One month later…

Posted on November 11, 2008 at 8:25am

My new site design has been up for a month now, and it’s seen a huge improvement over its previous incarnation.

This has been partly due to a push by myself towards better self-promotion, but also hugely thanks to a number of great fellow designers, all of whom are quick and willing to help out at a moment’s notice.

This post goes out to them, and the various sites I’ve latched onto to shout about this site — thanks, guys!

Designers who have given advice, support, retweets, floats, etc:

Anca Foster
Twitter: anca_foster
born romanian, married american. known to design cool stuff once in a while. if you think im too random, i probably think you’re very boring. :)

Andrew Taylor
Twitter: Additive
Designer, drummer, type nerd and geek for life.

Robert Basic
Twitter: robertbasic
Web developer and PHP enthusiast

Calvin Lee
Twitter: mayhemstudios
Self-Proclaimed Media Ho, Designer, Blogger, Stunt Double for the Hulk and Nice Guy

Cerven Cotter
Twitter: pixeldeath
design, words, punkrock, SKUNX

Andy Sowards
Twitter: andysowards
I am a professional Web Developer, Programmer (primarily PHP, Javascript and Actionscript), Family man, and All around advocate of all things Technological.

Dor Dan
Twitter: dordan
Here is the part where I say I am a freelance web designer and that I’m jew?

Andrew Beeston
Twitter: niphal
Christian, husband, soccer player, singer, business owner, web designer, and aussie.

Ronald Bien
Twitter: naldzgraphics
Im a graphics Designer aiming to be a succesful blogger too:)

KorbyImagery
Twitter: KorbyImagery
Web Designer and Adobe Trainer

Mary Richardson
Twitter: zurichstudios
GraphicArtist/Designer

Martin Kulakowski
Twitter: notanotherone
Business Partner and Lead Creative at Lunchbox Collective

Navdeep Raj
Twitter: 3drockz
Business Partner and Lead Creative at Lunchbox Collective

A few places I’ve promoted myself:

Brainsites
Brainsites is a website directory and toplist for webdesign related websites with categories for CSS, Resources, Tutorials, SEO, Templates, Photoshop, Wordpress and much more.
(Twitter: sharebrain)

Design Float
A social media site dedicated to the design industry. Design Float aims to collect and organize design-related content from across the web while letting the community float the best articles to the top pages of their categories and sink the most irrelevant one’s to the bottom.

Directory for Designers
The Social Media Directory for Designers, the new launch from the Arbenting Design Blog duo. This directory is meant for designers from all across the globe to be able to share their various social media network information so that the community can keep up with each other.

Just Tweet It
A user directory for Twitter organized by genre to allow for users to easily find other Twitter users to connect with.

Design Forums
Offering a free, friendly community to discuss design. Join Design Forums today and start talking to designers across the UK.

Other shout-outs:

TweetDeck
AIR application for Twitter — if not for this, I don’t think I would’ve gotten into Twittering at all.
(Twitter: iaindodsworth)

Freshbooks
A great web-app for tracking time and billing clients. Friendly support as well!
(Twitter: freshbooks)

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Comments on One month later…

Thanks for the shout out! I’m in great company. :)

Posted by mayhemstudios (2 comments) on 11th November, 2008 at 8:29 am.

Hi Rob!

Happy one-month-birthday :)

Keep up the good work!

Cheers mate :)

Posted by Robert (2 comments) on 11th November, 2008 at 8:53 am.

Thanks for the list!

Posted by Tanya Nichols (1 comments) on 11th November, 2008 at 1:25 pm.

Hi !

I like your site design , especially the top left corner , Nice site keep on promoting also I jump from 1 million to 500,000 in google in 1 week just from regular good content and SEO practice!

Posted by Emily Veras (2 comments) on 11th November, 2008 at 8:09 pm.

Thanks for the mention! Keep up the good work Rob!

Posted by Andy Sowards (1 comments) on 11th November, 2008 at 10:50 pm.

Calvin, Robert, Andy: You’re all very welcome! You deserve the shout-outs, not just for helping me, but for the dozens (hundreds?) of others that get a boost from you guys.

Tanya: Thanks for looking, I hope you get some fun follows or useful sites out of it :-)

Emily: Cheers, much appreciated! I’m not sure what the 1 million / 500,000 are referring to, but it sounds impressive — congratulations! I agree, it seems to make a difference to traffic, and certainly makes it far easier to write, to just focus on adding content that you think has value, rather than writing for the search engines. I dropped you a comment on your latest post earlier — that’s some great picks in there!

Posted by Rob Barrett (45 comments) on 12th November, 2008 at 2:40 am.