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Developing a Successful Design Blog: Lessons from Web Designer Depot

December 13, 2009 By 1 Comment
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Design blogs are the new in, everybody who is interested in making money online and knows any amount about web design is starting their own blog. Granted only a few have made it and gained star-status in the blogosphere, but there are thousands of others who struggle to build their way to the top. I'm turning to one of my favorite web/graphic design blogs for inspiration: Web Designer Depot. The blog was launched at the end of 2008, and since then has grown into a thriving success (boasting a … [Read more...]

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Interview with PSDFan’s Designer and Blogger Tom Ross

October 12, 2009 By 6 Comments
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Finding good tutorials on web design and development can be tough these days. Although so many people have and use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and all of the creative suite, there are very few that know how to utilize the tools properly and create astounding designs. Tom Ross of PSDFan is a web designer of 8 years and currently posts up tutorials, interviews, and even some free graphics here and there onto the blog. PSDFan has grown rapidly, and I feel honored to have an interview with Tom … [Read more...]

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Interview with CollegeHumor’s Designer Anna Hiort

October 9, 2009 By 10 Comments
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I've gotten my fair share of laughs from all of the hilarious content on the internet today. Photoshopped photos and amazing/retarded videos are spread like wildfire through forums and social networking sites. However, one of the best sites I've ever run across for generally hilarious content has to be Collegehumor. Not only does the site provide hilarious and amusing videos and content, it also has a very large community involvement in the site and a great looking web 2.0 design. Anna Hiort … [Read more...]

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Inside FudgeGraphics: Web Design Freebies and Tutorials

September 1, 2009 By 4 Comments
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Let's face it: we all love free stuff. As web designers, graphic designers, PHP programmers, or AJAX gurus we all love finding free code snippits or templates to work with. I have recently found a great new web design and development-focused blog Fudgegraphics which is full of all the freebies any web designer could want! I got an interview with the site's creator, deisgner, and blogger Franz Jeitz to see how he runs the site. I find so many popular web design blogs in the web so often, I … [Read more...]

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Inside Blog.SpoonGraphics with Creator Chris Spooner

July 30, 2009 By 6 Comments
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Personally one of my favorite graphic design blogs on the web, Blog.Spoongraphics provides amazing resources, tutorials, and tips for graphic and web designers everywhere. The creator and designer of the blog Chris Spooner is also a freelance web designer himself, and I landed a great interview with him. Chris Spooner demonstrates amazing ability through not only his portfolio, but also his very inspiring posts to Blog.Spoongraphics (one recently going over how he redesigned the Digg-Clone … [Read more...]

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Graphic Designer and Blogger Andrew Houle of MyInkBlog

July 27, 2009 By 7 Comments
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Graphic and web designers, lend me your ears! We have another great graphic design blog to add to our list today, MyInkBlog. Featuring all sorts of free goodies to download, amazing tutorials, inspiring articles, and a whole lot more! MyInkBlog is one of the premiere graphic and web design blogs on the web, with over 3,000 Twitter followers and almost 4,000 RSS followers. I got an interview with the blogs creator, Andrew Houle. We discuss the impact of blogging on the graphic design and web … [Read more...]

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Getting Inside Web Design Dev with Creator Michael Dunlop

July 19, 2009 By 11 Comments
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Michael Dunlop is what you could call an "internet marketer", making enough money online to provide a livable income since he was in college. Since he has started in internet marketing, Michael has created a slew of websites, one of which is a very popular website design blog. Web Design Dev posts up large collections of lists, tools, tricks, and tutorials to help beginning and professional web designers alike to find the best resources on the web. I sat down and got a great interview with … [Read more...]

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