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?… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Design Projects
How to Effectively Communicate with Your Blog Designer
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… Continue Reading
Why I’ve Been Working the Night Shift
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… Continue Reading
CSS Rounded Corner Tutorial – Create Rounded Corners Without Images
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… Continue Reading
Content Curation – BlissReads Launches
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… Continue Reading
Snoopervising – My Newest Service
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… Continue Reading