Top 10 Favorite Free Fonts
There are so many great free fonts available. These are my 10 favorites. I have always been sort of a font addict, and constantly have to weed out my fonts folder, but these will never be deleted.
Free Blogging Icon Set
I'm happy to release a new set of icons designed for Randa Clay Design readers by IconShock! This is the first installment of a set of 15 created for use in blogging websites. The icons are completely free for personal or commercial use, you may use and adapt them as...
Ask The Experts: How Do You Get a Project Off On The Right Foot?
Installment #2 in the Ask The Experts series is focused on best practices as a designer as you’re beginning a project with a client. Thanks to my panel of experts for their input on this interesting topic: When you start a project with a client, what are your first steps? Do you use a questionnaire? Have a phone call? Do you use a contract? What do you think is key to getting started on the right foot?
Multiple Random Image PHP Script
Recently, while developing a site, I ran into a need for the ability to select 4 random images from a folder and display them in a div container. I searched around and found several scripts that would pull single random images (I’ve used this simple script from Matt Mullenweg’s site several times, for example) but nothing that would randomize multiple images.
Show and Tell: Business Card for Deb Ng
I was excited when Deb Ng of the Freelance Writing Jobs Network approached me about creating a business card design. I knew Deb would be fun to work with, and I also don’t get the chance to design business cards as often as I might like. Deb is a writer and social media consultant and wanted a unique business card design that would reflect her business as a freelance writer, professional blogger and social media consultant.
Ask the Experts: Do you get what you pay for?
This is the first post in my new “Ask the Experts” series, in which 4 colleagues have graciously agreed to join me in discussing a different design, WordPress, blogging, or marketing topic in each post in the series. The first question: do you believe you get what you pay for when it comes to web site development and other graphic design work?
Answers to your frequently asked questions
These are the questions I am most commonly asked via email and I thought it might be helpful to have the answers all in one place rather than re-typing them all the time.
The Ultimate WordPress Premium Theme
Since people began releasing WordPress themes with options screens the bar has been raised higher and higher, with more and more options available making it easier for the user to customize their site. I have worked with many of these themes, and have been impressed with the quality. In particular, the themes from iThemes and StudioPress are great to work with and I regularly recommend them as being well worth the purchase price.
How To Efficiently Manage Your Images In WordPress
You know how sometimes you find that you’ve been doing things the hard way for a long time, and then realize that if you’d only taken the time to think about it, there was a much easier way to do it? That’s how I was with managing the images in my sites until recently.
Interview: Children’s Book Illustrator Maurie Manning
With two little boys in my life I have, over the last several years, come to really appreciate the art of illustration and in particular illustration for children's books. I have also always wanted to learn to draw and have in the past month, finally began to work...