Been to electricbricks.net lately? If you have, you may have noticed that it looks quite a bit different. It’s been over 2 years since I updated the theme on the site and it was overdue! The old layout, while good for it’s time, had started looking a bit dated. The content layout had grown cluttered, the brick motif wasn’t working for me anymore, and the navigation was minimal, at best. After spending a good deal of time planning, I decide to practice what I preach to all my clients, and make some significant changes.
Web Design
9 Photo Editing Tools for Blog & Website Owners
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There are a few social media and web marketing blogs that I follow pretty regularly. Social Media Examiner is one of them. They consistently produce relevant, easily digestible articles to help you get a better handle on your social media efforts. Their recent article, “6 Simple Photo Tools for Creating Social Media Visuals“, offered up several easy-to-use Photoshop alternatives that could not only be used for creating graphics for social content, as the article suggests, but for blog articles and web pages, as well. In the article they quickly outline the strengths of each tool and show an example of what can be created with it. Read the article to get the list (most of them are free!) and see if any of them could be beneficial to you.
The Perfect Website? [Infographic]
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Here it is. What you’ve all been waiting for. Everything you need to know to make your website “perfect”. All illustrated neatly on one simple infographic.
OK, maybe it’s not that simple. But there is some pretty good information and statistics here, though I’m not sure how long they’ll be accurate. One thing I love seeing is the trend toward larger monitors. Designing for small screens stinks! (Did someone say “mobile”?)