Getting the word out on Digg/Stumbleupon can be tricky when no one knows your blog, but luckily for design related articles, there are many high traffic blogs that have community link features where you can submit your design articles and receive decent amount of traffic.

So here is a list of 15 16 blogs/sites to help you promote your design news and articles, remember to make sure you only submit articles that might benefit others .
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Lately some blogs have been making use of  similar posts wordpress plugin with thumbnail images, instead of the simple text. I thought adding this would enhance the usability of Qbrushes and QVectors.

This feature currently on Qbrushes and QVectors uses similar posts plug-in by Rob Marsh which basically pulls similarities between posts by words,tags and categories. With some minor output adjustment you can replace the default text output into thumbnails from custom fields, If you’re intending to use this on your own blog then you need to have the output template.
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wondering what S3 is?. S3 is Amazons Simple Storage service it allows people to take advantage of Amazons powerful network of severs for a small fee in return.

Using S3 was important for qbrushes because the amount of bandwidth and file serving could probably bring my small hosting account to its knees. so now that I’ve managed to set it up, i have a few tips to share with anyone that is looking into it.

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