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Tutorial: Create an Easily Customizable Candy-Like Icon in Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial we will explain step-by-step how to create an easily customizable, candy-like icon using Adobe Illustrator. The icon will be built using a single, solid color allowing it to be quickly adapted to your needs whether you're using it for a website button, to spice up your logo, or something to put on promotional items. Step 1: Create a New Document Start by creating a new document. • Size: Letter • Orientation: Horizontal • Document Color: RGB ( for web ) or CMYK ( for print ) Step 2: Create the Outer Circle Select the Ellipse Tool and draw a 2in x 2in circle. Any solid, dark color can be utilized...
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Social Media Marketing: Twitter Etiquette Tips
Social media is all the rage these days and many individuals and businesses alike have jumped on board to flex their social skills. If you or your business are not currently working with social media, now is the perfect time to start, though the most common question encountered is "How do I begin?" One of the easiest social media tools is Twitter, a networking and micro-blogging service where users send and read messages known as 'tweets'. A tweet is a 140 character text message that is read by your 'followers', Twitters term for 'friends'. To get started just visit twitter.com, sign up for an account and start tweeting. Keep it simple...
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Flutter: Basic Usage
We are continuing our Freshout Flutter tutorials by covering the basics of creating Write Panels, Custom Fields and methods of printing those Custom Fields. This tutorial makes the general assumption that the Flutter plugin has been downloaded and successfully installed within a WordPress plugins folder. Custom Write Panels: Begin by creating a WordPress category ( Posts > Categories ) named "Articles". Note that category creation should be done prior to working with the Flutter plugin. Once the category has been created, select the WordPress admin menu "Flutter" and choose "Write Panels" from the drop down list. This will take...
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Twelve Programs for the Freelance Designer
The intent of this listing is to relay some of the better Macintosh programs we have come across that get the job done well. These programs are not necessarily cool, well-designed or number one in their category, but have a strong work ethic and are an easy-to-learn interface for quick and effective results. We will try to explain each one to the best our ability in no particular order. 1. iBiz by IGG Software, LLC: As a freelancer, it's almost expected that you have a unique invoice design, this is especially true of graphic designers. It's a great way to extend your design skills and impress a Client or two. iBiz is one of the...
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Tutorial: Making the Flutter Date Field work for you
The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate the comparison between two WordPress Flutter Date Fields, display them and if only one date is necessary, show only the first date. This method is currently being used by Grand Idea Studio on the Events page. The issue was that some events were several days in length while others lasted only a single day. Not wanting to put the client through the process of manually entering individual dates for each event we determined the Flutter Date Field was the perfect solution and with a little php we were able to make exceptions to event lengths. To start the tutorial we need to cover the basic concept...
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