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Randa Clay has a laser-sharp eye for graphic design. She does beautiful design and her turnaround time is second to none. ~Ryan Caldwell

Blogging

Who are you?

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 do in life? Are you [...]

What you need to know before taking a blogging job

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 downsides of taking [...]

New site: TumblrThemes.com

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 names might [...]

$4,000 Blog Anniversary Contest at Creative Design

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 [...]

And the winner is…

The first prize winner in the Pimp My Blog contest is Angela Stevens! I wasn’t even surprised when she turned out to be the winner because she stacked the odds in her favor by racking up 26 (!) entries by writing about the contest on all of her multiple blogs and adding my site to [...]

A podcast interview with a sassy web puritan

When SheUnlimited contacted me recently about doing a podcast interview, my first response was “Me…? Really? Are you sure you don’t have me confused with someone else?” I was happy to do it though, and even though I apparently have a slightly Texan accent that I was unaware of, it turned out all right. They [...]

Just for fun

Ilker at The Thinking Blog has a fun Caption an Animal Challenge going on until August 25th in the spirit of sites like this one, and I’ve had this picture since we lived in Chicago a couple of years ago that I thought would be perfect: I’ll bet someone cleverer than me can come up [...]

Blasts from the past

There’s been a great meme going around lately which leads those tagged to share 10 of their favorite posts from the past. I’ve been tagged by Jeanne at A Writer’s Notes and Trinity at Rooms of My Heart, and it has been interesting going back through 7 months of posts. It’s funny really… I had [...]

Last week for entries in the Pimp My Blog contest

Just a reminder, this is the last week for entries into the “Pimp My Blog” contest. All e-mails with your entries must be in to me by August 24th, midnight US Eastern Time (that’s GMT -4). Check the original contest post for all the details. I appreciate all the entries so far, and I’ve really [...]