Do you tweet and use Facebook every day, all day? Is building social community so ingrained you just can’t stop? We seek a highly a motivated individual with experience and fanatical passion for blogging, micro-blogging and community participation leadership. If you are a student with a passion for social media, have top-notch writing and communication [...]
Global Site Plans is offering a six-month internship opportunity for contributing bloggers for topics related to architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, sustainable design, and sustainability. If you are a student with a passion and talent for writing about any of the aforementioned topics, then Global Site Plans wants you as a contributing [...]
On a rainy day in the district of Arnavutköy in Istanbul, Turkey, I met with Alexis Şanal of Şanal Architecture to discuss her architecture firms’ uses, successes, and failures in implementing and utilizing social media platforms. Through discovering their niche and their social media uses, you too can develop successful social media platforms, while charting [...]
… that Global Site Plans Will Never Make 1. Relies on trends Trends come, go, and ultimately turn into clichés. A well-designed logo should be timeless and this is achieved by ignoring the latest design tricks and gimmicks. When Global Site Plans sits down to design your logo, you will always receive a unique logo [...]
Now That you Decided to Create a Logo, What Should Your Company Consider in your Logo Design Process? There are two basic questions you should be able to answer before starting the logo design process. 1. What does your company represent? This question, “What does your company represent?” should address your company’s goals, values, current, [...]
On November 13, 2009, Mashable named Six Pixels of Separation one of the Five Must Read Social Media Books. I am always a little weary of “must reads” because I feel a sells pitch in there somewhere, but more than a year later I find myself giving Six Pixels of Separation two thumbs up and [...]
Sloppy and ineffective marketing is the cause of half of all businesses failures within their first few years, this includes forgoing logo design. If you are a sole proprietorship or small business that is waiting until a few clients come your way until you begin the process of designing a logo and/or marketing materials, here [...]
Global Site Plans can create a budget-conscious website utilizing template customization. The process includes choosing between numerous website template designs, choosing the one that is right for your company, and then customizing the template with your company text and images. This is especially cost-effective because it does not take time to create a custom-designed look [...]
Global Site Plans develops blog-integrated websites, utilizing the WordPress format. WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools available. Many people do not know that WordPress is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) that can be used to build a blog, a website, or both – a blog-integrated website (The Global Site Plans website [...]
Global Site Plans develops content rich and visually appealing html website designs. HTML website design is especially useful when designing text-rich websites, supported by images. Such website design is particularly useful for environmental non-profits, architects, engineers, landscape architects, and urban planners who desire a site that is search engine friendly (Google, Yahoo!, etc.), rich in [...]
Global Site Plans develops creative and innovative flash design websites. Flash design is particularly useful when displaying numerous images, as would be in the case of architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and urban planning sole proprietorships, companies, and graduate student portfolios. Flash utilizes vector based graphic presentation that can present images in a continuous movie-type format. [...]
While branding is a vital aspect to any architecture practice or firm, keeping abreast of changes within the industry are essential to developing distinction. Below is a list of architecture conferences to be held between January 2011 and November 2012. This list includes both architecture and related fields of study. If you are interested in [...]
While most urban planners and urban designers won’t be sought out by individuals, but rather business to business (B2B) because of the nature of their work, there are consultants who can benefit from advertising on the “good-ol’ Internet.” And, if you’re trying to discover ways to drive traffic to your urban planning or urban design [...]
When a potential client is searching for an engineer or engineering firm, they may find themselves sitting in front of the computer and Googling (Google.com) the following terms: “find a structural engineer,” “architectural engineer,” “civil engineering,” “civil engineer,” “civil engineer firm directory,” and/or “civil engineer firm.” And that’s the exact search I sat down to [...]
Discovering the most cost-effective way to promote your landscape architecture or landscape design business, through a marketing plan, should always include the Internet. And if you’re trying to discover ways to drive traffic to your landscape architecture or landscape design business and website that are free, you’ve come to the right place. I searched Google.com [...]
When you purchase a vehicle, you plan on maintaining it, correct? Well, just like a well maintained car, your website will need a maintenance plan in order to continually run successfully. Website maintenance will ensure that your website attracts, educates, and expands your client base, while generating revenue for your business. This means that even [...]
What if architecture becomes the topic of an exhibition? What would be the intersection and alienation points of architecture and art; where art intersects with architecture and deviates from being and art? What can be said on contemporary art over architecture? Are there any possibilities for Architecture to be the art?
Redesigning Your Site or Need to Drive Traffic? If you have a architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, urban planning consultancy firm, or an environmental non-profit and your considering redesigning your website or trying to drive internet traffic, the most effective option is a WordPress website. WordPress websites are the easiest for Google and other search engines [...]
