gecko-eye

Leia Vieira — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:57:54 +0000

Gecko Eye – 11×14 – Acrylic Paint on paper
Final

Stages

“Wild Kingdom” Art Show

Leia Vieira — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:45:14 +0000

The City of Sanford was kind enough to except 5 pieces that were displaying from October 2010 to January 2011. The Show was a great success on getting exposure for my pieces.

There were a verity of talented Artistes there all targeted towards animals in the wild.

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Eblast for Meeting South

Leia Vieira — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:43:15 +0000

Created while working at Chisano Marketing Group.

The Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club, the only beachfront hotel and golf resort in Naples, FL and all of South Florida and Southwest Florida to feature 319 guest rooms and suites, an onsite championship golf course, an award winning tennis center, a world class luxury day spa, large swimming pool, fitness center and more.

New skin layout for Dayton Techtown

Leia Vieira — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:39:50 +0000

Created while working at Chisano Marketing Group.

Technology-oriented businesses are discovering that a key component of their success depends upon a supportive environment–and this is exactly what Dayton’s Tech Town technology park offers.

Website layout for EDC in Dayton Ohio

Leia Vieira — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:30:43 +0000

Created while working at Chisano Marketing Group.

Since 1972, CityWide Development Corporation has played a part in transforming possibilities into reality for Dayton business owners and homeowners. Whether it’s a new or expanded business, a revitalized neighborhood or a re-energized downtown Dayton, CityWide was probably involved.

Word Press Website Layout

Leia Vieira — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:17:40 +0000

5 Billion Dead American Heavy Metal from Orlando Florida.

Baby Crocodile Eye

Leia Vieira — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:40:17 +0000

3′x4′ canvas – Media: Acrylic paint and mixed media

3 steps to turn a band flyer into a eblast

Leia Vieira — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:30:49 +0000

This is a intermediate level tutorial and we will be utilizing Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and you will need to have access to a web server.

Download files for Tutorial (Zip Flyer PSD , index.html and image folder)

1. changing to eblast in Photoshop

We are going to take this band flyer (designed by Matt Wagner – Bassist from 5BD) and turn it into an eblast. There are a few things to keep in mind when laying out an eblast from a printed flyer. This flyer is made in CMYK at 150dpi. We need to change it for web. Open the flier 5BD in Photoshop and change image size to 72dpi, RGB and width to 550px.

Next, the CTA (Call To Action) needs to be viewable when opening the email. Right now the CTA is at the bottom. Let’s move it up to the top and move the logo down to the bottom. The logo does not have to be at the top because their name is already in the “From.” Your eblast should look like this (view on the right).

Because all the info is in one area there is no reason to slice the image up into multiple images. So lets go to File > Save For Web > High jpg > and create a folder call 5BDflyer_May10 > then create another folder call this images >then hit save.

Note: Photoshop usually will create a images folder for you when saving for web, but only if you have created slices. Since we didn’t, we had to make our own images folder.

2. Building the ebast in HTML & optimizing code

In Dreamweaver, go to File > New > HTML file. Save in the folder you created earlier and name it index.html.

Now to build the eblast. Something to keep in mind when creating an eblast is that most email software (Mac) Mail, Outlook 2003 and below, and Firebird do not have their own browser code inside their software so they use the code from their platform’s browser to display HTML within the email GUI. But Outlook 7 does not. Word 7 can create HTML files so Outlook pulls its code from Word 7. That means you not only have to check your HTML file in other browsers, but also open it in Word 7 to make sure everything is lined up and all your CSS is working.

I don’t recommend using

for holding content. Some email software supports it and some don’t. It’s best just to go old school and use tables.

We don’t need the & tags all email softwares add their own and tags. Having yours in there will only clutter your code which could be viewed as spam depending on the persons email software set up. In the display window go to view> split. We are going to remove the body and tag.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://leiavieira.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/bodytag.jpg"></a></p> <h5>Note: that all email providers hide the image on open, so put the CTA text in your <alt> tag. This will allow the viewers to read what is going on even before they download the images.</h5> <p>Open the sample index.html file that you downloaded earlier. The bio copy has a style applied to the <td>. If you pull your CSS style in the <td> tag, you won’t have to repeat the style for every <p> tag you create.</p> <p>Now we need to give our images an absolute path. this is the part you will need to have access to a server to upload your HTML file and your images folder. The reason for this when you distribute the email the images are not attached to the HTML file. You need to make the path absolute so that anyone can view the images as long as they have is internet access. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29" target="_blank">Click here</a> for details on relative and absolute paths.</p> <h2>3. Distribution of eblast</h2> <p>I use <a href="http://www.mailchimp.com/">Mail Chimp</a> to send out eblasts, but there are hundreds of email distribution sites out there.</p> <p>The more information you put in about the company or artist the better. This will prevent the headache of being black listed. Mailing address, email address, social media, contact #, and website url.</p> <p><a href="http://www.axigen.com/articles/how-to-avoid-being-blacklisted_22.html" target="_blank">Rules to prevent black listing for HTML.</a></p> <p>It’s important to send a test every time. This will help prevent mistakes on distribution.</p> <p>Now that you’ve finished this tutorial you will have no problem creating your own eblast. Good luck</p> </article> <article> <h1>Design Stage Banders</h1> <p>Leia Vieira — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:01:54 +0000</p> <p>layout new branding concept for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/5-BILLION-DEAD/143289174701?ref=ts" target="_blank">5 Billion Dead</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://leiavieira.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/stage-display.jpg"></a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Band T-Shirt Merch</h1> <p>Leia Vieira — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:00:03 +0000</p> <p>Design new branding logo for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/5-BILLION-DEAD/143289174701?ref=ts" target="_blank">5 Billion Dead’s</a> new Merchandise line.</p> <p><a href="http://leiavieira.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/5bd_LogoA.jpg"></a></p> </article> </main></body></html>