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It’s the start of a new week so it’s time for the weekly Mash Up. It’s been a few weeks since the last Mash Up. I had hoped to share a Mash Up, last week but between family coming into town the week before and being sick for the last six days, it was a little hard to do anything other than work and few other projects that I had to get finished. So sadly the articles had to be cut down until I had enough energy to write and create new content.
The Mash UP
This week’s mash up is a little shorter than I normally like to share and you will notice a bit of a layout change to the way the links are styled. I have more changes to the mash up plan and I will explain what those changes are and how I ended styling the links as I did in the near future.
Today’s mash up has topics in blogging, copyrighting, design, freelance, and marketing. All great articles, all of these articles were from my Google Reader feed and were probably tweeted out in the last two weeks. I tweet out a lot more tweets than just these, but these I thought were the most helpful and interesting. So if you want more great links about new media or want to talk about some of these topics, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.
Don’t forget, if you want to be part of the mash up, make sure to start commenting and leaving comments. I find a lot of great articles from those leaving comments and using the CommentLuv feature at the bottom of the comment section.
Blog Tips
One Very Simple Way to Come Up With More Blog … – Daily Blog Tips
www.dailyblogtips.com11/28/11
“Any great piece of content has to begin with a great idea. You can be an amazingly talented writer – but without a strong idea, your post isn’t going to.”
10 Ideas For Awesome Blog Posts – Daily Blog Tips
www.dailyblogtips.com12/2/11
“If you are getting out of ideas for blog posts here’s a list with some new ones to get your creative juices flowing again. Best of all, most of these ideas will certainly bring a good amount of traffic and backlinks if you execute them …”
Copyrighting
The Secret of The Successful Copywriter | Copyblogger
www.copyblogger.com11/30/11
“A copywriter was struggling deeply with his business. He needed answers, and he needed them fast”
How to Write Weapons-Grade Copy | Copyblogger
www.copyblogger.com11/28/11
“You might not think that DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) would be very concerned about writing copy. But in fact, DARPA is investing in one particular kind of wordsmithing: stories.”
Design
The use of illustration in web design | Webdesigner Depot
www.webdesignerdepot.com11/30/11
Illustration is an incredibly versatile tool that can find many different uses in design. And when it comes to web design we can find an extremely wide.
Techniques in responsive web design | Webdesigner Depot
www.webdesignerdepot.com11/24/11
“CSS3 media queries allow us to dynamically alter the design and layout of a web page in order to deliver an optimal user experience from a single set of HTML and CSS markup.
The techniques in this article explain how we can leverage this powerful capability of CSS to also change imagery, alter the navigation on hand-held devices, and set up default CSS for compatibility older browsers.”
How to Design Functional Sub-Navigation Menus – Speckyboy …
speckyboy.com11/30/11
“Not only covering the realm of JavaScript, but also user experience and key design tips in this modern era. The concept of a navigation system isn’t ‘new’ by any means. Yet in today’s Internet we’ve seen plenty of changes …”
Should Designers know how to code? – Speckyboy Design Magazine
speckyboy.com11/27/11
“Designers who know how to code well (or conversely, code poets who know what the hell Gaussian blur even is) are sometimes referred to as “unicorns” due to their rarity – and rightly so, given the complexity of the types of …”
Freelance
How to guarantee return clients | Webdesigner Depot
www.webdesignerdepot.com12/2/11
“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.” The above quote is from William Edwards Deming, the man who almost single handedly …”
6 Tips for Effectively Dealing with Client Demands – Six Revisions
sixrevisions.com11/21/11
“If you’re intimidated at the thought of going to a lawyer, don’t be. I promise you, it’s not nearly as scary (or expensive) as being faced with a mountain of revisions from a client who isn’t legally obligated to pay you for your extra …”
12 Tips for Freelance Web Designers that Will … – Naldz Graphics
naldzgraphics.net11/28/11
“It would really be satisfying if you could handle your time, express your creativity and still be your own boss. You might want to do some freelancing job as a web designer for it could give you these benefits. You.”
Marketing
7 Marketing Links You’d Be Crazy to Ignore | Copyblogger
www.copyblogger.com12/2/11
“The best (and shortest) business book ever written. Why visualizing your success could actually be hurting your chances for success. The #1 overlooked skill for every author, and how to get 7000 Twitter followers. “
How to Build an Engaged Audience with Content … – Copyblogger
www.copyblogger.com11/29/11
“What if you don’t have an audience for your blog? How do you build an engaged audience if you’re starting from scratch? That’s the question that I asked 30 different audience-building masters.”
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