Guide to Using Social Networking to Promote Your Services
“With so many freelancers and design agencies out there, finding work can often be a major struggle, especially for those who are just getting started. A growing number of designers are using social media as a means of marketing their services, in addition to simply using it for interacting with friends. While social media marketing can be extremely effective, it can also be a big waste of time. In this post we’ll look at some tips that should help you to ensure that your time with social media is well spent.”
This is a re-post. The full article can be found here:
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/marketing/social-networking/
Best Practices for Coding HTML Emails
If you are a web designer you know the pains of cross-browser coding. We currently have 3-4 popular browsers (IE6, IE7, FF, Safari) to keep in mind when creating new pages and each will interpret your code slightly different. This is the source of much hair pulling in the design community. However, shortly after delving into coding HTML emails, testing with 3-4 platforms starts looking inviting. Let me explain…
There are a wide range of tools available for viewing email; from software applications like Outlook, AOL, Lotus Notes, Eudora, etc. to web applications like Yahoo Mail, Google Mail, Hotmail and others. Each one of these has the potential of rendering your code differently and all have to be taken into account when coding your emails. So if you have any hair left, here are some ‘best practices’ you can follow to help keep your end users’ experience as uniform as possible.