This is a guest post by Alex Mathers, founder of Red Lemon Club, a self-taught illustrator and writer who believes that any freelancer passionate about work they are good at deserves to create a successful and thriving career from it. Alex recently released an extremely useful online course titled The Freelancer’s Guide to Winning Incredible Clients through [...]

It seems these days that many designers automatically settle on the main color in their website’s palette automatically: white. Every other color is just an accent to that. Today, we look at 40 websites that used a bolder color to base their design on — in this case, blue. It’s harder to pull off a [...]

Joe Childress & Jonathan Combs have been creating visual projects together since 2008. They have collaborated on commercials, animated shorts, viral videos and several other forms of visual stimulation. They both currently reside in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and find anytime they can to create. Step 1. Find a previous American Idol contestant who made [...]

Erin Emocling, aka basterda, is the editor-in-chief of the Lomography Magazine. She also writes Analogue Lifestyle pieces which are often inclined to classic, noir, and vintage memorabilia. Apart from spreading analogue love, Erin is also a marveller of cinematic films and non-sequitur literature. Check out more on the Best of the Best or any of [...]

For our latest iteration of the iNoobs series we’ll be discussing marketing. Specifically paid search marketing, aka “pay per click marketing” (PPC) aka AdWords. First, let’s take a step back and take a look at the market. I recently wrote about how Yahoo and Bing are dead. If you can believe it, Google has captured [...]

On February 4th, Facebook will celebrate its 8th anniversary, and we can already consider it a major force in our modern day lifestyle. As many would say, Facebook IS the Internet. I can’t completely agree with that, but, nevertheless, the truth is that over 800 million people use Facebook, and that’s pretty much enough to [...]

Just a quick note: the folks at Rackspace created a pretty neat infographic to take customers through a simple decision making process on a route to the solution that’s right for them. Check it out and let us know what you think: Infographic by Rackspace Hosting

This is a guest post by Jan Rajtoral AKA Gonzo the Great, founder of gonzodesign, who provides design services across the full spectrum of Brand Identity, Graphic Design, Print and Advertising Design & Website Design. In this new series of posts we’re going to take a look at what has been published last month in [...]

I have very mixed feelings about social media. And that’s why it’s almost taken until now to really start to work with these tools in a business capacity. For all the benefits that it provides, I have had some serious hang-ups when joining, and participating in, social media. And, I’ll tell you why. Loss of [...]

Last week, Megavideo was shut down by federal prosecutors for violation of the Stop Inline Piracy Act (SOPA). The 13th most popular website on the Internet, Megavideo received more than 50 million hits per day from people around the world seeking to watch their favorite movies and tv shows online. Internet users are now scouring [...]

Whether you’re a blogger or the administrator of a site or CMS account, there is a certain level of vernacular you will be expected to know before you move on to the next level of your career or enterprise. You may be responsible for aggregating hosting reviews or simply tracking a site’s pingbacks. Regardless of [...]