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45 Most Creative and Effective Business Card Designs

2Expert — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:31:41 +0000

Business cards are utilized to symbolize your professional personality. Usually a business card is published or printed with the name of the person and business associated with that person. More often than not business cards are engraved with Name, Job Title, Address, Telephone Number and the Logo of the organization.

These days, we have been flooded with loads of business cards. With such an extensive collection of business cards, it is always good to discover a business card that is noticeable from the rest and adds a little bit of charisma to your professional persona.

Today, we are showcasing an amazing and inspiring collection of business cards that have been designed by using creativity and imagination to flawlessly express the mission of the organization that they represent. Enjoy

Lush

Elevator

Bottle Opener

Beata Faron

Laptop Design

Chokolate

Sergio Delgado

Depux Business Card

Business Cards

Howl Fire

Ninja

Popupology business card

Bryce Bell

Alteroy Design

Paper Plane

Digital Fresh

Derek Royer

Nathan Kelley Biofuels

Kinos Aarau

Vlad soto

National Greyhound

Bariscelebi

Space 150

Ethan Martin

Promptt

Yuka Suzuki

Sarah Powers Media

NationBuilder Pop-Up

Lindsey Casabella

BlackNapkin

Lauren Pritchard

Jake Mates

Luice Design

The Base One Believe Ice Breaker

Davide Gasperini

Davymac

Orient Xpress · Noodle Bar

Obsessive Behavior

Denarella

Lucas

Goran Bajazetov

Daniel Ballou

Fray

Anthony Lazaro

B. Uhrig & Son

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Premium business cards form UVCards

Sriram — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:00:53 +0000

Business online is full of competition. During the recent years, there was tremendous change in the globalization of business. Now it is easy for businesses to sell their products to clients from any parts of the world. New businesses have come up with latest emerging trends.

Companies are using new strategies to promote their business online and offline. Everything that companies are starting today is a new way of marketing and promoting their business. Companies started encouraging employees to promote their brand. Many companies started concentrating on LogoDesign, Website Design and developing other important communication mechanism such as business cards.

Business cards have become one of the best ways to promote business and brand identity online and offline. Wide range of business card designs have come up that have helped businesses to develop their brand

Some of the top online printing services such as UVcards have been developing some of the latest trends in their business card development. Now they provide wide range of business cards and other business accessories that can help your business to increase business leads.

UVCards Leaders in Online Printing Services

UV Cards has years of experience providing high quality business printing services to customers (or businesses) all over the world. They provide wide range of business products that are helpful for promoting their business. Among the business products, their premium business cards have tremendous popularity.

They offer wide range of Business Cards which are mentioned below

Silk Business Cards: Made in USA, Silk business cards are quickly becoming more popular. UV Cards can produce your Silk Laminated Business cards within 2 to 4 business days.

Spot UV Printing

UV Cards offers Spot UV printing and a wide range of sized postcards

Foil Business Cards

Foil Stamped business cards are another top business cards model which they provide. Foil Stamped products can be ready for delivery within 5 to 7 business days

Plastic Business Cards

Sturdy plastic cards are available in a variety of styles and finishes, including the popular rounded corners.

Business Cards

Along with business cards, UV Cards also offers a wide variety of products such as postcards, brochures, door hangers, letterhead & envelopes that all too are great ways to promote a business brand.

Placing an order with uvcards:

Placing an order with UV Cards is a easy process. Simply log-on to UVCards.com, Choose your product and specifications, checkout and upload your design. Ordering from UVCards.com ensures the industries top notch products. What will keep you coming back is their customer service from the very beginning of your order straight through to when your product arrives on your doorstep is second to none

How to Design a Print-Ready Business Card in Photoshop

Madalin Tudose — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:30:57 +0000

In this tutorial, I`m going to show you how to design a business card which can be immediately printed. The tutorial is not too complicated, but you have to pay attention to the preparation of the canvas, in order to obtain a business card which can be printed.

What we`ll be doing today:

Business card dimensions are different from a geographical zone to another so before starting designing a business card, make sure to find out your country business card dimensions. I`m going to use the USA and Canada standard dimensions which are 88.9mm x 50.8mm (3.5×2 inches). This is the first step.

The second step is to allocate 3mm space on each side, space which is called the “Bleed”. Bleed is a printing term that refers to printing that goes beyond the edge of the sheet after trimming. The bleed is the part on the side of a document that gives the printer a small amount of space to account for movement of the paper, and design inconsistencies. Bleed ensures that no unprinted edges occur in the final trimmed document so allowing this space to the image is a must.

