By Randa Clay on September 30, 2007
Well, I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to WordPress 2.3. I always sort of grit my teeth and cross my fingers when it’s time to upgrade, it went quickly and everything still works! I decided since the site had new insides, it was time for a new header too. One responder to [...]
Posted in Blogging | Tagged blog design, plugins, wordpress
By Randa Clay on September 26, 2007
Several months ago I did a post on productivity as a part of a group writing project. Vivien at Inspiration Bit has a new group writing project going on a similar topic – time management, which is something I think most of us deal with on a daily basis. I have a toddler at [...]
Posted in How to
By Randa Clay on September 25, 2007
Are you going Pink for October? My Bluebird has changed his colors for October and you can now download the Pinkbird free WordPress theme just in time to support breast cancer awareness through the month!
I have redone both the 3 column and the 2 column version.
Download the 3 column version
Download the 2 column version
Posted in Wordpress Themes
By Randa Clay on September 24, 2007
I’ve been wondering for a while just who the readers of this blog are. I know some of you because you comment regularly and I visit your site to get to know you, if you have one. But, I want to hear from everyone- especially you lurkers! What do you [...]
Posted in Blogging
By Randa Clay on September 21, 2007
When beginning a design project, I try very hard to sort of get inside a client’s head and figure out what kind of “look” they are imagining for their logo, site, etc. so that I get hit the nail on the head with the first round of options. It can be a challenge though. [...]
Posted in Design
By Randa Clay on September 17, 2007
Have you ever been hired to write regularly on a blog? Would you consider it if you were? I’ve been writing for Wisdump for about a month and a half now, and it has been a very rewarding experience, but it’s not for everyone. Let’s take a look at the upsides and [...]
Posted in Blogging
By Randa Clay on September 11, 2007
Do you keep a notebook of ideas and sketches? Apparently filming the contents of one’s moleskine notebook has become quite the phenomenon, and I find it fascinating to peek inside the creative mind of designers, illustrators and artists as I watch these videos. The City Notebook exhibition by Detour offers some of the [...]
Posted in Inspiration
By Randa Clay on September 8, 2007
Everyone has failures in our lives and only by learning from them do we improve ourselves and succeed in our goals.
The quote above is from the the site of Ian Hedges who was the winner of the blog review in my recent Pimp My Blog contest. His blog title is “Failure is the Key [...]
Posted in Reviews
By Randa Clay on September 5, 2007
I have a new website: TumblrThemes.com! As I was doing some research for my recent articles on mini-blogging, I kept coming across people wondering if there was some sort of repository for free Tumblr themes. Finding none, and knowing how new the whole tumblelog thing is, I was curious what kind of domain [...]
Posted in Blogging
By Randa Clay on September 2, 2007
David Airey, a graphic designer specializing in logo design has recently reached his 1 year blogging anniversary. To celebrate, David is holding the mother of all prize drawings! There are $4,000 in prizes to be given away, some of which include:
Logo design from Tara Roskell of Graphic Design Blog, and a logo design from David [...]
Posted in Blogging