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Rejection – how it’s delivered matters
Rejection is something no one likes. Sometimes it’s stings and other times the comments are good for reflection. Could your work or performance have been better? With one group of people you get awards, with another they leave you feeling that perhaps you should...
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NO! You don’t use Fiverr, and research the advice you’ve just been given
Fiverr the home of five-dollar logos. Ugh! You are paying good money for a course that’s going to teach you how to make tens of thousands of dollars of money on your new blog, but you are only willing to spend five-dollars on the artwork that is going to give your...
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Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colors: Part Two – How Color Works for You
Did you ever wonder why your first box of crayons had only eight colors? It all started in 1926 when the maker of crayons Binney & Smith acquired the Munsell Color Company’s line of crayons. The Munsell company had based their product line on the color wheel and...
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The Basics: Part One – How Color Can Work for You
The BasicsNo matter what color you chose, every color begins with the use of the color wheel. Created by Isaac Newton in 1666 the color wheel, even with all of its transformations is still the main tool today for selecting the correct color(s) for any project. How do...
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Time well spent, at least I thought so and so did many others
Time, it’s something none of us seem to have enough of. When you talk about free time, for many that’s just a dream. So, when decided to not only purchase wreaths for my relatives who are buried in military cemeteries, but to also volunteer to place them I...
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Blog or website? What in the heck is the difference or is there any difference?
The quick answer today is there is no difference between a blog and a website. How we got here One of the original blogging platforms is WordPress. In 2003 when WordPress made its debut, it was used by those who wanted only to blog. It was clean and simple...
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A little card company that could
Way back when, when I graduated from art school, one of my biggest dreams was to have my own greeting card company. There were two big problems with that dream – the biggest being I didn’t have a clue as to what kind of cards I wanted to design. Then right...
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Food for thought on autoplay GIFs on Facebook
This food for thought episode is not to whine about something, for the sake of whining, it’s a public service announcement on how the autoplay GIFs affect many. They look fun, they may express something for you better than words, but for some, I included,...
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Developer or Designer? Which are You or are You Both?
Are you a developer or designer, is an age-old question that seems to have no answer? If I’m asked, I answer, both. Though I was once told, “You are really just a designer.” I had no response. I do know that reinforced my “imposter syndrome genie.” Does...
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ADA accessibility compliance; time to comply is now not later
ADA accessibility (Americans with Disabilities Act), we’ve all heard about it, and most of us have probably thought about it, but how many of us have actually done something about it? A quick search through a number of websites from medium and small...
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An image is worth a 1,000 words; or is it?
An image; how many times have you heard that it speaks louder than words? In most cases that’s true, but what happens when it’s not. When your client sends you an image that they firmly believe is, “Just what we need for the website,” and all you want to say is,...
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I promise, no later than Monday
I promise, two words all freelancers, small agencies, and the self-employed hear more than they care to. We all have had clients that when we hear those two words, we know we’ll be calling back, and quite often calling back, and calling back, week after...
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