Digital designs which are not for print and only for internet purposes are built on a resolution of 72px/inch or 72dpi but designing for print requires a bigger resolution to obtain a high-quality image and not a blured one. The standard resolution for printing is 300dpi.

Now we can move to the next step, setting up a new document in Photoshop. So, open Photoshop and create a new document of 94.9×56.8mm (88.9 + 3+3 mm x 50.8 +3+3 mm – the 3mm on each side represents the bleed). Set the resolution to 300px/inch and the color mode to CMYK because we`re designing for inks and not for screens. Also, choose the background contents to be set to transparent.

Notice how big the canvas is. This is because of the 300dpi resolution we set.

Grab the Paint Bucket Tool(G) choose the #fbfbfb color and paint the canvas. Now we can start adding some details but firstly drag from the Rulers(Ctrl+R) 4 smart guides and place them where the bleed starts to help you design inside the business card.

I worked with Droid Sans, a beautiful humanist sans serif typeface which can be downloaded for free from Google Web Fonts but you can work with any font you want.

From now on, the things are going to be very simple because I want to let you use your imagination when building the business card. Split the image in two pieces and use the left one for company details and the right one for employer`s details. Let`s begin with the company:

I made a dummy logo(not stupid, I mean something like dummy text “lorem ipsum” see Lipsum.com) using a shape created with the Custom Shape Tool(U) on which I applied a smooth blue gradient overlay style:

Then, with the Horizontal Type Tool(T) I added the company name(#4880b0) and a motto(#4664a8).

Now add the employer`s details on the right side of the business card. You can add name,contact details like phone numbers, emails or websites. Play with the font and colors to make a nice design.

At the bottom, you can add the company`s details like headquarter`s address and a phone number, is your choice.

Believe it or not, we`ve just finished designing this business card. You can use it straight away, after customizing with your own details. More, you can create a front-side of the business card on which you can add the company`s logo.

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, learned something today and I look forward for your feedback, comments or questions!

ProWorkflow the best way to improve your projects management

2Expert — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:54:11 +0000

When you leave the common employer system, to start a new activity, as well as in freelance or starting your own business, you agree to manager new tasks which are normally not yours.
You have to manage a planning, delays, problems to fixe, your customers and their needs….the list is really long. Many companies do not use help of specialists to execute these tasks, doing them as well as they can, from this type of management, it results a work that is longer than it could be and also loosing contracts…..if you arrive at this point, then, it is better to think about software to manage these tasks.

Pro Work Flow is one of these good software, which help you to manage all activities attached to your activity : Projects management, tasks management, data exchange, budget controlling….which avoid you to waste your time and taking you business on the good way.

This application gives you the possibility to join the three main points needed for the success of your projects: the tasks and the time and the people working on it, and each of them will be able to access the planning (though the web) to follow up its statement and to get ahead regarding his own tasks. All want you need to manage your business is part of ProWorkFlow and its use is easy and intuitive.

We can now see ProWorkFlow in details. When arriving on the home page, it is possible to get an overview of your complete activity, by a quick look on it, it is really useful. From this home page, you can also access all other specific parts of this tool.

The projects

This page includes all projects in process or closed. Using this list of projects, you can reach one of them and check its statement, and for sure, you can add new tasks or workers, etc….This page is really important because it represents the heart of your activity.

The tasks

All tasks of all projects are shown on this page, easy for you to follow the work will have to do in the next days. Really useful for tasks getting behind or tasks you forgot or you let on the left.

Time management

Time is money, for this reason ProWorkFlow give you a complete tool to manage your time through a planning or to record the time you used to execute each task, or the work-time of each worker.

Reports

You can easy create reports which you can download under a XML or CSV format.
Create reports about your business, in general or by sector like the activity by worker, by project, by delay like a month or a week.

Under ProWorkFlow, you can find other pages, all useful and with good reasons to exists. All of them will avoid you to waste your time.

For sure, you and all of your employees, will need some time to be efficient on this tool, but I can ensure you, if you make the effort to do it, you will have no regrets then you will see the high benefits you will get back using this software.

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The Best Way To Find The Perpfect Host For Your Website

2Expert — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:22:05 +0000

Starting a new Web-project, we have to think about several future problems which can be possible, in this way, strong decisions have to be taken, meaning the selection of the perfect Domain name, the selection of method of payment, and the selection of the best webhosting.

Depending of its prices, efficiency and reactivity, the choice of the Website hosting will finally get a great position in the definition of increasing the success of you business.

Then it means it is better to do the good choice of the web site hosting as soon as starting your project.

But in fact, the selection of a webhosting for his website can become really complex when we need to subscribe to a full offer : not easy to make a selection between the whole of different types of web hosting, some of them are big companies, others have a domain speciality, others are resellers…and the market is overfull today……all this points will result of a nightmare for you.

