Blake McCreary Design

Starting out a design career is challenging. You can be confused about many tasks beyond strengthening your design process and planning skills. After you have spent months or years collecting quality samples for your portfolio, what do you do? Many will put their prints in a large book, and lug it into an interview for a print job. That’s “fine and dandy” if that’s what you are into.

My WordPress installation won’t let me login to admin panel. I edited the my WordPress Address Url and/or Site Address Url settings under Setting->General. I changed it and now I can’t get back into to fix the problem. The website loads a blank white page now.

Standing Out In The Age Of Blogging Just about anyone can start a blog in this new golden age of technology and information overload. How are you going stand out among the 1000′s of design bloggers? After studying several top graphic design bloggers, I’ve come up with 5 vital habits to pick up in order [...]

No matter what type type of designer you are there will come a time in your career where its important to showcase experience. My content management of choice is WordPress because of the simplicity of WordPress’ admin panel. As many of you have probably figured out there are tons of premium WordPress themes for sale [...]

New to the freelance design game? I’ve put together a brief list of tips that I wish someone had told me out of the gate. Good luck, and comments are appreciated!

Trying to design non-profit organization websites? Non profit web design doesn’t have to be difficult. Learn basic web design principles from my design experience in the simple web design article. Non-Profit Web Design Non-profit websites typically get a bad wrap when talking about great web design. Many non-profit organizations out there are getting web design [...]

So, you’ve finally decided to launch your very own design blog? If you aren’t experienced in social bookmarking and actively following design news you may find yourself struggling. The most important thing I’ve learned is to post design related material which is informative and interesting to the people visiting your blog. If you cannot generate [...]