I am so very excited to announce the first guide in the Guides for Designers series, “How to Prepare a Competitive Analysis That Virtually guarantees you get that new project.”.
I decided to do this guide first because I think it will be especially helpful for web designers who need to get more great projects AND get paid better. It contains the following:
You know how every once in awhile a new client approaches you with a project that you think, “Wow, that’s going to be so great!”. That was how it was when Larry approached us to design his new site, The Solopreneur Life.
Several people have asked when the first guide is coming out, so I thought I’d write a quick blog post to address that.
First of all, thank you to all of you who have been so supportive. Many people signed up on the notification list and there’s been a lot more interest than I planned. That’s awesome!!
I often think about how much faster we could have gotten our business to the point it is now if I had only known the things that I know now. I know a lot of other designers feel the same way when they start. Kind of lost about the business side of things. Most likely, a lot of the reason for that and the same reason it took us so long to get off the ground is that there is just not very much information around about it.
If you’ve been involved in making websites for several years, like I have, I’m sure you know about many of the best practices involved. In fact, it’s usually easy to pick out websites that were done by amateurs because of obvious violations of said best practices.
Alexis Neely approached us in December to redesign her personal blog site. She wanted to do something different and make a fresh start, so at the same time she also named it to “Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Truth”. Sounds both noble and brave at the same time, doesn’t it?
When a potential client approaches us, they often ask, “How you done any other——web sites?” This——may be Wordpress, ExpressionEngine, Magento, etc. etc.
In honor of our 7th anniversary in business, we would like to introduce Intuitive Designs, version 7.
The last two versions of the site design were very clean, white, and minimalistic. This time, we felt like doing something a little different. So, we went the opposite direction, dark and colorful.
