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The Wrong Way to Use Stock Images

Erica — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:36:26 +0000

I was on a deals website yesterday when I spotted this skyscraper ad. I refreshed the page a few times and realized it was in a rotation with other ads from an ad network. How does the design team, their manager, the client who hired out the ad, and the ad network not notice this? [...]

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How to Effectively Communicate with Your Blog Designer

Erica — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:29:03 +0000

Not all bloggers are geek, but all blog designers are, and geeks are kinda like artists. We’re usually a little weird crazy slightly introvert different. Communication isn’t always our forte and mind reading? well let’s just say the internet doesn’t help us decipher voice inflections or facial expressions. Just because we’re good at what we [...]

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Why I’ve Been Working the Night Shift

Erica — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:21:53 +0000

Not literally, but when you’re creating custom graphics for Vampire Week you have to come up with some clever title about working at night… Girl2Watch.com is one of my favorite clients. On a normal week they send me a several pictures of the week’s featured celebrity and I use Photoshop Elements to layer them with [...]

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CSS Rounded Corner Tutorial – Create Rounded Corners Without Images

Erica — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:57:55 +0000

If you like to play with your own websites and you’re looking for a way to create rounded corners on your boxes, navigation bars, etc here’s a css rounded corner tutorial. Why Rounded Corners Using CSS? The more images we eliminate from our site designs, the faster our sites will load. Until css offered us [...]

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Content Curation – BlissReads Launches

Erica — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:23:01 +0000

In the past weeks I have had the privilege of working with a fabulous group of women as we’ve readied to launch BlissReads, the genius Content Curation network founded by Allison Worthington. What is Content Curation? I’m glad you asked! Content Curating means finding, filtering, and sharing the best content. Period. Many of us do [...]

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Snoopervising – My Newest Service

Erica — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:41:46 +0000

Some friends came to me this week and asked if I’d help with the launch of their site’s new look. I didn’t need to actually code or build anything, they’d already hired developers, but they wanted someone to be there through the actual switchover. So, last night I joined a Skype conference to get updated [...]

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All I Want for Christmas is an FTP Login. Can We Arrange That?

Erica — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:55:44 +0000

It’s the end of week one of a proposed three week project. The client is ready to roll. I am anxious to start… Yea. Haven’t even started yet. The client’s previous web developer is too busy telling me how to do things to hand over a blasted FTP login. Three emails back and forth with [...]

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Design and Decor – Not the Same Thing

Erica — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:37:19 +0000

{ Hold that thought while I run out the door, jump around in the yard wave my arms in the air and scream for joy } Back! We’ve all be to the over-decorated websites. You know, the ones people make themselves and just keep adding stuff till their site looks like it belongs in a [...]

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My Week: Building a Portfolio

Erica — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:01:36 +0000

Wow. The past few days have been a little hairy. I really expected to blog more, but it just hasn’t been happening. Here’s what’s going on… My design business has been picking up and as the year draws to an end, clients are pushing for first-of-the-year launches. Client #1 – Pro Golf Instructor Has an [...]

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Marketing for Local Projects – Advice Needed

Erica — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:38:06 +0000

For the past week or two I’ve been working on a project that will bring a state of the art online classifieds directory to our community. Yes, we have places online where you can list items, but they’re all so out dated and hard to navigate that people rarely list things on the sites, and [...]

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