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Web design in Redding: Branding.fm

Branding.fm is an web design in Redding, CA that builds digital authorship and brand dispersion.  They have helped thousands of clients make names for themselves.

Canonical Link Structuring

For anyone running a website, search engine optimization and is always a smoking hot topic and there are a million things to do as a business owner or website operator that can all add value to your website in the eyes of search engines everywhere. Now, I don’t make the claim to be an SEO expert because quite frankly I’m not but there are concepts that come around every so often that knock the traditional limitations of great search engine optimization on their ear. Read More

5 Resume Tips for Branding

One thing that most of you web designers out there have is a resume.  But how successful is it at selling you, your design skills and getting you that next amazing design job?  Whether you started your career a year ago or you are a “seasoned” designer with a decade of experience you probably keep a resume that is current and up to date.  I’ve written about resumes in the past in these articles…

• How LinkedIn can help you on your professional web design path
• Should web designers protect their resumes?
• A few words on writing your web design resume from Ilona Filipenkova

But today I want to talk about and show examples of winning resumes, styles and resources to help you write a resume that can sell your unique skills and abilities as a professional designer.

1. Your Profile

This section of your resume tells employers who you are, what you’re all about, where you want to go and what you bring to the table when they choose to hire you.  In a way it’s like a brief biography of your professional background.  Here are some examples of profiles written for web designer resumes for you to have a look at… Read More

5 great opening sentences

Introduction sentences being used in web designer portfolios have become a way that most web design professionals showcase exactly who they are on their online portfolios.  When people look at a freelance designer’s portfolio for the first time they are trying to get a sense of who the designer is exactly and a introduction sentence can help them figure that out pretty quickly.  This is definitely a strong sales element that when implemented correctly not only provides an introduction but it also provides information about the designer or developer that they are looking at.

As you will see in the following examples some designers keep it brief telling their audience who they are and that’s all whereas other designers go into a little further explanation.  This is definitely a page element that if you are redesigning your online portfolio you should think about, test and see if it works for what you are trying to accomplish.  So, today let’s look at 10 examples of great introduction sentences that could benefit the development of your online…
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