Blog Your Portfolio Notes (September 18, 2006).
Sort InDesign menus alphabetically.
Subscribe to RSS news feeds in Safari.
Organize RSS feeds using Safari bookmark folders.
Visual Thesaurus.
Stumped for just that right phrase? Type in a term and watch as an interactive word map blossoms with meanings and branches to related words. Drag words around and play with them visually to engage a different part of your brain. Great for naming and branding projects.
Enough talk. Copywriter want link now: Visual Thesaurus.
Growing Your Business with Google.
Every graphic designer who earns part of their living designing websites should be required to read at least chapter 14 of Dave Taylor’s book Growing Your Business with Google.
Tip: Copywriters who want to learn to craft search engine-friendly copy should read this book too.
Craig’s note: That’s my own copy shown at right. I read it on vacation in early 2006 while we were planning our own CreativeIQ blog. I thought I knew a fair bit about web design. The dozens of post-it notes and highlighted sections are a testimony to how much I was missing about designing sites that work well with search engines.
