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By Brady Nord | Published April 17th, 2011 in Business/Freelance, design
A New Era at MOJO-Themes
In case you have not been formerly introduced the MOJO-Themes, now is the time. MOJO-Themes is a buy and sell marketplace for premium themes and templates.
We spent the last year building a solid product that has proven to provide quality themes and templates on the most popular CMS platforms. We have some of the most talented people who sell WordPress themes, sell HTML templates, and sell Tumblr themes. Seeing that we have an amazing community, we felt we had the responsibility for setting the standard for marketplaces on the web. It was necessary to step up and continue evolving and improving upon was has already been built.
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By Brady Nord | Published November 29th, 2010 in Business/Freelance, Site News
MOJO-Themes is a growing buy and sell marketplace for a variety of blogging and design platforms such as WordPress. New themes and templates are added daily and users are able to find themes based on theme style, cost, number of sales, and upload date.
Over the past year MOJO Themes has proven to continue to grow and keep building upon their thriving community of premium design products. In celebration of their successful year in business, MOJO-Themes is announcing their first annual MOJO-Themes Cyber Bundle packed full of the marketplaces top selling items such as premium WordPress themes. This is a package that is sure to make anyone salivate.
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By Brady Nord | Published August 27th, 2010 in Inspiration
There are not many aspects in life that can bridge gaps between religion, race, and nationality. Although, one that has proven time and time again is sport. There is not a city across the world that you can visit without seeing a team jersey or logo somewhere! Because of this, many sports clubs and teams have a unique challenge of designing their web presence to appeal to an international arena more so then the rest of us. I have assembled what I would consider out of the box and quality athletic based websites.
Whether you love or hate the brand or team, I hope you would agree that these companies are standing out in comparison to what the rest of the field is doing.
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By Brady Nord | Published August 12th, 2010 in Inspiration
Creating a unique and inspirational office space is an essential tool to get your employees to put in the long hours. Much has been said of the great work spaces out there, and I don’t intend to beat that same drum. More importantly, I want to break down what makes these offices so special.
1. Make it your own
As you can see below from John Lasseter’s office in Pixar, he has definately made it his own. John Lasseter personally was the director of Toy Story 1 and 2, A Bugs Life, and Cars just to name a few of his accomplishments. Clearly you should not be afraid to make your space yours!
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By Brady Nord | Published August 6th, 2010 in Resources
Bundle Hunt announced a treasure that is sure to get any designers mouth salivating. For those who don’t know, Bundle Hunt is a premium resource pack aimed at empowering the creative community, offering more than $1,400 worth of apps, templates, icons, eBooks, hosting plans and premium memberships all for less than $50!
The bundle, which includes some of the most prestigious brands in the business, began on August 2nd and will continue through the 16th.
Here is a line up worth checking out!
Billings
Billings is a time billing program for professionals who want to simplify quoting, invoicing and time tracking. Includes customizable templates for those who want their invoices to make a good first impression.
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By Brady Nord | Published July 29th, 2010 in design, Resources
Finally, you’ve done it. You’ve successfully persuaded your visitor to close the deal. Now it’s time for the hard close.
We all know how important the layout of your sites homepage is, or the product details page but what about the pricing table? No one ever talks about that, when really it’s such a vital part of a websites sales funnel.
The real tricky part is the strategic thinking behind it. You need to make the entry version bare bones and not give away too much, yet you still need to show your clients the value of the product. It takes clever thinking and also a visually captivating pricing page. I’ve come up with a select few sites that have perfected the art of the pricing table. Use this as inspiration to create that perfect pricing page or update your current one to increase the conversion rate on your site.
They’ve got it nailed down…
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By Brady Nord | Published July 22nd, 2010 in design
I felt it necessary to congratulate and portray some of the successes of Facebook on this very big occasion.
As of today (July 21st) Facebook has succeeded in signing up 500 million accounts! This is obviously a huge number and it’s not only individuals. As many of you already know we are seeing more and more companies jumping on the bandwagon in an effort to extend their reach beyond the typical platforms.
The site wide uniformity of Facebook has been a flagship characteristic of the Facebook and it seems they have worked very hard to stay within their original business model. Despite this, they have created Facebook fan pages with many different apps that you can use as a way to customize your business presence. Up till now, we have mainly seen this space used for coupons and promotions.
This obviously isn’t a tutorial on how to design a company landing page, but rather I hope to inspire you as to what successfully companies are doing within this space.
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By Brady Nord | Published July 15th, 2010 in Inspiration, Resources
When it comes to online strategies you should never overlook the design of your sign up page. Some of the given examples are sites than many of you I’m sure are familiar with, although, I feel there are some growing gems among the group. Take a look around!
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By Brady Nord | Published July 1st, 2010 in Resources
With the announcement of the iPad many designers have been anxiously awaiting what applications may come from the tablet based platform. From those whom I talked to, it seemed that many people thought the iPad may respond to the touch of your finger similarly to how a drawing tablet for your desktop does. For me, I was slightly let down (thus far) by the lack of functionality available from the iPad. Lets just say I have been waiting for a CS5 for iPad’s. Despite this, I have still found a very useful round-up of quality applications that any designer would find useful.
Below I have laid out the designers iPad toolbox. Obviously, there are other great apps out there, I have found these to be solid and very useful even if you don’t design on your iPad.
iMockup for iPad ($9.99)
Mockups/Wireframes
From my experience most serious designers never leave home without their notebook. When that moment of inspiration hits, you need somewhere capture that! Throw away that old notebook and say hello to iMockups for iPad. iMockups has taken the process of “mockups” to the next level. A favorite feature is the ability to store multiple designs within individual projects.
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By Brady Nord | Published June 24th, 2010 in Resources
Wordpress 3.0 was released to the public June 17th with a mountain of changes to it’s previous version. I have compiled my personal favorites below. For those of you not fully aware of the recent changes to Wordpress, check out my favorites below:
1. Custom Menu Management:
This allows the creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
