Posts by Arfa Mirza

If you set out on taking graphic designing up as your career, you will find that there are more things to get to know first than you think, like what does graphic designing actually mean and what kind of jobs you will have available. After all this, you will find that a graphic designer career is quite vague and you can only land into a meaningful career in this field if you develop a good sense of direction.

The designers of big firms do not have to worry about projects because they don’t find projects, projects find them. However, if you are a freelance designer, you should not just stick to design only. Learning marketing can prove to be really beneficial for you. Since a freelancer is considered to be a one man show, he should have little bit of knowledge about everything that he will be required to do and self marketing is the most important aspect of it. Having a nice self promotion strategy will get you loads and loads of good work. Following are a few good tips that will make you a marketing professional along with a designer.

In a blog, so many factors come together to form a unique material and the design is one of the major factor. Another major factor in this scenario is the content of the blog. Blog Design is a major one because it gives the first look, the first expression. And first impression is all you need to attract visitors. The attractive design will take the reader to notice the content and other elements of the page and your work there will be done.

Color scheme is an important part of a web designing. You might make the content and the features stellar but it will remain dull until the color scheme compliments your design. And choosing the right color scheme can be a tough job as it takes time only to have your mind set to some other color scheme.

If you aspire to do great things in your life and be successful, then you should always keep the phrase “good is the enemy of great” in mind. This advice is true not only for web design but for every other field of life if something needs to be successful but here we’ll talk in relation to web design. If you think on the lines that you just have to finish the task by the end of the day without consideration of quality or perfection in web design, you will never be able to measure your true potential.

If you strive about increasing creativity in your work and want the doors of inspiration to open paths for you, it comes not only from opening up your mind but there are also some other factors which contribute to all this. And one of the major factors is the environment in which you work. If the environment around you is structured carefully, it will have a good effect on your creativity. Even the hours of the day you work and the interior of you work place matters a lot.

Now that the world has become a global village, reaching any part of the world is just a click away. There are a lot of businesses which think that if they can reach the foreign audience, it will add to their business. And common sense implies the same thing that anything that speaks to an international audience is better than the national level, no matter how famous. And they can easily do so as most of the foreign sites have lesser content than English. In this case, if your website designing is available in English only, it may be missing on a lot of popularity of your website. Reaching the foreign audience can very well increase your ranking on Google. There are some techniques and ways you can adopt to make your website accessible to the people of all languages.

Being a newbie in any field would never be easy. You are nervous yet excited to carve a niche for yourself but as I said, it is not an easy thing to do. Finding your first few clients is the hardest thing to do. Web designing industry has grown so much in the past few years that competition is also at its peak. So, fresh graduates who are in search for new clients should not just sit idle and wait for opportunities to come their way. Always remember, in order to succeed in life, one should look and grab opportunities instead of waiting for them to find a way towards you which hardly happens. In this article we will be discussing a few keys to getting your first design client.

Business card is an important part of one’s professional identity. We make business cards as a remembrance, a reference and for building new contacts. When you meet a person that you want him to remember you, you just don’t take out a paper, ask for a pen and jot down your credentials and hand it to him. The word ‘professional’ would lose its meaning in such a way. Instead, what we do is, we take out our business card and hand it over the person which will be the best way to keep you in his books.