Archive for February, 2012
Tutorial Roundup: How To Draw People
A lot of people think to draw you have to be blessed with a divinely orchestrated talent. It helps, but this is not true! Creating art, especially learning how to draw people, is a learned skill! You just have to have the correct instructors who will help you train your eye and develop art based skills. This is where I...continue reading
New Facebook Timeline for Brands: Rookie to Pro Guide
Facebook has recently introduced the new Facebook Pages. The new layout will use the Facebook timeline for brand pages. Most page owners currently have the option to Publish Now or wait until all Pages get the new design on March 30th, 2012. But let’s be honest, you probably wanna jump in and get advantage over the other guy. Pages are the essential...continue reading
A/B Testing Your E-Commerce Site in 6 Easy Steps
If you operate an e-commerce site you know the importance of sales and conversions in your bottom line. The design and usability of your site contribute substantially to these goals. A/B testing will provide valuable insights into user behavior, and should be used to enhance the effectiveness of your e-commerce site. Whether you’re new to e-commerce or not, the...continue reading
4 Fundamentals to Being Found Online
Capturing the attention of your customers is never easy, but the internet has leveled the playing field for smaller businesses when it comes to competing against the big guys. If you own or operate a website for your business there are fundamental tactics you can employ to help increase your visibility on the web. Let’s take a look. 1....continue reading
Why Technology Based Disruption Will Always Prevail
It’s hard to calibrate precisely, but, when you review the past startups, successes and failures among tech companies, the overriding pattern to me is that of standard deviation. Along with the number of absolute releases by a given team, it’s easy to predict success or failure. By releases, I mean publicly accessible, no holds bared, open to everybody kind...continue reading
45 Inspiring Quotations That Will Change The Way You Think #2
Life gets the best of us. Giving up seems like the easy way out and we keep telling ourselves that we will never become who we want to be. We often aim for success, standing on our tippy toes to reach for it. Most don’t realize that hard work is behind every single successful person. We lust at their accomplishments...continue reading
How to Collect Contemporary Art
What makes an art collector? For some, the term itself creates an image of a wealthy man or woman, quaffing expensive wine, staring at his or her treasures. The reality is so far from this, as art collectors aren’t bound by any of these preconceptions – and in some cases, income. Not all art collecting is about attaining the...continue reading
Distinctive Food Carvings by Ilian Iliev
As usual, we profile creativity across the globe in search of innovative designers, artists, and realist. Ilian Iliev is a food photographer from Manchester, United Kingdom. He began his career in photography as a news photographer covering the war in Kosovo before moving to London and beginning a career in commercial photography. After a stint assisting several advertising photographers, Ilian went on...continue reading
The Strangest Names of Google Algorithm Updates [INFOGRAPHIC]
Each year Google changes its algorithm more than 500 times, giving each update a unique name. People, cities or states, animals, drinks or such ones that sound extremely funny. For example, the first named update is the Boston update from 2003. Its purpose is to separate the quality sites from the low-quality sites. The last of the regular monthly...continue reading
10 Inspiring Pixelmator Tutorials from PXM Tuts
Art and design is about bringing your imagination into reality and finding the most frictionless way to accomplish this goal. I’ve always had the need to create things, to get my ideas on paper, canvas, something, typically using analog mediums to get the results I wanted. When I switched over to the digital realm I instantly fell in love...continue reading