Fubra » Six Crayons http://www.fubra.com Focused on you Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:38:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The importance of blogging http://www.fubra.com/blog/2010/04/15/the-importance-of-blogging/ http://www.fubra.com/blog/2010/04/15/the-importance-of-blogging/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:01:13 +0000 Harry http://www.fubra.com/?p=1509 I wanted to write a quick blog post the importance of blogging as a company on the web. Fhoke – another local web company – recently wrote a blog directed at their clients on how important it is to make time to blog.

“Updating your site regularly gets you noticed, your competitors and clients may be watching, and when you update something it might get their attention and they’ll come look.”

They also listed a total of 19 tips on how to drive traffic to your blog, including these:

  • Publish as frequently as possible
  • Pay attention to the headlines (blog post titles)
  • Add a link in your email signature

I would like to add one of my own tips to this list that I think is most important when blogging:

  • It is all about the quality of your post, post only quality content and your blog will be recognized for this.

At Fubra we blog on over 100 sites about a wide variety of topics from petrol to web design.

Even the staff here have gone blog mad, providing some great reads. These include Steve Whiteley’s technical blog 36Flavours and Andrew Thompson’s blog Webtatic amongst others.

Recently at Fubra we have introduced a few new blogs into the scene. The First being SixCrayons, a Fubra web design site providing free tutorials and design advice. I am pretty lucky to able to write on blogs like SixCrayons as posts from here are directed at the design community.

By linking up your blog with Twitter and Facebook it will help attract the right type of audience for your blog and then updating it regularly will keep your audience happy and interested.

The most recent blog added to Fubra’s collection is the all new CatN blog. This blog is a mix of technical articles written by our hosting system administrators and includes user guides and responses to news from the PHP hosting and application community.

Any new advances in the technology CatN uses to host their PHP vCluster product will commonly be followed up with an article outlining the reasons for adoption of the new technology, as well as the benefits customers will enjoy.

Similarly, the process of upgrading or adopting a new feature will be documented and produced as a blog article, partially to offer help for any readers following a similar procedure, but also to keep CatN customers up to date with advances in the product.

When looking at the websites of other companies, I will always look for their blog to find out the company’s latest news and what they have been working on. A blog gives you a place to always be visually active to the outside world. You may have designed and built hundreds of websites or sold 50,000 of your latest product but if you don’t write/blog about it no one will ever know.

I’ll have to be honest however, a great deal of energy and effort goes into maintaining a blog at a good frequency, and it’s not easy. Like a financial plan, you’ll have to budget out time every day/week to do it, and soon it becomes a major part of your work/lifestyle.

Put the time and effort into writing a great blog to get yourself heard and you’ll reap the rewards, receive new prospects, open yourself to new networks and most importantly, get your word out there!

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It has been a busy week here at Fubra with investments, birthdays and lots of late nights making some cool Halloween posts for SixCrayons. Just like to say a big welcome to new Fubra investment Marble Construction who we have already been working with this week.

A few weeks ago myself and fellow designer Nick decided to create a couple of Halloween posts for SixCrayons. After a few late nights of pizza and lots of Cherry Coke we finally got them done. I created a rather fun Zombie Transformation Tutorial taking a few of the Fubra staff and turning them into Zombies.

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Read the full tutorial here »

Nick - being a huge movie geek - made a GhostBusters Isometric tutorial including all the GhostBusters, Ecto One and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Check out the full tutorial and be sure to ask him in the comments if there is anything you would like to know how to do. He has also included the Ai file of Ecto One for you to download and play with.

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Read the Full GhostBusters Tutorial here »

legocakeOne person who has been extra busy also outside of work is Annie, who has been making personalised cakes for the staff birthdays.

Annie bases her cakes around each member of staff’s personal interest, this week it was Steve’s birthday. He has a fascination with anything LEGO, hence this rather impressive LEGO minifig cake based on Steve himself!

Not only has Annie been making birthday cakes, we also had a selection of Halloween treats this morning ready for when we all arrived work! Great stuff – Thanks Annie!

Happy Halloween!

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Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
]]> http://www.fubra.com/blog/2009/10/30/happy-halloween-from-fubra/feed/ 2 Fubra announces SixCrayons http://www.fubra.com/blog/2009/09/14/fubra-announces-sixcrayons/ http://www.fubra.com/blog/2009/09/14/fubra-announces-sixcrayons/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:35:31 +0000 Harry http://www.fubra.com/?p=1144 Over the last few weeks I have been working on a new front end web design site called SixCrayons. SixCrayons consists of six individual blogs bringing together Design, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Illustration, and Apps/Widgets.

I wanted to create a site that designers around the world would find interesting and want to contribute to. So far we have had about six guest articles on the site, with many more currently in progress.

The design was inspired from the idea that all designers start out as children using crayons for their first illustrations and progress from there. I wanted the website to appear fun and recognisable, so with each crayon or category I chose to use a separate colour to differentiate every one.

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I arranged an interview with one of Australia’s top Illustrators Patrick Brown which went really well, check it out to see some some of his work. Guest Blogger Paul Seys interviewed Rob Farrow from chi.mp. While web developer Steve Whiteley wrote a great JavaScript article. If you are a web designer/developer and would like to write for SixCrayons please submit your details and we will contact you straight back.

I hope you enjoy the site and if you know any web designers or developers please get them to contact us at SixCrayons to get them involved.

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