Digital marketing has always been one of those industries that has many grey areas, where the majority of marketing companies try to bamboozle their clients with technical jargon…
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Can you rely on AI Marketing?
There has been an explosion of web design and marketing companies in the last couple of years that use AI tools to generate much of their content. As…
Ignoring Google Ads Recommendations
Learning the hard way. From my own experiences with Google Ads campaigns, managing small and large budgets for over 15 years, I’ve learned which recommendations need to be…
Creating a Professional Logo Design
When a customer is starting a business, the first thing they need to decide upon is their company name and business or branding style, and a logo design…
Looking for a Freelancer?
If you are looking to hire a Freelancer, or need a Freelance Designer to help with a specific design project, it can be a challenge to select the…
Why choose a WordPress Web Design?
Occasionally I am asked what the difference is between a WordPress website, as opposed to a DIY website builder like Wix, Squarespace or Weebly. Or for e-commerce websites,…
Exhibition Graphics Design
I design & produce large format artwork for a variety of exhibitions, shows & graphic display installations throughout the UK, providing high quality print files to the printing…
Becoming a Freelance Designer
It’s often a long road to becoming a Freelance Designer, or being able to make a proper living from your design work. You need a fair number of…
WordPress Web Design & SEO
Most of my web design projects these days will be built using WordPress, which is pretty flexible and very good for SEO. But the bigger a website gets,…
Large Format Print Design
I am often required to design & supply large format print design graphics for a number of clients, to be printed as exhibition installations, posters or banners. When…
Blogging, Social Media & SEO
For a number of clients, I manage their websites & digital marketing, which often involves creating, updating & sharing articles on their blog. The topics for each blog…
Google Ads & PPC Management
I manage Google Ads PPC accounts for a number of different businesses in Swansea, South Wales and the UK. Natural SEO rankings is always the first priority when…
WordPress SEO Pharma Hack
The Pharma Hack is quite a subtle, clever hack which seems to affect WordPress and other CMS websites. The hackers gain access to your database through an old…
My view of SEO
More & more clients are asking for SEO services & what can be done with SEO… or what is SEO? I believe that everybody should be able to…
Design Experience
ModRed Design is the creation of myself, Scott Bowen, a Freelance Designer based in Swansea, South Wales, UK. This article gives you a little background information on my…
Drawing a stencil using Illustrator
One of my early jobs was to create original illustrations for a tattoo stencil company. They usually gave me a basic design brief – perhaps producing a range…
My time at Funky Pigeon
Back in early 2008 I landed an amazing job at an on-line, personalised greeting card company called Remind4u – they later became Funky Pigeon. Initially, my job was…
History of ModRed Design
I built this website back in 2008, initially without any real plans for what I was going to do with it, it was simply a way for me…
My time at the Evening Post
My first real job was at the Evening Post in Swansea. I prepared newspapers for production in a variety of ways… I will try to convey my experiences…