Sites we can submit web design news to...
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Hey Mozzers - happy 2013 to one and all, I hope everyone had a great festive season!
Now we're all back into the swing of things, we're in the process of getting our new website up and running. We're a web and graphic design agency, and I'm putting together checklists to ensure we get new projects some coverage where deserved.
There will be a different checklist for the different disciplines - brand design, packaging, web design and so on.
For many of these disciplines, there are multiple news sites that we can reach out to when we have relevant stories - Dieline for packaging, for example.
But for web design, any searches I do either show up CSS Galleries / portfolios (which I already have on the checklist under another section) or web tutorial sites. I don't seem to be able to find decent, trustworthy sites that exclusively feature web news.
I'm sure they exist and it's just a case of 'can't see for looking', but does anyone know of decent sites that carry news stories about new websites going live?
Obviously we know not every new site will be newsworthy - and indeed we wouldn't try to submit every new site we have go live for that very reason - but it would be good to have a clutch of high authority, well visited sites to turn to when we do have something of note.
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks Mozzers!
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Glad I could be of some help
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Hi Jason,
It's a shame that there's not really anything out there, but that's a good idea about looking at the industry specific sites - the only thing with that is that the checklist was supposed to help others if I was off on holiday or whatever, a nice, easy list of URLs that someone else in the office could send stuff to, but I have enough other sites for this not to matter too much.
Thanks for your help!
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Unfortunately i had the same job a couple of months ago to find people to write about new website design we did for a hotel. The truth of the matter is, in my experience mind you, there are very few news sites talking about web design except for those design galleries that will write about something submitted to them, and even then they won't always do it. However, if you did do a web design for an industry you might want to get writers from that industry to write about the new website rather than just the web design community. That was the way I went about it because I couldn't find exactly what you are looking for. Hope that helps.
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Hi Jason,
Sites that will talk about it in a news format. We're pretty well covered for the design gallery angle, but it seems these gallery sites are the only ones that come up in searches when trying to find sites with a more 'newsy' angle.
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are you looking for design galleries to submit your web design to, or are you looking for news sites that will talk about your web design in a news format?
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