September 2009

Tweet The Iconfactory has developed icons for a number of high profile clients including Adobe, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple to name a few. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Greensboro, NC. In this interview Gedeon shares his experience in starting Iconfactory, gives us a peek at what a typical day is [...]

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Tweet Here’s a roundup of well designed financial management apps to help you with invoicing, bookkeeping, and personal finance. Are there any others that should have been included? Please share with a comment below. Invoicing FreshBooks allows you to send and manage invoices, track your time, and track expenses for both yourself and your clients. [...]

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iPhone Apps to Help You Manage Your Blog

by Brandon on September 17, 2009 · 5 comments

Tweet Below are the three iPhone apps I use daily to plan and manage BrandFreeze. Which iPhone apps are you using to manage your blog? Please share in the comments below. Evernote I use Evernote daily to jot down and organize ideas for blog posts and develop a simple editorial calendar for upcoming posts. Evernote [...]

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25 Inspirational Designs for Website Footers

by Brandon on September 14, 2009 · 15 comments

Tweet If you think a website’s footer exists only to show copyright information you couldn’t be further from the truth. Below I’ve included 25 inspirational designs for website footers from design related sites and blogs from around the web. From illustrative to intelligent use of textures, these website footers are very creative. 13Creative 13Creative is [...]

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Tweet Today we have Grant Friedman, a freelance designer and founder of Colorburned. Colorburned is a popular design blog that provides design news, resources, and tutorials from around the web. Tell me more about your background. How did you get started in graphic design? I got my start in graphic design about 10 years ago. [...]

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Tweet About a month ago I decided to purchase Thesis Theme for WordPress. I had been hearing a lot of hype and finally took the plunge. I read a lot about the flexibility it allows for search engine optimization, ability to quickly make changes to your layout, image settings, etc… Well, it definitely lives up [...]

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Tweet With the recent attacks on older versions of WordPress (pre 2.8.4) and some bloggers losing months of posts I thought I’d share one of the easiest ways I’ve found to setup a backup process for your WordPress blog. I’m using the WordPress Database Backup plug-in (WP-DB-Backup) and automatically emailing a copy of my files [...]

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20 Creative Ways of Displaying Share Icons

by Brandon on September 5, 2009 · 10 comments

Tweet Twitter and Digg and Delicious – Oh my! In seeking inspiration for different ways of displaying share icons, I compiled a list of 20 design blogs. Below I’ve included the various ways these blogs are displaying share icons. Any others that should have been included? Leave a comment and share. Freelance Switch Hongkiat Tutorial9.net [...]

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Tweet I think we all know the importance of tracking how visitors interact with our websites and users with our applications. There are a number of tools available depending on your budget, what you’d like to track, and how you’d like to track it. Below I’ve included a number of tools to help you collect [...]

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