Month: October 2015

5 Lessons of Design in School which are still Useful

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6 lessons i learned in desgin school that i still use today

School or College is a great place to collect friends and skills, however, along with time; you will find that not all friends and skills are in tune with you anymore. Knowledge which we learn in college or school is sometimes become useless in workplace, in fact, many skills have been neglected and unused ever since you leave the college or school, but for designers, especially web designers, there are some skills that will remain the same, wherever you go, and here are some of them:

  1. There’s no color like the color you make yourself

Lesson about color is one that may be useful in your work place as the way we look color never be the same after school lesson. In facts, each person interprets what the best or truest color solution for an image is, be it a bit warmer or cooler on his or her own way. So, controlling your color is the key. Maybe the methods may change but the theories are still the same. The understanding about how to manage colors in an image will make your work looks perfect and meaningful.

  1. Just Do It

When you wait for your ideas to come, you will just waste your time, so as teacher told you that you better simply made it, and then ideas would easily flow. This teaching is absolutely right. This does not mean you just work without conducting any research, but this means that no matter what comes across your mind, you just need to put it down on paper or pixel. No matter how large or small, the hardest step to take is always the first one. In the progress you will find that the direction will be clear, step by step.

  1. You Draw with Your Eyes not Your Hands

This old saying is absolutely true and you will remember this after you graduate from school and start working. As your eyes is the one who visualize the design first before your hand can interpret it. In workplace, you need to take a moment to step back and really take a fresh look at what you’re putting together. Walk away from your work for several minutes to make sure that you are really seeing will make you stay creative.

  1. Just Because You can, doesn’t mean you should

In design class, maybe one of us has been told by Professor that the design is enough retouching, even though we still want to add something on it. This lesson is worth it, as knowing when to stop would be one of the most important lessons we would learn in workplace.

  1. Simplify the image to focus on the meaning

Sometimes, when you want to deliver a message from an image, and you find that it is hard to be depicted maybe all you need to do is to simplify the image and provide a good text to explain it. This is one of the golden rule of design and the art of presenting in my opinion. Breaking down an explanation to make it simple can be troublesome, but this level of communication is really understandable to your audience. That is why many powerful taglines and logos only use simplicity and concise messaging to embrace their audience.

4 Easy Ways to Keep Your Blog Ideas Going

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4 Daily Habits Guaranteed to Give You More Links and Higher

Making ideas flow easily cannot be done every day. There will be a day when you find that your head get stuck, while your works keep demanding for more inspirations. If you are a blogger, web designers, web developer, or other works which require creativity, you will surely face this condition. Therefore, today, we are going to discuss how to make your ideas flow swiftly, so that whenever you find yourself gets stuck, you can recharge your inspiration through these tips.

  1. Let your Customer Questions a source of inspiration

To find out what your customer needs, you need to talk about it with your clients. Offer them with some questions like, what their planning are about, what our new services content auditing, or why do they need to develop a blog.

Basically, the information will be translated into informative, educational, and entertaining content to please your client’s prospects and address their every need and demand. Therefore, knowing what your client needs is very important. Moreover, bear in mind that you need to focus on concise, information-rich answers related to the features and benefits of your product to stay on the same page with your readers.

  1. Always up to date and explore New Trends, Breaking News, or Prominent Events

Always raise a fresh topic that almost everyone is talking about. Naturally, people want to hear new facts rather than boring story from recycled blog topics. Therefore, you need to find out what topic that other haven’t presented yet, you may find what your counterparts have neglected and explore the tiniest details other channels may have missed and ignore, then explore it into something which is interesting and informative. Search for any fresh ideas in different places, songs, movies, moments and opinions expressed by people in your circle.

  1. Research Your Topic of Choice & Get the Bigger Picture

One of the purposes in creating a blog is to influence your reader to buy products or other purposes. Therefore, if you want to be seen as influencer, then you might act as a good influencer. In order to be a good one, you need to gather all the information that you can find on a certain subject, find what other people have already written and explore it to make it yours.

  1. Team up with Fellow Bloggers in Your Industry

Other bloggers who are good in your field are not your rival, because actually, they are your team work. A stronger bond with other bloggers is good. This is because, have a stronger bond with other bloggers keep you stay inspired and connected. The other reason is because you could amp up your current marketing strategy and get more supports from others bloggers which will result in more successful manner of creating content.

4 Concepts of SEO that Every CEO Should Understand

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five big ideas about SEO that Every CEO needs to know

No wonder that today, people search all stuffs by Goggling, as you can find almost everything in it. This widens the possibilities of people searching certain companies for making business. Therefore, it makes many SEO services try to put their companies in Google so when somebody or a CEO of a company wants to have a SEO service they can find it. However, there are some things that every CEO should know as if you do not know what SEO is; you may have a wrong idea about it.

  1. SEO Result Takes Time

It is understandable that many CEO may expect to have short term revenue from SEO, as the business world prospers on short-term profits and the brief time period of quarters. Besides, many people think that everything which is online relates with instant result, such as instant emails, downloadable media, instant access, and online purchases while for SEO this kind of thought is false as search engine optimization works progressively in spite of done rapidly. Therefore, if you think that being in first-page ranking can be done in a flash. You are wrong, as SEO is a ceaseless effort.

This is what every CEO should know as there are still many CEO that expect about short term revenue and get disappointed. Therefore, by knowing this they will be more relaxed about waiting the progress, as once she or he understands it, they will value it and invest in it more.

  1. SEO is a Changing Fluctuation

Keep dynamic is the best way to survive in SEO world; this is what every CEO should understand as one of the few truths of SEO is that it’s always changing. Therefore, you need to adapt yourself with constant fluctuation of techniques and practices, because even though you are at number one rank today, it will suddenly change into lower rank tomorrow.

  1. SEO is mostly about Content Marketing

Many people think that SEO is all about how smart the SEO engineers utilize the tricks and techniques while it is not all true, as without the supply of content marketing all of the tricks and techniques only support a small portion of the actual work of SEO. This is because, SEO is mostly about creating content, or you can say that content marketing is SEO. Therefore, in order to reach a good SEO result, a company must be willing to put some times to create a high quality content.

  1. SEO Needs to Work with other Departments

SEO is not only live in virtual world, but also it needs other department’s contributions. Here are some areas where not many CEOs realize that SEO department really needs to work together with other department:

  • SEO techniques need public relations to produce content.
  • SEO needs to work with marketing department in order to do advertisement.
  • SEO needs to work together with designer in order to produce good picture that can be put nicely with marketing content.