Web Design For Idiots

Story of our lives:

June 26, 2009
The Client/Vendor relationship... maybe this will make it to some of "those" customers. ...Read More

Graffiti 3D Realistic Marker effect on your text

Graffiti 3D Realistic Marker effect on your text
June 25, 2009
If you have a website that would benefit from some neat graphical headers, and graffiti is what you want, but you think it will look cheesy, LOOK HERE!!! Graffiti can look really really cheesy if it's dont wrong, and a bad font is used. It can look very 1990's free trip...Read More

Hello World from Me

Hello World from Me
June 24, 2009
I'm posting this from my very messy desk with the TV on to my left and my nearly cold coffee at my right hand, in danger of wrecking my faithful little scanner. I'm a real woman. I'm a real, live, 40+, divorced Canadian woman, a writing legend in my own mind. In June ...Read More

Code for Tidy Linking

Code for Tidy Linking
June 24, 2009
One of the first bits of code I learned (and memorized) was the HTML to create a link. More than that, a link that I could anchor into the content as I wrote it. Rather than making the link obvious or having the HTML code itself stuck into the post I was writing, it just ble...Read More

Using the Extrude/Bevel 3D option in Illustrator

Using the Extrude/Bevel 3D option in Illustrator
June 21, 2009
I have never EVER played with the 3D option in Adobe Illustrator - the main reason is because I have an amazing 3D art guy at my fingertips for whenever I need a realistic soda can, or a perfume bottle. But I was designing charts and graphs - hardly something a 3D genius wan...Read More

My favorite Graphic Resources Online

My favorite Graphic Resources Online
June 18, 2009
When it comes down to adding graphics to my website, there are a few resources that I always turn to. When adding pictures, iStockPhoto.com is my favorite place. Yes, you have to pay for the images, but the quality of pictures at iStockPhoto is well beyond any of the free w...Read More

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June 16, 2009
I have slightly neglected the content on my blog, however I am happy to say that teh traffic has still been rather steady at about 200+ organic visitors a day.. That is with no traffic exchange gimmicks or anything. The most commonly searched terms are generally related t...Read More

Web Design For Idiots FORUM!!!

June 14, 2009
That's right.. You heard it first, right here on WebDesignForIdiots.Net... Web Design For Idiots Forum is UNDERWAY! It's been a while since I have been able to update my blog, but that is then and this is now. I am now officially my own boss and I can officially call me a ...Read More