Today`s giveaway on a one year subscription from the Vandelay Premier. you are well known with the Vandelay blog- one of the top blog in the design community. they have design respources and carrer resources. recently i brought the treasure bundlehunt which include their goodies, and must say it was awesome.
Vandelay Premier is a membership-based community managed by Vandelay Design. We provide web and graphic designers with premium-quality design resources that make their lives easier, plus we offer career resources to help designers and freelancers with all facets of career and business. Members also get other perks like access to the exclusive marketplace discounts on products and services relevant to web designers.
Our goal is to provide members with the resources and tools they need to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their work, and to enjoy it in the process. We’d love to have you as part of our community
Grand prize: one lucky winner will get a One-year subscription. !!
How to win :
1. RT this post and put your status!!
2. tell us which post you like in our blog except the ” giveaway “. and what we are lacking !!
close date : 28-09-2010
http://twitter.com/DesignerOnDuty/status/24926254487
First of all, you should improve the language and writing skills. Well, I guess it can be just a lack of attention. There are too many grammar mistakes in each post, and it looks very lame (no offense).
Start new sentences with a capital letter, pay attention to grammar and understand where you should use singular or plural form of the word (the Vandelay blog – one of the top blog[s] in the design community), just to name a few. My English is not perfect and I’m not trying to be a teacher either, but this is the top priority improvement, in my opinion.
As for the layout, I think it would be better to find a better placement for the social sharing buttons that are at the beginning of each post. Your first paragraph gets screwed and looks ugly, see what I mean?
Be consistent. Keep the same style while writing for your blog. I saw some cluttered paragraphs with too many words in caps or senseless punctuation like “|” & “>” and so on.
Speaking about the posts, I must say I have no favorite one. There are some useful and interesting ones, but not all of them. I like that you share freebies and write tutorials. That is a good thing. Keep doing the same, but try improving everything. Start with the layout of your posts, make it more pleasant to read. Then, work on the writing and don’t forget to proof-read the copy to check typos and grammar.
Good luck and long live to this blog.
This huge giveaway is really something outstanding and has brought tons of new visitors to you. So, now you just have to improve and keep growing!
Man! Its Again A Rocking Giveaway!
I Love all the post Under Photoshop Category.They are simple and easy to Grasp.I love them all.
Critic: 1.) Speaking Truly,I would recommend you to improve the Content/post layout.Which is not properly categorized.You gotta improve the Typography in post.I feel it would be better to change th font face in blog posts.Even you could notice in this post.Face Book share Floats Left,Twitter & Submit Floats right.Club them and give them a Position to life it together.
2.) Let the post elements Breathe between (Let them have a space in between)
3.)I could see Typo’s then and there.Try to avoid it.
4.)Share this Post which can be found below the post has Scroll bar.Check with it.
5.)And last,Have some Round up posts.
I have put it Straight.
Thanks for the giveaways.!Hope my Critics are Valid.
http://twitter.com/smkarthick/status/24927968161
When i wrote the Above comment.I could not find any comments until i click submit.After it i found a one Above mine.And found we both said the same.
Thats the lagging part of the blog.Layout has to be improved (Must).The layout is not professional.
Try to change Be our Friends Side bar Design.I know you have recently changed the Blog design.I would recommend you to come up with the New version of it.
If you have any plans to change the Logo.I recommend it.
Footer: is simple and looks great.
Sidebar: Kindly,pull down the Copyright element to the footer area.
Kindly work on the Community news Design.I again highly Recommend you to Come up with new version of this Theme.It will be much better to come up with new Design palette.
Giveaway Day19: Vandelay Premier Subscription http://t.co/5tA8D12 via @animhut
More tutorial more knowledge you’ll get more visitor and then they’ll become a fan of you.
this my tweet : http://twitter.com/designbyarms/status/25011891785
Hi, great giveaway please count me in. My tweet is: http://twitter.com/k1922h/status/25023997475
The post i like would have to be the ’25 Typography Effect Tutorial for Young Designers’
I also like to see more tutorials on illustrator and photoshop.
Thanks
I like the articles on the history of design and quick guides. I want to be a lot of these manuals on WordPress.
http://twitter.com/warstwydotcom/status/25028529183
Here is my tweet:
http://twitter.com/#!/Arilontong/status/25759298685
As for other posts I like besides the giveaway, I truly enjoy your quick tips. I believe these are helpful for anyone trying to gain useful knowledge from your blog.
At the beginning of the opening of your big Anniversary giveaway, you mentioned that there will be some more features added to this blog, and here are things that I think would be useful:
1. more graphic design tutorials with deeper coverage. This, I think will be wonderful supplement to quick tips that you already have.
2. more space where designers, mainly freelancers, can interact each other. I am thinking that maybe you can showcase their works in a bundle, some kind of magazine, that you can publish regularly.
3. a job board for freelancers, maybe?
There you go! Those are just my wild ideas. Hope to see positive improvement on your blog in the future. Cheers!