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The Wrong Way to Use Stock Images

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 [Continue Reading]

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[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 [Continue Reading]

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 o[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! [Continue Reading]

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 t[Continue Reading]

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

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 [Continue Reading]

Design and Decor – Not the Same Thing

{ 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 thei[Continue Reading]

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