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96 Resources for Web Designers, Developers, Project Managers and Marketers

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96 Resources for Web Designers, Developers, Project Managers and Marketers


Clique exists for a simple reason: we want to do work we can be proud of, with people who inspire us. Our values are a reflection of that mission.

Our second value at Clique is: Be a student and a teacher.

There is no such thing as “self-taught.” Directly or indirectly, everyone learns from someone. Recognizing that reality, we resolve to be the best at getting better. Technology, after all, is the most rapidly evolving industry in the world. To stay on top of it, we are committed to learning and improving, and building it into what we do — not as an “add on,” but as part of our daily work. We recognize that any minute spent teaching one another will pay itself off tenfold.

Thus, we wanted to put together a resource hub, not only for internal use, but also to share with the world.

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Clique’s top resources for designers, devs, project managers, marketers, and digital professionals:

Resources for designers

Professional organizations for designers

Where designers share their work

Designers who do a great job sharing their work

How do these people do that?

  • Instagram posts
  • Go live on Instagram/Facebook or videos showing process – not just the finished product but how they do it (step by step)
  • Live critiques on youtube/FB where people can show their work and get design advice or resources
  • Agencies that get their names out at events / in organizations like AIGA
  • A strong social presence, posting regularly, and consistent series that focuses on the process (and isn’t overly designed)
  • Not being afraid to show unfinished products

Design inspiration resources

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Resources for developers

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Professional organizations for developers

Where developers share their work

What web developers do a great job sharing their work?

Web dev inspiration resources

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Resources for project managers

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Professional organizations for project managers

Project management (PM) at Clique is vastly different from a traditional project management role. Our PMs feel we’re more aligned with the people and conversation topics in UX groups and startup groups (multidisciplinary roles that cover operations as well as strategy).  They’re more of digital product strategists than traditional project managers.

If you’re our kind of PM, here’s a few resources that you’ll find helpful:

  • PM Meetups on Meetup.com – groups to be wary of The bad groups are → What enterprise resource management tools are you using? Most PM is herding cats
  • WeWork meetings – There is a Product School that they do along with free presentations by Product Managers
  • Car Building and Motorcycles – On of our PMs likes to see their process of what they’re doing in a waterfall-esque feel
  • Coffee meetups that talk about coding and also have a PM session
  • Chicago Meetups at tech companies

Who inspires our project management team with how they share their work?

Standup comedians – working in small clubs, honing their next big set; then roll out the big product in an album or special. Somewhat how we operate with learning individual components (learning about integrating with a CRM) and what does and doesn’t resonate in how you explain things to a client. Through those conversations, you should hone your way of gathering information and delivering information back to the client.

DJ Premiere collab with berkley symphony orchestra – ReGeneration.. Educating each other is super interesting to me

Issa Rae – Insecure show on HBO – shows that she’s a real person and not just somebody who is on TV

Vlog style videos

Facebook groups for comedians and improvisors

Tim Ferriss

Quincy Larson from FreeCodeCamp

Sara Mei

Project managers’ inspiration resources

As you’d expect, our project managers see inspiration and resources a bit differently that you might think.  Here’s a tip from one of our senior project managers:

“The thing that’s made the biggest connection has been making Product Hunt my homepage. It’s amazing how relevant looking at sites for products and startups is for what we do.” – Kyle Jacobson

Other resources for project managers:

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Resources for copywriters and content creators

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Professional organizations for content creators and copywriters

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Where content creators share their work

Content and copywriting inspiration resources

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Resources for marketers

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Professional organizations for marketers

Traffic Think Tank – A premium SEO community

Marketers’ inspiration resources

What I’ve found is that if you’re seeing anybody’s work anywhere, there’s probably a marketer or a smart content creator behind it.  That said, here are a few communities that have helped our marketing team grow and learn alongside some of the world’s best digital marketers:

The “Dream” Link Building Strategy – A smart SEO link building strategy that we implement at Clique to focus only on the most important SEO relationships.

5 Essential Podcast Tips – Article about how to grow your podcast to 200k+ downloads

GrowthLab – If you want long-form articles that actually teach you what the title promises to teach, this is perfect for you. Also, an incredible case study of what type of content performs well in 2018.

