By Randa Clay on January 29, 2009
Chris Garrett is one of my favorite bloggers and one of the nicest people I’ve met in this online world. He also happens to be one of the foremost experts on the business of new media, blogging and online marketing, and this fall he opened an online course called Authority Blogger that is awesome. It [...]
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By Randa Clay on January 28, 2009
I recently had some business cards done by UPrinting after I won them over at Pro Blog Design. I am very happy with them- the card stock is nice, the printing is perfect and their online proofing system was very easy to use. They offer a wide range of printing solutions- flyers, posters, banners, envelopes, [...]
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By Randa Clay on January 27, 2009
2 years ago I was working on getting a freelance web design business going, and had just discovered WordPress and begun tinkering around with customizing themes on several sites of mine, when suddenly I realized that randaclay.com should be converted to a blog. The static site with my (rather small) portfolio was not really generating [...]
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By Randa Clay on November 5, 2008
It’s the small details that can make all the difference in a site design. Just using a fancy bullet instead of a disc or square can really dress up your lists. It’s difficult to find good bullet sets out there, so I’m offering this set free for any use, commercial or private.
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By Randa Clay on April 21, 2008
Want to encourage people to follow you on Twitter? Here are some free graphics to put on your site for that purpose- just place the image on your site and link to your Twitter profile. On the left are PNG files on white background, and on the right are transparent GIFs. (IE6 doesn’t handle [...]
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By Randa Clay on July 23, 2007
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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By Randa Clay on May 10, 2007
As I was developing my Round and Round theme, I looked around for some round RSS icons to put with the feed link, and didn’t find any, so I made some. I thought there might be others who would be interested, so I thought I would do several colors [...]
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By Randa Clay on March 5, 2007
Via Dooce, I came across some absolutely beautiful Photoshop brushes at DesignFruit.com. (click on Photoshop brushes in the menu) He has multiple sets available, including various types of foliage, brushes to create a “worn” look, and some Valentine brushes that I used to quickly create the example you see in this post – [...]
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