Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 10 December 2015

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

• Will Publishers Pay The Price Of This Latest Tech War?

  There is a war going on between Google and Apple. It’s a war for adver­tis­ing dol­lars. The changes com­ing are cer­tain to hurt any small to mid-size pub­lish­ing company.

• Year-End Blues? 5 Steps To Crush Goals And Close Strong

  So, we’re lit­er­al­ly days away from the end of the year. It seems every­one left, right and cen­ter is talk­ing about the year-end and new, fresh beginnings.

  Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs

• How To Use An Exclamation Point Properly (& How Not To Use It)
  Do you use an excla­ma­tion point? Do you use five or more? Is there real­ly any lim­it to the num­ber of excla­ma­tion points you can and should use?Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
• 10 Most Popular Font Managers for Mac & Windows

  How big is your font col­lec­tion? If you’ve been busy down­load­ing all the free fonts you can find, or if you’ve invest­ed in some pre­mi­um type­faces chances are you’ve got hun­dreds (or thou­sands!) of font files that are bog­ging down your sys­tem. Font man­agers are impor­tant tools that allow you to acti­vate and deac­ti­vate your fonts on the fly, organ­ise your col­lec­tion into groups, and eas­i­ly test out mul­ti­ple type­faces at once to find the per­fect choice for your designs. I browsed through graph­ic design forums and mes­sage­boards to find out which font man­agers were rec­om­mend­ed by real pro­fes­sion­als. This roundup fea­tures the most pop­u­lar pro­grams for both Windows and Mac, includ­ing free and pre­mi­um apps for you to consider.

  Tags: Typography fonts design

• How a Product Funnel Makes Blogging Profitable

  a great prod­uct fun­nel pro­vides your read­ers with an oppor­tu­ni­ty to get to know you, like you and trust you. You make com­pelling offers to your read­ers that they can receive from free to fee:

  Tags: amblog­ging

• 3D Printed Classic Paintings

  Unseen Art project wants to turn famous 2D paint­ings into three-dimensional sculp­tures that can be touched and felt by blind people.

  Tags: Design Inspiration

• InDesign Tutorial: How to Design a Magazine Cover With Pantone Colours and Spot Varnishes
  Johann Chan takes you through his cre­ative process and shows how to design a mag­a­zine cov­er, add Pantone colours and spot UV varnishes.Tags: InDesign
• 3 Resources to Help You Become a Master Content Marketing Storyteller

  How would you answer the ques­tion, “If you were strand­ed on a desert­ed island — and could only have five books with you — which five would you choose?”

  Tags: CM ContentMarketing

• How to Create Highly Engaging Content for Your Audience
  Sure, there are lots of posts around the inter­net on how to cre­ate engag­ing con­tent – but we’re going to make it eas­i­er for you…

  Tags: CM ContentMarketing

• Beware Social Media Snake Oil
  Read on for sol­id advice on how to sep­a­rate the worth­while from the worth­less, and warn­ings about some com­mon social media scams.Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
• 7 Drag And Drop Plugins For Building WordPress Sites
  Building a WordPress site, the drag-and-drop method would help save a lot of time. In this post, we have put togeth­er 7 plu­g­ins that add this func­tion­al­i­ty into the WordPress edi­tor. If you know of more cool plu­g­ins let us know in the comments.

  Tags: WordPress

• WordPress 4.4: 10 Coolest New Features You Should Know
  In this post we will be look­ing at 10 new WordPress 4.4 fea­tures you should be check­ing out.Tags: WordPress
• How to Cold Pitch Work and Get the Creative Photography Jobs You Want

  As pho­tog­ra­phers, we often think of jobs or ideas that we’d love to do. Pitching for these is dif­fi­cult as the com­pa­ny involved might not be look­ing for what you offer. In this arti­cle I’ll talk you through the best ways to get that con­ver­sa­tion started.

  Tags: Photography

• Amazon Is Testing Original Content Written By Experts
  Will prod­uct roundups and ser­vice arti­cles res­onate with loy­al cus­tomers? Amazon sure hopes so.Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
• Following the Hunch: How to Make Freelancing Into a Durable Business
  “Ideas are easy; exe­cu­tion is hard.” You’ve prob­a­bly heard some vari­a­tion of this in the past, and it’s true—but it’s also not the whole sto­ry. Executing on ideas only mat­ters if it reflects what peo­ple actu­al­ly want.

  Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance

• 12 Most Profitable Places to Sell Your Photos Online
  If you have pho­tos that you want to sell, there are a num­ber of web­sites that can help you. Here are 12 of the best.Tags: Photography

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