W3Mag Post: The Importance of Design in Online Marketing
A post I wrote for W3Mag came out today: The Importance of Design in Online Marketing. From the post: Design is in all around us, on billboards, in print advertisements, on websites, etc. But it’s especially important online to think about good design, when you have so little time to make a quality impression. Online marketing gives you a valuable chance to reach a large number of people quickly, but if you aren’t using good and consistent design with every marketing avenue, then you aren’t getting all you can out of each opportunity.
Check out the full post at W3Mag.com.
Snoack Studios is bringing you a series of interviews over the next couple of months from a group of talented, passionate, and incredible professionals and entrepreneurs that run successful businesses. We’ll pick their brains with a few questions about what they do and how design plays a part in their business.
As an avid cook, I love to try new recipes, and as a passionate designer I enjoy trying new styles and techniques. My love of cooking has inspired me to correlate the two very different disciplines, cooking and web design. Cooking takes patience and skills, as well as practice time where you may get things wrong, but you can learn from your mistakes and improve your skillset for the future. Web design is much the same way. Many cooking principles can be applied to web design to offer inspiration and guidance when creating a new site. Today we’ll look at several cooking ideas and see how they can apply to the web as well.
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You may be thinking, “It’s way too early to start thinking about the holidays!” But October is actually the perfect time to start planning. As many of you know sending out a holiday card is a great way to show your clients appreciation for their business. It’s also a great way to remind them about your services, and hopefully spark some interest in doing more business with you. If you’re creating a custom card (which creates a great extra special touch), you have to get them designed, printed, get your list together, and then stuff all your envelopes. That’s why you want to start early, so you’re all set to enjoy the holidays by the end of November!
Creative logos are all around us and the unique ideas are fun and inspiring. This week we choose to showcase logos that are inspired by animals. Some of them have an animal-inspired name and used animal imagery to complete the look, others used concepts from the name and incorporated animal imagery to invoke ideas or an emotion.
Snoack Studios is celebrating one great year of being in business. We have a lot to celebrate and we want you to join us – we’re giving away free stuff! We’re offering 1 free website to someone that truly needs a new site design. You don’t need a new site? We don’t want to leave anyone out, so we’re offering 1 year of basic hosting to a lucky winner that refers a friend. Entering is easy, details for the giveaway and how to enter are below.