design | Strictly CSS

7 Tactics to Increase Your Influence

So you’ve started your brand new blog huh? Well, here are 7 tactics to increase your influence.

The excitement may not last long. After a few weeks or months, perhaps you’ve begun to experience burnout. Perhaps you like the feeling to be able to post your opinion on the Web, but writing becomes a chore rather than something fun to do on a regular basis.

Well, you may learn a great deal if you check out the following video where Gary Vaynerchuk is talking about how you can produce up to one hundred content pieces per day and start dominating the social media:

Readership may not grow at the rate that you think the blog is worth the effort. Sounds familiar? I guess it is too many of us. It happens to some of my blogs too, many times.

As with any other venture, it takes an effort to succeed. While a blog turns web publishing into a very easy and convenient task, actually writing great content and building readerships — and later relationships — are the real challenges.

When it comes to your design, keep in mind that you need a well-though CSS layout strategy as well but let’s first see how to attract more readers. Below are my own 7 strategies to find, build and grow our blog readership:

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How to Stick to Your Ultimate Goal

After I graduated from college, the very next week I was sending out my resume. I was desperate for a job. Any job. Just give me a job!

In less than a month I got one. Was it my dream job? No. Did it pay the bills? Yes, somewhat. My friends got jobs. Did they like their jobs? Somewhat, kind of. But it was okay because we were all on the ‘right track’…

During this time, there were lots of happy hours, parties, events, shopping days, gatherings, dinners. Did I want to go to all these events? A few I really did, but the majority I could have passed on. Did I spend money I didn’t want to spend or didn’t have to spend? Yes!

Before you know it, that goal of being a startup engineer, or a web designer, or a business manager with a degree, or even the goal of saving enough money to take the new course is buried deep under new clothes, dinner receipts, and revised resumes.o (more…)

Elegant logo design – Inspiration and Tips

Elegant logo design is a pretty exhausting task what with having to think of all those ideas and going back and forward with the client. But after reading this article I hope that it will become a little easier for you to knock out some pretty sweet designs.

its also good when showing the client to present at least 5-10 different versions, even if it’s something simple like a change of color or some font styling.

I’ve had many clients often ask to see a design with a slight change just because it was hard for them to visualize it in their heads, I guess it’s the same for all clients and in the most part why they are hiring you.

So check out some of the examples below and hopefully you’ll feel better next time you have to come up with a few good logos 🙂

Try drawing tools

If the thought of learning to use the drawing tools in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator makes you sigh, try CorelDraw, no really I am serious, CorelDraw is also vector-based the same as Illustrator but it offers a very different approach to design and illustration.

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