Archive for March, 2010

4 Great New Ways To Share Your Creativity

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

All creatives, be it web designers, illustrators, photographers, fashion designers, artists, and all the rest, need to be able to get the things that they create out into the big bad world, or Internet as the case may be. For some of us (namely web designers / developers) it’s a little easier than others, because it’s our job. But no matter who you are or what your profession, we could all do with a little help to make life a bit easier.

In this post I’m going to talk about 4 of the best new and up-and-coming websites designed to help us creatives get our content out there. Some of them are so new in fact, that they are still in BETA testing, but they are definitely ones to watch out for…

Flavors.me

Flavors.me

Flavors.me has been publicly available for one or two months now, and it’s a great way to collate all (or most) of your social networking information. It’s fantastic for someone who is active all over the web, but doesn’t have, or is struggling to get a solid online portfolio together.

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Convert Your Non-Purchasers To Purchasers With Great Email Marketing

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Getting your non-purchasers to buy from your email can sometimes prove to be challenging – you may have a lot less information gathered on them, you may not know who has and hasn’t purchased, or the recipients may simply not be interested in purchasing. To know is to understand, and although you may not have a magic ball to predict your non-purchasers’ behaviour, there are a few tricks to improving your non-purchaser conversion rate.

Great Email Marketing

First, segment your list

Splitting up your purchasers and non-purchasers is one of the easiest list segmentations you can do. By separating your lists, you can begin to monitor how each group behaves like for like.

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Designing From The Top Down - A New Way To Design For The Web

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

We recently attended Speak the Web in Sheffield and Leeds and brought a lot of really useful information and ideas away with us. I attended the Leeds talk where Andy Clarke, a well respected designer, leader of web design studio Stuff and Nonsense, and CSS guru, presented a preview of his new publication “Hardboiled web design“.

The main theme around his talk (and something that we put into practice at What!?) is top-down web design and development.

Top Down Web Design

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