Being in charge of driving new business around here, I go to a lot of networking events. Here are five networking tips that come from a couple of books I’m reading, other experienced networkers that I know, and speeches I’ve heard recently. While none of these ideas are original to me, or my sources for that matter, these five are the most important based on my own experiences.
I'm sure many of you can think back on a time when computers weren't a part of everyday life. Unfortunately, I don't have those memories. Often times I daydream about how my career might have shaped up had I been born in 1965, rather than 20 years later.
At the top of the Digett home page we have a rotating promo area which allows us to promote important content elsewhere on our website. As creative director at Digett, it's my job to design these promotional graphics; and while doing so, it's important I keep a few things in mind.
Often times in web design we have the need to create a repeating background image. This can be simple or fairly complex depending on the type of background that needs repeating. I've developed a method for creating such images with ease.
This is a tutorial on how to make a cinemagraph. I've been intrigued by the growing popularity of these cinematic photographs and I spent some time making a few myself and documenting my approach. Let's start from the beginning, shall we?
A lot of businesses and organizations have taken the first step and created a Facebook Page. The next step is usually to invite all of your friends to “Like” the page. This usually results in all of 15 “Likes” total. Next you implement a plan to drive a ton of traffic to your Page and it seems to be working, but only a tiny percentage care enough to click that little “Like” button.
Do you ever wonder if your customers actually read all the copy you worked so hard to write for your website?
While you can’t force your website visitors to read what you’ve written, there are several tips and tricks you can follow that will increase the readability of your text and lure readers in.
A couple of years ago Mark wrote about Drupal 6 Selling Points on the Digett blog. Since Drupal 7 is now mature enough to build sites upon, it seemed like a good time to look again at the reasons why someone would want to use Drupal to build a website.
While designing artwork for Digett's latest whitepaper download, I developed a unique technique for creating believable 3D text. In this video, I'll run through a quick Photoshop tutorial on how you can use my technique to add beautiful typography to your next web design.
RSS, or Rich Site Summary, is a way of delivering regularly updated content (such as blog articles and news) to a single location that a reader can access. More commonly referred to as Really Simple Syndication, RSS allows a reader to pull all of the Internet content they like into a single location: an RSS feed.
