Recent Articles
At last, I signed up for PPP!
Jan 11, 2008 Make Money, Uncategorized 1 Comment
I signed up for PPP (Pay Per Post) a few months ago after reading a few blogs and decided to give it a try. Apart from designing I need to find extra income from different sources. I know my website have not get any page rank yet, but I’ve been preparing this blog over six months (you need at least 3 months blog and min of 20 posts to be able to signup PPP). Iwebtool.com predict my future pagerank would be 4, so this something I can’t wait to see soon. The higher your pagerank, the more offers you will get from Pay Per Post.
Before I knew about this method of earning money, I would never have known that one could earn money from writing and posting in their own blogs. So yesterday, after receiving the green light to start earning money by blogging, I saw a few good opportunities already there waiting for me to grab on to it. To say the least, I am hoping that by blogging sponsored posts, I would be able to increase my income online by having other stuffs like products and such to make my blog go round.
Furthermore another benefits of PPP is that I can learn to blog about products and services. This will improve my writing skill and as well as online marketing skill by blogging a product review or introduction.
I do know a few people who blogs sponsored posts and really, I am amazed at the creativity they put into writing those posts. I would have thought that it’s be kind of boring to do this all the time but I guess they know how to pace themselves. Hopefully I can too, though, I have to say that earning money by blogging is just too awesome.
Are you interested to earn money while blogging? get paid to blog
Why Write an eBook?
Dec 26, 2007 Advertising Materials, Tools 1 Comment
Apart from designing, I’ve been thinking to write an e-book. Maybe I can write something I like such as something on graphics design or photoshop. Or maybe I could write something on ‘how to create your own logo’ or ‘how to create your own e-cover without photoshp’. People would say just keep on designing graphics, why bother writing an e-book…
Well….let’s say you already have an Internet business with a quality website and a quality product. An ebook is one of the most powerful ways to promote your business while educating people with the knowledge you already possess as a business owner of a specific product or service.
For example, let’s say that you’ve spent the last twenty-five years growing and training orchid trees, and now you’re ready to share your experience and knowledge. An ebook is the perfect way to reach the largest audience of orchid enthusiasts.
Ebooks will not only promote your business – they will help you make a name for yourself, and establish you as an expert in your field. One of the most prevalent reasons people read ebooks is to find information about how to turn their Internet businesses into a profit-making machine. And these people are looking to the writers of ebooks to provide them with new ideas because people who write ebooks are usually people who understand the new cyberspace world we now live in.
So, let’s start writing an ebook..
Anyway if you want an easier and faster way to create an ebook, the tool you need is e-Writer Pro
Here is what E-Writer Pro will let you do easily and effectively.
Have everything you need in one software application.
Open Word, RTF, Text and HTML for editing.
Santa Sal Christmas Giveaway!
Dec 23, 2007 Cool Stuff, FREE stuff Leave a comment
If you haven’t heard about the Santa Sal Christmas Giveaway you’ve probably been on a lengthy excursion to the Arctic Circle to get pictures of those polar bears you always wanted to see before they go extinct….and haven’t been online much….
Santa Sal’s Giveaway is like every birthday and Christmas morning you’ve had since you were 12, but….better. Cause, I bet you never
got PAID to actually tell people about your gifts…..click here to find out more
The Power of Photoshop
Dec 14, 2007 Cool Stuff, Photoshop Leave a comment
Not much to say today. Just wanted to show you the power of photoshop. Enjoy..
A Free Neat Tool To Express Yourself
Nov 18, 2007 Cool Stuff, FREE stuff, Tools, Uncategorized Leave a comment
According to basement.com,
“This is why the Internet is cool. You can share an idea,
and name that idea and if the idea is interesting enough,
it can catch on.
Since sketchcast.com debuted, the idea of “sketchcasting”
finally found a tool that made it a whole lot easier.
Next thing you know, the term “sketchcast” is showing up
in over 320,000 Google results.
Sketchcasting is a way to quickly illustrate your point
using a web ‘whiteboard’ with sound,
while you’re drawing your illustration you can also record
yourself with a simple PC mic.
Check it out – it’s 100% free.
Simple Border Tutorial
Nov 3, 2007 PS Video Tutorials, Photoshop, Photoshop Video Tutorial, Tutorials, Videos 4 Comments
Here’s a tutorial on how to make a simple border around your picture:
Click here for a clearer version
———————————————————-
Must check out:
Content, appearance, usability & visibility are the basic web design principles & aspects which should always be kept in mind while preparing a commercial web design. Once you are over with this phase, you should search for a best domain host for registration of your website that is providing services compatible to your requirements. Usually it is included in the package provided by webhosting net companies. Apart from this, on line website building, free blogs and forums, e carts, free email accounts are also offered by these web hosting services providers. Due to increasing competition in the market more or less all of them are giving cheap web hosting services.
CSS Website Navigation Menus
Oct 30, 2007 Cool Stuff, Free PSD, Graphics, Photoshop, Scripts, Tools Leave a comment
This is very neat, customizable CSS menu for download by 13styles. Also comes with the PSD for skinning. Some of the css menus are free and some require you to purchase rights to use them.
