I’m going to show you why and how to use Twitter and how it can help you grow your design business.

Get there first:

Even if you see no benefit in Twitter at all go and sign up your name. Twitter names are going fast and nothing will be worse then finding out the name you want is taken. Don’t plan to use twitter? Who cares. Go there, sign up, and get your name reserved just in case.

Creates “instant allies”:

The biggest and most over looked benefit of twitter is the fact that it creates instant allies. Twitter is faster then basically any other form of contact. If you add a new blog post, come out with a new product or service, or maybe you want people to Digg an article Twitter allows you to connect with users instantly and those twitter users can then spread your message and so on and so on. Do not under estimate the power of these instant allies.

Getting connected:

Not very good at sales or finding new clients for graphic design? Use the Twitter search tool and see who recently tweeted about having issues with the problems you solve. If you are a Word press designer do a search for people having problems with there word press website. You will be amazed at how many people tweet about these issues. This will allow you away to connect with them and in the future they could turn into a potential client.

Keep current:

Twitter allows you to keep tabs on your local scene and also what is going on in the designer world. Generally, before any news even hits the wire it can be found on Twitter.

Still don’t believe Twitter can benefit your business? At this point what do you really have to lose. Go out and get a Twitter account.

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Add Twitterlink to Comments

This plugin will automatically add a link for any of your commentators to their twitter account, for any comments they leave on your posts.

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Commentluv

Commenluv is great for giving back to those people who take their time out to comment on your posts, it links back through the web address they leave in your comments. This relays their latest blog post and shows a link below their comment on your articles, this is rewarding the readers and encourages more comments

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Contact Form 7

This is a very simple but flexible comment form system, allows your readers to get in touch through a quick and simple form.

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Disqus

Replacing your inbuilt comment system which is often the default for most WordPress templates, Disqus is a much more interactive commenting system. It allows you to use the comments to work with users personal Facebook and Twitter accounts also.

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Fv Community News

If you want to have a more interactive group of readers on your site be sure to have a fully function communty news feed, this allows users to submit there articles for you to show either in a community news page, or withing a sidebar widget. Helps users promote their articles and feel involved in your community.

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Microkids related posts

Display a set of manually selected related items with your posts, this attracts users to other posts within your site. Offering users more ways to stick around on your site looking at more of your content.

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SexyBookmarks

SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts. The top top social bookmarking sites are all including and it is an alternative to the social bookmarking buttons each site offers.

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Topsy

Provides a Twitter retweet button powered by Topsy. Can also provide automatic trackback comments when someone tweets about your posts.

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WordPress Popular Posts

Shows the most popular posts, using data collected by WordPress.com stats plugin.

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WP Greet Box

Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from. For example, you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, and more! Best of all, this plugin is compatible with various WordPress cache plugins.

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Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn web design using Photoshop, with the instructions step-by-step can clearly teach you how to create amazing web and clean layout. With the dominance of blue you can definitely make a “Web 2.0″ style web design using 960 Grid System.

Simplistic Video Blog Layout

This tutorial will be explain how to create nice simplistic layout using photoshop.

Clean PSD Layout With a 3D Look

this tutorial will show you how to create a clean layout with a 3D look. I think is the last trend lately. Maybe you can use this tutorial to make design portfolio, or good looking wordpress portfolio theme

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makes the design layout with transparent buttons is very easy. At least this tutorial will explain, and these designs ( transparent buttons ) recently became the trend.

RocknRolla Blog Design

when you want to create a design for personal website, I think this tutorial will be the right choice

Clean and Colorful Web Layout in Photoshop

If you are interested to make a clean corporate layout in Photoshop, this is the right tutorial for you, with a fairly detailed explanation will be very easy to learn this tutorial

Grunge Photographer Layout

if you like in the field of photographers and want to make a grunge layout for photographers, this right tutorial for you . By using the vector drawing, you will shown how to manipulate and create interesting layouts and can also be used for portfolio layout

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From all the previous tutorial. i think this is the best tutorial. With 175 screenshots, you will be spoiled in the study. And there is certainly no other words than I can make interesting designs

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