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An Update From BeCreative Magazine!

KayRoseDesign — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:16:03 +0000

What’s Been Going On?

Lately we’ve been seriously lacking in posting anything at all, for this we apologize to all of our loyal readers. Things have been a bit hectic here over the past two weeks or so, however now things are back on track and we should be posting regular articles, tutorials and interviews etc…

We do hope that you’ve not lost interest in BeCreative Magazine because now that things are all sorted out for the most part we should be back on track to keep you updated with brand new articles and tutorials.

When To Expect New Content

You can expect a brand new tutorial/article within the next 2-3 days. Hopefully it’ll prove useful to most of you reading and give you new skills/ideas to go off and make your own awesome content.

Also we should now be posting on a regular basis of every 2 days, (give or take a day!). So just remember to subscribe the RSS Feed or you can also subscribe for email updates for the latest content from BeCreative Magazine.

Since we’ll be posting on a regular basis we want your help to spread the word about our latest articles, tutorials or interviews etc… Just a re-tweet or a Digg would be nice.

New Social Sharing Features!

So pretty soon I should be adding some new Social Share features at the end of each article, since we’ve only got two at the moment I think more are needed, so look out for some new options for sharing pretty soon at the end of each individual post!

Weird Float/Height Problems and How To Solve Them!

KayRoseDesign — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:44:07 +0000

Please Note: This has only been tested in FireFox because I work with FireFox the most. However I’ve had the same problem with Safari and Opera. I know this trick works, I’ve used it many times.

I’d like to take this chance to explain to the younger-in-mind CSS coders out there, (It means your at the beginner/intermediate level), how to solve the strange no-height issue when floating child elements. I’ve seen this problem affect many advanced coders as well as the newbies, and this is it:

I set my Child Divs’ to Float and now the Parent Div has lost it’s height…WTF?!

I set my Child Divs’ to Float and now the Parent Div’s height is only as high as the Child elements Paragraph tags…WTF?!

Yes, We’ve all been there. It’s a problem where the Parent element doesn’t recognise the Child elements, only the Child element’s Paragraph tags. Your code will look something like this:

The Problem

(x)HTML


	
		Left
	
	
		Right

CSS

#parent_element {
	width:600px;
	padding:20px;
	border:1px solid #ccc;
	background:#e6e6e6;
}
.child_element {
	width:260px;
	height:50px;
	float:left;
	background:#666;
}
.child_element2 {
	width:260px;
	height:50px;
	float:right;
	background:#666;
}

The Result:

Not Pretty, Is It?

Solving The Problem With Display:Inline-Block;

We only need to add one thing. Take a look, I think I’ve made it pretty obvious :

CSS

#parent_element {
	width:600px;
	padding:20px;
    /***Right Here***/ display:inline-block; /***That's Right!***/
	border:1px solid #ccc;
	background:#e6e6e6;
}

The Magic At Work:

Final Thoughts & Wise Words

All I can say is that it works perfectly. However you can’t center the Div using margin:0px auto; so just add another wrapper. I also realize that there are other ways to fix this issue. However this one works best for me because I’m used to using it. If you enjoyed this or think I’ve failed epically, leave a comment below!

Tutorial – How to Install & Use The Syntax Highlighter Website Plugin

KayRoseDesign — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:13:27 +0000

Syntax Highlighter?

If you are a web developer and have never seen a Syntax Highlighting plugin before then here are the basics:

They’re mainly used for highlighting syntax, (showing the code), that would otherwise be interpreted by the browser as normal code. In short it stops the browser from outputting the code.
Most Syntax Highlighters can output many different languages such as (x)HTML, CSS, PHP, javaScript etc…

So lets take a look at the best Highlighter I personally know of: SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev. Yes i know that page with the bright yellow looks very intimidating right now but not to worry that’s why I’m here

Step #1: Downloading The Source Files

So lets go over and download the source files that we need to get the highlighting working.

You should have this:

Step #2: Creating Our HTML File

Now we need to make a HTML page to test our new toy, (yes I am still talking about the Highlighter ).
So set up a page with the following values and Divs etc…




	The SyntaxHighlighter Tutorial Files - By KayRoseDesign


	
		
			Everybody Was 'Syntax Highlighting'!

Just a pretty basic html page.

Step #3: Setting Up All Of The Files

It’s time to get everything in place so that we can link to them the next step; your folder should look as follows:

So we need to add the files named shBrushXml.js and shCore.js into our JS folder. The we need to add the shCore.css and shThemeDefault.css in our CSS folder.

