Search Engine Optimization

Nick La just posted a great article on SEO on his blog, Web Designer Wall. I highly recommend reading it, whether you're a newbie or well versed in the subject. Nice job!

Creating a Successful Online Portfolio

Always of the mind to pass on interesting reads, I came across this article on Smashing Magazine. It's a great piece on all things portfolio sites: design, user experience, and even promotion.








one of my favorite pieces of advice?

6. Plan Your Portfolio Project
One of the key ingredients to creating a successful portfolio is to approach it like you would a client project. Manage this project as professionally as you would any other web project you take on. Set aside the time needed to achieve the goals you’ve outlined for the portfolio. Make sure you set up deadlines so that you have key targets to hit.

makes me feel pretty good about the amount of time and planning i'm currently putting into my new site.

CTRL+Z

Jacob Cass, guest author* on Gino Orlandi's design blog You The Designer, has put together a great list of keyboard shortcuts that every designer should be using. Perhaps i'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to these, but i find that they really do save time. Who doesn't want to shave a few minutes off of their work day?

See the list here.

And thanks Jacob!



*as understood from the post. perhaps this post was written by Gino?

how could i resist?

i mean really, the name of the episode is "nitty gritty."

justin seeley hosts this photoshop quicktip, showing us a great way to give a photo a gritty, high-contrast look. i've added noise before, but never thought of rendering clouds over it to vary the grit. nice.