In case you are in this situation, do not worry, go to webhostingrating.com which will deliver a precious help to you. Webhostingrating.com is a specialist of webhosting, providing a guide to find quickly and easy the best web site hosting for your website.

Starting by the home page, you will find a list of the best webhosting offers, each of them getting attached details like prices, space, traffic, and of course, a rating regarding the reliability of the solution.

Search engine

If you meet problem reaching search using this list, you have still the possibility to find your web site hosting through a search engine : with options of selection regarding the geographic area, the type of server, the price or the type of CMS (Wordpress, Joomla, phpBB etc.).

Compare the offers

You have interest for several offers ? Then , only few clicks on webhostingrating.com and it will display a dashboard resulting positive and negative points of your list of offers you selected. With this tool, you can easy compare each of them.

A help center and a guideline

Using listing of webhosting without limit, it is good, but can you really and easy understand the information and services defined in this list ? To make it clear, webhostingrating.com developed a guideline and tutorials to explain to you, the different needs you will have to reach for your future Web site and in fact to make the best choice of your web site hosting.

Opinion

Today it exists thousand of different offers for your webhosting, some of these offers are competitive, others are serious or defined on a specific domain. But the common point between all of them is that they will never inform you about they negative sides, like an overfull bandwidth, a recurrent technical problem, a slow or missing hotline…but it is often better to get this information before to do your choice, to avoid the famous sentence : “if I had know it before…” webhostingrating.com puts, positive as well as negative points on same level, then you will be able to do your choice with help of all details you have to know to do it, it is why I am happy I have presented it to you today.

10 essential advices to manage your projects when you’re webdesigner

2Expert — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:01:06 +0000

For a freelance web designer the best way to manage his activity is to be multi-tasks and autonomous. It’s easy to think that his day of work starts with the Photoshop opening and ends with closing.

But it has nothing to do with this point of view. In fact the web designer will have to execute several steps without links. That’s means he will time to time wear different responsibilities like salesman, accountant, recruiting officer, and sometimes storekeeper!

But for the freelance web designers the worst task is the project management. If you don’t care on it your projects will be a real disaster and it will be bring you disappointments and break down your mood.

In collaboration with my most original customers, we selected 10 important events regarding the management of your projects, with these 10 events , you will be able to evaluate your capacities. Some of them look like basic, simple or natural, but widely using them will help you to manage your projects like a high professional.

Choice of customers

Usually, your experiment brings you the feeling to make the difference between good and bad projects, reading for the first time a customer request, talking with him by phone, reading a mail. In case you do not get a good feeling, I recommend, you do not enter in project, instead working on it without any motivation. Selection of customers is not luxury; it avoids you to work with ulterior hard and difficult relationships with conflicts.

Tasks to define

When starting a project, it is important to get a fix. I recommend you to put on a paper the most important tasks which will give rhythm assignment from the first to the last step. This paper will help you to define your schedules, your needs as competences and technical levels, and especially to get finally for the first time, a complete digest overview of your project.

Contracte Definition

Sometimes we would like to bypass these wretched papers, out of age and not really interesting. The quotation, contract, invoice are even documents defining officially the tasks and commitment of each part. Then, take care about details and definition of them, because in case of conflicts, only information described and validated on these documents will make the difference. As a matter of course, validity of these documents is defined by the signature of both parts.

Managing your time

Use your tasks paper (Chapter 2) and the book of specifications to define a schedule. Do not forget to let improve it by all contributors of this project. Prefer to increase time tasks instead to reduce them. In fact, it will be easier to convince your customer to postpone for one more week the delivery date or deadline, instead you give him a date according to his wishes and later to apologize you are not able to respect the contractual delay.

Follow up Project

Do not rule out of the schedule and out of your tasks paper (Chapter 2). You are not allowed to take by yourself this type of liberty. Then do it only in case of urgent need like missing of one of the workgroup, coming across a high technical problem, etc…,all updates requested by your customer is not a necessity, up to you to let him know, it is impossible to apply.

Reactivity and availability

Make all your possible to be reached by your customer, working with a mobile able to receive emails or communicate your mobile number to your customer. When you get messages from your customers, let appears your reactivity as well as your availability, it is well appreciated. But take care to calm down, all customers trying to take news every 2 hours. In this situation, do not hesitate to schedule meetings on phone.

Self-assurance and firmness

The business acquaintances with your customers are often unique, and each of your customers is waiting on a particular involved of you. However, you have to be optimist in your speeches. It is also important you never forget your position of professional contributor; then you have to adjust your customer brain when you see that his requests is out of meaning with the rules of the project and it disturb you to go ahead.

