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Hello there, my beloved readers! Things are again going to change, so I thought I should create this community post and explain what’s happening behind the scenes. This time I will discuss with you two topics – 1. I am searching for guest writers and 2. I received amazing partnership from Iconshock Projects company! But take your time and read this article through to understand what I mean, I am sure you’ll like these ideas!
Site is slowly continuing to grow, if last month it got ~400k uniques, now there is ~450k, but yeah, again I feel it’s not enough.
I promised you before month, more tutorials and more frequent posts, but yes things don’t happen so fast as I would wish. This month was a little bit more silent because I’ve got to go to my design academy studies, learning how to drive auto..and yes, I started to go to Salsa lessons as well. Right, but what about blog? In terms of increasing traffic and article quality I am searching for guest writers. Good thing is, now I will also split my budget and start to pay guest writers, at first it won’t be a whole lot comparing to other sites, but at least it will be good beginning.
I must say – big thanks to people, who already wrote to e-mail wishing to contribute in order to get experience and promote their own site by getting some backlinks. To be honest I am planning to do the same on several very popular design blogs as WebDesignerDepot, SmashingMagazine and more. Why it is good thing to do? If your blog is new, without many subscribers and unique visitors, you need to get that attention! Popular design blogs have got huge traffic, thousands of subscribers already – there must be a way how to get part of their traffic and subscribers! And you guessed, guest writing is the best thing to do in early basis if you want to get noticed! And did I say, “in content” links are much more powerful from SEO point of view, than for example sidebar partner’s links?
Let’s drop down again, what do you get from contribution:
Well, I haven’t got very good English skills just yet, but I hope you got my point! :)
If you would like to be part of 1stwebdesigner, please write to dainis@1stwebdesigner.com and I am sure we will think of something!
I am really hoping on little relief, so I can stop producing never ending list posts, but start to work on quality web design photoshop tutorials to really bring value to this site!
By the way I am still working on *.pdf document with roundup of all the posts done in the last year, you will be able to download soon. And as soon as I can I will start e-mail newsletter, but I will tell more about it later.
As always I keep the best at the end. I received amazing partnership proposal from IconShock Projects company. IconShock Projects is specialized in professional stock icon for web and software application creation, I really love their website! So to the point – they are offering to give away FREE icon sets (specifically designed for 1stwebdesigner website and our audience) each month without any restriction to use in your own projects!
Almost every icon set will consist of 5 individually designed and unique icons and the best thing of all is that you will be the ones to choose what kind of icon set you want to see here created!! Sound pretty cool, right? To prove quality, check these examples Iconshock Projects company did for Smashing Magazine.
I welcome you to suggest your own ideas, what kind of icons you want to see here created, but to get started I created poll with 5 different icon set suggestions.
That’s it for now – please be active and cast your vote so you can get free icon set you want the most!
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Dainis Graveris is 23 years old blogger and designer, founder of 1stWebDesigner, now more silently managing everything behind the scenes. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links and chatting with people. If you have any questions or feedback that's the best place to start! Cheers!
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 07:54
For the partnership, I think that is gonna make the blog even more popular.
keep working man and learning salsa.
Monday, October 5th, 2009 18:32
Excellent news for you and your blog, I think your post have great quality and each one is even better than last, I also think you post really often, so you will continue growing.
For the partnership, I think that is gonna make the blog even more popular.
keep working man and learning salsa.
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 22:46
That’s great! Love your site:)
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 19:00
My site isn’t up yet. Still working on the design.
I will be doing a few icon sets for the grand “opening” of my blog.
If you have need of a Photoshop 2 Gimp writer, let me know.
I use GIMP and Inkscape because I can’t afford the Adobe versions, and I’ve grown to like the open source softwares.
Good luck and congratulations!
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 02:24
Nice blog you ran out here :)
Noticed it from @thelifedesign from his tweet.
Would love to be contributors, but my expertise is not in design but more in usability, web apps, and business.
Anyway, good luck and keep up the good work!
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 01:37
Hi Dainis
You are in inspiration. Always wishing you the best. Congrats on the deal from IconShock Projects
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 23:36
That’s great news! Congratulations Dainis and keep up the good work :)
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 23:51
Thanks man, nice to see some feedback here :) I am glad you enjoy what’s happening to our website!
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DaCoder
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 01:37
Hi Dainis
You are in inspiration. Always wishing you the best. Congrats on the deal from IconShock Projects
Opariuc Mihai
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 23:36
That’s great news! Congratulations Dainis and keep up the good work :)
Dainis Graveris
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 23:51
Thanks man, nice to see some feedback here :) I am glad you enjoy what’s happening to our website!
Fauzan
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 02:24
Nice blog you ran out here :)
Noticed it from @thelifedesign from his tweet.
Would love to be contributors, but my expertise is not in design but more in usability, web apps, and business.
Anyway, good luck and keep up the good work!
Rachel Wilson
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 19:00
My site isn’t up yet. Still working on the design.
I will be doing a few icon sets for the grand “opening” of my blog.
If you have need of a Photoshop 2 Gimp writer, let me know.
I use GIMP and Inkscape because I can’t afford the Adobe versions, and I’ve grown to like the open source softwares.
Good luck and congratulations!
ED hardy
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 07:54
For the partnership, I think that is gonna make the blog even more popular.
keep working man and learning salsa.
Luis Lopez
Monday, October 5th, 2009 18:32
Excellent news for you and your blog, I think your post have great quality and each one is even better than last, I also think you post really often, so you will continue growing.
For the partnership, I think that is gonna make the blog even more popular.
keep working man and learning salsa.
Ben
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 22:46
That’s great! Love your site:)