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Weekly web design and marketing links for 1-11-08

Posted on Friday, January 11th, 2008 under blogging, web design links, web design news by Dustin Brewer.

There have been some great posts over this past week from all over. It really can take quite a bit of effort to sort through the articles you read and receive through email to pick out the best to share. There are always a dozen more articles that I think should be included in my weekly list but these are the ones for the week I found most interesting and applicable other web designers and web professionals.

Tips on becoming a freelance web worker

I want to start off with one of most popular freelance blogs around, FreelanceSwitch. Skellie wrote a fantastic article for them about becoming a freelance web worker, which is a multiple series on being a web worker and every aspect involved in doing freelance work for a living.

Ideas for working through the web

Another fantastic article came from Skellie also and her new blog entitled Anywired. The article is on the same topic and gives us 30 ideas to working through the web full time. A great duo of information for web workers and freelance web designers everywhere.

Duplicating your success with your blog

Steven Snell over at Vandelay Web Design’s blog has written a great article about taking the success you have had from one project, a blog, and duplicating that success from advertising, networking to audience. The article is fantastic motivation for 2008 for some of us to focus on extra projects that we have been working on or considering. Some great ideas for making it succesful just as your other blogs or projects have been.

Putting solutions before problems

I found a fantastic article in the Blue Flavor blog from Jeff Croft about solutioneering, which is putting solutions before problems. This can be a tough job for any professional in any industry. It seems like a larger issue when it comes to the web design industry where there a thousand different variables and you have to create a general web solution to fix them all before a site can go live.

5 great logo design tips

Understanding logo design is a huge part of a graphic and web designers job. If you don’t understand branding or don’t think past the web the logo has failed. Jacob Cass gives 5 vital tips on logo design through a guest post on David Airey’s blog. This is truly a fantastic article about design, branding and creating a flexible and proper logo.

What do you use to code with?

Chris Coyier has a great poll going over at CSS Tricks about what everyone uses to write CSS with. It has some pretty interesting results, it looks like Dreamweaver (as of this article) is in the lead for the most users. Some pretty interesting statistics, I have to say that some of the people using notepad should probably upgrade— based on their sites design.

3 Responses to “Weekly web design and marketing links for 1-11-08”

1. Jacob Cass says:

   January 11, 2008 at 9:32 pm

   Thanks for the link and some great tips and articles.

   Reply
2. Steven Snell says:

   January 11, 2008 at 9:50 pm

   Thanks for the link Dustin. It’s appreciated.

   Reply
3. David Airey says:

   January 12, 2008 at 7:26 am

   Hi Dustin,

   Jacob did a great job with his guest post. Thanks for drawing attention to it, and for listing some other great articles.

   Reply