Archive for September, 2009

Say Farewell to Twitter’s Ugly Brown Box Avatar

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

twitter_new_default_avatar You see that cute little birdie in the image to the left?

Look closely at it and memorize it, because if you use Twitter, you’re going to be seeing a lot more of it.

In case you haven’t heard, yesterday Twitter announced that they are adding 4 new Twitter backgrounds. That’s great news for people who don’t use Custom Twitter backgrounds.

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Free Space Themed Twitter Icon Pack

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

tweetscotty_128 Sneh Roy is a web designer/content developer by day and the creative force behind Little Box Of Ideas by night.

She’s also kind enough to offer this Twitter Vector Icon Pack called “Tweet Me Up Scotty” to you for free.

Each of these 6 high resolution vector icons in PNG format comes in 512×512, 256×256, 128×128 and 64×64 sizes and are FREE for Personal & Commercial Use on Websites and other Media.

tweetscotty

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Free Video Squeeze Pages for Affiliate Marketers

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

affiliatepowervideos Everyone knows that in today’s web 2.0 world, video marketing is one of the greatest creations to come down the pike in a long time. Not only does it show that you’re on the cutting edge of today’s web-based technology, it’s a proven fact that using videos increases your opt-in and sales conversion rates. That’s why I wanted to let you know about a great free resource you can start using right now!

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Free Halloween Website Headers, Icon Set and Photoshop Tutorials

Monday, September 7th, 2009

happy-halloween My husband and I spent the last 2 days enjoying the Labor Day weekend with 9 of our 16 grandchildren. As usually happens this time of year, the conversation turned to the type of costumes they’re going to wear for Halloween.

That got me thinking that the readers of this blog may be in the planning stages of what their blogs and websites are going to “wear” for Halloween.

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Free Resources for Resizing Images

Friday, September 4th, 2009

how-to-resize-images If you’re a blogger, webmaster or information marketer, sooner or later the time is going to come when you need to resize a graphic or image.

Now if you’re like I was when first faced with this task several years ago, the first thing you do is panic. Actually, I think my first reaction was to paraphrase a line from my favorite movie, Gone With the Wind…

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A Blogger’s Dilemma – Finding Images to Use On Your Blog

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

hard-to-find-images The other evening my friend Andrea Chin and I spent a good part of our 2 hour phone call discussing how “iffy” and time-consuming it is finding royalty-free images to use in a blog post.

Almost as if the Twitter gods were smiling down on me, within 5 minutes of finishing our telephone call Michel Fortin sent a tweet that directed me to Seth Simonds’ article, “How I Discover & Use Images On My Blog”.

In his article Seth reveals that he uses Flickr to find his images. However; as he himself puts it…

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