Monday, February 28, 2011

Creativity Trumped by the Standard Business Process

Image by West McGowan
In the field of design and development working with clients may restrict the designer’s creative flow. Most of the times businesses and client’s will want to see things done certain ways or we may have to continuously get feedback or they have a laid a foundation for us. There isn’t always a problem with how they see things but it limits the designer or artist because they have to follow certain standards of the client. It’s like your client is going one way with an idea while you’re going another, and in the end you may find yourself scraping some of your creations that you thought were perfect.


It isn’t always bad, if you can collaborate with your client and if you’re successful with promoting your big picture then you may not find yourself so limited.


http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/02/25/why-wait-for-the-opportunity-create-your-own/

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Effect of Color can Affect your Business

Choosing the right color is essential to communicating and doing business with your clients. By determining what color trends and shades are popular, we can determine what will persuade customers into purchasing a product or pay more attention to your message.

The use of color is often associated with meanings and emotions; they help to bridge connections and generate attention. Certain shades and hints can dramatically affect how your message is received. People are conditioned to link certain colors like lighter and brighter tones with energy and youth so your audience may be intended for younger groups. Certain colors may appeal to a either women or men specifically and some colors which were thought to be specific now may be used interchangeably such as the growing popularity of feminine colors with men.

Just as the latest product and fashion the use of color and what is popular should be examined before attempting to appeal to your target audience, for what may have been popular in the past may not be in the present.

http://www.howdesign.com/article/Colorcomeback/

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Your website must have backlinks to get high rankings on Google

Backlinks are very important to get high rankings on Google. That's why Google works so hard on filtering the wrong kind of links.

The links that point to your website should be from related websites and they should contain the keywords for which you want to get high rankings. Do not manipulate the links to your website by buying links and do not join automated link systems to increase the number of links to your website.

If you want lasting results, focus on ethical search engine optimization methods. There are many ways to get good links (related websites, blogs, social bookmark sites, directories, etc.)

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