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Optimizing Images for Web Use

May 16, 2017 by Patricia

As I promised in my previous post, here are some tips on optimizing your images for websites so that they load faster and still look good. Let's face it, you can't have a website with all copy and no images. Most creatives need to showcase their work on their websites, and this means online … [Read more...] about Optimizing Images for Web Use

Filed Under: Tips & Tricks Tagged With: blogging, images, plugins, tips, websites, wordpress

Business Directory Plugins for WordPress

July 31, 2015 by Patricia

  A lot of clients have been asking me about setting up a vendor directory on their site.  Most of these are wedding blogs, and they would definitely help their readers a lot if they had a directory of recommended vendors.  It's also a great way to monetize your site if you can charge a … [Read more...] about Business Directory Plugins for WordPress

Filed Under: Tips & Tricks Tagged With: plugins, roundup, tips, wordpress

My Favourite Genesis Plugins

July 18, 2014 by Patricia

The Studiopress community is the most awesome community of developers and designers.  They have made Genesis the absolute best premium framework for Wordpress there is, not just because of the fantastic features, but also because it continues to evolve to make it better and easier to use.  (On a … [Read more...] about My Favourite Genesis Plugins

Filed Under: Tips & Tricks Tagged With: blogging, genesis framework, plugins, studiopress, tips, wordpress

How to Use a Custom Pin it Button on Your Blog

June 30, 2014 by Patricia

  Pinterest is such an important tool for all of us, isn't it? I lose track of time whenever I'm there. And yes, it really does drive traffic to your site. There are so many "Pin It" button plugins out there, and I've tested quite a number before I discovered one that I love. It's called … [Read more...] about How to Use a Custom Pin it Button on Your Blog

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Before You Install That Plugin…

May 9, 2014 by Patricia

  At the time I'm writing this, there are now 30,938 plugins in the  Wordpress repository. No, you don't have to install all of them on your wordpress site.  While each plugin is designed to enhance the functionality and performance of your site (supposedly), installing just any plugin you … [Read more...] about Before You Install That Plugin…

Filed Under: Tips & Tricks Tagged With: blogging, plugins, wordpress

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The typefaces surfacing this week share a theme: n The typefaces surfacing this week share a theme: not serifs broadly, but a specific vintage register, letterforms with visible weight variation, a slightly worn edge, the sense that someone drew them by hand. 
The Ashcombe Hall has the gravity of a country house library, the kind of face you'd expect stamped in gold on a leather spine. Vintage Serenade moves looser, more lyrical, closer to something a calligrapher would have signed.
Design has swung this way before. When the Industrial Revolution made everything fast and identical, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement answered with ornament, with craft, with the visible mark of the maker. The clean grid had its long turn at the wheel. This particular kind of type, textured, hand-cut, carrying a sense of history in the strokes, is having its own.
The antiques returning to people's living rooms and this type returning to branding are doing the same work. Both are reminding us a skilled hand was involved.
The Victorians read morning glory as fleeting love The Victorians read morning glory as fleeting love. I read it as a flower that simply knows when to leave the party.
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She used to sit across from people while they figu She used to sit across from people while they figured it out.
Now she's the one they came to hear.
That's what this moodboard is all about.
Another sneak peek. Monograms are my favorite thin Another sneak peek. Monograms are my favorite thing to design.
The best marketing strategy? Be really, really goo The best marketing strategy? Be really, really good at what you do. Everything else works better from there.
There's a lineage running through this one. Ever There's a lineage running through this one. 
Every object here survived because someone refused to rush the first pass. That's what craftsmanship actually is, a decision rather than a finish, made once, correctly, by someone with the patience to do it properly. Cornicing nobody hurried. A pattern made stitch by stitch. A tack room that assumes you already know what you're looking at.
The eighteenth century understood something we're still relearning: ornament is a form of discipline, not decoration for its own sake. That's the instinct behind this palette, this pairing, this whole quiet insistence on doing it right.
I am so excited to be working on this brand identity!
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