While I normally focus web design, we have to know that we do not live in a bubble. We have to realize that there are many ways to communicate with others.

On Small Biz Trends, they recently had an article on tips when designing signs for your business. I thought it was good, not only because it covered a lot of good material, but also because of how it didn’t see the sign as an end all be all to the communication.

The author references things like including QR codes, SMS numbers, etc to hook the user in, and allow them to get more information.

Also, much like landing pages, the author talks about making sure you have a good call to action to get people to do what you want them to.

Link to the Article – via Small Biz Trends

Tips for Business Signs was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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