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Get on blogging, chapter 1 – Where do I begin?
This is the first chapter of the new weekly Get on blogging series. In this first chapter I warm you up with the idea of blogging. Why would you be blogging? Back in 2001 or something when I started writing short journal type posts on my website blogging was still something new and rare. It wasn't always even called blogging, though the term weblog had been coined already a few years back. Only the ones who could build a website themselves and who were interested in writing these public diaries were doing it. Now everyone, their mom and cat have a blog. The things have changed. Creating a...
Favourite web based CSS tools and resources
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to define the look and formatting of a website. Even the most experienced web designers don't remember all the CSS properties and how to use them by heart and using web based tools and resources while building a site helps and makes things faster. If you aren't familiar with CSS, but want to be able to make your website pretty the web is filled with help for you. Here's a short list of some of the tools I find very helpful when I'm building or tweaking the styles of a site. CSS Tutorial - This tutorial of W3Schools is packed with i...
Modifying the brand
Business fairies, career coaches and branding magicians are always telling you to create a consistent brand. Making sure your images, colours and other visuals as well as content are in line is one of the steps of branding. What happens when you notice your old look and content aren't working any longer and your cohesive brand needs renovation? Will you stick with the old, well crafted style, do little tweaks or start over? Modifying the brand is a somewhat scary thing to do. Will the old customers, blog readers, followers and Facebook likers get onboard or will they be confused or even aban...
Hot Font #18: Josefin Slab
In case you are wondering what's the font used to decorate the new look of this site I'll tell you: It's a Hot Font called Josefin Slab. I've grown to really like slab-serif fonts and Josefin's slab version is one of those I enjoy. (Edit: The site has since been redesigned multiple times and the fonts have changed.) Josefin Slab is a moderately decorative and vintage-feeling font. It's attractive enough to be used for enhancing designs as well as it's clear for longer text areas too. Josefin Slab comes with 10 different styles, Thin, Light, Regular, SemiBold, Bold and their italic counterp...
More free images for your blog or design projects
Remember when I shared in March a bunch of resources for finding free photos for your design projects? Less than a couple of weeks ago Creative Commons tipped on their Facebook page about a couple of newish sites for finding high quality public domain (CC0) photos. Public domain photos are completely free and can be used on personal and commercial projects freely without attribution. As long as you remember not to try and take credit for taking these photos. That's granted and I don't believe you are that lame. Do you know more websites for finding high quality public domain photos? Do l...
Tips for living on a budget
Especially if you are a small business owner or freelancer, or the current economical situation has hit you hard, you are at least in times living on a small budget. As a freelancer myself I know how it works. Some months there's work, even so much that you'll have trouble of getting everything done. Other months there's nothing and you are trying to live on the previous billed hours as long as possible. Then there are times when you have to wait for clients to pay their bills for be able to pay yours. What ever your reason is for being on a budget, here are my very tried and very well worked...
How many people see my posts on Facebook?
On Friday I wrote about Facebook advertising and boosting posts. It reminded me of the subject on how many people actually see your or your page's posts on Facebook. You might think everyone who are your friends, followers or who like your page see the posts and choose to ignore them. But no, this is not the case. Only a handful of the full amount of your friends, followers or people liking your page see your posts when they are first submitted. Of course if you choose to target your post then even less people will see them. For Facebook pages it's usually around 10% of the people liking...
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