Tips, Tools and Trends

Written by Nick Villaume | 25 April 2011
Posted in Project Planning & Management

When you browse store windows on 5th Avenue in New York, it’s the careful attention to color, placement and minute detail that is the difference between cheap and expensive. In this article, we explain the importance of detail in web design and the tools and processes we use to make sure they are not overlooked.

25 April 2011
Posted in Announcements & Special Offers

We wish to extend a very warm welcome to designers who have recently completed our web designer certification program. Here is who they are:

Jeff Austin - Houston, TX, Tanya Brady - Decatur, GA, Thomas Clarkson - Washdyke, Timaru, New Zealand, Cary Phillips - Altanta, GA, Joel Riggs - Decatur, GA, Jason Wade - Atlanta, GA

If you have not already signed up, be sure to register today.

19 April 2011
Posted in Selling and Marketing

Who knows this one? You consult with a client and deliver a proposal based on what they had asked for and they come back and tell you they were expecting a price that was one-half of what you proposed.  If this scenario is familiar to you, this article provides some ideas for pulling the old budgetary tooth out of a client before you spend time writing a proposal.

27 March 2011
Posted in Selling and Marketing

In these times selling our work for what it’s worth can be a real challenge and, with the introduction of the “$500 website”, it’s becoming harder and harder to close projects for a fair price. In this article, we talk about price objection and offer some tips to how to you can deal with it.

03 January 2011
Posted in Tools & Services

The Dev Department can help you sell more high-end web development by offering social sign-on to user-centric web sites.

With Web 2.0 now fully matured, most designers are facing clients who are seeking to increase market share through community or user-centric web site projects and one of the greatest barriers to user participation is web users' hesitation to register at “yet another” web site.

08 November 2010
Posted in Project Planning & Management

For those of you who missed NEUX (previously Design Camp Boston). This is a recording of our Founder and CEO, Nick Villaume presenting on Small Shop Web Design.

08 November 2010
Posted in Tools & Services

This course is an introduction to Joomla! as well as instructional on how to build a Joomla! 1.5 template from a static html site. It was originally presented at the New England UX conference in Cambridge, MA on November 6, 2010.

08 November 2010
Posted in Announcements & Special Offers

Congratulations to our August, Sept, October class of Certified Web Designers.

Here is who they are:

Jeff Austin - Houston, TX , Mary Lukens (Silver Level) - Holland, MI , Cary Phillips - Atlanta, GA , Joel Riggs - Decatur, GA , Jason Wade - Atlanta, GA

 

20 September 2010
Posted in Selling and Marketing

If you missed the September web-cast of The Atlanta Graphic Design Collective Meetup, don't fret because we got you covered. Here is a recording of the web-cast as well as more information about the panelist and his work. The event is hosted by Sherra Bell of Creative Know-Who, an Atlanta based creative recruitment firm, and is held at the Portfolio Center here in Atlanta.

This month, J. Cornelius of Coffee Cup Software and the Atlanta Web Design Group talked to us about how to get involved in the web design community and show us some great resources for getting into web design.

17 September 2010
Posted in Announcements & Special Offers

We recently got word from one of our design firm clients, Sellier Design in Kennesaw, GA, that a site we built for them won a design award. The site is for the firm Wiederhold & Associates out of Houston, TX and it was awarded the American Graphic Design Award by 2010 Graphic Design USA.