————————————————-
When you go through web hosting service review, you will get to know that a number of types of web hosting are available. These web hosting services providers have free, shared, reseller, virtual, dedicated, managed, collocation, clustered, home server and grid types. Amongst them shared hosting could be the cheapest hosting web service available. Free and paid providers are using these services, but you should always choose a web host by evaluating the requirements of your application. The most basic of hosting is the web page hosting at a small scale file hosting and is often provided free to the subscribers. These web hosts have attractive package options such as ipowerweb claims 30 days money back guarantee which builds the customers trust. Free reviews, information & coupons is offered by lunarpages. Apart from this there is also a claim of being hacker safe web host that is advertised by startlogic. Now it’s up to you which one sounds logical to you.
25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic Designer
Oct 24, 2007 Photoshop, Uncategorized 1 Comment
Haha…got this from cg-files.com, list of signs that you might be a hardcore designer. I don’t consider myself as a hardcore designer but some of these do happened to me.
- You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
- You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
- You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
- You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
- You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
- You consider meals interruptions.
- You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
- You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
- You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
- You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
- You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
- When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
- When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
- You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
- You’ve actually $paid for a font.
- You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
- The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
- You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
- You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
- You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
- You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
- You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
- You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
- You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
- If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago
Watch out for a new tutorial soon..
Cool Reflection Maker
Oct 20, 2007 Cool Stuff, Graphics, Tools, Uncategorized 5 Comments
I just found a cool reflection maker online. This is a very handy cool if you need to get away from photoshop for a while. Just upload your image or put your url’s image, choose your size and the background color for the reflection. Then click the generate button and you will see the result. Save the image by clicking the download button below the image.
Click here to go to reflection maker online.
If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers…
Oct 19, 2007 Uncategorized 5 Comments
Got this joke from the net about how it would be if architects had to work like web designers:
Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.
Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the one I am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don’t have nearly enough insulation in them).
As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)
Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.
To insure that you are building the correct house for our entire family, make certain that you contact each of our children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong feelings about how the house should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure that you weigh all of these options carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to overrule any choices that you make.
Please don’t bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house: get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be choosing the color of the carpet.
However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.
While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that sooner or later I will have to sell it to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers. Please make sure before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the population in my area that they like the features this house has. I advise you to run up and look at my neighbor’s house he constructed last year. We like it a great deal. It has many features that we would also like in our new home, particularly the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the final cost.
Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this time to do the real design, since they will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will be held accountable for any increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.
You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To be able to use the latest techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is something that can’t happen very often. Contact me as soon as possible with your complete ideas and plans.
PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I’ve given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have tried in the past and have been unable to accomplish this. If you can’t handle this responsibility, I will have to find another architect.
PPS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer. Please advise me as soon as possible if this is the case.
Make Money With Graphics – Sell Page Peel Ads
Oct 18, 2007 Advertising Materials, Banner Ads, Banner Designs, Make Money, Page Peel, Scripts, Tools, Uncategorized 2 Comments
If you are thinking of selling graphics on your blog or shopping site, I suggest you to start selling Page Peel Ads Script. Not only it attracts people to click on it, it transform your online adverts into compelling pieces of online interactivity (Demo: see the top right corner of this page). Just put it on your website, your customer will see it and act on natural curiosity. And of course they sure want it on their site too. To start selling on your site, you will need the scripts with Master Resell Rights.
Some screenshot of sales made from selling Page Peel Ads Script on my blog:
Best Regards,
Part-time Designer
Every one wants to work and make money either by going out or by work at home jobs. There could be a number of businesses that could be run at home from your home office either alone or with a little number of staff and are known as ‘home business. By doing this you can spend your energies positively and can bring out the creative aspect of your personality either you want to make something or want to make money online. If you wan to search on this and get to look at the home business list you can find a number of ideas that you can practically implement and will get to know that companies like Microsoft & Apple have started like this. By doing online work, you do not need to worry even about financing home business.
Graffiti Creator
Oct 18, 2007 Graphics, Tools 2 Comments
Create your own graffiti styled texts online. It is fast, easy and requires no downloads. And no need photoshop;)
Just go to Graffiti Creator.
Wicked! You think you can do this in Photoshop:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBJSl4BqnEc[/youtube]
Free two high-converting squeeze page templates
Oct 11, 2007 FREE stuff, Templates 1 Comment
Freebies!! Who doesn’t love freebies!! Kidino is giving away two killer squeeze page templates that are totally free, fully customized and ready-to-use for your website.
- Definition: Squeeze pages are landing pages created to solicit opt-in email addresses from prospective subscribers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze page
But before you download the templates, I want you to get this free report explaining
how Kidino did a squeeze page makeover for David, his dating affiliate and improved opt-in rates by 50.2%. It’s a great case study.
These nice looking & professionally designed squeeze page templates have been put to test, and passed with flying colors. That result? Over 30% conversion rate, which is a very respectable figure!
Sample:
User Manual also included on the site such as How to Customize Your Squeeze Page with Photoshop and How to Integrate Your Squeeze Page with an Autoresponder.
And what I most liked..there’s a secret unannounced free bonus. You will find 331 icons for several uses. You can use them on your website, blog, squeeze page, software, even ebooks and documents.
So check out the designs and skyrocket your opt-in rate like never before.
Javascript Image Effects
Sep 10, 2007 Graphics, Scripts Leave a comment
If you find it hard to design your own image effects, here are some links to very cool javascript image effects. Just download, follow the instructions and walla! very cool effects.
Read More..
Action Script In Photoshop?
Sep 9, 2007 Graphics, PS Action Scripts, Photoshop, Tutorials Leave a comment
Someone emailed me and asked what is action script for Photoshop. So I made this video to show how action scripts work in photoshop and how these scripts can save your time and effort…
Want to create your own action script?
Blur Loterina
Read More..