Linking To The Files

In the header section below the title tag, add the following links:

As you can see each part has been described very well be Alex Gorbatchev.

Step #4: Adding Some JavaScript

Now we’re onto the last step, yay!
So we only need to add one more piece of javaScript, and here it is:

Just put it below the links to our javaScript file and Voila!

Outputting Some HTML!

Lets show our code shall we?
Well all we need to do is out in some pre tags, like so:

Hello, World!
	
		Paragraph Tags!
	
	
		Strong Tags within Paragraph Tags!

And the output will looks like so:

I hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial. If you did then leave a comment telling me why you liked or telling what I did wrong!

Screencast – How To Create An ‘Easy Gallery’ jQuery Plugin

Drew Douglass — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:43:56 +0000

Video Tutorial:

Final Code

/**
  * Easy Gallery jQuery Plugin
  * Author: Drew Douglass
  * Version: 0.1
  *
  *
  */
(function($){
  	$.fn.easyGallery = function(settings) {

  		//setup some options
  		var opts = $.extend({}, $.fn.easyGallery.defaults,settings);
  		return this.each(function(setting){
  			var options = $.extend({}, opts, $(this).data());
  			$(this).hover(function(){
  				$(this).siblings().stop().animate({
  					opacity: options.opacity
  				},options.duration);
  			}, function(){
  				$(this).siblings().stop().animate({
  					opacity: options.originalOpacity
  				},options.duration);
  			});
  		});

  	}
  	$.fn.easyGallery.defaults = {
  		duration: 500,
  		opacity: 0.5,
  		originalOpacity: 1
  	}
})(jQuery);

Helpful Resources

Thank to Jarel Remick for providing the free demo images.

Tutorial – How To Create Print Ready Standard Size Business Cards

Peter Balvanyos — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:34:50 +0000

Tutorial Details

Program: Photoshop
Version: CS4
Difficulty: Easy
Estimated Completion Time: 30 minutes

Step 1

Let’s start with an idea. If you create this for someone, chances are you have a basic sketch in front of you or at least in your mind an image of how this will look. If you are willing to sell your design as stock, make sure your work is as clean as possible. People like simple, obvious things. When you look at the card, you don’t want to search for the phone number hidden between some design elements do you? So the two things which must be highly visible on the first look is the name and the number. The rest is small text, which shouldn’t be left out. Only if that is the specific need, of course.

So, for this tutorial I’ve chosen a simple and easy design which is not that hard to follow. Nothing fancy or extraordinary, the focus of this tutorial is introducing you to the standards and a quick look on how this is made. Also, you might want to create a 2 sided card. For that, you’ll need to finish this side. Then you can copy it and remove unnecessary text areas and write a company name for example.

This is what we’re going to do today:

Step 2

The dimensions. Before we start, let me explain you how a business card is created. The print company needs a well set up card design, especially if you are serious about it. They might accept less sophisticated files but the end product will not be what the customer wanted. So, the process is the following: They print your card in a bigger size than the end-size. Why? Because they’ll cut it to the final size. Because of this, you’ll need to add a bleed area. The reason behind the name is that the ink will exist on the very edge of the paper as well.

The standard end-size is 3.5" by 2". Bleed area means an extra 0.25" in both directions. Which means 0.125" on each edge. So the working size will be 3.75” by 2.25”.

Step 3

Start by creating a new document. File -> New. Fill out the dimensions – width: 3.75 inches and height 2.25 inches. (If you are not working in inches you can switch here. Or set it in Edit -> Preferences -> Units & Rulers.) Set the color profile to CMYK. It’s important! Do not miss it or you are going to be in some trouble. It’s better to set it in the beginning than in the end when you are finished, and say: oops it should’ve been CMYK. You change the color profile then bam all your colors look different. Don’t worry I’ve got a solution for that problem too but let’s just stay safe for now. Last but not least 300dpi is a must. Do not ever user 72 or anything less than 300 if you are going to print it. You can, but it will look really ugly. Or small if printed with 300dpi anyway. So, set it to 300 then continue to step 4!

Tip: Save the preset to speed up future designs.

