Talk about a crazy, crazy month. Isn’t December always that way? In the middle of all the Christmas craze, I’ve been watching InDesign videos on Lynda.com so that I can gain more than a working knowledge of the program. Much to my surprise, I retained more than I realized when I started working on a [...] Read more »
Book Design Project: Eternal Quest for Immortality – Finished!
I’m very pleased to announce that John Evans’ book The Eternal Quest for Immortality is published and available on Amazon.com and Amazon UK. This project reminded me how much I enjoy designing books. There was an exciting learning curve, as I had never used Lightning Source before. Their system looked somewhat daunting at first until [...] Read more »
Is the Thesis 1.6 Upgrade Worth It?
After watching Marko Saric’s video tutorial of Thesis 1.6, I decided to give it a try on my website and my blog. The installation process on my website went pretty much without a hitch. I say pretty much, because the upgrade didn’t include the code that I had used to design my interface. The reason [...] Read more »
Things to Consider Before Buying Thesis
After all my research on Thesis, I finally found one post that doesn’t glow with kudos. Raju of Technically Personal feels that Thesis is way over-hyped for what it is. He contends that you can find free themes that may suit your intended purposes equal to or better. Three weeks after my purchase, I have [...] Read more »
Saying Goodbye to Free WordPress Themes
I’m in the process of changing this blog’s design, hopefully for the very last time. If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, then you’ll know how many themes I’ve gone through. Too many. For one reason or another, I’ve never been quite happy with the themes that I’ve installed on here, [...] Read more »
Creating WordPress Themes with Artisteer
I played around with the trial version of Artisteer on my husband’s laptop last Friday and liked what I was able to do. Once I finished the preliminary design, I exported it into the WordPress format and uploaded it to see what it looked like. Other than the watermark going down both sidebars, the design [...] Read more »
Fiction and Reality
Yesterday was a very inspirational day that started off early. I’m not sure why, but I struggle to get up all week, only to spring awake on the weekends. As I was working on a design, I kept thinking about the bookmarkers I had mentioned in Friday’s post. There has to be a way to [...] Read more »
Ideas Flowing in Unexpected Places
I’ve been working on Chapter 12 for what . . . a month now? It seems like longer. I had finished it two weeks earlier, only to accidentally erase it the moment I saved the next chapter. While the gist of the chapter remained in my mind, the internal monologue I had written was lost. [...] Read more »
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