Archive for July, 2007

 

Unplugged

Unplugged

Just returned from a long weekend spent camping in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. While it was heaven for my son (pictured above), it was not quite my cup of tea. Though we did have a good time despite buckets of rain the first night and ridiculous humidity, I just don’t [...]

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How to dress up your 404 page

How to dress up your 404 page

What do visitors see when they click on a link to your site and the page they were looking for is missing, or the URL has changed? The 404 page is easy to customize, but it’s something that is often overlooked in the quest to make a site “stickier”. You have about half [...]

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Free Vector Artwork

Free Vector Artwork

Finding sources of good vector art for use in design projects can be rather difficult. I can do illustration, but find it to be very time consuming, and while I don’t mind paying for good illustrations, I really appreciate all the sites out there that are offering freebies
Vecteezy
This is a growing index of vector [...]

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4 Reasons Your Blog Needs a Logo

A recent commenter asked, “how critical is it that a blog have a logo?” That’s a good question. Whether your blog should have a logo really depends on what you’re trying to accomplish, but in the end I believe that if you are serious about building a presence online, you will benefit from having [...]

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Speedlinking 7.16.07

I usually hesitate to include a link to a post at ProBlogger, because I sort of assume everyone is reading Darren’s blog, but in this case I thought he had such a good idea I’d include it here anyway. It’s a very interesting group writing project called 7 Days to Rediscovering Your Blogging Groove
Are you [...]

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Two Column Bluebird Theme Released

Two Column Bluebird Theme Released

Several people asked me about releasing Bluebird as a two-column theme, so here it is!

You can click here to download the zip file and if you want to see a live demo, it’s up right now at my testsite. As always, let me know if you have any problems with it or have any feedback.
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Design Inspiration: Early 20th Century Posters

Design Inspiration: Early 20th Century Posters

Of all periods of graphic design, my favorite has to be the early 20th century.  I love the use of color, and  the typography is just beautiful.  Recently I’ve found a nice source of inspiration in that vein at InternationalPoster.com where there is a huge collection of vintage posters searchable by subject, period, style, artist, etc.  [...]

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The I Follow Movement is not dead

So, you’ve probably read about the new breed of comment spammers on ProBlogger, and maybe even have read Wendy’s post about why she felt she needed to turn nofollow back on or Chris Garrett’s latest post on the subject, and you might be thinking of turning it back on yourself because of some comment spam [...]

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Rockin’ Chick Bloggers

Rockin’ Chick Bloggers

Char at Essential Keystrokes very kindly nominated me for a “Rockin’ Chick Blogger” award. Sometimes on this side of the blogging world, we girls can feel as though we’re in the minority. Oh sure, there are millions of Mommy Bloggers and I’m sort of one of them elsewhere, but on the business/tech/design side [...]

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Speedlinking and a question (and a rant)

Branding is a topic I am very interested in, and Chris Garrett has just done a round-up of multiple posts on branding that includes a lot of good reads: Branding Blog Post Round-Up – Readers Best Branding Posts @ chrisg.com
Loved this post at ColourLovers.com about taking color inspiration from the masters of painting.
Charity at Design [...]

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