Organize RSS feeds using Safari bookmark folders.
Visual Thesaurus.
Stumped for just that right phrase? Type in a term and watch as an interactive word map blossoms with meanings and branches to related words. Drag words around and play with them visually to engage a different part of your brain. Great for naming and branding projects.
Enough talk. Copywriter want link now: Visual Thesaurus.
Growing Your Business with Google.
Every graphic designer who earns part of their living designing websites should be required to read at least chapter 14 of Dave Taylor’s book Growing Your Business with Google.
Tip: Copywriters who want to learn to craft search engine-friendly copy should read this book too.
Craig’s note: That’s my own copy shown at right. I read it on vacation in early 2006 while we were planning our own CreativeIQ blog. I thought I knew a fair bit about web design. The dozens of post-it notes and highlighted sections are a testimony to how much I was missing about designing sites that work well with search engines.
Growing Your Business with Google – The Video.
How to save Photoshop files larger than 2GB.
Who visits your website? Use Google Analytics.
Designing on an angle in Adobe Illustrator.
LetterFu folding template. No envelope needed.
Longtime readers of this tips newsletter may notice we collect clever folding templates. So when we stumbled on the Letterfu website, we knew it would eventually show up as a creative tip. (Past paper folding tips include pocketMod guides, or our collection of paper Mac templates.)
Basically you print a Letterfu design on a sheet of paper, write your letter on the back, fold it up, stamp it, and send it. The letter becomes its own envelope. It holds itself closed, secured by the stamp – so it doesn’t even need any glue. You use the entire sheet of paper, so there’s no cutting.
Get to know Photoshop’s Status Bar.
Read Seth Godin’s Free eBook about Blogs.
About a year ago Seth Godin published Who’s There? — a free ebook about the evolving art of marketing with blogs. (This was a follow-up to his previous ebook Knock Knock which discussed how to make websites do their job better.)
This 45-page PDF is a quick read:
Seth Godin’s Who’s There (PDF)
Seth’s book provides a good introduction into the world of using blogging as an effective marketing tool.
