We’ve spoken about it briefly before, but emailing is crucial to any business these days, and there are some guidelines to follow to make sure you can communicate effectively and not send the wrong message to those you are messaging! In this episode we’ll also look at some common mistakes made by web designers that can really make your users click away from your site, and how to avoid them. Keys to the Game: Selection tools in Photoshop: Marquee Tool: m Lasso Tool: l Magic Wand Tool:...more

This is pretty much a mailbag episode where we cover questions about font usage, picking out a design school to attend, and knowing when to pull the plug on a client or a project going in the wrong direction. Keys to the Game: Spell Check in Adobe applications: Mac: command + i PC: control + i Rookie Mistake Tip: Don’t be afraid to take a step back and put a project on hold if its not going the way it was planned. save yourself the headache of doing things 2 and 3 times by pausing and reas...more

Promoting your work can be just as important, if not more, than the work itself! If you can’t secure a job or a new client, your skills will not make much difference. So how do we get the word out there that we are the super duper master of design? There are several ways that [...]

What is the best way to keep yourself out of trouble when it comes to disputes with customers? Fix the problem before it happens! The use of contracts and design specs can change the way you and your client think about things like payment, agreements, the way you receive content and more. Keys to the Game: Some [...]

Its a hellish, busy week for me in the world of website building, so we’ll pick things up at the regular time next week. Sorry for the inconvenience! For those of you who won prizes in the last contest… they should be arriving within two weeks!

Design is what you do, not who you are. These are words that we should understand and remember so the two don’t get confused. There is a point at which its a good idea to turn the computer off and live a little. Failing to do so could end up with you getting burned out [...]

Looking toward the new year there are always a lot of things to think about. We can reflect on the year past and what may have gone right or wrong, certain goals we would like to reach for in this new year, and perhaps smaller skills or tasks we would like to tackle. In this [...]

Building a page that users will be directed to from an online ad or url may seem like an easy thing to accomplish, but there is more that goes into it than may appear. We must take into account several issues, most importantly keeping the attention of the user so that they don’t make that [...]

Taken from a topic on the Rookie Designer Forum, we’ll discuss what it means to bea  design professional, and when you have achieved the feat. Also is a discussion about how to steer a meeting with a client that seems to be going nowhere, to get the most productivity out of your time and your [...]

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday here, the podcast for this week will be coming late. look for it on the weekend.