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Dec 28

How to Find the Right Color For Your Brand

When you envision your website and business logo, what’s one of the first things that comes to mind? Color! Color has the power to calm, comfort, energize and inspire. It is incredibly important to feel good about the colors you are using in your website. There is so much information about color and design that it could easily fill several books. So, what color should your website, blog, and overall branding be? Well, that’s easy, you think to yourself, turquoise is your favorite color! But before you pick up the phone to tell the exciting news to your website or logo designer, consider this: your turquoise may be another person’s aqua, and when More »

Dec 18

How to Add a Background to Your Blog

This post will walk you through step by step how to add Backgrounds to your Blog for Blogger or WordPress! Blogger Background Tutorial 1. If you are using one of the new themes from the Blogger Template Designer, you can click on “Design” from your Dashboard, then click “Template Designer” and choose the “Background” link on the left side. 2. Under “Background Image” when you click on the small background thumbnail image, a box will pop up so that you can select your background. Simply click “Upload Image” then upload the background file and set it to “tile” so that it repeats endlessly. Just save it and you’re done. Super More »

Dec 02

Free and Simple Photo Editing

You just took amazing pictures that are perfect for your website, except when you upload them onto your computer, it looks like there’s a little red eye happening on one, a few others would be better if that random person wasn’t looming on the left, and maybe one or two are kind of overexposed. What you need are easy-to-use photo editing tools! With a few clicks you can turn an ordinary photo into something beautiful: Don’t have Photoshop at home? Look no further! Here’s a list of my favorite free online editors to get you started: Photoshop.com is a great resource for free online photo editing, photo organizing and style More »

Nov 15

Top Three Online Galleries for Your Photos

If you don’t have your own website host yet and need a reliable photo organizer where you can store and share your photos, or design image files, you’ll want to check out these super handy online photo hosting sites. Hosting your images online means your computer won’t get bogged down by stashing every picture you’ve taken on its hard drive. They’ll be safely stored online instead! And even if you do prefer to keep them in both spots, you’ll have a good backup system in place. Online Photo Hosting: picasa.google.com FREE Hosting. I really do love picasa. You can easily set your albums to “unlisted” or “private” or “public” for More »

Oct 29

How to Set Up a Website

So…you’re thinking about building your website with an amazing program like WordPress and you’re not sure where to start? It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed just thinking about launching a professional website or blog. As all kinds of questions begin piling up, it can be a challenge just figuring out where to start. Then, to add to the mounting sensation that your plate is as full as the one you’re planning on having at Thanksgiving, there’s the design and its execution. Do you want a custom website, or do you prefer a unique, professional looking template? To that end, where on earth do you find a well designed website template? More »

Oct 08

A Font for Everything

Fun, unique, and chic fonts can turn a ho-hum logo, blog, or website design into an eye-catching one faster than you can say “Wordpress custom blog template.” Since fonts are one the most important tools I have in my design arsenal, I thought I would share some resources with you. It’s such a great feeling when the fresh, modern font I want to use is free…it’s kind of like finding the perfect pair of shoes on sale! I’ve compiled a pretty great list of free font resources that never fails to get the creative juices flowing. I could spend hours and hours (and believe me, I have) exploring them all! More »