Archive for June, 2009

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Story of our lives:

The Client/Vendor relationship… maybe this will make it to some of “those” customers. » Post Ad Purchase:  Intext Link

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Graffiti 3D Realistic Marker effect on your text

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 tripod-esq.. But here I will [...]

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Hello World from Me

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 of 1996 [...]

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Code for Tidy Linking

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 [...]

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Using the Extrude/Bevel 3D option in Illustrator

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 wants to [...]

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My favorite Graphic Resources Online

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 ware out there. They also [...]

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FREE ADVERTISING – check it out!

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 to FTP, HOSTING, WEB DESIGN and OSCOMMERCE.. Anyways.. [...]

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Web Design For Idiots FORUM!!!

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 professional graphic designer [...]

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