I recently discovered something about LinkedIn. While I’m not super active in that community, I do make regular posts there as part of my social media networking program, and I’m in a couple of different groups for designers. There’s been much written about the various social media sites, in particular
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Monthly Archives January 2012
WordPress Wednesday – How to Create a Static Home Page in WordPress
With the improvements to WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System), many people are now using WordPress for their website, not just their blog. By default however, WordPress will make your posts page the “Home” page, instead of a static page. If your website is more than just a blog,
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6 Free Online Image Editing Tools and Why They’re Great
* Note: This post has been updated on 3/25/15 Thanks to computers, image editing has become easier than ever. With the right tools, you can edit your photos just like the pros. Today, many free editing tools are available online. The following are six free online image editing tools and
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WordPress Wednesday – Raw HTML Snippets Plugin
**Note: this post assumes you are using the latest version of WordPress (at the time of this publishing), 3.3.1. If you’d like to upgrade WordPress and you’re not sure how to do that, please read How to Update WordPress. Most of the time, WordPress users can get by without using
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Nothing Better Than a January Branding in the California Sunshine
Saturday was branding day. Most of the branding has been done already, these calves were saved to invite some friends over to play….well work, too, but mostly play. Brandings are the social events of the season in many cases, and when you get friends together to rope and brand, it’s
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Leather, Wood & Granite High Resolution Textures
Textures play a huge role in designing everything from websites to print advertisements. I use them constantly, and have even developed my own collection with some of the photographs I have taken over time. Now I’m making some of them available to you for free! Enjoy, and I’d love to
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WordPress Wednesday – How to Update WordPress
Every now and again, WordPress will come out with updates to their platform and you will need to update your version of WordPress so that you will be able to use all the new features that are included with the new version. This is very easy to do, and just
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My School Website Redesign Project
For a recent final exam in school (for those of you who didn’t know, I’m almost done with my AA degree in Graphic Design), I had to redesign a website. The criteria was that this website be live and in need of a redesign. That’s it. I looked around for
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My SPAM Comments – Are These People for Real?
My guess would be no. After over 2 years of blogging now, I am still amazed by the SPAM comments that I get on my blog. Most of them make no sense at all, and are just a bunch of words thrown together in a completely illegible fashion. What surprises
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WordPress Wednesday – How to Manually Install a Plugin
Every now and again it is necessary to manually install a plugin for WordPress, instead of going through the automatic process that is provided in the plugin dashboard. Especially if you are looking for a particular plugin by name, WordPress will not always find the exact one you’re interested in,
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