The Sunday Dispatches by Paul Jarvis

That Seems Important by Margo Aaron

Tradecraft – A highly-produced publication from Convertkit.  If you’re looking for the signal amongst the marketing noise, this is it.

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Make Money in Google

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Make Money in Google

Making money in Google can be easy for some people. However for me it was the hardest thing I've ever done. I was totally new to the online world. I first started out with YouTube. Yes that's right. You can make money through the YouTube's partner program. Basically they put an ad on the side of your video and every time someone clicks that ad you earn part of the commission. So Five months later I was making $ 500 a month with YouTube through a couple big hit videos. However I knew that money would drop fast because it's hard to keep having big hit videos. So again I searched around Google and discovered a couple opportunities. I started with the survey sites. Then I found Google AdSense. Right then I hit a Gold Mine. Google AdSense lets you put a ad anywhere on your site and like the YouTube Partner program, every time someone clicks that ad you get part of the money.

How do you get started?

Step 1: First you need to get accepted for Google AdSense.

Step 2: Build a website. With Blogger, WordPress.

Step 3: Start writing articles

Step 4: Once you've been accepted to Google AdSense put the HTML code on your website. It'll take you about five minutes to do.

Step 5: Drive traffic to your site and start earning tons of money.

The hardest part of course will be driving the traffic to your site. Many people will attempt at making money with AdSense; but most will fail. Will you be one of the few to succeed?

The Evolution of MVC Architecture and the Web

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The Evolution of MVC Architecture and the Web

As the web evolves, so too is our concept of MVC (model view controller) Architecture. As web applications has become increasingly complex and interactive, more and more logic is added to the browser side of the application. As a result, web applications are beginning to better simulate desktop applications. These types of applications are called RIAs (rich internet applications) and are going mainstream fast. Javascript is being pushed to its limits, and new RIA technologies like Flash 4 and Silverlight are slowly taking over the web. What's going on here?

How was MVC Architecture implemented in the past?

In the past, all three components of MVC Architecture, the model, view, and controller, resided on the web server (see the figure below).

Old MVC Architecture Implementation:

When a request was made to the web server, the controller decided what page the user should be directed too, what data to pull from the data server, how to build the model, and how to build the view. Once the view was created, HTML would then be generated and sent back to the client machine as a response. This was the fatal flaw of web applications in the past. Unlike desktop applications, if users needed to interact with the interface, the application would have to reload the entire page, because all of the components of the MVC architecture were stuck on the web server.

This is why AJAX was born in 1995. Ajax allowed users to somehow interact with a web application's interface much better than before, because individual requests could have been made to the web server, which would then turn in response with new data to update parts of the webpage without referring the whole page. AJAX still was not a perfect solution however, because every user interaction still had to make separate requests to the web server.

How is MVC Architecture implemented today?

Once the web world began to embrace AJAX, a new movement began to unfold called RIAs. With this model, the user could have a rich application experience without making requests to the web server with each action because the view component of the MVC architecture resides in the client (see the figure below)

New MVC Architecture Implementation:

This is a big deal because it means that we are rethinking how MVC architecture is implemented for web applications.

Here's an example. Let's say that you are using a web application that displays data. You enter some inputs, press "Enter", and the web application sends a request to the web server. The controller then gets the appropriate data from the data server, creates a model of that data, and sends it back to the client via JSON. The client receives the JSON and replicates the model as native objects. If the user wants to see this data as a pie chart, the native model can be used to generate a pie chart (which is a view) without making a request to the server. Likewise, if the user wants to see the data as a bar graph, the native model can be used to generate a bar graph, again without making a request to the server. All of this is done without referring the page, and only one request was made to the web server.

Click here to read more about MVC.

5 Best Android Apps for Graphic Designers

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5 Best Android Apps for Graphic Designers

For designers from all walks of life, mobile phones and even tablets are becoming useful and personal tools to excel in their field of creativity. Most of the phones whether it be low-budget or high-end flagships, they run on android as it is the most popular mobile platform in the world.

