If you answer yes to 3 or more of these points, it’s definitely time to redesign your website or blog.
1. The growing mobile web audience has led to new approaches in web design. Today the best sites use a technique called Responsive Design to adjust the size and positioning of page elements to best fit small and large screen sizes. If you can’t read the text on your website when you view it on a mobile phone, or worse, you can’t even see it on a mobile phone, it’s definitely time to join the modern mobile world.
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When you create CSS Styles, you can specify sizes for fonts and other elements in so many ways that confusion (and frustration) can set in pretty quickly. Historically, most of us used pixels or ems as the sizes of choice (see explanations below), but today an increasingly popular choice is rem, a seemingly magical option […]
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