April 6, 2008

Identifying fonts

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been frustrated trying to match fonts for clients when designing marketing materials. My friend, Karen (a design artist extraordinaire!) suggested www.Identifont.com . Give it a shot. It will save you alot of time and frustration.

April 6, 2008

Free FTP Editor

I was looking for a FTP editor. Usually I just use MS Notepad and drag & drop my files in the ftp site.  I was talking to my friend Tim (A professional, heavy hitting web designer- ( www.windycitysites.com ) and he said that will not work all the time. In steps my “favorite” cousin Kristin [...]

April 6, 2008

Great tool for creating pdfs

If you don’t have a tool already for creating pdf’s-there is a great shareware one. It’s called primopdf-http://primopdf.com . You install the software and it becomes a print option. So if you want to create a pdf from a word document do these steps (after installing primo):

Open document in Word
Select Print
From drop down menu select [...]