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8 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Developer

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Last year I wrote a post about hiring a Web developer and what to look for in a general sense. In this post I will be going over some more specific tips in actually hiring a developer as an employee. If you are looking for a freelance or contract developer then these tips will still apply - so read on!

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5 Tips for Sites with Small Budgets

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Planning on redesigning your site but have a tight budget? You may want to rethink how you are going to spend your funds. Sure you can look into outsourced companies, chop shops, pre-designed templates or student designers, but in most cases (not to be cliche) you are going to get what you pay for. As long as your site is not a usability nightmare and looks like it was designed in 1990, there are a lot of other ways to draw attention and traffic to your site that are more important than a few bells and whistles.  Here are a few things you may want to allocate more time/money towards that in a business sense will be more advantageous to your site. If you are interested in getting help with any of them, please let us know! (more…)

Some Excel Tips to Make the Graphic Designer Happy

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Being both a graphic designer and business owner, I have a love hate relationship with Microsoft Excel. Having an uncontrollable need to make things look clean, organized and professional in my layouts often leads me to clash with Excel. Being a business owner as well, it is essential that I use Excel for a variety of reports and spreadsheets. Today however, I stumbled across a few tips that help Excel users customize their layouts (among other useful tips) that helped bridge that gap within me between design and business. (more…)