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Archive for August, 2008

Writing for Personality Profiles (Optimizing Landing Pages, Part 3)

“Optimizing Landing Pages” is an on going series that will total 20 posts. The series is written by 3.7 DESIGNS and Ross Johnson to help web professionals build sites that achieve specific business goals. This is post 3, and the topic is “Writing for Personality Profiles.”
As much as us designers would like to think that [...]

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Writing for Personality Profiles (Optimizing Landing Pages, Part 3)

My life as a web design / development entrepreneur…

The balance of client work, networking, marketing and maintaining relationships is one of the more difficult aspects of running a small business.

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My life as a web design / development entrepreneur…

Design Discovery Document, What I Use to Learn More About Client Needs…

I recently posted about how to improve your creative process, and one of the core elements of that process is learning everything you can about what the client wants, expects, and needs to gain from the creative deliverables. Really the core of this learning process is asking the right questions and guiding the client in [...]

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Design Discovery Document, What I Use to Learn More About Client Needs…

As designers we need to use more adjectives in our work…

Adjectives? Wait am I confused? Should I be talking about copy writing? No no, I assure you I am in fact talking about design. Like many of you I am always browsing through galleries and assessing new web site launches, because I am interested in seeing what type of working is being done outside my [...]

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As designers we need to use more adjectives in our work…

The line between inspiration and stealing design…

  • Author: Ross Johnson
  • Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008
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While it might be strange to hear, I was pleasantly surprised last weekend when I had several readers contact me to let me know that someone had used my site as inspiration for their own in an obvious way (Not only that, but they have been featured on some CSS Galleries for it). I was [...]

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The line between inspiration and stealing design…

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