Basically, android apps make smartphones and tablets interesting tools to do anything a user feels like. There are tons of apps on Google Play Store to help you make graphical masterpieces but to find best ones is not a piece of cake! Do not worry as here is a list of top 5 android apps for professional graphic designers:

  1. Sketchbook Express
    Sketchbook Express can become your companion in those moments when you see something and want to draw It out. Originally created by Autodesk, Sketchbook Express is a free professional sketching and painting app which is specially built for creative soul fans who loves to draw down every imaginative idea! This app features various tools to help graphic designers ensure that their work is one step ahead than others. Overall, it is a great app which every designer should install.

  2. Paperless
    Another android app that is gradually leaving its mark on minds of every designer in the world and making its place in Google Play Store Best Apps for Designers is Paperless. Rather than creating masterworks, you can jot down your imaginative ideas and organize them in form of canvas, or e-books. There are 6 tools present for designers which help to sketch, color and writing notes. Without having to log in to your social accounts, you can easily share your creations.

  3. Infinite Design
    Do you want to meet a new kid on the block? Here is Infinite Design which is new on Google Play Store but doing really good and making its space in the industry. All the vector art lovers and designers, this app is specially designed for you as it lets you create immensely mind-boggling designs on smartphones or tablets. It comes packed with various tools like infinite layers, infinite canvas and much more which makes this app even special for graphic designers.

  4. ArtFlow
    If you're finding something different, then here is an android app for graphic designers that tops the popularity charts: Artflow! The user-friendly interface steals the heart away. Creative person of any age group can use ArtFlow. Some of the features that make it stand out are 6-steo undo, 70 brushes, up to 16 layers, etc. Moreover, its 'Palm rejection' feature makes it a favorite of designers.

  5. Adobe Illustrator Draw
    After reading the name, you would have figured out the make of this android app. That's right, Adobe Inc. As a professional graphic designer, if you want to make some exceptional vector artwork and illustrations, do not think twice before using Adobe Illustrator Draw. With 5 vector brushes, scalable strokes, intuitive interface, it becomes a go-to app for every designer.

A designer's life is unpredictable. You do not know what may strike you and when. If you are a freelance graphic designer or a professional one working in an agency, try using these apps for making strokes of genius.

Google AdSense

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Google AdSense

So what is Google AdSense really all about? The following report includes some fascinating information about AdSense – info you can use, not just the old stuff they used to tell you.

Recently, Google AdSense has become popular among Internet surfers especially for those who want to make money online at home.

The problem is how to get high traffics come to your website. It is useless when you're expecting money from AdSense while your page has no traffic at all.

How to get traffics to your web site? here is step by step instruction

1. Make your own website with fresh content not copy and paste from other sites

2. Submit your site to the major Search Engine such as Google, Yahoo, Altavista, All the web etc.

3. Try also to submit social bookmarking and social networking

4. Posting to other blogs, forums and millist. don not even try to spamming.

5. Creating back link come to your site as much as possible

6. Be patients.

AdSense is a program provided by Google by placing its ads named AdWord to your web page, and Google will pay you for every single click to the ads. for more information about terms and condition you will find when you sign up for AdSense publisher.

You may sign up and get your AdSense publisher ID from Google. simply go to Google home page login with your user name and password go in to your account and click Google AdSense.

Follow the instruction. If you have any inquiry use AdSense help center to find anything you need.

Old School Techniques for Modern Web Design

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Old School Techniques for Modern Web Design

Websites have become the latest way to sell yourself or your company; in fact, it's easily the most likely channel for customers, fans or whatever to find you and share your work with others. With websites now a main feature in the way things are done, the matter of web design comes up.

Web design used to be a highly specialized area, especially when the internet was still young and building a site was a much more complicated task. Nowdays, the actual process is much simpler, to the point where pretty much anyone can do it, at least from a technical aspect. However, there are other things that need to go into the creation of a successful website that often get forgotten about.

Aesthetics are incredibly important, especially when it comes to matters of business. No matter how good your services are or how much experience you have under your belt, it's all for nothing without a strong brand and consistent projected image to back it up. Even if you end up with a site that's well designed from a technical aspect, if there's nothing of worth on the site in terms of content and images then no body's going to visit it.

So what sort of approach should you take? Even though it's on the internet, it can be beneficial for businesses to view their website as Traditionally printed media, like a billboard, a pamphlet or a yellow pages entry. Use your site to advertise and attract new customers through modern marketing methods.