Step 4

We’ll add guides to know where to and where not to place artwork and text. Start with the bleed area. The most precise way to add our guides is the following: View -> New Guide…

We need to enter the following numbers:

Vertical 0.125 in (left)
Horizontal 0.125 in (top)
Vertical 3.625 in (right)
Horizontal 2.125 in (bottom)

I just calculated simply like 3.75-0.125=3.625 etc… You’ll see that anything you place outside this newly formed area will be most likely cut.

Step 5

Before we can work on the actual design there is one more thing to do. To mark the no text area. It’s again a 0.125" space on each side.

So add these too:

Vertical 0.25 in (left)
Horizontal 0.25 in (top)
Vertical 3.5 in (right)
Horizontal 2 in (bottom)

These are just for you, the print doesn’t really need guides. They need a card which is designed with these things in mind, (this is basicaly padding).

Step 6

The previous steps included everything you need to get started. Follow the rest and you’ll learn a bit more about this! I’d start with a gradient. To do that add a gradient adjustment layer. Click on the 4th icon at the bottom of the layers window, then choose "Gradient…" from the menu. Set it from the color #3a5790 -> #0e2138.

It’s a dark blue gradient. Check Dither to avoid ugly stripes. Angle it by -45, and it will be a linear gradient.

Step 7

In this step we’ll add some texture to the gradient so it will look much better. Create a new layer then go Filters -> Render -> Clouds. Make sure your colors are black and white. If not just click the little black and white icon next to them on the main toolbar. Set this layer’s composition mode to Hard light. Then Image -> Adjustments -> Brightness/Contrast. Check the legacy box, then lower contrast to -80. Voila.

Step 8

Now get a nice font from dafont.com. I’ll use the Harabara.

Step 9

Add a text area for the name, and type in Johnathan Doe. Make it 120 pixels big. Align to the right. Place it near the no text guide.

Step 10

Add 2 more text areas. One for the title and another for the number. Title is 75px, the number is 84px big in my case. The number ends up as wide as the title. The point is that they form a text block this way.

Step 11

Add 2 more text areas again. One for the email-website combo and an other one for the multi-line address. Align left the address, right the other. Use 30px font size. Try to position them nicely, so put them always the same distance from the no text guides. I move them with 2 presses of the shift+arrow combination when working at the zoom of 66%. (These pictures are at 50%.)

Step 12

Here you can add a custom artwork or logo. Let’s place a fancy line there. We’ll make a basic wavy thing out of it soon. Select the Polygonal Lasso (Shift+L twice) and on a new layer draw a line shape with a little bit more width on the left than right. Then fill it with white (Paint Bucket – hot-key: G).

Step 13

Add an outer glow layer style (double click on the line layer) with these settings: vivid light mode, 100% opacity, white color, softer technique, 0% spread, 40px size, 20% range. It should look like a light-saber.

Step 14

Go to Filter -> Liquify and choose the Bloat tool. Be extra careful with this, we only want a thin wavy line with changing width. I don’t know about you but I don’t like the pen tool, for this effect liquify is very natural and good. Don’t make the line too wide because the edges will become jagged and will look like an up-scaled drawing. So let’s just make it wavy, with a tiny variation in width. If you are not satisfied with the result you can liquify again and/or paint over it with a 10% opacity white brush.

Step 15

Almost at the end, but our text areas need a little effect. A drop shadow will do the trick, add a 30% opacity shadow in the layer style of one of the text layers. Make the shadow color rich black. Manually type 100% into the C, M, Y, K fields in the color chooser. This is important whenever you use black in CMYK. If you use 100% K and others 0% it will still look black on the monitor but in print it will look dark grey…

Step 16

Right click on the layer you’ve just added the layer style to and copy layer style. Select the rest of the text layers, right click then paste layer style. Voila.

Step 17 – Optional…Sort Of

Important note: ONLY do this if you forgot to set to CMYK in the beginning! I’ve included this tip because it can happen to anyone, and here is the solution.

I have to admit, on my first attempt at creating a card I forgot to set the color mode to CMYK. If it happens don’t panic. You can change it now, but it’s not as straightforward as you think. First try it out, from the Image -> Mode -> CMYK Color. It looks totally bad isn’t it? I mean, it has nothing to do with what we’ve been doing. You can flatten the whole image then do the conversion so it’ll look good but you can’t edit the layers after that. And flattening is truly a no-no!
Thanks to smart objects we can skip this problem very nicely. Select all your layers (you can leave out the text layers), and convert them together to a smart object: right click menu -> Convert to Smart Object. Then do the color mode change as mentioned above. Dialogs will appear, but you are not going to rasterize, merge, nor choose a different profile. If you need any more editing done, you can do so in the smart object (double click on it), which is still in RGB mode, haha!

