Photoshop Suggestions to Follow for Web Designers
Today’s guest post is by Tatum Bree Hindman of TBH Creative who shares some tips for web designers on how to use photo shop as part of their design process. As a web designer it is important to prepare your Photoshop files properly. This is significant for basic knowledge transfer purposes—remember, you may not be the only person working on the project or design changes may be needed from another designer in the future. Labeling and making folders as you work saves time in the long run. When collaborating with other firms or developers, details are even more important....
read moreHoleman Landscape- Turning a New Leaf
For those of you who have been keeping up with the Roundpeg blog for a while, you may remember when Sharayah wrote about designing her first WordPress theme for the Holeman Landscape website. She took on the task of creating a more functional site by steering them away from Flash. She also helped them simplify and modernize their overall appearance by adding some sleek new features and images. They liked the new site as much as we did, which led them to call us when it was time to update some of their other marketing materials. With the home show season starting and farmer’s markets...
read moreThat’s A Wrap, Week Ending February 10
So here we are, the week after the big game. The weather held, the crowds behaved and Indianapolis shined. Back to business as usual? Here’s hoping that our city benefits in ways that can’t be seen or felt yet. Although the splashy events are fun and memorable, it’s the day-to-day consistency of who we are that lands the big deals. Are you putting in the time on a regular basis to make that happen in your world? Here’s a recap of our blogs from the last week: Saturday – Faces of Roundpeg: Allison Lorraine pays tribute to our word wizard. Sunday – Blog...
read moreThat’s A Wrap, Week Ending January 27
Another week where if we waited an hour here in Indianapolis, the weather changed. We’ve had ice, snow and on the rare side for January, thunderstorms. Our blogs this week seem to have followed the pattern of one of our favorite interview questions…so weather you favor words, pictures or numbers, we’ve covered it in at least one of our blogs during the past week. If you’ve missed one or several, here’s a quick recap: Saturday – Faces of Roundpeg: The Boy Band Lorraine’s ode to Taylor & Jay and the way things used to be. Sunday – Make...
read moreTaking Stock of Your Image
Here at Roundpeg, we have an interesting way of interviewing potential employees. Along with the usual “boring interview questions” we also ask a series of our own random “fun questions” which have no right or wrong answer. One of these questions requires the person to choose between words, pictures and numbers. We get very few people who choose numbers (Lorraine is still waiting to find a soul mate), some who choose words, but the vast majority choose pictures. People like to visualize things because often words can’t do justice to the product, idea, scenario etc. This is...
read moreThat’s A Wrap, Week Ending January 13
So, how is this Friday the 13th treating you? We’ve had another busy week at the ‘Peg. Our first seminar of 2012 was sold out and several of the other upcoming seminars are already sold out so don’t delay signing up if you’d like to participate. Of course no matter how busy we do carve out time to blog. Check out what made it into the Roundpeg blog-o-sphere this week: Saturday – Faces of Roundpeg: My Coach Matt After resisting the idea of a sales coach for years, Lorraine succumbed to Matt Nettleton’s charm Sunday – Know Thy Busines Allison explains...
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