Jay Nelson’s Design Tools Monthly site provides authors and entrepreneurs with an excellent illustration of the power of content tools like clarity, focus, and simplicity combined with design tools like choosing a limited color palette.
The home page teaches as much about high-impact website design as Jay’s monthly Design Tools Monthly newsletter and Design Tools Weekly [...]

Author, designer, and publisher Liane Sebasian’s website, Wisdom of Women, provides an refreshing alternative to the typical horizontal orientation of most websites.
Liane has horizontally divided her site roughly into thirds. She’s grouped text and links to the left and right of the central column containing graphics placed against a darker background.
I don’t remember seeing this [...]

David Airey’s Logo Design Love blog is for authors and entrepreneurs who want to design their own logo for blogs, business cards, e-books, or back-end products.
The Logo Design Love blog is also for you if you want to learn more about logo design so you can be a more helpful and informed client. The more [...]

Following up on my recent post about Minimalist blogs,  Mark Joyce, an educator, designer, and long time Published & Profitable member, recommended I visit Swiss-Miss.com, the blog of Tina Roth Eisenberg, who calls herself A Swiss Designer gone NYC.
Thanks to Mark, I spent a pleasant and educational afternoon visiting dozens of blogs and websites linked [...]

Friday’s upcoming event for authors
If you’re an author interested in maximum success, you’ll want to learn what to look for when choosing a graphic designer during next week’s free  teleclass, an Author Guide to Choosing the Right Designer.
You’ll gain a new perspective on this crucial topic, and a better understanding of what you should be [...]

Wednesday’s promoting tip for authors
As many authors have discovered, to their dismay, there’s more to hiring the right graphic designer than the designer’s ability to master color, type, and space. To create an online presence that will help them efficiently plan, write, promote, and profit from their book, authors should look beyond the obvious and [...]