To celebrate Independence Day and our second birthday this July, we’re giving you a gift! From today through July 15th, you can save 30% on any regular or featured listing in Directory Journal with coupon code DJ2Y. Listing options can be found here.

We go out of our way to create quality resources to attract real visitors who want to find your website. Don’t miss out on targeted traffic. Submit your link today, and you can get a featured listing for little more than our typical regular listing prices!

For a limited time you can get a regular listing in Directory Journal for just $41.97 annually or get a permanent regular listing for a one-time payment of $111.97. Featured links, which appears above regular submissions in our listings, are now just $69.97 per year or a one-time payment of $174.97.

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We’ve had an eventful couple of weeks and I’m so excited that I had to share the news with you right away. DirJournal.com is now hosted on a server that is lightening fast, we have a brand new logo and we are coming up with an Affiliate program really soon.

Check it out for yourself! I’d love to see you on the inside……

Coming to the point…

We are again offering some heavy discounts on our listings. Now you can list your website for a measly fee which is 25% Off our regular prices.

Use the Promo: May09
(Remember it will expire on May 22nd, 2009)

Please click on the link below to get in right now.

http://www.dirjournal.com/submit.php

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please use this form http://www.dirjournal.com/contact.php

Wishing you success!

Hasan Saleem.

Directory Journal logo proposal #1

Directory Journal logo proposal #2

Directory Journal logo proposal #3

When discussing proposals, we mutually agreed that #1 has best overall mix of traditional while clear and readable masthead/newspaper title appearance.

Decision was to move on with #1 and I was asked to try few different variations with tagline, refine the thickness of logotype and possibly further emphasize the message. I wanted to portray letterpress feel further, thus #1 revisions were sent off:

Directory Journal logo design #1 Revision b

Directory Journal logo design #1 Revision c

The final decision was to finalize 1c with lighter “emboss” letterpress appearance, thus you can see final result on http://dirjournal.com

I am happy that we managed to produce what i think successful rebranding and wish all the best for the Directory journal team.

I would like to thank Mr. Saleem for the opportunity to work on this identity, and would also like to thank David Airey (http://davidairey.com) for kindly referring my services to him.

Directory Journal final logo

Bojan Stefanovic

http://logoholik.com

Phew! What a week it’s been. We are now on a new more powerful server bought from Hostgator.com and it comes with 8GB RAM. 500 GB Disk Space and 4 a Core Xeon Processor. This means much more space, speed and reliability.

However, the transition, I must say has been very painful, all thanks to Hostgator support. Our site was down for eight long hours solely due to the complete lack of co-operation from their support staff.

I sincerely apologize to all our visitors, who sent disappointed mails and to all others who may have tried accessing the site during this period. We tried our best, but sometimes things are just not in our hands. Wonder what would have happened if not for the intervention of Chad Bean and Brent Oxley who helped us get back online again.

The good news for our visitors is that the site is loading much, much faster now, which makes all the trouble worth it.

I thank you for your continued support and patience.

Hasan Saleem

Hi Friends,

We’ve been making a whole lot of changes to our directory, giving importance to convenience, while ensuring it retains its charm.

The DirJournal.com Home Page has taken on a completely new look, which you will find appealing. Regional categories have been prioritized as we felt that would make it easier for our visitors to reach where they want quicker.

Another newly incorporated and great feature is the ability to access all blog posts while viewing the latest right from the home page.

Hope you enjoy the change as much as we did creating it.

I had a talk with my several fellow designers and artists about building their own website and an interesting thing  came up, they don’t know where to start. Obviously, they want to show the best of their works, have the website clean and uncluttered,  user friendly and of course unique and speaking about the author. No need to say that simplicity sells, so in our todays post we decided to study several most popular and successful approaches towards simplicity in design of a website home page for designers, illustrators, photographers, painters and other people of art.

Tip 1. Splash page can save it all.

If you feel that your home page turned out to be not that simple and balanced as you wish, make a splash page, a very simple one. Find some of your creatives that people like most and place it somewhere on page (the less expected the location is the better). The feeling of simplicity from the splash page will stay with the website visitor once he launches on your home page. Same thing about your artwork, even if the website itself seems somewhat disappointing, the great work on the home page can save it all.

Arturo Elena. Graphic design and illustration.
http://www.arturoelena.com

Candybird. Graphic design and illustration.
http://candybird.free.fr

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The D-Day has arrived – The day you were promised to get free YEARLY listings. You can get listed all of today until 12 Midnight EST.

Make up your mind and submit your site NOW. There is no way you can lose on this one, is there? It’s free!

Click here to get started.

We have created a special coupon code that you can use to submit the site. The coupon code is “freelisting” (Without quotes) and it will work with YEARLY listings only.

NOTE:

The first 50 submitters will be entertained.
The payments will be refunded within 7-10 days of submission.

Best of Luck!

As a goodwill gesture, we are providing access to our yearly listings completely free – a unique opportunity to existing as well as new members.

You can avail of this offer by submitting any time until Midnight EST on Saturday, 28th February. Your payment will be refunded within one week of submission – no strings attached.

Keep an eye on the blog and start your submissions on the 28th, as this offer is available to the first 50 only. Use this wonderful opportunity to jump-start your new business or take your existing business to the next level. Consider this as our thanks for giving us a shot!

Ian Francis

Website: www.ifrancis.co.uk
Mixed media painting,emotion in every line. Ian Francis works most productive at night, spending a lot of time watching TV/films, reading books and looking around the internet while creating a new piece of art.

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Adam Cvijanovic

Website: www.bellwethergallery.com
Adam Cvijanovic lives in New-York. He had multiple exibitions all over the world and every time his works strike imagination.

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Stella Im Hultberg

Website: www.stellaimhultberg.com
Naked sensual girls everywhere, on drawings, paintings, sketches. Stella Im Hultberg* is a painter currently living and working in new-York is aiming to explore the side of human nature that is suppressed or unspoken in most people.

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Dear Valued Clients,

As Christmas nears and New Year approaches, it’s time for reflection and planning for the future. Time to take your business to a higher level this year! Time to generate highly specific traffic and wait for the huge profits that can and do follow!

Here’s the great news! All you have to do is set up your business. We’ll take care of the rest!

Embracing the Christmas spirit, we at Directory Journal thought it might be nice to give our wonderful clients an awesome discount on all our listings. Simply enter the coupon code during the submission of your site and you will receive 20% Off on our Permanent and Yearly listings.

The coupon code is good for the whole month, right through November, 2008 and can be used any number of times until it expires. Read the rest of this entry »