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A Minimalist Business Card Design that Works

Designing a business card is very tricky. You need to focus on both aesthetics and function. You’d want it to give enough information about your business while maintaining an elegant and professional design on a limited amount of space.

Take a look at this very interesting minimalist business card that Boris created. It contains basic web information about him- his email, website and twitter account. The card was designed to occupy the least space possible while providing important contact details.

This type of design is great for someone whose business is on the internet. Someone who doesn’t really need to give away a phone number in order to sell his/her business to the recipient of the card.

If you want it to be less minimalist, you could probably redesign it to contain colored icons instead of text.

Source: [Smus]

 

Tags: business card, card design, Minimal, Minimalist

DooID: Slick and Easy Way to Promote Yourself Online

DooID is a free service that allows you make your own personal online business card. If you’re familiar with online information pages or online business cards, then you won’t have a hard time figuring out DooID. Aside from having a user friendly interface, you also get to make a very attractive, professional-looking online business card.

Add your favorite social networking sites and web services along with your personal contact information by simply providing the usernames that you use for each respective website. You also get to easily customize the look of your business card by simply selecting from a library of colors and templates.

Another great and important feature of DooID is that it gives you total control on how to share your information. You can easily limit the amount of information that you share in your DooID business card. If there is someone (there is always someone) whom you don’t want to share your personal phone number with, you can send that person limited contact information. Your private information can be accessed by a password, which visitors to your site can request via a popup window, or by you sending the password directly. You will always be reachable but you get to choose to what extent.

With DooID 3 on the way (still on private beta), your business card will be optimized not only with web browsers but with tablets and mobile phones as well.

 

Tags: business card, DooID, online business card, Personal Information

Hi.Im: Your Internet Nametag

Hi.Im is a site that allows you to feature your latest content from your favorite social networking sites. It’s like an online business card service but presented in a more casual way. It lets you introduce yourself to everyone and tell them what you’re all about online in one page.

Your Hi.Im profile page will feature content from your favorite networks. What defines your online persona is what you do on your social pages. Of course this doesn’t include your incognito browsing but it’s basically what you want everybody to see. Combining all those sites together with updates will let people know what you are up to and give them an idea on some of your online interests. You can share you latest content from all of your networks in your profile page.

Hi.Im supports -Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, YouTube, Flickr and many more. Put all those sites together and that’s YOU on the internet – at least social media-wise. You can of course pitch in some of your interests and type it on your introductory statement. As I see it, Hi.Im can be useful in promoting your online presence and different social networking account in a single page. You can simply share one page instead of sharing different social networking pages.

Tags: business card, Hi.Im, Internet Nametag, online business card

BusinesscardStar: Create Business Cards Save as PDF

BusinesscardStar is an online tool that you can use to easily produce professional looking business cards. There is no need for you to download anything. Just register for a free account and you can immediately start creating your business card. The web app omits the need for you look for operating system compatibility for a simple task such as creating a business card for your startup. They have a number of beautifully designed templates for you to choose from that will suit your needs.

BusinesscardStar makes it easier for new users to create business cards because of its wizard style step-by-step creation process. First, select a template, type in your information and then proceed with the overall design which allows you to change the colors, fonts and make text block adjustments. The final step is to save your business card in the form of a PDF document. The document that will be given to you is already properly aligned for printing and DIY cutting.

Watch the demo video below.

I just noticed that the tool does not allow you to upload your own image. Now this will cause some concerns for most users. Most businesses want their logos to be included in their business cards. Placing you brand on your card is as important as having a very good looking business card. BusinesscardStar might want to consider adding this feature in future versions. Having said that, the tool is definitely worth checking out if you want to create your own business card online.

*A short note on the importance of branding

Tags: business card, business card maker

Create Your Personal Online Business Card

With so many social networking sites out there, it’s hard to keep track of your own links to your profiles, blogs and websites. Organizing social profiles by creating a list will help. You won’t have to login to your social networking site in order to get your profile link.

MeeID is an online business card which will help you organize your profile links, blogs and websites. You can place ebay profiles and place links to your blogs and social networking sites using MeeID. It’s a simple tool with simple features. It will provide you with your own MeeID URL (e.g : www.meeid.com/yourname) which you can share with your friends. This way you only send one URL to a person instead of sending multiple links which will look kind of spammy. The design is simple and it lets you upload your own profile photo to your MeeID business card.

It would be great though if they can provide users buttons to link to their blogs and other social sites. It will make MeeID links more visible and users will have an easier time pasting/linking the MeeID on the web. If you are looking for a simple online business card, MeeID is worth checking out.

Tags: business card, meeID, online business card

Online Business Card Maker from DeGraeve

Here is a cool site where you can make a simple business card with a logo and your information. The DeGraeve Business Card Maker tool is very easy to use. Just get a link of your logo image and place it in the “URL of Logo image” text box. A size of 300 to 600 pixels in height and width is recommended for the logo for it no to look crappy and images larger than the said size will break the business card maker. It is also noted that the logo maker works best with images on a white background, but this is not necessarily a rule. After choosing the logo, select a font for the text that will appear in your business card, enter your name or company name and your information on the text box supplied, then choose which font style you want for a specific line.

The Business card maker will give you a PDF file of the generated business card for you to download. You can then print your cards on letter sized paper and then cut them by trimming .25 inch from the edge of each side of the printout and then cut the cards to 3.5 in x 2 in. You’ll get 12 cards to a page.

This is a useful web app for people who want a quick, simple and easy to make a business card without the use of desktop software. The service is free and online. I have provided a sample of the generated business card below.

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