Step 18

If you are planning on uploading the card to a stock graphics market, or just show it around on the net, create a slice along the bleed area guides. Then use File -> Save for Web & Devices. And create color variations (this is mostly a combination of adjustment layers such as hue/saturation placed above the background but below the wave artwork).

Step 19

You’ve reached the end of this tutorial. Thank you for reading, I hope it was useful, and I wish you luck in your future designs. Here is our finished card without the bleed area. I did a warm version too just for fun. I’d appreciate if you would take a look at my first business card here. Leave a comment below with your thoughts and/or tips.

Weekly Inspiration #9

KayRoseDesign — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:10:28 +0000

Grafpedia

Perishable Press

iKreateIt

CSS-Tricks

AnimHut

CatsWhoCode

Six Revisions

Dev-Tips

Tuts+ Network

Tutorialzine

PSDFan

15 Free & Premium Wordpress Themes That’ll Make Your Day

KayRoseDesign — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:35:31 +0000

So let’s get started shall we, below I’ve listed 25 of the best wordpress themes that are available on the market either for free or at a price, and don’t worry they’ve been labeled so you won’t have to check each one to see if it’s commercial or a ~~freebie~~ high-quality freebie.

P.S. You have no idea how hard it is to find high-quality free themes!

Free Themes

Bueno – WooThemes

Color Paper – Liam McKay

Irresistible – WooThemes

Dreamplace – NattyWP

Notepad Chaos – Evan Eckard

Paper Wall – InDeziner

Infinity – VikiWorks

Premium Themes

Depth – Obox

The Work Place – Press75

Smoke & Mirrors – WooThemes

Cafe Press – Press75

Optimize – WooThemes

Caulk – ThemeForest

f01.01 – WooThemes

Photographer (Marketplace) – Aaron Lynch

There are also more free wordpress themes on Mashable.com. Enjoy!

The Top 20 ‘Clients From Hell’ of The Past Year

KayRoseDesign — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:48:26 +0000

Clients From Hell?

As you probably gathered from the preview image above, this article is featuring some of the best/worst client requests of the past year from a site named nothing more than, Clients From Hell.

We decided to do this because quite simple it’s a favourite of ours, which should soon show up in the footer links section, so site back and enjoy!

1.) Shitlistr – September 23rd

“We are in the process of creating a Facebook application called “ShitListr” this allows you to virtually add people to your shit list. We are looking to have the logo redone and potentially have the whole application interface built by you guys, but I would currently only be interested in seeing how the logo turns out first.”

2.) Fantasy Land…Rover?

“I want the cover to be a black SUV driving through a field of flowers towards a mountain with a fishing pole sticking out the back window… oh and the sky needs to be tie-died.”

3.) …So, it’s a calculator right?

Initial email from a client:

“I’m working with a web developer to build a website. The purpose of this website is to calculate certain outputs based on very specific inputs. This website will be, and currently is, private (access given by administrator). It will not have a large audience, nor is there potential for a large audience (potentially 100, maybe a few hundred but probably not more than 1,000). The developer has built the back-end and created a simple front-end GUI; however, because this is going to be used by, albeit, a small audience, it should have a friendly and simple to understand design, GUI and user experience. The total number of pages currently included in the front-end website is 19.”

When asked to elaborate:

“The website is an elaborate calculator. Those given access, sign in, are taken to a home page, click on a specific sub-page and are then taken to a front-end GUI that calculates an output. If you would be so inclined, and before getting too specific, I would need to send you an NDA for execution by someone eligible to sign the document at xxxxxxx.”

4.) A Little Too Soon

“You came to see me yesterday and I don’t see any sign of my new website going live yet? What’s going on?”

5.) Yeah…Sureeeeee

Another entertaining first-contact with a no-go project proposal…

“I wanted a theme for a blog that I would need. I need the blog to be very tacky, very web2.0-ish. I need in similar layout (layout, not colors and style) like http://psdtuts.com/ I am willing to pay $150 for this.

But I will need a lot of designing since this is a blog which will be hooked on to several other things. If you want to help me out, you will get 15% of what I make, here is my business plan. I am already working in the field and I have 2 years of experience, as well as idea regarding business planning, hosting, wordpress diagnostics, marketing. All I need is a developer.. Again, here’s the plan. User gen. Review website The mini pitch: ‘You write, we pay’ “

6.) Add Flash To The Newsletter

“The email newsletter design that you showed us is not fun enough. Can you be innovative and make it interesting by adding some Flash animations?”

