Principles Of Minimalist Web Design, With Examples @medianovak
Essentially, minimalism is about breaking things down to the barest elements necessary for a design to function. It’s about taking things away until nothing else can be removed without interfering with the purpose of the design. Below are a number of principles of minimalist web design, as well as an exploration of current trends and additional examples.
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Online Reputation Management -Taking Control of Your Brand @medianovak
With the advent of social media, those “five minutes” have been reduced to a nanosecond. A nasty Tweet, Facebook post, comment on an article, and discussion in an online group can go viral and negatively impact a business before a CEO knows what hit them.
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Top 5 Tips For Creating the Perfect Portfolio Page @medianovak
The lure of attracting new clients is the primary reason why many freelance designers, photographers, and writers set up portfolio websites. The key is to make sure your portfolio represents who you are and encourages visitors to give your services a shot. Here are 5 tips for getting the most out of your portfolio page:
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5 Time Saving Tools Every Small Business Owner Should Have @medianovak
As a small business owner, you probably wish you could find that magic formula that allows you to pack more than 24 hours into a day. The never-ending list of things that need your attention often means your work–life balance suffers, or you feel that you never get on top of things.
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Optimizing Images for the Web: From Camera to Browser @medianovak
Keeping image size to a minimum is an important part of keeping your sites visual weight low. By understanding a bit about image compression, and how to optimize images for web, it’s possible to significantly cut down on image size while improving image quality.
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5 Brand Building Secrets for Photographers – Website Design & Branding @medianovak
Branding is irrelevant in context to the quality of your images. No amount of money that you dump into amazing branding will make a difference if your images simply aren’t where they need to be for a particular client. Your images always come first. That being said, photography is an incredibly competitive industry, and there are many shooters out there with comparable levels of work. This is when brand building comes into play to help give you the advantage over another photographer. A buttoned up package and production shows a client that you value every part of your business.
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Inspirational Wedding Photography on 500px @medianovak
If you’d like to shoot weddings like the pros do, you need to take a few tips from them. They’ve learned the easiest way to do things and the most effective ways of getting stunning shots. Unless you want to learn from the school of hard knocks, take a few tips.
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Why Instagram is Terrible for Photographers, and Why You Should Use It @medianovak
Instagram, the brainchild of software engineers Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger, was launched in October 2010 to almost little notice. At the time, the iPhone app was competing against Hipstamatic, which enjoyed particular popularity even in the photojournalism community. In its first two months of existence, Instagram still managed to attract one million users. Fast-forward to February 2013, and Instagram now boasts more than 85 million users who have shared four billion images.
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10 Must-Know Tips to Prepare Images for the Web @medianovak
Following our guide to producing print-ready images, here we take a look at preparing imagery in Photoshop for accurate display and presentation on the web. Whether your work’s viewed on a monitor or mobile devices such as an iPad or iPhone, following these ten tips will ensure your work always looks its best.
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SEO Tips for Photographers | Search Engine Optimization @medianovak
This post is for all those photographers out there who create amazing works of art but need a little help in how to make a dint in 1,000,000,000+ posts that exist in search engines about photography.
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