What does your business card look like?

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jhsachs@drupal.org - Sat, 2008-08-02 15:59

I want to order some business cards for Drupal development work, and I'm wondering what they should look like. Fellow contractors and consultants: what are your cards like? What works for you, and why?

I liked my old cards (they say "Technical Writer"), but I think the design may be too conservative for this business. I'll be giving the card to designers and potential clients whom I meet through designers; even if I'm really a geeky old fart, my card shouldn't announce it.

I'm attaching a copy of my old card, and I hope others will do the same. (I have fuzzed out my contact information, which I don't think should be posted in a publicly accessible forum.)

Sitewide tags: business cards; marketing; consulting; contracting

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Here's the card

jhsachs@drupal.org - Sat, 2008-08-02 16:03

The business card did not upload, so I have posted it on my own web site. Here's a link.

Ya that's pretty bare

jaykali@drupal.org - Sat, 2008-08-02 17:18

I wonder what a good site is to order cards with your own design? I need to make up some cards, I will probably have a designer adapt the design of my website to cards.

I used VistaPrint

jhsachs@drupal.org - Sat, 2008-08-02 18:15

I used VistaPrint.com last time, and I was happy with them. They did the job right, did it fast, and didn't charge me a lot.

I recall that they accept a variety of file formats. I sent them a PDF.

Vistaprint

netgenius - Sat, 2008-08-02 18:38

Also happy with results from Vistaprint, for the price. One thing though, their rock-bottom priced business cards are a bit flimsy - better to pay a bit extra for the heavier type. It's a tiny investment really.

Flimsy stock

jhsachs@drupal.org - Sat, 2008-08-02 20:24

...their rock-bottom priced business cards are a bit flimsy - better to pay a bit extra for the heavier type.

Agreed. I did that before, and will do it again.

I found Vista Print

tjholowaychuk - Sat, 2008-08-02 19:24

I found Vista Print terrible.. check out these guys http://www.unicoca.com
they are pretty cheap but its the best quality paper I have ever got my hands on. If you are in need of a design visit our Business Card Design page.

Tj Holowaychuk

Vision Media - Victoria BC Web Design
Victoria British Columbia Web Design School

About my original question...

jhsachs@drupal.org - Sat, 2008-08-02 20:20

I'd really like to see some other people's cards to help me get the juices flowing.

I've been thinking about using some sort of variant of the Druplicon as a logo, but I can't figure out what is the Drupal Association's policy on that. I've found statements that the Druplicon is covered by the GPL license, but the GPL only deals with copyright, and this is a trademark question.

Ask

Michelle - Sun, 2008-08-03 03:49

Easiest way to find out is to email them and ask.

I don't have a business card since I'm just a freelancer. I'm getting some cards made up for my site, though, from moo.com. They have a deal of 50 free cards if you're on LinkedIn. Will be interesting to see how they turn out.

Michelle

See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region

hcard microformats and business cards

tarvid - Sun, 2008-08-03 13:23

A pregnant question.

Every business card needs contact information and a reason to contact. In that way it is like a "profile" in Drupal, a "contact" in CiviCRM, Gmail or outlook.

Vcard and hcard are among the emerging microformats and it makes sense to include both in a "resume".

http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator will build your hcard

Add yourself to your Gmail contacts and you can export a vcard.

Add the requisite fields to profiles on your drupal site, install vcard and download a vcard from any profile.

Getting it all to work together is the trick.

get inspired

bara.munchies@d... - Tue, 2008-08-05 05:55

okay, most of them are a bit unrealistic, but maybe you find some nice layout:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailypoetics/sets/72057594104389710/

i love the moo.com cards with the flickr api.
why not take screenshots of some of your projects and but them on the back of your card or something in this direction.

Drupal developers' cards

jhsachs@drupal.org - Tue, 2008-08-05 13:47

I am hoping to see successful examples of Drupal developers' cards posted here.

Why would you use

tjholowaychuk - Tue, 2008-08-05 14:20

Why would you use microformats for a printed business card??

Those are pretty good examples though, you really do have to go 'over the top' and be creative if your going to be noticed. If you working with
Drupal specifically I would suggest the logo even though it is rather ugly.