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Wacky Wednesday in the PR House: Series 1, Part 4: Creating an Effective PR Plan

by Rachael Pierce
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Like all good things in life, even this series must come to an end. The good news? Wacky Wednesday in the PR House will be coming at you with fresh topics next week (and every Wednesday after that). This week is a busy week and we are covering the last six elements of an effective […]

Quick Tip: Make Social Media Work for You

by Rachael Pierce
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Everyone is talking about social media and how it can help your business. You’ve joined the bandwagon and are diving deep into the social media world, but is that enough? To make social media work. you’ve got to do more than just sign up. You have to be worth following! You want to make yourself […]

What’s in a Brand?

by Bobby Martinez
Friday, March 6th, 2009

So what can a design team do for your brand? Understanding this lies at the very heart of why design exists, and what designers actually do.

How To Turn a Photo From Color into Black and White For Free in 1 Minute

by Bobby Martinez
Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Update: Since the creation of this article, Picnik has closed. Easy, just use Photoshop, right? Sure, that would be the easiest way. However, Adobe Photoshop can cost anywhere upwards of a thousand dollars, so this isn’t something that just anyone can use. Most likely, you would have to be at a company, or a school, […]

Wacky Wednesday in the PR House: Series 1, Part 3: Creating an Effective PR Plan

by Rachael Pierce
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Wacky Wednesday is in full swing and ready to pick up right where we left off last week with the next three elements of your communication plan. Featured this week: Message (RESPECT: find out what it means to me) Goals (we aren’t climbing Mt. Everest, at least not yet.) Objectives (didn’t we already decide on […]

Represent Quality: Using Fine Photography

by Jacqueline Sinex
Monday, March 2nd, 2009

When it comes time to provide photos of your product or service for a website, don’t make the mistake of skimping on quality. A poor, low-resolution, fuzzy photograph can kill the presentation of your business. If you are trying to convey to your prospects that you offer a high-quality product that is of value, your […]

Making Your Site a Hotrod

by Bobby Martinez
Friday, February 27th, 2009

A magical thing seems to occur between the moment when a web design is realized as a flat graphical image, and when it is posted live as a structured website. In my years in art school, I met many fantastic designers who could plan and execute the first half of this process but had no […]

How To Stop Search Engines From Indexing Certain Pages

by Bobby Martinez
Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Did you know that you can stop Google from indexing certain pages on your website? You can, with a certain tool called “robots.txt” Robots.txt, as you might have already guessed, is a text file that you can put on your website that will direct programs that crawl the web (web crawling bots) and give them […]

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