Creative review from August 2007

Published on September 3rd, 2007

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At the start of each month, I like to review the most popular posts from the previous 30 or so days. Here you have it, my creative review from August 2007:

  • How ethical are your design practices?
    Do you work with a client whose product or values you don’t agree with? If, for example, you’re anti-smoking, would you take on Marlboro as a design client? Some excellent reader thoughts submitted in this post’s comments.
  • Top 5 essential WordPress Plugins
    Here I list what I believe are the top 5 essential WordPress Plugins currently available. The comments show a great number of alternatives and additions.
  • Advertising to children: right or wrong?
    Should companies like McDonald’s be held accountable for their advertising actions? Does the responsibility lie 100% in the hands of the parent? There’s a great debate following on from this one.
  • The 5 hats of graphic designers
    If a novice can work their way around a photo manipulation or page layout program, why do designers still charge large figures for their services? Today’s designer must wear many hats, and I discuss 5 of them here.
  • Are these good or bad business cards?
    Are there different functions to a business card? Is a business card used for more than just conveying information? These design examples show you the answer.
  • Google Analytics: referring sites
    Google Analytics can tell you a lot about your website, and one of those things is where your visitors are arriving from. Here I go into some detail about one section of the stats package.
  • Combat DoFollow spammers uing this WordPres Plugin
    I removed ‘rel=nofollow’ from my comments quite a while ago, but only now have I realised that I was using the wrong Plugin for the job. Find out what I recommend on this post.

Thank you so much to everyone who contibuted to the discussion on these articles. You really give me something to think about, and you make the time I spend writing, worthwhile.

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4 spot-on reader comments to “Creative review from August 2007”

  1. Midas, on September 4th, 2007 said:

    I just found this site from Renny’s site. It’s very interesting…I should be sleeping, but those links and articles you have are very informative.

  2. Louiss, on September 4th, 2007 said:

    I’m new here. Thank you listed out these review here. I have to read through 1 by 1. some great idea I have found out the McDonald advertising image :D

  3. David Airey :: Graphic Designer, on September 5th, 2007 said:
    Hi Midas,

    Thanks for stopping in. I appreciate Renny spreading the word and sorry to keep you up!

    Louiss,

    Again, thank you. I hope that there’s enough here to bring you back at some point in the future.

    Bye for now.

  4. Jason P., on September 6th, 2007 said:

    I’ll have to add you to the ever growing blogroll. Really well run site.

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