David Airey, graphic designer

50 graphic design blogs

Published on November 12th, 2007 Read the 228 comments »

50 graphic design blogs, authored by some very talented graphic designers. Enjoy the inspiration.

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Scotland’s first Adage Power 150 blog

Published on October 22nd, 2007 Read the 29 comments »

My humble blog is Scotland’s top entry into the Adage Power 150.

The Power 150 is a ranking of the world’s top English-language media and marketing blogs. The positions in the list are calculated using Google’s Page Rank, subscriber data from Bloglines, Technorati back-link info and a subjective total from Todd Andrlik (who created the original Power 150).

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Graphic design prize draw winners

Published on October 1st, 2007 Read the 49 comments »

It’s finally arrived, the month of my one year blog birthday, and in celebration, I’ve given away some fantastic prizes, kindly donated by a host of excellent blog authors.

The winners listed were drawn by Jamie, of Edinburgh computer servicesTerinea, using a random number generator. Thanks for your help, Jamie.

Here are the lucky winners.

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Google search rank drop: advice needed

Published on September 25th, 2007 Read the 106 comments »

If you show advertising on your website / blog, or are thinking of doing so, this is something you need to know.

I’ve just removed what little advertising there was on my blog. The ads were shown below my category list, and included just four simple text link ads (two for print cartridge retailers and two for web template sites).

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$4,000 blog anniversary prize draw

Published on September 1st, 2007 Read the 131 comments »

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of my graphic design blog, I’m launching this bumper giveaway to thank you all. You’ve helped make this site what it is today and here are the fantastic prizes up for grabs.

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Combat DoFollow spammers using this WordPress Plugin

Published on August 30th, 2007 Read the 66 comments »

Whatever side of the NoFollow / DoFollow debate you’re on, I’m sure you’ll be against spammers and junk commenters. Here’s a useful plugin that can help reduce spam comments left purely for that ‘followed link’.

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Your readers are great writing inspiration

Published on August 29th, 2007 Read the 16 comments »

Whether you publish a blog post three times per day, once every day, or even once per week, finding inspiration can prove troublesome. I’ve been able to keep a decent level of consistency up on my blog, posting on average every three days. I owe a lot to you, my readers.

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5 things about design, blogs, and me

Published on August 27th, 2007 Read the 16 comments »

Brian Gardner recently asked me, and some design friends, five questions related to design and blogs. Here’s the short Q and A session.

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4,000th commenter deserves a mention

Published on August 25th, 2007 Read the 9 comments »

Ilker, of The Thinking Blog, recently left the 4,000th comment here on my site. I like to feature each person who leaves a milestone comment, to thank them for visiting, and for participating in the discussion. I also think it’s a good idea to celebrate your blog milestones, and this is a way of giving a little back to you at the same time.

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Celebrate your blog milestones

Published on August 21st, 2007 Read the 34 comments »

Today, with your help, I broke the 1,500 daily RSS readers barrier for the first time. Thank you! For those of you unsure what RSS is, here’s a short video: What is RSS?

I think it’s important to celebrate those little milestones that keep us going, and I’m sure that without your interaction and excellent comments I wouldn’t update my blog on such a regular basis.

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