A brand identity designer with clients around the world.


Creating an online graphic design portfolio

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Costly mistakes can lose you the client before you know it.

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Tips for buying domain names ebook

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Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips has published his first ebook, Killer Domains.

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An informal chat with Google

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David Airey: We’ve had our ups and downs, haven’t we, Google?
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Google: We have, David.
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David Airey: Do you remember that time I tried to trick my way to the top of your search results?

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Should links open in a new window?

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This is a web usability question that concerns you, the people who read my blog, and also those who author their own blogs / websites. It seems that some people actually get angry when a website takes control of their browser by opening a new tab, and of course that’s not what I want here.

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How to deter image and bandwidth theft

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Lately I’ve been finding more and more people lifting images directly from my blog and using them on their own websites (a practice known as hotlinking). Not only is this stealing, but each time someone visits the page that hotlinks my image(s), it drains the bandwidth I’m paying my web host for.

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