Yearly Archives: 2007

Cool and Creative Business Cards

Whether you’re designing a business card for yourself, or for your website, you have an opportunity to be creative. Don’t settle for a plain card with basic information.

I’ve basically assembled a list of lists (doesn’t that sound cheesy?). I’ve looked around the web for collections of cool business cards, and I’m putting them here in one place. Before we get to the fun part, however, I’m going to take this opportunity to plug a tutorial I wrote awhile back. Did you know that you can make your own business cards cheaply? You don’t need to pay a printer for 250 cards if you only need 30 at the time. With just a printer, Photoshop, and a paper cutter, you can make your own business cards. Okay, now that I’m done with that, here’s the list:

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Technorati Changes Home Page to Utilize ‘Topics’ Feature

Technorati recently introduced a new feature known as Topics. In a Digg Spy-like manner, it shows recent postings from the blogosphere. Today, Technorati redesigned their homepage. The old page content is gone, swapped for the topics feature. See it here. To the right of…

4 Books For CSS Design

Do you want to learn how to design websites? The best way to learn is probably through books. With a book you don’t have to sit in front of a glowing screen, reading impatiently in “Internet Time” (where everything seems to go to slowly…

The Top (Known) Linkbaiting Techniques

Linkbaiting. The art of grabbing people’s attention so they will link to you. What are some examples of linkbait? Don’t Block Firefox MistyLook WordPress Theme How Much Is Your Blog Worth? Merging RSS Feeds With SimplePie Creating a Favicon Anything on Smashing Magazine Linkbaiting…

BlogBuzz September 11, 2007

Combat Blogger’s Block

Out of blog post ideas? It happens. Other bloggers will tell you to “look through your archives” and to “read other blogs.” While they’re both good suggestions, I have a better strategy: Don’t run out of ideas in the first place. It is possible…

Speedlinking: The New Way And The Old Way

You’ve heard of Speedlinking, right? Examples: BlogBuzz, Weekly WTH, Speedlinking. NorthXEast.com defines Speedlinking as “The Speedlinker (named in honor of Problogger Darren Rowse) is a post where you link up a series of posts from other blogs that your readers would be interested in,…

Are You Obsessed With Blogging?

Take the test and find out! For the past few days, I’ve been working on a multiple choice test. Answer the questions and it will give you a percentage of how obsessed you are. It’s only twenty questions long, so it won’t take more…

BlogBuzz September 8, 2007

Inspire Yourself! 9 CSS Design Galleries

Have you run into a brick wall while designing a new layout? It happens a lot, but there’s an easy remedy. First, head over to Smashing Magazine and look at their design roundups. Still stuck? It’s time too look through some design galleries. There…