Author: Cherished Solutions

Color Trends Toolbar: my gift to you

As a designer, you know that there are probably millions of ways to arrange color palettes. Our environment is continually informing us of colors that best represent a slice of our humanity at any particular time. Technology, current events and philosophical beliefs are just some things that move and shape our color trends. Since following… Continue reading Color Trends Toolbar: my gift to you

Cool little stopwatch / timer . . .

After trying about a dozen different computer timers, I finally found one that works off my computer that I actually like. It’s easy to use and is fully customizable in terms of function, colors, transparency and size. Check it out at: xnotestopwatch.com

Tweet Later

Need To Boost Your Productivity On Twitter? Managing Multiple Twitter Accounts? Get Your Twitter Productivity Tools and Improve Your Productivity On Twitter. Learn How. Tweet Later Features Free Professional Schedule tweets — Plan, set & forget! [more] Schedule tweets and keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front… Continue reading Tweet Later

Lightbox2 & Slideshow

Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. lightbox2 And if you want the version with the fancy slide show script, check out Lightbox Slideshow

Evvy Award for Don’t Say A Word About This!

The newly released book, Don’t Say A Word About This! won it’s first award for it’s timely approach to the sensitive issues surrounding sexual perversion. An EVVY from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association in the cetegory of Religion and Spirituality was awarded at their annual banquet. Cherished Solutions, llc worked closely with the author and… Continue reading Evvy Award for Don’t Say A Word About This!

Your Fortune is in the Follow Up!

(Or, repeat, repeat, repeat your message!) by Ali Brown Would you blow your entire annual marketing budget on just one ad to run once during the Superbowl? Of course you wouldn’t. You know that people seeing your message just once wouldn’t be enough. Then why do we tend to spend our time and dollars on… Continue reading Your Fortune is in the Follow Up!

Mad Mimi

Here is a fresh new way to send out e-mails courtesy of my designer friend, Eva Britt. It is SO SUPER SIMPLE. Very affordable. Plus you can have a FREE account for lists up to 100. Mad Mimi

A Plethora of Twitter Tools

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com — A free blogging platform for 140-character posts, especially designed for text messaging via cellphone and instant messaging. There are millions of Twiterati. Alexa rank: 599. Twitter Search: http://search.twitter.com — Use this Twitter service to search for tweets. Twitter API Wiki: http://apiwiki.twitter.com — Twitter encourages people to create new Twitter apps using their… Continue reading A Plethora of Twitter Tools

Shorten your URLs

If you Twitter a lot and like to share links like I do, you may want to check out these sites that will shorten a long website address into something more manageable. snipurl.com bit.ly Enter a long URL to make tiny: TinyURL.com Making long URLs usable! More than 160 million of them. Over 1.5 billion… Continue reading Shorten your URLs

Lightbox

Lightbox2 by Lokesh Dhakar An Easy Image Viewer Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. What’s New in Version 2 Image Sets: group related images and navigate through them with ease Visual Effects: fancy pants transitions Backwards… Continue reading Lightbox

Nvu – free web design software

About Nvu Nvu (pronounced “N-view,” for a “new view”) is a free, open source software program that allows you to build websites and web pages using a simple WYSIWYG editor (what-you-see-is-what-you-get).  Nvu makes creating web pages as easy as using a word processor and rivals such programs as Adobe’s Dreamweaver and Microsoft’s Expression Web, only… Continue reading Nvu – free web design software

WebRSS

Take any Feed and convert it to display fresh content on your website or Blog for FREE! Host Any RSS Feed on Your Personalized Start Page for FREE! Create, Market and Track RSS Feeds for FREE! Webrss.com Display any RSS or Atom feeds on your website or blog! Convert RSS Feeds to Javascript, PHP, ASP… Continue reading WebRSS

Free Meta Tag Generator

http://websitesubmit.hypermart.net/metatags.htm  Meta Tags are HTML tags used to control your site description in the search engines that support them: Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL Search, AltaVista, AllTheWeb (FAST), HotBot, Lycos, Infoseek (Go), Excite, and WebCrawler. It is important to have well made meta tags because they can help increase your Search Engine position.

RMCAD Podcast & Open Source Podcast Generator

Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design – DESIGN HERE PODCAST http://www.designhere.rmcad.edu/ Tune in to find out about the culture of an art college.  Podcast Generator – Make your own podcasts http://podcastgen.sourceforge.net/ Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with… Continue reading RMCAD Podcast & Open Source Podcast Generator