Take the 'Web' out of 'Web Design'

Do not sweat the small stuff and worry about every little decision that goes into building a website. Professional web designers understand that designing a good website really means following the rules of good design in general, with some technical considerations thrown in for good measure.

Treat your site like an advertisement for your company and the rest will follow naturally. Populate your site with valuable, useful content that up sells your services to the customer and give them a site that is easy to navigate and use. Do not obsess too much over how everything looks; what matters is that you're able to create a good balance between visuals, text and technological responsiveness.

Keep It Simple

Attractiveness and appeal do not always come from using bright colors and clashing shapes; you do not have to shout above the competition in order to be noticed. What matters is that the brand is consistent and confident, and more often than not the simple approach is often the most effective one. Though eyes may be drawn to noisy imagery, it tends to only serve as a mild distraction rather than compelling them to stay and look further into it.

A strong brand is what catches the eye and keeps it. Text should be presented in a way that is clear and easy to read, while images should be used appropriately rather than stuffing the page with them.

Whether you're based down south or are looking for something more specific, there are plenty of professional web design companies ready to help you showcase your services in style.

Submitting to the Search Engines and WebCrawlers

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Submitting to the Search Engines and WebCrawlers

When you want your brand new site to be indexed into major search engines, you usually go to their own free submit page and submit your website, correct? Seems like the right thing to do, right?

Well, many people fail to realize that not submitting your site is usually better than actually submitting it.

Let, me explain.

All the search engines, or the MAJOR ones, for our discussion here have what are called webcrawlers. Now, webcrawlers are little programs that go out onto the web and search or "crawl" around looking for websites that are not already indexed into their databases.

Google search engine is a well-known engine that does this, its webcrawler "GOOGLEBOT" crawls the web looking for "non-persistent" sites that are not in their index (database). To see evidence of this, look at your stats for your website and see if Googlebot has crawled your site lately, chances are it has.

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My personal experience indicates that Google actually prefers this method, crawling and indexing, rather than using their Free Submit page.

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Basically if you want to get your site indexed into Google and the Major search engines, simply post it and wait, … I realize this looks like a weird or bad idea, but take my word for it, … IT WORKS.

Another idea is that, if you already have a site that is already indexed in Google, simply put a small link to your new site toward the top of the page thats already indexed and when Google crawls your already indexed site it will automatically index your new site, since it has yet to be indexed. Easy huh?

A site map can do the same thing. In order to get all your webpages for your new site indexed simply link your sitemap of your new site as above, and when it crawls your existing site, it will index all the pages of your new site, via your sitemap.

Two points to always note: Link all your important pages into a sitemap, important pages first, and link to another already existing site, and let the major engines find your pages on their own, via webcrawling.

NOTE: The above works for FREE search engines that have crawlers, Google for example. See my previous article I wrote last week on PPC and PPI.

Tools For SEO You Must See

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Tools For SEO You Must See

Effective SEO requires a lot of effort and time so counting with great tools that can help you do most of the work will benefit you in saving time and money. Below you will find a small list of SEO tools you can use:

1 – xml-sitemaps.com. This is a free xml sitemap generator. You can create your sitemap and then submit it to Google Webmasters tool

2 – google.com/webmasters. Also a great free tool that let you submit your sitemap in case crawlers are having difficult accessing certain sites.
Also you can check site statistics, popular keywords and more. I personally like this tool a lot.

3 – alexaranking.com. Very easy to use and it displays multiple domains instead of one.

4 – webceo.com/cgi-bin/go/clickthru.cgi?id=Tgabox. This is a computer software you must download. It has a free version and a paid one. It is useful because it is an all in one tool. Lets you submit your site to hundreds of search engines and directories. You can also manage multiple sites and submit using a pre-made form you make so the job of submitting to directories where captcha is present is done by this software.

5 – scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html. This site provides free meta tags analysis. It detects all the meta tags on your website and based on that gives you a global visibility score. Just type the URLs you would like to analyze and that's it.

A couple of more things you have to consider:

1 – Get a good hosting service that preferably provides cpanel (Control panel)

2 – Analyze your traffic. You can to this with a simpler tool like Statcounter (statcounter.com) or you might prefer and advanced tool like Google Analytics.

Depends on your personal needs what to use but both are good and easy to use.

