Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Contact Form Development

Some contact forms can be confusing and frustrating for many people - which can lead to lost online sales.

If someone is semi-interested in your products or services or is a hesitant shopper; any inconvenience in contacting you can turn them away - sending them directly to your competitors.

The following are some best practices for contact form development and implementation, some of which also apply to order forms.

1. Minimize cognitive load

Wow, quite a technical term huh?

Friday, November 19, 2010

Free Camouflage Patterns for Illustrator & Photoshop

Read the article

Download this pack of military camouflage patterns to create infinitely repeating camo backgrounds for your designs. Each camouflage pattern is available in vector format so it can be used at any size imaginable, as well as a JPEG format for everyday use in Photoshop.


Most of the camo patterns I found on the web either didn’t repeat as a tileable pattern, or were just made of unrealistic blobs, so I decided to have a go at creating my own camo pattern files and share them with you all.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

30 fonts you should really have if you are designer!

Today we didn’t really concentrate on creating a set following specific font styles. This time, we put together a mix of free fonts which are really worth using and shouldn’t be missing in your personal font library. We are sure you’ll find you own favorite between these 30 below.
Enjoy!





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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

How To Brand Your Tweets With Your URL And Why You Should

I know for a fact that you are all web designers who use social media to market and promote yourselves.
I also know for a fact that you use Twitter to make connections with customers and learn web design tricks and techniques.



What if I told you that every one of your tweets is promoting other people’s business?
Here’s proof:
I just sent out 2 tweets promoting my web design articles using 2 different Twitter clientsMarketMeTweet and SocialOomph.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

SEO tips, The good old way is of no use. The meta html tag. A concept from the past.

Introduction:
This page will give an introduction to the consept of the meta html-tag, the syntax, and a comment on why you should not use it. The idea behind the HTML-tag META is that the editor of a html document should be able to specify additional information that is relevant for the document. This information is meant for either the browser or search engine crawlers.
How it works:
The meta-tag is placed in between the <head></head> tags. Here are some examples of uses:
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="Everything you need to know about making cool webpages.">
This tag would give a textual description what the webpage is about.
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="chocolate, history of chocolate, brands, best prices">
This tag would give a hint about what keywords are relevant for the document.
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX">
This tag would give a message to a search engine crawler that you do not want the particular document included in a search engine.

Southpaw Media website Coming Soon

Our website http://www.southpaw.in
for the design studio is coming soon in a more established way than ever before!
with its social network http://www.southpaw.in/do
It is planned to be launched by 1/1/2011 00:00 hrs.
As usual there might be some preponderance in this date due to early completion of the work!
Please wait until you get the notification!