The HOLIDAY'S Never End.....

The holidays will soon be over right? Well, the holidays never end...LOL.

Ok, a birthday is not a holiday but, it is or will be someone's birthday. And, just give it a few more weeks and you'll see stores already starting to sell Valentine's Day candy and cards; along with Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Graduation, and so on, all following close behind...LOL

Maybe someone you know got promoted, will graduate or have a new addition to the family. Whatever the occasion...

Celebrate! Have fun and enjoy!

Are You Ready For The HOLIDAYS?.....

Half the year is OVER and the holidays are just around the corner...LOL Can you believe it? Where did the first half of the year go? Man, I need to get the snowblower fixed...LOL

I was thinking, have you thought about your Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve party invites as well as your Christmas cards and any other parties and gatherings you'll have going on the second half of this year? Most likely not. Well, if you haven't, it's time to RESERVE YOUR DATES before someone else takes them.

I know e-mail and e-vites are a whole lot easier and faster, but receiving an actual card and/or invitation through snail mail makes it so much more special. Really! It does.

Also, I think lots of people save their cards and invitations and end up finding them years later and remember the good time they had at your party. So why not get going, get those cards designed, printed and ready to drop into the mailbox two to two and a half weeks before your gathering.

A TIP:

You don't have to have an actual date, etc., printed on your invitations just yet. Get all the other wording printed on the cards but, leave blank spaces and by hand, write in the date, time, location and phone number in their appropriate spaces when the time comes. Just an idea. What do you think?

Contact me and I'll assist you with creating and designing your 2010 greeting cards, fliers, post cards, promotional kits, etc. I'll also assist you with finding a printer to print your item(s).

Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and everything else inbetween...LOL

I look forward to working with you this year and in the coming years.

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Classes Canceled and.....

I had planned on going to classes to learn web design but, that will now have to wait until the 2010 fall semester. With my mother in the hospital and my trying to find a job, no 2010 spring semester for me. Once you're in school, you need to put lots of your attention on your classes and your class work. Things right now are not the greatest.

What I should do, in the meantime, is read up on web design myself and see if I can find any mock web design projects to work on. I know, maybe I should try and redesign my blog page. I have thought about that in the past. Thing is, where do I begin?...LOL Nah, I know where to start. I just have to take the time to "DO IT".

Another thing I could do is to go to some of the meet-up groups I've joined on Meetup.com such as Chicago Advertising Professionals Meetup, Chicago Media-Marketing & Advertising Meetup Group, Chicago Stompers, Chicagoland Webmasters: Elmhurst & Western Suburbs, Digital Media; Marketing & Web Professionals in DuPage, Fox Valley Computing Professionals, The Chicago Dreamweaver Meetup Group, The Chicago Graphic Design Meetup Group, The Chicago Photoshop Meetup Group and B 2 B Business Networking Group to learn new and exciting things and to network. Networking is always good.

Only thing is, most of those groups are a bit of a ways out. Right now, I don't have the extra money for (travel) gas and food and/or to go downtown or any other suburbs, it's a little tough. If some of those meet-ups were in my town or no more than some 20/30 minutes, that would be great!

GRAPHIC DESIGNER vs WEB DESIGNER

I've always read that it's easier going from Graphic Desginer to Web Designer than the other way around. I think I agree with that. Anyways...

There is a great difference between a Graphic Designer and a Web Designer. A graphic designer designs for print such as magazines, catalogs, brochures, postcards, fliers, etc. A web designer has to know HTML & CSS, designs banner ads, flash websites, creates e-mail blasts, etc.

LET'S EDUCATE!!

So many company's out there need to be educated on the differences and how they're two different jobs. Even though they both have to know the elements of design and they both have to design good, effective layouts, again, they're both different types of design jobs.

It would be so nice to find a job where I can use my graphic design knowledge along with learning web design on the job. I do have basic HTML knowledge so, that kind of gives me a bit of a head start. Also, I'm a quick learner, and enjoy design. It wouldn't be like web design was foreign to me...LOL