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…
Twitter has changed its look, and with the changes you’ll see several new features where Twitter hopes to improve your experience and allow you to do more at twitter.com. The updated look includes a slightly wider and more interactive interface, with more options to interact that we only saw in third-party Twitter applications before. What do these changes mean for you? We’ll talk about custom backgrounds, and the new features that give…
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. Today is our first interview, and it’s with Danielle LaPorte, the lady behind WhiteHotTruth.com. She is a vibrant woman with lots…
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…
Today is Blog Action Day 2010, a day to unite bloggers worldwide and focus the conversation on one topic. This year the topic of conversation is water and how too many people worldwide do not have access to clean, safe drinking water. Blog Action Day started in 2007 and has continued growing each year to include more and more bloggers that are in hundreds of different countries and blog about many many…
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…
An article I wrote for Six Revisions came out today: As business owners, freelancers, and working professionals, many of us are in contact with clients on a daily basis – and unfortunately, difficult situations between us do come up every so often.
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. They are all very different and it’s great to see such a diverse collection of…
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…