Thursday, March 8, 2012

TERRIBLE Facebook Covers

nomBat posted a great article today about how badly a facebook page can really suck, I highly recommend reading it! Terrible Advice for Your Facebook Page
A picture is worth a thousand words

Too bad they aren't the words you think they are.

Proudly display your photo collage

No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care. And if you use a photo collage they are probably going to stop caring as soon as they think "Wait.. what he## am I looking at?"

Creatively Display Your Company Logo in a Creative Way

Welcome to the redundant department of redundancy. You probably haven't spent HUGE amounts of capital on your world-wide advertising budget, your logo alone doesn't carry the brand recognition to pull this off. You are not Starbucks! (unless you are Starbucks, and then thank you for reading our blog)

To Showcase your Artwork

If your artwork contains Curlz MT, Comic Sans, or Papyrus then you are using the word "artwork" too loosely.

There is a lot of terrible advice going around telling people to copy big corporate brands, be like U2 or Duncan Donuts. The advice they are handing out is crap though, it just simply isn't going to work and is going to leave people with ineffective Facebook Pages, and Page owners blaming Facebook that the switch to Timeline and Covers doesn't work.

At least the are some local designers fighting to produce great design.

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