Archive for 'Design'

What does a Professional Logo do for you?

August 11, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Design

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A logo is a very important part of any business, even blogging. You want to create a brand, you want something that people will immediately recognize your business with. For example, on this blog I have a simple graph, while that is not even close to a ‘professional’ logo, it is mine for the time being. As an example, check out a few diffrent sites, like this one for a New York car accident lawyer and this one, the one with the professional looking logo and site would be the one that got my votes.

If your a blogger, you have probably downloaded free themes and edited them to your liking. But do you have a logo? If you take a look around at some of the ‘big boys’ of blogging, they all have logos. Something that when we …

New theme is live!

July 23, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Design, Blogging

Ok everyone, here is is, if you seeing this on RSS you need to click on over! I have been working on this theme forever it seems! This has definitely been the most challenging theme to customize. I still have some minor tweaks that I couldn’t do on the testing server, but other than that, we are good to go. Please comment and let me know what you think, if there should be any changes, etc. And if you know how to center this theme, that would be most helpful! :-)

Thanks for being so patient, hopefully this theme will serve you better!

Brand new look is in the works!

July 14, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Design

I have been working on a new theme this weekend, and unless something goes wrong, it will be unveiled by tomorrow afternoon! Just like the new design over at Confessions of A Housewife, it is completely different!

I will post again as soon as I publish the new theme, so be sure to subscribe to my RSS if you haven’t already!

Some site changes - layout

June 27, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Design, Blogging

Earlier this week I decided to switch at the template some to try some new placements of my adsense ads. I have been considering taking them down completely but I’m so close to pay out I figured I would keep trying, no sense in wasting the 70 or so dollars that I’ve already made with them. Just in the two days since I’ve changed the positioning of the ads I’ve noticed an increase in revenue. Because we’re not allowed to share our exact adsense earnings I can’t give any more details, but I would say it has at least tripled.

I don’t feel up two it today, feeling a bit under the weather, but I do have plans to possibly completely changed the template here, although I really like the one I have; I feel it needs some changes that can best be done by switching the whole …

Tell them where you are

June 6, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Design, Business Advice

When I was doing website design (I recently took a hiatus) one of the first things after logo design was determining where the clients store was located, if they had a physical store. As with a website, brochure, etc, one of the most important thing you can relay to your website visitors is your location, products, services and hours. I used to use a plain Google map and find the location, edit it a bit to show where the store was and that’s it, but I was always on the lookout to find a more artistic way to use maps in a website. I came across this site that offers 3D artist impressions of a map to your business (or clients business). Using things like this will make a much bigger impact than a simple text version of direction to the location. They also …