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I'm sure some of you know exactly how your email works. Unfortunately I often hear from users who don't know how email works. My fear is that their misunderstanding of email will mean those users miss this post. Just in case, I want to outline a few things to help...
Last Friday I told you about our new Photos Unleashed service that goes along with the services we provide for Web design. It came out of seeing so many of our Web design clients needing help with their photos. Another area where clients needed assistance is having...
I have a number of stories to share today about helping others. I was called "pompous and foolish" because I had the gall to ask someone to pay for my time. I'll get to that story after another short story. Last week was the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United...
You may have seen that I included an SSL graphic in my post yesterday, Securing Web Sites Often Requires Finding Insecure Elements. It was a stock vector graphic I got from iStock. In the ZIP file I downloaded were two files, a JPG (obviously a bitmap) and an EPS....
I've had to design two advertising pieces for a client recently and both pieces required very exacting specifications. The first was an ad for a magazine. The client simply told me the outside dimensions of the ad and "send them a JPG". I knew those specifications...
I got an interesting note from a loyal reader recently. It contained some misconceptions, some horrendous advice and a desire to improve a common task. Let's go over each of those items and hopefully I can clear it all up. One thing I've advised over and over and...
If you have ever purchased anything in the Graphics Unleashed Media Marketplace, I urge you to read this entire post as it will have an effect on products you've purchased. It was nearly two and a half years ago that I wrote One Door Is Closing, Another To Be...
Most loyal readers are already aware that my days of creating CorelDRAW training videos are over. I've also been asked over the years about providing training on other software products. While I won't say it isn't possible, there are no plans to create anything....
I admit that I haven't been a person who embraces the latest social media platform immediately. Even when I have created an account on a social media platform, I took my time before becoming active. Things were different with Instagram. I created my account (follow...
I've written about various maintenance issues in the last ten days. From a design standpoint, I wrote When Did You Last Polish Up Your Portfolio? as a portfolio is a very important tool to show off your work. There were also two posts on tools for keeping your...
Now that nearly everyone has a digital camera, businesses will often try to save money by shooting their own photos. This is often the case for photos I receive for Web design projects. Unfortunately many of the photos have severe flaws because the scene wasn't...
Recently I was making some changes to the CorelDRAW Unleashed and Vehicle Templates Unleashed sites and I wanted to integrate seamless textures into the headers and footers of those sites. I turned to our Textures Unleashed collections to find the perfect texture...
I've been contacted by a few clients for Web sites recently that would like my help in making their sites better. In several cases, the menu at the top of the site suffered from having too many choices at the top level. One of the examples is shown below and I've...
When designing a Web site for a client, I am very flexible on how tasks are divided. If the client wants to make some changes on their own to save a little money, I have no problem with it. A few months ago I wrote Designing Staff Web Site Requires Information From...
Your data is very valuable and the criminals know this. They want to find ways to "kidnap" your data and hold it for ransom. I've warned you about this in Beware of Cryptolocker Malware and Cryptolocker Strikes, The Price Has Gone Up. The latest threat has the bad...
Last week in Search Google for Matching Images, I told you about my search for the artwork used in a logo for Golf Data Systems LLC. It took me only minutes to locate the original artwork for the logo using the process described in the post last week. Below is the...
Recently a loyal reader asked me how to export a multipage CorelDRAW file to a series of JPG files. It was required by one of his output devices. I've found two solutions to the problem. The first is the wOxxOm Multipage Export to Bitmap Macro. It is completely...
I've been hard at work at another tutorial in our Success Kit series. The latest success kit, Vectorizing Bitmaps in CorelDRAW, covers the many techniques for converting bitmap artwork into vector artwork in CorelDRAW. The techniques described apply to CorelDRAW...
A loyal reader used the Hire the Geek service to have me do some research on a CorelDRAW file and the resulting PDF file. When this reader presented the PDF for printing, they were told it contained "rich black". My first step was to look carefully at the CorelDRAW...
I've shared with you that we are Shifting Our Marketing Focus to Attract Local Business. Since design is part of the business, it was important to design a business card that would stand out to the small businesses in our area. Nowadays it is really inexpensive to...
There are a lot of scammers out there. Suppose you are a print shop, you may be asked to do a print job to ship to some faraway locale as cash on delivery. Good luck getting that cash. We get asked by potential clients about designing Web sites. Most of the...
There is nothing more frustrating than finding out e-mails sent are not received. OK, it can be even more frustrating when someone says they have sent e-mails to you that bounced. Some of the e-mails were business, some were personal and for a while I couldn't even...
I've been teaching CorelDRAW users for more than 20 years. One area that is a constant frustration to users is getting just the right colors. I want to make sure that you all have a resource that will give you the knowledge to get the perfect colors and I've...
There are times when our office gets an e-mail that it is hard for us to understand. Recently we got e-mails from two separate customers within minutes that left us scratching our heads. In the first situation, the user had started the order process for a product...
