Baby Crocodile Eye

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

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

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What should your buisness card look like?

Leia Vieira — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:19:49 +0000

Your business card isn’t just for putting in a fish bowl for a free lunch. It helps spread your info in a one-on-one basis. Spreading your name on the web is important, but not everyone is always online, so it is nice to know that they will also have a physical contact of whatever you are promoting.

I already have a business from my company showing my employment and that I am their web designer. But what about me as a Artist? So I got to thinking. What about when I am not promoting the company and would like to share myself on a more social basis but still keep it professional. What would my card say?

Being a artist, I decided to promote myself as one. I want to show people what I have done, but also let them follow me and stay updated with what I am doing. This is where social media is the strongest for a designer and artist. I may not know these people, but if they are interested I can get them to follow my every move.

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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><span style="color: #000080;">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.</span></h5> <p><span style="color: #000080;"><br /> </span></p> <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> <p>No related posts.</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> <p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://leiavieira.com/2010/05/band-t-shirt-merch/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Band T-Shirt Merch'>Band T-Shirt Merch</a></li><li><a href='http://leiavieira.com/2010/05/design-layout-build-website/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Design Layout & Build Website'>Design Layout & Build Website</a></li></ol></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> <p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://leiavieira.com/2010/05/design-stage-banders/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Design Stage Banders'>Design Stage Banders</a></li></ol></p> </article> <article> <h1>Design Layout for Website</h1> <p>Leia Vieira — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:22:00 +0000</p> <p>Created while working at <a href="http://www.chisano.com/" target="_blank">Chisano Marketing Group.</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.piecouncil.org/" target="_blank">The American Pie Council®</a> (APC) is the only organization dedicated to preserving America’s pie heritage and promoting America’s love affair with pies.</p> <p><a href="http://leiavieira.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/APC.jpg"></a></p> <p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://leiavieira.com/2010/05/design-website-layout/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Design Website Layout'>Design Website Layout</a></li><li><a href='http://leiavieira.com/2010/05/design-layout-for-website/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Design Layout for Website'>Design Layout for Website</a></li><li><a href='http://leiavieira.com/2010/05/design-shopping-cart-layout/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Design Shopping Cart Layout'>Design Shopping Cart Layout</a></li></ol></p> </article> <article> <h1>Design Layout & Build Website</h1> <p>Leia Vieira — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:19:34 +0000</p> <p><a href="http://www.Alexvieiramusic.com" target="_blank"><strong>Alex Vieira</strong></a> has been enthralled with any and everything musical. 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