Soak up some insight and beef up your design bones with Five Looks, One Layout. This tutorial really opened my eyes to how versatile a single layout can be with small tweaks and changes to simple design elements.  I wont go into tons of detail because you should read it for yourself.  Check out the plethora of examples that go with it – some great inspirations in there.

:) Enjoy!

*If you haven’t – check out psdtuts.com – it’s a fabulous source for learning Photoshop (for beginners & very advanced users).

Okay try to ignore the sweet graphic above that is linked to a very cool “French Twig” doggie food bowl made especially for your loyal friend and rug warmer. Also, try to ignore that you want to buy lots of sweet modern products and doggie clothing for your oh-so-perfect puppy. Lets try to focus for one minute on the fact that miaandmaggie.com is a great modern designed website and e-commerce experience with interactive features. The product photography is great, the product pages are simple, to the point, have a great zoom feature that make these products easy to buy. What more could we want as customers, but a smooth process for buying online. Read More -›

Pay attention to how you look when you rank.

People who talk about search-engine optimization are always talking about what to put in your title and on your pages. Use the right phrases in the right places, repeat them the right number of times, and you’ll rank higher.

But SEO is about more than just ranking high. It is also about what your search-engine listing looks like.

Rank High, But Rank Right
When you do an online search, you get a list of results. You can probably see about five of these results without scrolling. Read More -›