Prior to heading off to Portugal with the family, we’ve just published two new websites for our clients.

Hospitality Advisory Services (HAS)

Stephan Riegel of Hospitality Advisory Services provided us with a simple brief – take his existing website and make it fresh and clean.  The result can be found here – Hospitality Consulting

AWS Recruitment Edinburgh

Alan Surgeon of AWS Recruitment Edinburgh asked us to provide him with a redesign of his existing business card / static website.  You can view the new website at – AWS Recruitment

Social bookmarking is one of the marketing strategies that you shouldn’t miss. Aside from it being the best way to bookmark all the websites that you are interested in, you can also meet other people with the same interests and build a business network amongst those who share your interests.

Of course you’ll probably think that making use of social bookmarking may be abused due to spamming because people can just submit their own blogs, sites and lenses so they could obtain more interest from their audience. It is not bad to submit your own content as long as it is in moderation. However, it would be better if you can also find relevant content which is not yours but is useful for you and to others.

Now, you also have to keep in mind that if you are to participate in posting to social bookmarking sites, you should be able to maintain a friendly environment and relationship with other people. You probably would like to share as many bookmarks you can each day but you might end up being ignored not unless the content is really relevant to what they are looking for. To resolve this, you will have to submit a sufficient number of links and try bookmarking some links from your circle of friends or reference their site on your blogs.

It is not necessary to make use of your real name when registering to a social bookmarking site. However, it is essential that you still get some popularity out from this Internet marketing tool. Of course you want to be able to share these relevant links to people but the question is how you will be able to get their attention. By having your own identity as well as good reputation, you will surely be able to establish good online presence and more followers as you wish.

Aside from this, you should also establish your own personality to get more friends and acquaintances through social bookmarking. To do this you have to completely fill up your profile so people can get to know you more. You may also update your bio and put some interesting information that will make people want to check out your posts and links. You can actually include links to your site in your bio but make sure that those links work.

There are a lot of social bookmarking sites out there and some may not be relevant to the information that you would like to share or links to what you may want to offer. Make sure that you find those which compliment your interests. This is necessary to assure you that you can make the most of those social bookmarking links which you have submitted.

If you want to be successful online it is essential for you to have the ability to enhance your communication skills through written works. As you write content for either your own website or your blog you must make it a channel between you and your potential customers. Here are a few tips that you may look into to help you use your writing skills for creating excellent web content.

Tip # 1 – Reading

First, you should know what your topic is all about. To do this you will have to replenish your reading skills. Reading is definitely important in helping you gain more ideas about the things you want to share with others as well as allowing you to talk professionally about the niche that you are interested in.

Tip # 2 – Passion

Next, you have to be passionate about what you are writing about. It takes passion to allow you to deliver excellent written materials that your audience will love to read about. If you write passionately about your topic, your audience will feel your sincerity in what you are writing about and you’ll be able to keep their interest.

Tip # 3  Ask The Audience

Now, if you are out of ideas, you may opt to ask your visitors ideas that will help you collect enough topics for you to write on. You can do this by asking your web visitors on what topics are they interested to read about and have them put in suggestions so you can write about them. This will make it easier for you to update your content from time to time. The more new content you provide the more visitors you’ll have.

Tip # 4  Keep An Eye On Your Niche

Try to use tools that can provide you enough resources you need to keep you updated with what’s new today and what topics you can write about. More often you can try subscribing with RSS feeds or might as well search for related blogs to get more information and ideas when creating your own content.

Tip # 5  Social Sites

You can get more information from aggregation websites for your content. Visiting sites such as digg.com, popurl.com and other related sites will allow you to get relevant links which can help you create your content.

Tip # 6  Expand On Previous Ideas

Another option you may look into is using your own existing content to generate new ideas. If you have written about a certain topic which has several sub topics in it, you can use one of the sub topics to generate a new article by talking further about it.

Tip # 7  Interact With Other Bloggers

Don’t forget that you can also get a great deal of information from experts who talk about the same topic that you are writing about. You can get access and interact with such experts through visiting forum and leaving comments and questions on blogs.

Tip # 8 – Outsourcing

Now let’s say that you do not have enough time to write yourself, don’t rule out hiring a content writer as a possible option for you to look into. You can definitely find a writer or a team of writers which are good researchers and can provide you high quality content that you can make use of.

Here is a list with the best websites to download an infinite number of sources to make completely free.

Abstract Fonts
This is a site currently makes available 12,168 sources completely free, you can download without even taking the trouble of records to the web.
The sources are divided into categories such as: Italica, LCD, typewriter, calligraphy, etc.. You can also search by the name of its designer or alphabetically. If you’re registered you can add a source that would like to share with others.

Action Fonts
It is an extensive library of fonts organized alphabetically by name. Nor is it necessary to be registered for easy download.

Better Fonts
The best of this site is that in addition to its large bank of sources, we preview the fonts, and select which text we want to test them.

Broble
Here you can share and download free sources, original Windows and Mac

Crearmundo
Like Better Fonts is the perfect place to try out different fonts with the text we like before downloading.

Da Font
It’s a very neat website with a collection of 8675 fonts. The fonts are sorted alphabetically and by categories such as: Gothic, Elegant, Look abroad, etc..

EKNP
Makes available a vast amount of fonts and allows us to download the entire collection at once. Moreover, we recommend some typographical resources can be quite useful as Font Seek or What The Font?!

Fawnt
It is a resource for designers, developers and those who enjoy high-quality fonts. With a sleek design and ordered us to download more than 10,000 sources.

Font Finder
A site that has neither more nor less than an incredible 64,173 typefaces from the most varied types for us to download free.

Font Squirrel
Sources 100% free for designers, all licensed for commercial use.

Font Stock
This site, like EKNP offers download the entire collection of fonts at once. Very useful for those just starting out.

Font.in
Else clean, uncluttered and elegant. As a catalog, you can preview fonts approximately 12,000.

Fontco
We can download all sources with free license and commercial shared.

Fontica
It has a collection of 8,000 sources. You must be registered to access the download.

Neat Fonts
Only licensed sources free or demo version. A clean and well organized site.

Urban Fonts
The collection of fonts are sorted alphabetically and by categories. The best site is the top 100 with better fonts voted by users. You can also download all sources together at the same time.

I’m often asked the question by my clients – “Where can I find stock photos?”. There are a number of sites across the web offering stock photos. There are two main types of stock photo – Royality Free (unlicensed) and Rights Managed (licensed).

Below is a number of websites were you can find a number of categories of stock photos:

1. stock.xchng
2. Freerange Stock
3. Morguefile
4. Pixel Perfect Digital
5. Free Media Goo
6. openphoto.net
7. Flickr
8. Stockvault
9. NASA
10. deviantARTs Stock Images section
11. Everystockphoto
12. Creative Commons Search
13. Dreamstimes Free Section
14. Fotolias Free Section
15. iStockphotos Free Images