Tweet I remember a time when my dad would take us on trips and have his arsenal of maps. At his disposal he had the entire United States in one atlas book to guide us from state to state. Those days are long gone. Electronic, satellite driven navigation is now your guide into unknown territory as it speaks each highway and turn to you. To promote their new line of GPS systems, Sony put together [...]

Tweet Have you seen a font that you wanted to use but did not know the name of it? Searching the hundreds of fonts on your computer trying to match one with a font that you have seen can be a frustrating  job. MyFont.com has a free service called “What the Font” that will analyze any graphic, identify the text and match the text to an available font. The process is simple. You will upload [...]

Tweet You know your business needs a strong, solid brand to compete in the marketplace. You know the basics of building a brand. You’re active on various social media platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, About.me, etc. How do you manage to develop a cohesive brand across all these different platforms? Hint: it’s more than using the same logo pic on your profiles! Here are some critical points to ensure your branded online presence [...]

Freelance Freedom #116 by N.C. Winters featured on freelanceswitch.com and on ncwinters.com

Tweet When LaKesha Womack, founder of Womack Consulting Group,  approached me with the her idea of hosting her own conference there was no denying her passion.  What really pulled me in was how eloquently she wrapped her passion in a tightly wound blanket of vision and purpose. I couldn’t get her ideas out of my head and the more I  thought about it the more I knew I had to be a part of it. [...]

Tweet Maintaining and managing a website can be a daunting experience for a company without the support team to handle it. Seeing a need to address that issue, Yellow Dogg Designs, in partnership with Hyper-Linx Website Enhancement Services, will be launching a support website to give as little or as much WordPress support as a business or individual needs. The new venture will be called The Press Planet. The Press Planet will provide services for customers who [...]

Buffy Griffin of EnVISIONED Works speaks with Owner and Founder Mark Bailey on “The Importance of Graphic Design” on Blog Talk Radio

Tweet As a small business becomes more conscience of the importance of a solid web presence they look for a long-term solution that will successfully provide this. One of the challenges small businesses have is the inability to hire a team of developers within their infrastructure to constantly maintain changing web content. In many cases, once they contract an outside web developer to construct their web site they are faced with the issue of how [...]