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Graphic design and other forms of media are becoming a large part of the modern church in both evangelical and conservative circles. It’s important to note that the message of the Gospel of Christ hasn’t changed, but people sure have. People today have shortened attention spans and are more media-driven than those in previous generations. [...]

Our team has thrown together some Christian Desktop Background images for all to enjoy!

Illustration?

by Jessica on May 24, 2011 · 0 comments

What is an illustrator you may be thinking well an illustrator is an artist that creates illustrations and illustrations are two to three dimensional images that represent a story or idea that needs to be marketed for public viewing. A hand rendered imagery with the ability to convey feeling and emotion. In the Design world, [...]

Creating a color palette for your design is fairly simple but if your not careful can completely ruin your design. Or choose the right color palette could take your design to a whole new level of amazing. We are going to discuss how to choose the colors, Blacks and Whites, light and dark, and the uses of [...]

How to Choose a Graphics (PART TWO)

by ben on February 25, 2011 · 4 comments

What is good Design? A good design will follow the basic rules of Design but also have a spark of creativity. There are a lot of well trained designers out there who have no creativity, but they know the programs, and the rules of design. I like to call these trained monkeys. Without creativity you [...]

Choosing a graphics designer is important to bringing your branding and product to the Marketing stage. What is Graphics Design? Graphics design is the art of conveying concepts through imagery. It is visual communication by a skillful combination of text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, books, etc. If you stop and look around, you will [...]

When designing a product, be it a book cover, CD label, DVD, ect. You have to take the subject matter into consideration when choosing what stock photos to work with. And slapping in a photo that is appealing but not relevant to the subject will confuse your customers. In this article I will explain the [...]

A good way to build authority and search engine rankings for your site is through article directories. They usually don’t generate a lot of traffic, but they do provide quality one-way links back to your site, and there’s always the possibility of the articles becoming popular and generating direct traffic. The two biggest directories are [...]

A Social Media Success Story!

by Will Fowler on March 27, 2010 · 0 comments

IFB Design contracted with Dr. James R. Beller to create a WordPress blog for him and to then increase his influence through social media. We created chainthebeast.org and linked it with rss feeds to twitter and facebook. And through a trade secret of IFBdesign we built in 3 days over 600 friends for Dr. Beller’s [...]

10 Great Link Building Strategies

by Will Fowler on February 8, 2010 · 73 comments

Invest In General Directories: Directory links are authority links, and can be foundational to a link building campaign. Submit to the following directories in order of importance: DMOZ, free; Yahoo Directory, $299 annually; Best of the Web, $99.95 annually; Business.com, $299 annually; GoGuides, $69.95; and JoeAnt, $39.99. Though many people have minimized the value of [...]