Now and then when I explore new fonts I joke around and tell my friend that it is to me like exploring a candy shop. Lately my friend Roy A. Ackerman of The Adjuvancy, LLC (give him a like on Facebook) told me, that he doesn’t fancy candy so much but rather chocolate.
Ok Roy, this font is for you!
It is called Chocolate Drops – please be careful while eating, and brush your teeth afterwards.
Welcome to another Top10Thursday.
Today I am going to share my favorite Graphic Tools with you, favorite programs and Internet resources.
First of all I love to work with Photoshop.
Nearly every graphic I have made so far has been made with Photoshop.
To me Photoshop is my canvas and the mouse is my color and brush.
We first met when Photoshop was quite young. It was called Photoshop 2.0 at that time. Now it is a big girl which is now called Photoshop CS 6 (13.0)
But I know that Photoshop is not the graphic tool for everybody, since it is a bit prizzy.
Therefore I would recommend Gimp to you too. I am not familiar with it – Photoshop you know J – but they say that it is similar to Photoshop in some ways and it is free. So give it a try! Read the rest of this entry
When browsing the blogs of some of my fellow bloggers, I see now and then blog homepages with large and extended posts. Actually the whole blog post appears on the very first page, followed by the similar extended previous blog posts.
When the blogger allows the last 10 posts on the 1st page it makes a long way to scroll down to reach the bottom of the page.
But there is light at the end of the tunnel!
The wonderful programmers of WordPress – and I bet those of other blogging software too – have thought about it and added an option to the format tags to reduce the posts on the homepage.
You will find it right in the first formatting line when running the blog entry in visual mode. Read the rest of this entry
Recently I have learned that list building is very important.
Every entrepreneur busy on the internet needs a list!
If you don’t have a list, you can’t send newsletters to your customers or people who might be interested. It would be regarded as spamming and it is kind of illegal.
The process is called “Email-Marketing” – still confusing for me. Read the rest of this entry
Just a quick note on blogging schedules.
By end of February I decided to follow a blogging schedule. I even set up categories for different days – like today’s post is “TipTuesday”.
I have to recommend this for you.
My blogging-life is so much easier now following the schedule – I have many posts scheduled in advance.
And it is so much easier what to blog about.
I have my categories and I have a kind of blog-schedule to plan. (Click on link to get your free pdf).
You can use any good calendar too.
Today’s font is a very lovely font, really suitable for this lovely first day of spring we are experiencing in Berlin. My friend Laura made me aware of that font. It was stored in my font-library and yet our paths haven’t crossed yet. Thanks Laura – btw. Laura is the writer of a fantastic blog “Vodka Logic” – if you can spare a minute, step by and say hi!
And now we are saying hi to Harrington:
When I recently posted about the font “Fraktur” Melanie Kissel asked a question via facebook:
how in the world do you take the fonts you download and use them on your blog?? I have yet to figure that out and it’s a shame because I’ve got quite a large collection of fonts waiting in the wings.
A very good question I have to admit. Read the rest of this entry
When I recently posted about the font “Fraktur” Melanie Kissel asked a question via facebook:
how in the world do you take the fonts you download and use them on your blog?? I have yet to figure that out and it’s a shame because I’ve got quite a large collection of fonts waiting in the wings.
A very good question I have to admit. Read the rest of this entry
My friend Anja had the honor to chose today’s font. She told me that she pretty much loves the old style fonts, but not really knowing what the font is called. I showed her a picture of it and she happily agreed that this is her favorite font. It is called “Fraktur”.
As the name of the font implements it is a fractured font – gebrochene Schrift. Read the rest of this entry
Last Thursday I moaned a bit about the pain of commenters.
The desire to interact, to communicate with the blogger, which is sometimes not really possible.
But it is easy for us bloggers to help our reader, our commenter to interact.
We all love the little checkbox “Notify me of follow-up comments via email” Read the rest of this entry
Yes some musings on the new timeline for facebook pages.
Some have already adapted, others will wait until the last minute.
If we like it or not … we all have to make the switch to new facebook timeline … even for fan, business, charity … pages.
You will need a new profile picture and a new cover picture. Read the rest of this entry
Today we are not talking about just one font … it is more a big crowd of fonts and I won’t be able to present you all members of that crowd.
Maybe you will start to explore this crowd a bit on your own.
I will introduce
to you.
A dingbat is a kind of ornament; you can say “a little picture”. An ornament, a specific character used in typesetting. Read the rest of this entry
Do you mind?
Maybe it is a bit lazy, but it was an exhausting week, and we had had so much fun last week, and there are so many dingbats in my world. Really so many, found even new ones. So we are about 1039 in my font-archive program.
Isn’t that amazing?
Therefore here we go … in royal purple … Read the rest of this entry