Design resources for Christmas

Enjoy these Christmas themed social icons, web design icons and elements, PNG files, PhotoShop shapes and brushes and so much more that I’ve collected. Please take note of each item’s terms of use and respect each artist’s copyright.

Icons
These beautiful, and professional quality Christmas holiday icons by Icon Dock are shown here in the [...]

Halloween Styles for PhotoShop plus other freebies

Halloween styles for PhotoShop by GingerWench.com are free to download and use however you’d like! Some include textures, and all include gradients from my vast collection.

How to work with me as your web designer

I came across a great article today, a humorous take on what NOT to do when dealing with a graphics designer. 8 Ways to Drive a Graphic Designer Mad gave me a great laugh with my morning coffee. Please remember, when reading this article, it’s sarcasm! Doing those things will indeed drive someone like me [...]

Google Page Rank vs. IMVU Tiers

I’m both a web master and an IMVU content developer, or as we say on IMVU, simply a “Dev”. I just giggled to myself as I was checking the Google page rank of the sites I manage when I realized that I was feeling the same anticipation as I do when the new IMVU Dev [...]

Banners added to Design Portfolio

I’ve been meaning to add a “Banners” section to the Design Portfolio here for months! In my efforts to consolidate some of my domains, I’ve finally gotten the Banners gallery up and running.
Of course, this is a direct result of my creating new banners for my IMVU catalog, and this Design site LOL. Now I [...]

Geocities closing causes busy design summer

With the announcement that Geocities will no longer be available for domain hosting, I’ve been seeing a lot of inquiries about moving sites to new hosting. The phrase “While we’re at it, I also need…” is all too common these days.
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I’m thrilled that I’m receiving so many inquiries, but I wasn’t ready for it. I’ve [...]

Web Design portfolio updated

Life’s been a lil busy for this “WebWench”! I’ve been working with a new web site client who’s successful business deserved my complete attention for some time. Now that the initial design process is complete, and I’m now concentrating on the maintenance of the sites, I’ve had the chance to add to my design portfolio.
Rather [...]

Do something nice for the holidays

Click that, and take the quiz… every little bit helps to make this holiday season just a little better for those in need.

Is your RSS feed healthy? Keep it available!

RSS feeds are a great way to offer your visitors an easy way to keep up with your site updates by allowing them to subscribe to your feed with an RSS Reader, such as the Google Reader. (That’s what I use.) However, if your feed isn’t “healthy”, your visitors may become frustrated when they can’t subscribe… resulting in the possibility that they will forget all about your site. *Gasp!*

New design and digital art site

Now that my personal blog is set up the way I wanted it, it’s time to get a site set up to focus on my design work and digital art. Of course, I will wind up posting about my WordPress adventures here as well. I have needed a mainstream site to present to design clients, so that will be the focus of this site.