21 April 21, 2017

Top 5 Most Effective Web Banner Sizes

2023-05-04T00:22:04+00:00By |Entrepreneurship, Graphic Design, Marketing, Photoshop, Website Design, WordPress|

Top 5 Most Effective Web Banner Sizes Below are the standard web banner sizes that you can implement on any website. The ones that are highlighted in Pink are considered the top 5 most effective web banner sizes according to Google. Leaderboard (728 x 90 pixels) Large Rectangle (336 x 280) Half Page Banner (300 x 600) Medium Banner (300 x 250) Large Mobile Banner (320 x 100) Full Banner (468 x 60) Half Banner (234 x 60) Vertical Banner (120 x 240) Wide Skyscraper (160 x 600) Skyscraper (120 x 90) Button 1 (120 x 90) Button 2 (120 [...]

13 April 13, 2017

The Importance of a Client Design Brief

2023-05-04T00:42:06+00:00By |Entrepreneurship, Graphic Design, Illustrator, Marketing, Photoshop, Website Design|

The Importance of a Client Design Brief Grab my free resources which includes a Client Design Brief! Enter your email on the right sidebar. In my previous post, I spoke of the Importance of a Client Agreement and Policy. The next thing to do when starting a design project is to have your client fill out a Client Design Brief. A Client Design Brief lets you know who your client is, what their main goal of the design project is, what design style they like, what functions they want to see on their website (if you are doing one), who their competitors are, and most [...]

11 April 11, 2017

A Must have for any Designer: Client Agreement and Policy

2023-05-04T00:42:37+00:00By |Entrepreneurship, Graphic Design, Marketing, Website Design, WordPress|

Client Agreement and Policy Grab my free resources which includes a Client Agreement and Policy! Enter your email on the right sidebar. As with any type of service related job, it is only common sense to have a client agreement and policy. This ensures that both parties understand what is expected to make sure that the job gets done. With freelance design, here are 2 things you need to do before you start any job: Client Agreement and Policy Get a deposit Why I Stopped Doing Design Contracts I use to be really adamant in making sure that contracts get [...]

31 March 31, 2017

Why is Fiverr Bad?

2023-05-02T14:06:46+00:00By |Entrepreneurship, Graphic Design, Marketing|

Why is Fiverr Bad? I just paid $5 for this horrible logo at horriblelogos.com. This guy gets paid $5 to design ugly logos to feed his beer habit. I think the premise of his site is to make fun of other sites that charge $5 for logos. Ahem Fiverr. And this is the best $5 that I have ever spent. I remember several years ago, my snooty design friends and I were scoffing at the idea of crowdsourcing and logo design contests. How dare they! How dare they devalue us designers! We were always taught to turn away spec work. But let's think [...]

27 March 27, 2017

How to Determine your WordPress Sidebar Width

2023-05-04T00:42:32+00:00By |Graphic Design, Marketing, Photoshop, Website Design, WordPress|

How to Determine your WordPress Sidebar Width Here's a quick video where I show you how to determine your WordPress sidebar width so that you can design all of your banner ads with a consistent width. For a more in-depth post on how to design and add a banner to your sidebar, I offer a video tutorial here. Step 1: Go to your WordPress Dashboard / Appearance / Widgets Step 2: Type in 2-3 sentences of dummy text Step 3: Print Screen (MAC hit Command + Shift + 3 / PC hit the print screen button) Step 4: Bring that screen shot [...]

26 March 26, 2017

How to Design and Add a Banner to Your WordPress Sidebar Widget

2023-05-04T00:41:58+00:00By |Entrepreneurship, Graphic Design, Marketing, Photoshop, Website Design, WordPress|

How to Design and Add a Banner to Your WordPress Sidebar Widget In this video tutorial, I am going to show you how to design and add a banner to your WordPress Sidebar Widget along with the HTML code. What should you put on your sidebar? ✓ Mail Opt-In Form ✓ Mini Bio no longer than 2 sentences ✓ Your own banner ads ✓ Blogroll limited to between 10-20 posts. ✓ Affiliate banner ads limited to no more than 2-3 ✓ Search bar (should be at the very top) ✓ Any other text/links that doesn't run too long that are crucial [...]

10 March 10, 2017

How to Design Business Cards + Downloadable Template

2023-05-04T00:39:28+00:00By |Graphic Design, Illustrator, Marketing, Photoshop|

Download my Free Business Card Templates below: Landscape 3.5" x 2" (.ai file) (.0125" margins) (.0125" bleed) Portrait 3.5" x 2" (.ai file) (.0125" margins) (.0125" bleed) How to Design Business Cards + Downloadable Template In this video, I teach you how to set up a business card as well as some tips and tricks in Adobe Illustrator for designing a simple business card that has a front and back element. Why you should NOT design business cards in Adobe Photoshop There are several reasons why you should not design a business card in Photoshop. If you click on my post [...]

8 March 8, 2017

How to Design a Book Cover Mockup in Adobe Photoshop

2023-05-02T13:34:44+00:00By |Entrepreneurship, Graphic Design, Marketing, Photoshop|

How to Design a Book Cover Mockup in Adobe Photoshop Watch my video tutorial below which shows you how to Design a Book Cover Mockup in Adobe Photoshop. A great resource I found was at a website called Covervault. He has a variety of different book cover mockups ready for you to download to insert your own book cover in. This is a great tool if you are an Author, or if you are designing for an Author, or someone who wants to showcase or promote a book or a downloadable Ebook. It actually looks even better than taking a [...]

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