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Three Reasons Your Logo Design Isn’t Working
You’re working as hard as you can to make your small business grow, but people don’t seem to be taking notice. Have you ever wondered why? It could be something as simple as your logo design – here’s three things to consider. 1. The font’s hard to read. I’m not naming names, but there’s a…
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Design Inspiration, NOLA style – Details in New Orleans
As a designer, I’m always looking for great inspiration to spark the art direction of a project. I’m pretty sure I embarrassed my husband more than once on our road trip to New Orleans last week as I snapped photo after photo of awesome little details. Here’s some of my favorite pieces of design inspiration…
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Four Years as a Self Employed Designer
Today is pretty dang special to me. December 1 is my self employed anniversary; I’m overjoyed to share I’ve been running this business full time, and our bills have been paid, for four solid years. Four years. It still feels so fresh – coming off of maternity leave with Phil, going in to the office…
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Latest Web Design Project – Dear Handmade Life Website
We are so pumped to present our latest web design project! Nicole Stevenson and Delilah Snell have been clients of mine from the very beginning of my self employment, and I’ve built a bunch of websites for em – each just a little more involved than the last. The brand new Dear Handmade Life site…
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Tips for Creating A User-Friendly Web App Interface
We’re introducing our first guest post on Hearts and Laserbeams this morning from Marcela De Vivo, a tech savvy gal with some tips for creating a user-friendly web app interface. Enjoy! (Wanna get in on the guest blogging game? Check out our guest blog posts guidelines and submit something already!) When you’re talking about web apps,…
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Ding ding ding, you win!! Here’s your prize ribbon!
Ding ding ding, you win!! You don’t suck!
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Back to Work, People!
For those of you that don’t know – I’ve been a professional graphic designer for over 10 years now. That means I’m really well-versed in making things look awesome visually. I’ve been building WordPress websites for about a year and a half, meaning every now and then something comes up where I’m gonna learn a…
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Graphic Design: Christina Sanchez Hair Design Logo
You remember my show and tell for the Le Modern Trinket website I built for Christina Sanchez? What about our facebook landing page project for Christina Sanchez Hair Design? She’s liked working together so much, she asked Hearts and Laserbeams to work on a new logo design for Christina Sanchez Hair Design. We pulled together…
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Lydia Hearst Web Site Design Help
I’m excited to share some more web site design help with you! Recently, I was asked to help out with a couple of design elements in Lydia Hearst’s web site rebuild. The new web site was built using wix.com, which is a fairly straightforward and easy to use service that allows users a lot of flexibility and drag…
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Share and Share Alike: The Internet Came to My Rescue
The internet came to my rescue not once, but twice recently. It never fails to blow my mind how sometimes you can just put out to the world a small thing you need help with and boom. Good people come forward to lend a hand. Crisis 1: My pencil sharpener. I was working on a…
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Craftcation Conference!! Who’s Comin’ With Me?!?
I shared the Craftcation Conference website with you guys recently as a show and tell – to date, it’s the largest, most intricate, involved website I have ever built, and I’m pretty proud of it. You want an interactive forum? Online ticketing integration? A clickable, easy to use schedule matrix that links up who’s teaching…
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What is SOPA?
“More sopapillas please!!” That classic Cartman quote is what runs through my head just about every time I hear the news talking about SOPA. And then I started actually listening to the news talk about this issue, and um… yikes. It sounds pretty bad, people. On paper it looks great – SOPA stands for “Stop…
