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25 Latest Free WordPress Themes

designfollow — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:25:23 +0000

There are thousands of free WordPress themes on the net, but we bet you’re excited about the latest WordPress themes that are available free of charge, right? And here is why we think you will like today’s article: The WordPress themes featured below have been launched in 2012; in other words these are the newest free WordPress themes…

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Useful Code Comparing Tools for Web Developers

designfollow — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:00:35 +0000

Developers of many different languages all share the same growing pains. Buggy source codes will be a nagging problem throughout a developer’s career but a much less-considered issue is in the compiling and the merging of edits from two or more copies of the same source. Luckily there are incredibly helpful tools available for just this type of situation.

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How Should Firms Frame Their Social Media Strategy?

designfollow — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:00:25 +0000

Formulating the social media strategy for any business involves answering quite a few ‘whys’, ‘hows’, ‘whats’ etc. This article explores the intermediate decisions to be taken by a firm in its social media journey right from conceptualization of entry to launch.

Customers are bombarded with messages from various newspapers, TV channels etc. It is quiet natural for a typical consumer to be exposed to the same brand’s message, through the newspaper, radio jingles and the outdoor hoardings.

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25 Inspiring Logos with Innovative Use of Typography

designfollow — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:00:02 +0000

A logo design is created on three significant pillars namely symbol, typography and color. While color and symbol are crucial to the development of a brand identity, typography plays a pivotal role in crafting a successful logo. When logo designers participate in a logo design contest, they are up against numerous designers and face an uphill task to impress the project holder. In order to make an impact on the client, you must come up with creative and original designs concepts that will amaze your target audience.

Hence, if designers wish to create a solid impression on their prospective client, they must conceive unique and creative concepts for logo designing. For this purpose, the creative use of typography is a useful technique. By mending and bending the typeface of the logo, one can craft a superb design concept. For instance, you can convert the letter ‘E’ into 3 to connote a dual meaning into the brand identity.

In order to give you an inspiration and idea of how to use typography creatively, here are 25 splendid examples of typography logos.

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How Freelancers Can Maintain and Grow their Client Relationships

designfollow — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:53:48 +0000

The mistake a lot of freelancers make when trying to expand their business is to focus on the acquisition of new clients. But (you’re probably wondering) isn’t that how you increase sales? Sure, it’s one avenue – and an important one – but you can’t do it at the expense of your current clients. Did you know that it can cost 5 to 10 times as much to find a new client as it does to keep an existing one?

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30 of the Best Vector and Illustrator Free Resources

designfollow — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:00:50 +0000

In this little roundup today, we are listing around 30 tremendous and best vector illustrator resources for you. This list of free and best resources includes all vector articles and user submitted as well as recommended resources. While compiling this list, we took several factors into consideration such as popularity both from ranking and from outgoing links, the quality of resources, and numbers of resources as well as how well the sites are designed.
Enjoy this amazing assortment of useful Vector and Illustrator resources.

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5 Tips for Getting Featured on Top Design Blogs

designfollow — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:00:19 +0000

No matter what sort of art you create – whether you are a graphic designer, painter, illustrator, digital artist, videographer, or any other type of artist – being featured on the web’s top art and design blogs can result in a huge surge of active followers, interested fans, and of course – paying customers. For artists, just like anyone else, a good amount of our time is spent trying to wring a living out of our craft and free publicity never hurt anyone in that respect. In fact, I know for certain that there have been some artists who were featured on sites I’ve written for that successfully launched (or in some cases relaunched) businesses that where all of a sudden profitable because they received so much attention they were able to convert some of those new eyeballs into customers.

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The 6 Ugly Truths About Blogging

designfollow — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:00:52 +0000

People simply do not want to hear the hard facts about blogging. People often talk about the positive aspects of blogging. You can find a number of benefits of having a blog for your commercial or non commercial purposes. However, unlike the many brighter sides of blogging, you have a couple of ugly truths about blogging which any blogger should know. But that doesn’t mean that you give up blogging after knowing these facts. On the contrary, you can think of mastering a couple of effective ways of blogging. By no means, these below mentioned six ugly truths about blogging shouldn’t deter you from blogging.

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5 Strategies You Should Implement to Develop Your Brand

designfollow — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:00:49 +0000

There is a misconception when it comes to what a brand really is. It’s not just the Golden Arches of McDonalds, the Nike Swoosh, or Apple’s the half-eaten piece of fruit. A brand is more than just a logo, color scheme and slogan. It is the statement of your company.

McDonalds’ brand tries to convey good food, fast, and at the lowest possible price. Nike prides themselves on being the shoe/clothing company of the world’s finest athletes and Apple is innovative, easy and the best looking products in technology.

For entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses without a large team of marketing professionals to establish what is and is NOT good for a company, establishing a brand can be a difficult task. There are some key brand strategies you should implement when developing a brand for your company.

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15 Useful Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers

designfollow — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:00:15 +0000

Google Chrome is the most favorite web browser not only for the developers and designers but also for the general public because it is simple, fast and provides enjoyable browsing session. Since it is the product of Google, you can expect extraordinary and high quality upgrades and improvements.

Here we have put together 15 useful and exceptionally versatile Chrome extensions that are of great interest for the designers and developers but practically can be used by almost every user. Chrome is the most preferred web browser for the developers and designers because it comes with plenty of built-in developer tools making it unbelievably versatile and fast to use. Check out this collection and get to pick one. Do let us know what you feel about this round up.

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