Made in American Create Jobs in the USA

Lets all start to think this way and the economy will turn around for everyone! If we just start to think about everything we do and everything we buy to make sure that at lease 10% or what makes it up is an American company we will start to grow again. It used to be a badge that we all wore and would stand behind. Lets get some of the pride in what we do back into the economy and stop thinking about just the bottom line.

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The use of color sets the tone for a design. Choosing the right set of colors to convey a feeling or a style can be the difference of good and just OK design. One of the toughest battles can be the right set of colors to express a feeling. Color selection in design is a challenge for young designers, even senior designers often fall into a pit of trying to pick the right colors and combinations for a project. This problem seems insignificant, but in actuality it is quite possibly the most important factor in a web design or print or media.

Color can be a touchy subject or a source of frustration because it can be hard to convey or choose. Sometimes designers use colors that evoke certain emotions. Other times they use colors simply because they like the way they look or the feeling they give. While any designer with an eye can tell you that color works best with other colors that balance and play off of each other to create depth and balance in a design. In my personal opinion, color always has meaning. This meaning can be an emotion or it can be a personal preference on the part of the designer but it has purpose and meaning behind the selection. I find that picking a color and the looking at shades that balance that color help me build combinations that work.

Last month, WebProNews brought you a story on an advertising campaign that Clix Marketing’s David Szetela was beta testing in Twitter. Since Twitter announced that it would be releasing a self-service ad platform this year, some people assumed his beta test was the new platform because it did have a few self-serve features.

Drive more traffic and new and innovative ways. QR is the new mobile way to attract users, find it on business cards and print as well as web. Use your iPhone and snap a photo of this using a QR app and see where it takes you.

Add a code like this to your banner marketing and or print ads so that people can start to use their mobile phones to track your websites.

Visit http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ and try it out, create your own. Watch for these on everything in the near future.

You will need to download a QR reader for your phone to activate and scan the code. Check this one out for your iPhone:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/qr-reader-for-iphone/id368494609?mt=8

I was just sent a link to read an article on The Huffington Post site about Google.

Google Tries To Bury Low-Quality Content With Major Search Algorithm Changes

Basically in a nutshell it tells us that Google has made a major change in their search algorithm. Search algorithms drive how Google and other search engines organize and deliver relevant search results to your requests. Google optimizes and changes its algorithms hundreds of times a year to increase performance and deliver a better search experience for its users. What this means to you is that the first page results should give better more relevant websites for the things that you are searching for.

We preach a lot to our clients to constantly review, add and modify content to their sites. This is more and more important today as you can see in this article. It may be good for some and not good for other sites that may be very relevant but do not update their content on a regular basis. My suggestion for good site owners is to spend a little time and money to optimize your site and keep the landing pages changing on a regular basis, as well as spend some time online in active high traffic sites and post about your products or services and point to your site as a resource. It is always good to provide good content that is timely.

Article written by thehuffingtonpost.com