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New Youzign For WordPress (with instant design updates)

Good news! We have just completed the new Youzign WordPress plugin, you can download it now or read on to get all the details. Youzign for WordPress is a WordPress plugin that lets you import any of your Youzign designs in your WordPress posts and pages. The best thing is, if you update a design on Youzign…

August 13, 2015
10 Things We’ve Discovered Pitching Youzign At Rise Hong Kong

On July 31 and August 1st 2015, part of the Youzign team headed to Hong Kong to present Youzign at the Rise conference. It was our first major event as a startup and we definitely had a blast! Here are some of the things we learns along the way. 1. It’s always good to meet your peers…

August 5, 2015
Graphics Giveaway: 15 Free Restaurant Graphics

Our monthly graphics giveaway has been a big success. We’ve got lots of positive feedback and we always get a lot of clicks. We enjoy making these graphics and you find them useful. For us that is a win win. Today I want to do something a bit different. Over the last seven days our…

July 27, 2015
(free) Fonts, Photos and Vectors for Graphic Designers

Starting out as an online graphics designer can be expensive. You need good graphics design software, stock photos, the right font and great graphics. All of these resources take time to collect and cost money to purchase. Here are YMB Properties we want to help simplify you’re life. We’ve collected together our favourite free graphics,…

July 20, 2015
[GUIDE] The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing

I love reading. I always have. Whenever I went anywhere in the car or on a bus I had a book to read. I read late at night, during the day, in the garden. Yet books are heavy. Any traveller who is older than 25, who likes to read, will tell you that the heaviest…

July 10, 2015
Graphics Giveaway: 4th of July

You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine. Just own the night like the 4th of July ‘Cause, baby, you’re a firework. Come on, show ’em what you’re worth There are so many songs that include words “4th of July” in the lyrics and/or speaking about the 4th of July. The one above…

July 3, 2015
15 Essential Graphics Tools for Online Designers

Great design is a process of hard work and inspiration. There are no shortcuts, but technology offers you plenty of tools to save time and increase productivity. Of course the hard part is actually finding the software that fulfills your needs. Over the course of the last year I’ve created an online toolbox, composed of…

June 29, 2015
Graphics Giveaway: Father’s Day

June 21st is a day every father with a child old enough to buy a present has been waiting for. It’s good to be prepared with a present, but unfortunately that’s not always the case! So if you haven’t prepared a present, or even if you have, we’ve created a pack of beautiful graphics you…

June 21, 2015
[GUIDE] Youtube Channel Art Guidelines and Best Practice for Business

Let’s start off with a brief introduction to Youtube (even if you know something about it, the stats are still impressive). Three former Paypal employees launched the site in 2005. Google bought the company in 2006 almost two years later for $1.65 billion (not a bad salary for 22 months of work). Today Youtube has…

June 19, 2015
[GUIDE] Twitter Cover Guidelines and Best Practice for Business

Twitter was founded on March 21, 2006. It is one of the biggest social media platforms in the world and is a social media platform that allows users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”. Twitter (as per March 31, 2015) states that they have 302 million monthly active users and 100 million…

June 10, 2015

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