Blog Designers Directory

Alistair Shrimpton, who heads up our Six Apart efforts in the U.K., has teamed up with Hugh MacLeod to create a Blog Designers wiki where designers can list themselves and their skills.

It's a great outlet for ProNet members to solicit work by linking to a personal profile. If you're updating with your own listing, be sure to include your name, an email address for contact, a phone number (lots of clients still like to use the phone!) and links to your profile site as well as some example sites.

A good suggestion any time that you're listing your professional credentials is to include as many methods of contact as possible (IM or Skype contact information can't hurt if you're reachable that way) and to have a specific landing page offering an overview of portfolio projects and contact information for your reference clients.

If you're a Professional Network member, or if you've created plugins or won any awards for your work, it can help reinforce your expertise to list these accolades or credentials in your promotional text as well.