7.) Lorem Ipsum…

“I had a client review a design, and all the textarea’s were filled with ‘Lorem Ipsum’. Reply: It looks good, but we don’t understand it.”

Me: “What don’t you understand?”

Reply: “The text. What language is that anyway?”

Me: “It doesn’t mean anything, it’s to fill up the textareas. Just focus on the design, not the content.”

Reply, after a day or two: “Could you please type the text from our brochure in there, we can’t review the site in a foreign language.”

8.) Radiation? No Need To Worry

“That chart about the different kinds of radiation makes the radiation seem too scary. Can you make it look friendlier?”

9.) Don’t Trust Your Son

These were the days of the Netscape navigator.

We prepared a photoshopped design proposal for the upcoming brand-new website of a corporation: Black text on white pages, with headlines and links using the corporate design colors.

The CEO replied: “You guys are amateurs! Swindlers! I showed this to my son, he knows HTML. This isn’t possible! Everybody knows that in Netscape, pages are gray, links are blue and visited links are purple.”

10.) The..Ummm…Googles?

CLIENT: “Make sure you tell the Googles of the world that the site will be launching soon so it places high in their results.”

11.) How About We Try Blue?

Client: “We like the design, but could you make the blues all the same.”

Me: “It’s the same blue through out the design.”

Client: “It looks like different blues.”

Me: “That’s because colors are perceived differently dependent on neighboring colors.”

Client: “That’s stupid.”

12.) Photoshop vs. Paint

“I understand that you prefer to use photoshop, but we don’t feel like that program is universal enough. If you could do all of the design work in Microsoft Paint it would be easier for us to edit what you do and give you an idea of the changes we want.”

13.) Dipped In Gold Please

“I want the design to look like 5 people standing outside a theater, having a conversation after a movie, waiting to be picked up by a car… dipped in gold.!”

14.) Need A Gardener?

Client: I have two logos I want you to develop for me. What’s your rate?

Me: “Great! My rate is $250 per logo. But I understand you’re just starting up and I would be able to cut you a deal if that’s out of your range.”

Client: “What’s ‘a deal’ ?”

Me: “How about $200 for both logos?”

Client: “I can’t really afford that. What if I gave you $50, and mowed your lawn?”

15.) The New Age Of The Web

“We really don’t like web as a medium. Can you please force our sites visitors to print out a copy of every page? We want our page to be more tangible.”

16.) He Knows What He’s Talking About

Client: “Our site has been hacked! There are little orange boxes on it!”

Me: “Yes, those indicate RSS feeds. You’ll see them on all major sites.”

Client: “Well, we should remove them, they look like hacking.”

17.) Words Have Failed Me On This One…

“I want it that whenever someone visits our website it automatically installs an icon with a picture of a dog on their desktop. The dog should walk around the screen.”

18.) Sorry But THEY’RE DEAD!

“All these drawings about dinosaurs… Why can’t we have photos?”

19.) You Cheap…

“Can you show Joanne [client’s secretary] how you designed our business cards. I don’t want to pay you for doing them.”

20.) Standing Out From The Crowd

“I want my website to look exactly like yours. That would be perfect. Except I want my own logo—exactly like this company’s.”

This is a Bonus One

“I dont care if it loses 90% of visitors, we cant have a skip on the website intro, we paid a lot of money for that and everybody has to see it.”

What’s Next?

If you enjoyed this little post then be sure to check back often or subscribe to our RSS Feed for future updates on our content. Maybe if enough people like it I’ll do another one in time to come. ~~Comment, rate and subscribe~~…Ohh wait…Comment and subscribe!

Weekly Inspiration #8

KayRoseDesign — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:30:33 +0000

We’re Sorry…

Hey there, we would like to apologize for not posting this Sunday’s ‘Weekly Inspiration’, we’ve been a bit overpowered, but here it is for your viewing pleasure, and this week we’ve changed it up a bit, enjoy!

A Daily Dose Of Inspiration

Working 24/7 can be very tiring and no fun at all. So here are a few sites that should give you a good laugh and bring you back down to earth.

Clients From Hell

Über Pix

Regretsy

WARNING: Contains some funny adult-ish content.

