Small Business Victoria Workshops / Seminars
Places are still available in the following low-cost workshops and seminars:
Business Planning Basics: Werribee (14 Apr), Echuca (14 Apr), Shepparton (28 Apr)
Business Planning: St Kilda (20, 27 Apr & 4, 11 May)
Cashflow Management: Narre Warren (21 Apr), Morwell (22 Apr)
Get Your Business Organised: Omeo (12 Apr)
Green Business, Lean Business: Nunawading (20 Apr)
How to Handle Your Bank: Moonee Ponds (15 Apr)
Managing Stock, Suppliers & Debtors: Warragul (20 Apr), Ballarat (21 Apr)
Marketing Basics: Pakenham (15 Apr), Skipton (27 Apr), Yarrawonga (28 Apr), Eltham (28 Apr)
Marketing for Growth: St Kilda (14 Apr), Wodonga (15 Apr), Warrnambool (21 Apr), Bright (22 Apr)
Starting Your Bus! iness: Brunswick (14 Apr), Lilydale (15 Apr), Doncaster (21 Apr)
For information about these and other events and to book, visit their Workshops and Events Calendar and search by the name of the seminar or workshop.
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Bio: Daniel is a co-founder of Design Quotes and specialises in internet business marketing. Daniel consults on search engine optimsation, internet marketing, web design and graphic design.
The Weekly Round Up is a series dedicated to highlighting the most interesting graphic design, web design and animation resources each week. Feel free to subscribe to the Design Resources Weekly Round Up RSS Feed.
Icon Finder is an impressive database of free icons with an intuitive search and browse interface. Icons are categorised by sets which helps to maintain a consistent theme when designing a website interface. There is a massive set of social media icons as well as many others. A very useful resource.
This is just brilliant. The sales process of winning new work is a delicate process. Many creative agencies are small boutique operations of a a few designers playing a bunch of different roles. This helps to make the sales role a little more turn-key, consistent and measurable.
“Proposable makes generating professional-level proposals a cinch,” says Gube, “and it has reporting features to analyze the performance of your proposals. It was created for salespeople, but as a designer, being a salesperson is a huge part of the gig, whether you’re freelancing or pitching a design idea to your managers.”
We all do it. When we start a fresh website interface design project, we start sketching out our ideas. Which is an important step which ultimately saves time. However there are elements of sketching an interface that are usually the same each time. These free templates help streamline the interface sketching process, saving even more time adding value to your project.
4. A Zoomable jQuery Image Gallery Called jPhotoGrid
View Demo | Download Zip
It's another jquery image gallery, but this one is a little different and kinda neat. It takes a list of images and turns it into a grid where individual images are zoomed to the fore with a click. Good for catalogue type websites or portoflio websites. You can see a demo of the gallery in action.
Marvelous! More and more websites are integrating web apps. One of the most common requirements of a web form is geographical location data. This nifty database provides us with every country, place and city plus additional statistical information about each location such as timezones, populations and capitals.
The data comes in tab-delimited + utf-8 formatted text files and can be downloaded as a whole or per country.
This provides a simple was to quickly check how a website will render in various web browsers and their versions.
In an excellent interview by BigThink.com, Jason Fried of 37Signals discusses the value of being self-funded vs being funded by venture capital, why ad supported software works for Google but not others, the culture of 'interruptions' in the workplace, advice on developing a product or service, and the irrational fear of security in cloud based products and services.
Sydney Design 2010
14th International Design Festival
31 July – 15 August
Sydney Design 2010 is seeking expressions of interest from organisations, groups, individuals and businesses engaged in design and the creative industries to be part of the 2010 festival program. Sydney Design invites submissions across a range of programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, forums or symposiums, industry events, installations, interventions, digital projects, children’s programs, markets and competitions.
To submit an event or project, complete the Expression of interest form and return to Nicole Bearman
by Friday 26 February 2010.
Links
http://www.sydneydesign.com.au/sd09/leading-story/be-part-of-the-sydney-design-festival-program/
The Weekly Round Up is a series dedicated to highlighting the most interesting graphic design, web design and animation resources each week. Feel free to subscribe to the Design Resources Weekly Round Up RSS Feed.
1. Sublime Video - An HTML 5 vide player
Sublime Video is a HTML5 Video Player. The beauty of HTML video players is that users can play videos without the need of plugins like Flash, which are sluggish and often cause a browser to crash. It has Full-window mode with nice zoom-in/out transitions. There are more advanced controls on a draggable pane. Sublime Video will be soon released for free (at least for non-commercial use).
Sublime Video Player Screen Capture
After a few minutes using the player in Safri 4.0.3 (according to the website it requires 4.0.4) the experience was not perfect. The demo video they have took about 30 seconds to start playing before freezing the web browser. Once the video was playing, after switching from full screen back to window mode, I lost the play controls. The video quality is great, but the functionality is still a little rough for older browser versions. Of course it is to be expected since it is one of the first HTML 5 players out there and very few people have the latest version of their browser.
Requirements: Safari 4.0.4+, Google Chrome 4.0+, IE with Chrome Frame
Demo: http://jilion.com/sublime/video
License: License Free
Requirements: Safari 4.0.4+, Google Chrome 4.0+, IE with Chrome Frame
Demo: http://jilion.com/sublime/video
License: License Free
2. SimpleDiagrams
SimpleDiagrams is an Adobe AIR desktop application for diagramming. It's a simple tool for creating basic illustrations that one might typically create on a whiteboard. There's a free version, which lets you use built in stencil libraries and export to PNG. The paid version gets rid of upgrade reminders, allows you to export to Basecamp, import libraries, and install on multiple machines.
SimpleDiagrams
Requirements: Adobe Air plugin
Demo: http://www.simplediagrams.com/home
License: License Free, Paid Upgrade
3. Ecommerce plugin for WordPress: GetShopped
GetShopped is a free WordPress plugin for adding e-commerce capabilities into WordPress. It is a very easy-to-setup plugin which can work with any standards compliant WordPress theme (and WordPress MU).
GetShopped WordPress Plugin
The plugin offers a flexible pricing structure for products with features like:
- flexible coupon/discount pricing rules
- product specific sales
- quantity discounts
- free shipping options
- multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts
- and supports multiple payment providers like Google Checkout, Paypal & Payment Express.
GetShopped makes it possible to complete the shopping process quickly with a one-page-checkout & optionally, guest checkouts is supported. It is easy to manage orders with the help of a powerful admin interface, print invoices, packing slips & more.
Requirements: WordPress
Website: http://getshopped.org/
Demo: http://getshopped.org/showcase/
4. 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time
Smashing Magazine have published a collection of videos covering the wonderful topic of "User Experience" titled 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time. Notable personalities include:
That's it for this week. If you try out any of the resources discussed here, we would love to hear about it in the comments.
