Design and Branding
Free branding and visual identity resources
If you’re looking for branding and visual identity inspiration then you might find the following resources useful. 6 things to put in your design guide right now
Project Management
Discover, Define, Design, Develop, Test, Deploy and Review project life-cycle diagrams
If you’re looking for project management diagrams then you might find the following free resources useful. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7
Content
News and journalism notes
Definition of news “It is not news if a dog bites a man, but it is news if a man bites a dog” (John B. Bogart, city editor of New York Sun, 1882, quoted in Randall, 2011). “News is the unusual. It is something fresh, something people have not heard Read more…
Social Media
Social media acronym
A quick handy graphic and acronym if you’re looking to be more social media savvy. It does exactly what it says on the tin! Original author / source: Flickr and used under the Creative Commons license.
Digital Marketing and SEO
7 simple ways to build a buzz around your new website
Great article from Web Designer Depot entitled ‘7 simple ways to build a buzz around your new website’ that makes a lot of sense if you follow their simple steps. Tell a compelling story Every business has a story. How did you get started? What do you do? What’s your value? Read more…
Communication and Marketing
Useful websites
We all have a collection of favourite and useful websites we use for web design and development. Here are a few of mine – hope you find them useful. Design Colour Hex Colour-Hex gives information about colours including colour models (RGB,HSL, HSV and CMYK), Triadic colours, monochromatic colours and analogous Read more…
Design and Branding
Free website colour scheme resources
Colour is essential to a website design and getting your website colour schemes correct will really help make your website stand out. It’s not just website design – the following links could be used for almost anything where colour schemes are required. Adobe Kuler AI Colour Mudcube Colour Sphere Check Read more…
Digital Marketing and SEO
Search optimisation
Getting content displayed prominently within a Google search result is simple – it’s called search engine optimisation, or SEO for short. Google, and other search engines, are very complex in how they work and it’s impossible to fully understand the finite technical details of each one but, that said, they Read more…
Content
Free content style guides
In simple terms content is king and content style guides help ensure your website has the right content, in the right place, in the right format for the right audience. Get it right and you’ll keep your website visitors happy but get it wrong and you could be in a Read more…
Digital Marketing and SEO
SEMRush
To quote from their sales blurb, SEMRush analyses Google SERP, and provides detailed information about domains and keywords. You may use it to research your competitors strategies in search marketing. Visit the SEMRush website, enter the URL of a website you’d like to check and immerse yourself in the results.