Amazing Portfolio’s

Here we have the most inspiring portfolio’s around, we wanted to finally feature the best of the best, so here they are:

N.Design Studio

Chris Coiyer

Toy.

Jeffrey Way

Kev Adamson

Big Space Ship

Brad Colbow

Common Mistakes When Setting Up A Wordpress Blog

KayRoseDesign — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:06:12 +0000

Pages vs. Categories

Now, I’ve noticed on a few blogs lately the one hurdle that many new wordpress developers stumble on is the whole set up of the blog it’s self, the code as well as the Behind-The-Scenes Dashboard.

Here’s A Big Stumbling Block For Some:

The main problem is how to use the files you have, for example: Do you use the ‘page.php’ file or the ‘archive.php’ file, (used for the categories), as the file to display your most recent posts on the site?

The answer is the ‘archive.php’ file, Do not mix this up with the ‘archives.php’ file, (used for an archive index like on Digging Into Wordpress).
The reason is because wordpress is much easier to handle if you show a page listed with certain posts from certain categories, rather than just using the wordpress pages creator. Because the wordpress page creator makes pages that are, in a sense, very static compared to the use of the categories.

Can I Explain Deeper?

Why yes, yes i can, one of the best ways to show you what i mean is by explaining what the ‘Pages’ should be used for, then I’ll explain why the categories page, (‘archive.php’), is better for showing a list of certain posts.

Here’s a few examples:

Net.TutsPlus.com: Go to a page like ‘Tutorials’ and look at the URL, says /category/tutorials right?
Tutorial9: Go to the ‘Photoshop Tutorials’ tab, guess what it says?…yup that’s right /category/photoshop
Noupe.com: Go ahead and check out the ‘CSS’ nav link.

OK i think you get my point now, the basics of it are that ‘Categories’ work better than pages because they were designed to showcase recent posts in chronological order, however pages where designed to be static-ish pages, used for ‘About Info’ and ‘Favourite Links’ etc..

More examples coming up, and the same sites for more emphasis!:

Net.TutsPlus.com: The, (very well done), About page.
Tutorial9: The Write For Us page
Noupe.com: And the About page for Noupe.

As you can see, in wordpress there’s a place and a use for everything. Although some things just work better in certain places rather than others. As you can see. If you have any problems with this then drop a comment below and I’ll go into even more detail for you

Design of Thou Blog

You won’t see this very much, if at all, but there are a few cases where wordpress blogs are designed by some who wants to be different…but for all the wrong reasons.

Can’t You Be Different?

YES!, the most important thing to understand is that your blog should be and individual, just as you are, and everybody you know. Every blog should have it’s own personality.

However there are some people who tend to make these two classic mistakes:

Thinking that by copying another design and changing it up a bit, they’ll have 1 billion readers with the first month. Let’s face it, we’ve seen quite a few Tutorial9 & Noupe knock-offs over the past year or so.
Is thinking that by copying content then spamming people with it you’ll get readers…again, NOPE!

The main things to consider when creating a new wordpress blog are the following, Design, Development & Content. Then comes Social Media and Guest Writers etc… You’ll need to be heavily prepared to undertake the challenge of it all, you think that Collis & Cyan made a truck load by sitting there and waiting for the views? No, they took the initiative and got their name out there.

What If You Can’t Design or Develop?

Then find someone who can, i know your probably thinking:

“How am i suppose to do that exactly?”

Here’s where the Social Media comes in handy, there are always people who will do the job for you, hell, I’ll do it for you. But my point is that there are always freelancers out there looking for work.

Another good place to go are to freelance job boards, the few i know are the infamous FreelanceSwitch.com Job Board and the DesignM.ag Job Board.
Now i havn’t used either yet, however i hear from reliable sources that the FreelanceSwtich Job Board is the more premiere of the two. I only discovered the DesignM.ag Job Board a ffew days back so i can’t really give my professional opinion yet.

Conclusion/What More To Expect

Is that, you should use ‘Categories’ instead of pages to display your posts. Pages are for about, services and contact info etc… And that your design/content should be unique, if not, then that’s your fault I’m afraid.

By the way, did you all know that Bill Gates has got a new website out? You can read all about it here Anyway i hope you enjoyed my little article, i hope it has given you some insight.

Also I’ll be posting regular articles and tutorials, and maybe even screencasts. That’s right, I’m going to try and rival Jeffrey Way in the screencast department. Look out for it.