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SUPER EXCITING NEWS!!!

I recently got word that one of my designs was selected as a TOP 5 Finalist for Showtime’s Dexter T-Shirt Contest.  First Place will be featured at Comic-Con 2010 —and I believe all finalist’s art will be sold in the Showtime store. Not only am I a huge fan of the show, but as a graphic designer, this is super exciting for me!   Voting is happening now.

The one that was chosen out of the 6 or so I submitted was the  “Miami Skyline Bloodslide”  TOP ROW/FAR RIGHT

Please go to Showtime’s Dexter site — and Vote!!

My Design is the Top Row Far Right--Miami Skyline Bloodslide

http://s.sho.com/DexArt

Well I have added pretty much the finishing touches on the all new Pet Portfolio site.  New prices and Size options to get that canvas or poster print you have been wanting. Once again I have turned to Media Lab and their  Sitegrinder Plug-In to help me build this new page. This is the 5th site built with Sitegrinder and I can’t tell you how much it has helped me get my website to look exactly how I want it to look without having to know much coding at all.

These Pet Portraits make excellent gifts for any pet lover or animal owner and best of all, they are fully customizable to your liking.

Each and every print is unique and printed on highest quality poster paper or on a beautiful stretched canvas.  Check out the new website at http://www.thepetportfolio.com and send the link to everybody you know that has a pet.

I have been working on a new business card design for the last week and decided on this one. Thought I would go with the rough grunge look for this Summer 09 design. In my design research and search for inspiration, I found so many awesome blogs and web pages with both creative and inspiring business card designs and thought I would share some… CreativeBits and Inspiredology are not only great blogs for designers, but both have some very unique card designs. I also found CardObserver,  a must see site for any designer or anybody looking for cool card inspiration and design.
Thanks to Uprinting for all the help, printing and great deals on the products.

Hello fellow designers and tutorial hunters!  I have recently had a couple questions about adding a JAlbum flash gallery to a Sitegrinder built site.  I felt compelled to write a tutorial on how I added my JAlbum galleries to my site to incorporate a coordinated and seamless flash gallery.

First things first…  You must have JAlbum and Sitegrinder (either Basic or Pro will work)

This is a not a Sitegrinder tutorial. If you want to learn how to use Sitegrinder, please visit MediaLab for more tutorials on their product. That being said, I assume you know how to make buttons in Sitegrinder.  A button is an image that is clickable and will lead you to a new page, either within your site or an external website.

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Hello to all the new blog readers on my site.

I have just put this link to my blog on my site and I am guessing if you are reading this, you found that link. In the last few days, I have had quite a few visitors to my site thanks to the Media Lab website. Media Lab has put a link to my site on their page of Sitegrinder built sites.

If you haven’t heard of Sitegrinder, check it out. If you are a designer and don’t have a whole lot of time to learn coding and web design layout CSS, Sitegrinder may be your best friend.  Design your site in Photoshop, exactly how you want it to look, add some Sitegrinder hints and in 5 minutes, you have a fully built website with all the proper files.  This isn’t a plug for Media Lab and Sitegrinder, but people have contacted me and asked about Sitegrinder, and honestly, as a designer and not a web site coder, this plugin has saved me not only money, but time and mental exhaustion too.

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