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I haven't been blogging here lately but I have been busy. I'm excited to announce my new WordPress theme business.
Read More »Visuals are an important component of the internet and popular websites are often those that are heavily photo-based. Websites like Buzzfeed and Reddit get an amazing amount of hits because of their photo-content.
Read More »As a designer you must posses this skill, and yes, it is a skill. It can be one of the hardest things to do if you are not a very assertive person. Yet it is a vital part of becoming…
Read More »Landing your first design job is always the hardest. Here are a few pieces of advice for students and people looking to get into the field for the first time.
Read More »The design field is one that tons of people want to be a part of, and yet the turnover rate is incredibly high. Many good designers don’t make it more than ten years. For a very sought after field that…
Read More »There are simply a ton of different social media outlets to choose from today and trying to use them all, especially if you are a one man/woman/other crew. It is best to narrow it down to 1-2 and I’ll go over the best way to do that.
Read More »Are your social efforts leading to increased revenue? Does having a million likes or followers or +1s mean anything to your bottom line? You might want to think about it.
Read More »Blog archives have been an important part of blogs since well, there have been blogs, but are they really necessary or relavant any more. Especially now that that it is easier to build search into your site, and find other ways of promoting older posts.
Read More »With advertising every little bit helps. You don’t have to have a monster advertising budget to increase your exposure. So I've put together a quick list of some which are a few good places to start that are either free or inexpensive.
Read More »There are many reasons why your website could have broken links. Finding them and fixing them could take a long time but luckily there are free services that do it pretty painlessly.
Read More »If you want your web store to be the best you need to study the best, and Amazon.com is right up there at the top. You might not be able to beat them at their own game but if you know how they play it, you can apply those same principals on a smaller scale to your own business.
Read More »Inspiration can be found anywhere. College websites are no exception. I work for a college as a web designer so I tend to look at these a lot anyway but everyone can learn something. College and University websites are very complex, with thousands of pages that can go many levels deep. By studying how colleges handly the tough task of building navigation and creating a site structure that is easy to navigate, you can apply it to your own websites.
Read More »One of the biggest hassles of working with Photoshop is dealing with text. Especially when doing a web interface you may have lots of different text layers. And say you want to change the color of all the text to blue, normally that would mean selecting each layer individually and making the change, but here is a quick tip to make the process a little easier.
Read More »Couchable is a web design blog created by Tyler Herman. Not really updated anymore because I'm busy doing freelance design work and busy launching my little WordPress theme shop Real Theme Co. You can read a little more about my at my personal site Tylerherman.com