Customer Blog

Whether you want to boost your business’ SEO rankings or just write about a subject you’re passionate about, a blog is a great way to get your ideas into the online marketplace. And, while every blog starts small, you want to prepare yours for eventual global recognition with a professional design that makes you stand …

As a decidedly artsy team spread across some of the coolest urban landscapes on earth (San Francisco, Melbourne, Berlin, Paris and London), photography is the hobby of choice for many 99designs staffers. Some of us have even thought about taking the leap into shooting pics for pay in our spare time. Which got us thinking: …

If you’re in the business of bottling wine, chances are you’ve already looked at more labels than most people will in lifetime. (Admit it – you’ve lurked in the grocery store wine aisle so long you’ve feared store security would start asking questions!) So it’s understandable if you have some pretty firm ideas of what …

If you’re one of the millions of Americans who filed a tax refund this year,  you’re no doubt pondering how to spend the absolutely massive refund due to land in your bank account. (Hey, we can all dream!) So we thought we’d offer some contest-inspired suggestions  for how best to part with all that extra cash. …

Guest contributor Dorit Magidor is the resident design geek at Website Planet. Developing a new website (or revamping your old one) means facing a series of important decisions. What should your website look like? What feeling should it convey? How will it stack up to the competition? It’s possible you have a business plan or …

A logo design has at most two components: there’s the text and there’s the symbol. While most designs keep the two separate, designers love to combine them when possible. Harnessing the biomorphic nature of letter forms or the negative space they create to craft something symbolic, a la FedEx or Tour de France, is a …

Our pals over at San Francisco startup Scripted, an online marketplace connecting freelance writers with small businesses, asked us to pen a guest post about branding for the company’s corporate blog. It was published there earlier this week, and we thought we’d share it with our own customers, too! Read on for some good insights into why branding is …

The T-shirt design category is beloved by 99designs’ staffers, designers and customers alike, and is one of the most popular categories on our site. After all, just about everyone has at least one t-shirt in their wardrobe…and can make room for one more. Whether you wear ‘em to support a favorite cause or to show …

Allison, 99designs’ Community Content Coordinator, works on a post for our Designer Blog using WordPress. (Read the first part of our “Getting your business online.” series) Once you have your awesome website design in hand – you can launch a website design contest here – your next step is to choose a Content Management System (CMS, for short). …

A great logo quivers on the page. Its component parts at once complement and contrast, creating a slight tension that makes the whole look as though it is about to leap right off the screen. The key to achieving this effect is good composition, and as with all things that appeal to our senses, this …