1. “I can’t afford a website.” So you have your next-door neighbor’s teenager build you one? Please. Many people confuse the democracy of the Internet (everyone is there!) with “free.” Many forget that, just a decade or so ago, we were all spending a lot more money on ads, printed newsletters, mailings, and brochures. It was [...]
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
The true meaning of “greeking”
2012
03.06
03.06
Have you ever wondered what the famous” lorem ipsum (the so-called “greeking” used by millions of designers who want to show text without actually having any) means? Hint: even tho it’s called “greek” by designers, it’s only translated into Latin.
How to design the best OCR-scannable business cards
2012
02.29
02.29
Don’t you want YOUR business card to be OCR-friendly? I mean, who wants to create more work for a business contact or prospective employer or client?
“Do I need a web writer?”
2011
01.08
01.08
The geeks — the ones who knew how to program a web page — found themselves in control of this new world. Because they didn’t know anything about graphic design, their pages looked pretty bad — and they simply required their customers to provide copy, which usually wasn’t any better.
Viva public domain!
2010
12.22
12.22
There’s a price to pay for all that free public domain candy. You need to know a few rules.
The wave of the web future
2010
09.13
09.13
Geeks went out and got the jobs that writers and content people didn’t know how to execute themselves. And content went begging.
Your website is alive
2010
08.08
08.08
Your web site responds to attention and nurturing just like any living being.
