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blog headers: Blog Design: Anatomy of a blog, Active News, marketing week in review - 07/20/08 01:22 AM
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This post continues where I left off a few weeks ago with my blog design series and how to deal with geeks and techies in plain English so they understand exactly what you mean and you get exactly what you want.
If you missed the beginning of this series, before reading this post you should take a look at...
- Blog Design 101 intro and basics
- Blog Design: things you should know before spending any $$$ good & bad news about free themes
- Blog Design: the next step overview of free themes … (82 comments)
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blog headers: Active Rain blog headers series 2... - 07/16/08 10:25 PM
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As I promised last week, here is the next group of images that I'm making available to the Active Rain community to use as backgrounds with the new AR outside blogs.
This is the second in a series of blog header graphics. In the coming weeks I'll be adding more images in various colors, textures and styles. If you have ideas, suggestions, requests... let me know and I'll keep them in mind when designing the next batch.
And YES, these images are FREE to use on your Active Rain blogs.
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blog headers: Outside blog header help, Localism 2.0, marketing week in review - 07/12/08 08:37 PM
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Active Rain outside blog header help:
Sometimes techies forget that what might be obvious to us, might not be obvious to everyone else.
In the past few days I received a couple of emails from Rainers asking why the blog headers I had designed didn't look right when they uploaded them into their AR outside blog.
Right now Active Rain offers 2 options for your outside blog, one theme (layout) is titled Attack Rabbit and the 2nd theme is titled Blue Bull. Does Cranky Cat and Diggity Dog come next? Sorry, just … (72 comments)
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blog headers: Active Rain Outside Blog header graphics, series 1... they're here!!! - 07/09/08 10:33 PM
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As promised, here is the first group of images that I'm making available to the Active Rain community to use as backgrounds with the new AR outside blogs.
These are just the first in a series of blog header graphics. In the coming weeks I'll be adding more images in various colors, textures and styles. If you have ideas, suggestions, requests... let me know and I'll keep them in mind when designing the next batch.
And YES, these images are FREE to use on your Active Rain blogs.
Important!!! Read … (111 comments)
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blog headers: Active Rain calendar, news from geeks & gurus, marketing week in review... - 05/03/08 04:16 PM
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Hi everyone... I'm drowning in work & a ton of new projects right now so I'll skip the formalities and get right to the "stuff".
Following up on my post from last week Pimp Your Blog part 3... using image tiles to speed up your blog , here is a new Active Rain themed image tile that you're welcome to use on your blog.
New Blog Background Image Tile: Active Rain Tile # 2
If you're looking for a background image to use on your AR blog, feel free to download Active Rain Tile # 2. … (62 comments)
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blog headers: Pimp Your Blog part 3... using image tiles to speed up your blog, marketing week in review - 04/27/08 01:46 AM
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Hi everyone... in the past 2 weeks I've seen a lot of comments about how slow some blog pages have become after they're been "pimped" so...
This week before we get into more customizing I thought I'd talk about a few basics re images, widgets, etc... that should help to speed things up.
Let's Take A Look At The Average Person's Screen Resolution
The image above shows the stats for visitors to my art website. If you take a close look almost 65% of my site's visitors have their computer monitor set to 1024 W X 768 H … (84 comments)
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blog headers: Pimp Your Blog part 2... 10 free header images, marketing week in review - 04/20/08 12:43 AM
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Hi everyone... again this past week there was a lot of talk, activity and still some confusion about using the new customized blog feature by Brad Carroll so to try and simplify things for anyone who needs help, I've designed some graphics that you can use as a starting point on your blog headers and... some ideas on how to use them.
First, let's take a look at the Active Rain Blog Header
I realize that some of this might seem overly simplified but just so we're all on the same page, here is a diagram to illustrate a few basic points.
The … (118 comments)
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blog headers: Pimp Your Blog, graphic goodies, the marketing week in review... - 04/13/08 10:07 AM
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Well, well, well...
look at all the pretty blogs! Unless you've been on another planet this past week, the Big News here in the Rain was Brad Caroll's wonderful gift... the Active Rain Customizer that allows us to turn the plain old generic version of AR into a personalized way to express and brand yourself with color and images.
If for some reason you haven't heard this news or haven't seen Brad's post, here it is...
ActiveRain gives the "Green Light" on Customizing - ActiveRainCustomizer.com
As you can see from the screen shot above, you can use … (110 comments)
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blog headers: welcome to The Art Of Marketing YOU... - 12/06/06 12:49 PM
***Note: We'll be updating and organizing all the graphics, blog headers, etc... I've given away in the past few years to make things easier for new members to find. We'll post a link soon.
***Important: Spam, referral programs, sales pitches (overt or thinly disguised) and posts that have been added or re-posted multiple times will be deleted.
First I'd like to say "hi and welcome" to everyone who has joined The Art Of Marketing You group
The Art Of Marketing You is for real estate agents and brokers who want to share their real world marketing ideas and experience.
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