6 Ways to keep up during the holidays - Photo by harrren

It’s that time of year again where people are getting ready for the holidays. As a business this time of year can be a wonderful time of year but it can also be a very stressful time too. Not only do you have your year end objectives to do, (get ready for the end of the year accounting, get ready for taxes, etc) but also you have to keep your business running.For many businesses it can be fairly easy to fall behind during the holidays, but with a little bit of preparation it is easy to keep things running smoothly through the holidays.

I have seen plenty of websites set up with a “Under Construction” or a “Coming Soon” page, but I haven’t seen many coming soon/under construction pages that I thought were “good”. What I mean by this is what good is a website if it can’t tell even a little bit about you or what your company does? Most of the coming soon pages that I have seen really have little to no information on them. They might have a cool countdown to launch, or a little bit of contact information on it but what good is any of this if your audience does not know what your site/company is about?

Launching a website can be a daunting task, whether you are making the site on your own or even if you have a professional building your site for you. There is a lot of stress making sure things go smoothly and also there are a lot of things to think about before you put your site out to your audience. If you have a good plan to make things go smoothly you can make things much easier on your self in the long run.
The following list is some of the things that not only do I have my customers go over before launch, but it is also something I like to check over myself too.

I have always been one of those types of people that want to keep on learning and trying to better myself, not only as a person, but as a designer also. So recently I have been thinking a lot about what I do to attempt to be a better designer and while thinking it over, I came up with the 5 things that I do on a semi regular basis to simply try to be better at what I do.

1. Read…A LOT!
Thankfully I like to read, and that has come in handy. I have found that reading is one of my favorite ways to learn more about things. When it comes to design there are plenty of resources out there to read to help keep up on the latest ideas. Some of my favorites are as follows: Layers Magazine, Computer Arts and .net magazine


Photo by: Daniel

With only a few hours left of the current year a lot of us have been looking back on what we have and what we are thankful for, thankfully for me December always seems to be the best time of the year to say thank you. It’s the time of the season that a lot of people buy gifts and enjoy each others company, it’s the end of the year and for a lot of businesses it’s one of their busiest times of the year, but for me it’s the time of the year that I catch up on my thank you.

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