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Writing skill is one of those things you’re born with or you’re not. Some people can make garbage day sound elegant; others compose love notes that read more like the list of [...]

With the entire world (or at least that is what Entertainment Tonight is reporting) enthralled with the birth of the new royal in Britain, I was remembering the birth of my own son and the [...]

Why have image files become so confusing these days? There are so many options: JPGs, TIFFs, GIFs, PNGs, etc. Most people feel that if they don’t have an extensive background in design it’s just [...]

When an advanced alien race discovers the ruins of our civilization and studies our culture, they’ll probably declare our time as the Age of the Memes. Memes are everywhere nowadays. They’ve [...]

With a name as upbeat as Twitter and an action as adorable as tweeting, what could possibly ever go wrong when partaking in this sweet social media delight? A lot. Not to scare anyone off, but [...]

Email signatures are the red-headed stepchild of email messaging. (Sorry, ginger friends.) We may spend hours poring over a subject line but send out cluttered signatures without a second [...]

Whether you’re a professional writer or just compose the occasional email, you need a good dictionary. One with a thesaurus. The dictionary is to make sure you’re spelling words right and words [...]

Are you on LinkedIn? Is your company? LinkedIn recently enhanced the functionality of its company pages, making LinkedIn a more powerful brand-building tool. If you haven’t been using LinkedIn to [...]

In the best designs, all elements work seamlessly together to create unity and coherence—the color palette, font, photography and overall layout function as pieces of one unit to deliver the [...]

An acquaintance recently asked me if I prefer working in Photoshop or Illustrator. This is a fair question I suppose, but it’s really about as fair as asking a carpenter if he prefers hammers or [...]