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Read useful guidance and insights around all things design. Written by Stan Diers, experienced freelance graphic designer in Hong Kong.
Project quotes, best practice for a good start
No doubt getting quotes from vendors is a necessary but painstaking process. Too often vendors either do not fully understand your needs, or their quotes are too different from each other. It…12/01/2022Website uptime monitoring: the easy way to know when your site is down
As much as you can care for your website or clients' sites, it's always going to go down at some point. There might be hundreds of reasons for downtimes, but the point…16/07/20217 quality plugins to build solid WordPress websites
Building solid WordPress websites take more than great creative design and visuals. It also requires creating a manageable platform for your clients to guarantee quality over time. It is worth noting that…08/04/2021Website maintenance is crucial, don’t wait till it breaks
Website maintenance is important. But let's face it, it's quite natural to focus on something else after you launched your new site. Now that everything is in place, you want to do…07/04/2021My 10 tips on browser cache and web development
I'm the kind of designer who likes to provide clients with an early access to a website in progress. I see more benefits to work in full transparency, for example there is…08/01/2021Speed up your website with these 7 easy tips
There are several easy ways to speed up your website, and you can do it yourself without your web designer or developer. Having a great looking website is fundamental to your success,…20/07/202020 essential wordpress plugins in 2020
One of the best appeal of Wordpress is the huge library of plugins. With over 50,000 to this date, it can be difficult to know which one to use. Here I list…03/04/2020What are the most common graphic designer tools?
What are the most common graphic designers tools? To answer that I'd like to use my experience as freelance designer to list the ones I have. This can be useful for anyone…02/04/2020How to design icons for websites and print
Icons are simple illustrations pretty much used everywhere. We are so used to seeing them that we might not even notice them anymore. They become a standard in visual communication, from mobile…20/11/20197 types of Graphic Design
Graphic Design is a broad term. It is mostly any design that deals with information visually. There are many ways to do that, so no wonder it can be confusing to know…03/09/2019
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