Resolution of conflicts

It is important to consider the general atmosphere, checking the different contributors of the project. In case you get previews feelings of conflicts, be the fist one to try to defuse them. In opposite, this type of situation can bring you in a bad position: a bad atmosphere in the work, which result of fall of productivity or the worst, the destroy of a member of your workgroup, finishing leaving the project.

Politeness and good mood

Previously, you saw that it is important to be optimist during your exchanges, but I will complete it, saying that is it also important to have always a good mood, one of the reason of it, it is to keep a good atmosphere by your staff. During your meetings, it is important too to appear in a good form, to give a good self-assurance, your customers do not worry and to be relieved on your competences and on the accomplishment of the project.

Professional spirit

You have just seen the greatness to establish a trustworthy atmosphere with a good mood during the management of a project, it is your job, but you do not have to forget you are in a professional situation; then take care to validate all of the following points: Always take a fair speech with your contacts, be real, do not contradict yourself and never lie, in your correspondence (letters, mails), look after your spelling as well as after the politeness syntax, your clothing must be clean and perfect.

You understood, project manager in not always an easy quiet job. As freelance web designer you have this function to take. These 10 advices will help you to manage your projects, as well as avoiding all traps able to make you lose time.

You will have to read and understand each of these advices, and also to be able to change and update them to match at best to the different situations you will meet during your professional activity.

By Julien DEBOVE

6 Beautiful Business Email Templates on ThemeForest

2Expert — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:05:19 +0000

ThemeForest launch newest category email templates! If you happen to be in need of an email client friendly newsletter for your business, at ThemeForest you can buy and sell email templates in the range of $8 – $10 dollars, you can avoid the hassles of inline styles, email compatibility, and tables! Anyone is free to sign up for an account and begin trading or purchasing files. It can be a great source of new and beautiful email templates in affordable prices.

Here are a couple of outstanding inspirational Email Templates available at Themeforest.

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Airmail! – Customizable Email Template

Airmail is a professionally built and designed custom HTML email template, perfect for anyone – usable for everything from newsletters to eFlyers to whitepapers.

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CleanMail – Email Template Package – 5 Colors!

CleanMail is a simple yet sexy email template package with 5 different color schemes!

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Modern Business 4 HTML Email Template

Modern Business 4 is a professional HTML email newsletter template. If you need a vibrant, strong and clean looking solution for your email campaigns to promote your latest product or service, this is the solution for you. With 3 different colors and both single and double column designs, you have many options.

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Atlantica Mail Template

Atlantica Mail is a professionally built and designed custom HTML email template; perfect for anyone – usable for everything from newsletters to eFlyers to whitepapers.

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Cielo Newsletter

Cielo is a stylish custom created HTML email newsletter. It can be used for a wide range of purposes and will help both the freelancer and the businessman in their communication with clients, partners or friends.

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PhotoMail – 2 Styles, Endless Color Possibilities

PhotoMail is a simple and sexy email template for photographers and designers featuring 2 styles and endless color possibilities.

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No Need to Build A Custom Billing Application: Chargify Made Easy

2Expert — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:09:59 +0000

Chargify is a recurring billing system that handles every aspect of recurring billing for any Web 2.0 or SaaS company so there’s no need to build a custom billing application. In addition to processing one-time and recurring transactions, Chargify handles free trial periods, one-time fees, promotions, refunds, email receipts and even dunning (reminders for failed credit card payments). Powerful reporting tools provide information to help you make sound decisions about your company’s future. PCI compliant security measures ensure your customers’ billing information is always secure.

Recurring Billing System

Subscription Management

This is best for start-up small business owners like web freelancers, consultants, developers, IT services, hosting provider etc. that are looking for tools that will make it easier for you to bill invoices, track payments, and collect your accounts receivable.

Recurring Billing API

Branded Payment Website

In addition tons of great features include:

Recurring Billing API: Makes it easy for your business to integrate with Chargify seamlessly.
Subscription Management Tools: Set any billing interval you wish, offer free trial periods, introductory pricing, and charge one-time fees.
Dunning Management: Forget the complications of processing credit card payments.
Branded Payment Website: Collect payments without syncing your site with Chargify’s API.
Customer Management: We store a record for every subscription and transaction.
Easy-to-use Interface: You’ll actually enjoy managing billing.

With Chargify, you can get started for FREE, with no set-up or transaction fees, and no contracts to sign. Chargify is currently in private beta. The first 50 customers are free and range up to $1,500 for 15,000 customers or $2,500 for an unlimited number of customers. Chargify does not charge individual transaction fees. Their simple pricing model is designed to help your business grow.

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