I am grateful to all the creative geeks out there who make things available to us other creative geeks. So, here is a list of some of my favourite pieces of software / sites that make getting your creative geek on possible. Blog.SpoonGraphics ColorBlendy Color Scheme Designer Japonizer Pugly Pixel Vienna StatCounter Stripe Generator Xtranormal [...]
<– See this dog? I make no bones about the fact that I am guilty of anthropomorphism to the nth degree – Banjo is the canine love of my life! I recently redesigned the graphics (banner, avatar, favicon, buttons) for my dog blog, Shyhound.com. I’d always used a strip of red for the banner, evocative [...]
With the chronicles of the cross-country road trip written, I’ve been something of a Creative Geek lately. I thought it would be helpful to mah fabulous Fizgiggling readers if I shared and linked to some of the tools and resources! Here’s what I’ve been up to: New About Page on Fizgiggery! So much of blogging [...]
For those of you who aren’t first-time visitors to mah blawg, you have probably noticed a lot of buggering about with colours and layout. (Sometimes I wonder if I love coding more than I love blogging… hmmm.) In my quest to find The Perfect Theme – which means (a) being so easy to modify my [...]
With apologies to William Morris: Have nothing on your blog that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. I’m still looking for the perfect WordPress theme. Most themes out there are either functional and written by boy geeks who have no sense of colour (sorry, guys, but dark red on [...]
I found myself comparing HTML to IKEA a moment ago. For anyone else out there who has a love/ hate relationship with either, I thought you might appreciate this comparison >:) I think HTML is like IKEA: you know before you get there that it’s going to be a nightmare, but you’re excited anyway. Then [...]
