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Well, I received a couple of comments today (or at least I finally saw them) on this blog. I am thrilled that a couple of people out there commented on my design work and downloaded (I assume) a couple of files. The past few months have seen me in and out of the hospital (I’m ok) and a bunch of extra design work, so I haven’t had time to post. In fact, I was thinking about canceling this blog all together. I suppose I’ll keep going and begin writing as well as posting free stuff. I have a lot of information stored in my brain – organizing that info and communicating it is another matter entirely. Please keep stopping by and thanks for your comments!

Smashing Magazine has posted an article by Cameron Chapman listing a plethora of  tools to use for creating, utilizing, or embedding fonts into your web pages and/or blogs. [Read more →]

In a post that I . . . well, posted earlier this month entitled “Graphic Design for Idiots” I gave advice to the client on design and designers. Now, I present you with this post. A reverse topic, if you will, about how to design for the client. [Read more →]

Shane Jeffers, at ThreeStyles, compiled this list of 20 Mind Blowing Website Layout Tutorials in Photoshop, and it is just too good not to post. [Read more →]

Ever wanted to print something from the web, but there was way too much junk and not enough content for it to be worth it? I know I have. I love to play guitar. So, I like to check out new tabs online and I often print these tabs. However, over the years, it has become an increasing pain to do this due to ads, junk text, more ads, more junk text, irrelevant information, etc. Well, check out Printliminator. [Read more →]

This article, by Spencer Spellman at TutorialBlog, gives suggestions on how to effectively measure your success with social media marketing. As Spellman says in his post, social media is indeed the big topic of 2009. Twitter, Facebook, Digg, etc. – they are all part of the new dot-com-style boom. [Read more →]

CheapCustomCommercials.com will make you a standard 30 second commercial for use on your website, YouTube, or even for local or national broadcasting. All of this for $500, which is, relatively speaking, VERY CHEAP. [Read more →]

Integrating your WordPress blog with Facebook can make for a powerful tool as you can use the enormous social network of Facebook to attract viewers to your blog. [Read more →]

Came across a great article from Noupe: 15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS. This is a great post for any and all of you Web Designers/Developers. [Read more →]

Here’s a funny little flow chart from Six Revisions: Have you got what it takes to be a web designer?

I have created Twitter backgrounds representing SEC Teams. For those who don’t live in the US, the SEC is a college sports conference and stands for South Eastern Conference. Since I live in Atlanta, I am in the heart of the SEC and SEC fans LOVE their football. Pick your team below for download. [Read more →]

This is a guide to design and to designers for the typical client  (or layperson who knows nothing about design). Please, if you are the layperson I speak of, don’t take offense to the title of this post. I don’t think you are an idiot, I just had to grab your attention, since what I’m going to explain is definitely to your benefit and worth your while. To start, I don’t want you to think of designers as artists. [Read more →]

Henry Jones posted a list of online typography tools on Web Design Ledger’s blog. I have to say that it was not what I expected – it was much, much more. I can’t count the number of times that I’ve needed a pixel to em converter, a converter that renders CSS code, an online library of fonts to use in place of boring system fonts, etc. This was a refreshing experience and I’m glad that I found it. You will definitely want to bookmark most, if not all, of these.

Parlier Design is pleased to bring you a set of 12 free quality icons for use in commercial or personal projects. If you use them, a link to ParlierDesign.com is appreciated, but not required. Enjoy! [Read more →]

I have always been fascinated by those artists who can make something so simple and turn it into something quite profound. For example, in the world of music, Iron Butterfly’s “Inna Gadda Vita” could be considered a symphony of rock and roll, complete with a 10 minute drum solo. [Read more →]