As many of you know, I left for vacation last month. In hindsight, I should’ve kept this information private.
On the day I left, a hacker logged into my webhost support site and asked for the details to transfer the www.davidairey.com domain.
No matter what industry you’re in, you need to pay attention to what your prospective customers are looking for. As many of you know, I specialise as a logo designer, but that’s not to say I should focus 100% of my efforts on marketing myself as such.
That might sound strange, but let me explain.
I’ve been running this blog for about 12 months now, but that’s not to say I didn’t have an online presence beforehand.
I thought you might like to join me on a journey through my past website designs, where I showcase what used to act as my online graphic design portfolio. Be warned, however, as it’s [...]
Are you self-employed? Freelancing? Consulting? Perhaps you’re looking for a designer and want to know how they set their rates?
How much to charge a client is one of the most talked about topics in self-employment, and here I offer points to consider for designers setting their graphic design pricing.
Yesterday, through a large increase in visitor numbers to my website, I discovered that my Google penalty has been lifted. In this article, I’m going to tell you why I was penalised by Google, what I did to have the penalty removed, and how you can avoid a similar penalty for your website / blog.
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 [...]
Google Analytics (the free website statistics package) can tell you a lot about your website, and one of those things is where your visitors are arriving from. This is where knowledge of your ‘referring sites’ proves useful.
Here’s a snapshot of my web stats, from 23rd July – 22nd August 2007.
Interpreting your web stats
It might not [...]
CollegeScholarships.org are offering the princely sum of $5,000 to the winner of their student web design contest.
Scholarship requirements:
You must be a US citizen (although as around 50% of my readers are in the US I thought this an appropriate post)
You need to be a current full-time student in post-secondary education
If you win, you must be [...]
Ever since I started publishing articles on this blog, I knew I had to launch my own WordPress theme, rather than using a modified version of someone elses. There will no doubt be some bugs and tweaks in the coming weeks, especially as this is my first ever custom WordPress theme design.
Brian Gardner’s Vertigo theme [...]
If you’re like me, you’ll be passionate about the subject you write about, caring less about any monetary gain and more about a genuine interest in the topic.
You’ll also want to cover the costs of your web hosting, and might place a few relevant ads across your site / blog (you can see how I [...]