Hiring Professionals for Custom Web Design Services

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Hiring Professionals for Custom Web Design Services

Is your business website failing to grab the attention of Internet surfers? Are the web designs capable of meeting the customers’ expectations? Is your website lagging behind to give considerable business leads? All these serious issues need to be resolved before they start hampering your business. And, to run an online business successfully you may require professional web design services.

Neverheless, each business follows unique ideas and strategies. From small companies to medium enterprises to large organizations, industry owners keep interest to have custom website design services for their online firms. After all, a website represents the professional image of the company in the virtual world of Internet. Once introduced over the web world, a site comes across scores of its competitors in the search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo etc. And, in this competitive edge an effectively configured website can only find a remarkable virtual space.

With the large selection of web pages over the Internet, visitors are likely to switch on from one site to another. They usually tend to spend reasonable time on that site which appears to be visually appealing and interesting. The graphics, logos, flash, banners and many more elements within a site should carry the potential to catch the eye-balls of the visitors and compel them to click on to its several other internal pages. The more a website carries the ability to hold its visitors, the maximum profit it assures to its owner.

While looking for business web design services, you will find a good number of professionals offering assistance at the expense of minimum budget and time. Before associating with them, it is necessary to understand that your business stands apart from your competitors and contracting with its quality may ruin your industry in the long run. Beside, you might have specific thoughts to put down into your online identity. By hiring inexperienced web designers, you may fail to bring your creative thinking into your business websites.

In order to get flawless website design services, you can consider looking for those companies that have adept web designers and developers. You can look for some web-based companies who have gained remarkable name in the market. There are a few companies which undergo research and analysis on vendors to provide web-based services. You can contact them to get detailed information about the professional web design services available in and around your city.

A few reputed service providers offer quality web-based packages to their clients. Other than designing services, their package is inclusive of content development, search engine optimization, social media optimization, web application development, web hosting and many more. They have various kinds of custom web design services to fit into the varying needs of their clients. You can consider contacting them to experience smooth operation of your online business firms.

Besides bringing down your creative business ideas, a few adept professionals are known for giving counseling services. They have in-depth understanding of website designing with respect to the ongoing market trend. They take pleasure in making the clients comfortable with the various designing themes to make the best selection as per the specific business interest.

Understanding Simple Search Engine Optimization for Business Owners

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Understanding Simple Search Engine Optimization for Business Owners

Individuals beginning an internet business may wish to have a SEO company to help with their optimization or marketing of their website. The SEO services company will take their information and add marketing through internet marketing, or search engine marketing. To do this, a company will need information about the website and will need to make sure the site has a good domain name. Choosing a domain name is easy if the individual knows what they are offering on the website. A good domain name will incorporate the website into its name. This will help drive traffic to the website and help the domain to reach a higher level on the internet each time it is searched.

Search engine optimization can be important when an individual is trying to market their website and gain ranking. To do this one will need to drive traffic to their website through Google AdWords services and AdWords management. Individuals can use link building and links to drive traffic to their site as well as using articles that are linked to the original site. Adding keywords to an article will help individuals to type these words in to the search engine to locate the article or website through the keywords. These keywords can be something that individuals would think have when they saw the website.

Keywords, Google AdWords services, and SEO services are all things used to drive traffic to a website. The more traffic to the website, the more the individuals will see the site climb to the top of the Google search engine. This will help with search engine optimization. Internet marketing through using key phrases, words, and ad words will help an individual’s site to reach the top. Reaching the top means every time one or two words, that are the keywords, are typed in the search engine, the site will pop up. It may not begin on the top but it will ever make its way to the top if the individual uses a good SEO company to manage their marketing. Individuals that are inexperienced with developing and managing a site will appreciate the capabilities of the companies that do SEO.

The websites with the most traffic to them will stand the best chance of having the most success on the World Wide Web. Individuals that take the time to do a good job of sending traffic to their site will stand the best chances of having great amounts of traffic to their site. A good marketing campaign will help drive the traffic and will help the website owner to manage their site after the services are complete. They will monitor how the site is doing and make sure that the site is continuing to remain on top. If the site begins to slip, the managers will do more marketing and management so that the site will return to the top of the search engines lists. When a keyword is typed into the search engine, they will know that they were smart to hire a SEO agency handle their marketing and optimization.

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