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DIY Design and Branding Toolkit (Design)

This is a premium toolkit designed specifically for bootstrapping entrepreneurs and small business owners who are operating on a budget and can’t afford to work with a professional graphic or web designer yet.

the toolkit is ideal for you if:

  • You can’t afford to hire a professional designer yet
  • You need to do it yourself and want to understand what makes good design vs. bad design
  • You’re creative but you just need a little formal guidance when it comes to implementing your ideas
  • You don’t want your business to look amateur even if you are still in bootstrapping, start-up mode

how this will help you

As soon as you buy the DIY Design & Branding Toolkit, here’s what you’ll get:

  • An understanding of basic design principles…which means you’ll understand why good design looks good and bad design just doesn’t work. This means you’ll know what you’re doing & why when you apply the basic principles to your marketing materials.
  • A wealth of graphics & image samples…which means you’ll be able to instantly and visually see what we mean and what we’re describing when we walk you through what you need to know about design & branding.
  • Easy-to-follow design processes…which means you’ll be able to design your own logos, ebooks, websites, business cards and more confident in the knowledge that they won’t look as if they’re designed by an amateur.
  • Help using design (and non-design) software…which means you’ll learn how to use software you already have to create designs that work.
  • Professional designer’s know-how…which means alongside the basic design principles, you’ll get additional tips on what a professional designer would do to make your stuff look even better and really stand out from the crowd.

    • THE DIY DESIGN AND BRANDING TOOLKIT IS PERFECT FOR BOOTSTRAPPING ENTREPRENEURS . MY FAVORITE PART IS SECTION 2 , “APPLYING DESIGN .” AND THE STEP -BY-STEP APPROACH TO CREATING YOUR OWN LOGO –AN EXERCISE I PLAN TO TRY WHEN I FINALLY DECIDE ON A COMPANY NAME .

    THE EBOOK MODELS WHAT IT TEACHES . IT’S PLEASING TO THE EYE AND EASY TO READ AND AT $37 IS A SMALL BUT WORTHWHILE INVESTMENT .” ALEXIS RODRIGO

    what’s in the toolkit?

    Section 1: Design Basics
    Design Software
    Alignment & Grids
    Colour Theory
    Fonts
    Spacing
    Using Images
    Consistency
    Usability & Interaction
    Professional Printing
    Section 2: Applying Design
    How to design a logo
    How to design business stationery
    How to design a website
    How to design social media profiles
    How to design an ebook
    Sample Files & Templates
    Illustrator .eps vector file for Elemental logo
    InDesign file of ebook page templates
    Video Tutorials
    Elemental Logo (using Adobe Illustrator) – see below
    StackSpring Logo (using Google Docs) – see below
    StackSpring Logo tweak (using Picnik)
    Ebook page set-up (using Adobe InDesign)
    Ebook page set-up (using Google Docs)

    get the toolkit now for $37

    Grab your copy of the Design & Branding Toolkit now to ensure you make the right first impression with your business, without the cost of hiring a professional designer. The kit is available for $37.

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Sell Your Crap! – Barebones Edition (Business)

Created by Adam Baker of ManVsDebt.com.

Let Go of What’s Holding You Back!

Contents:

  • Sell Your Crap! – Main Guide
  • The Definitive Guide to Selling Your Crap on eBay

The ‘Barebones’ edition does not include The Definitive Guide to Selling Your Stuff on Craigslist and The Definitive Guide to Selling Your Stuff on Amazon.

Reclaim control of your time, energy, and money from your suffocating clutter.

Includes eBay Module.

Earn More Money in Less Time

Learn what to sell and where to sell it!… Save hours of time and pocket more cash.

What You Get: Everything that’s Included in Sell Your Crap…

The Sell Your Crap Guide includes the following resources:

The Primary Sell Your Crap Guide – a 20,000+ word, 67-page anthology describing in minute detail both the “why” and “how” of selling off your crap to earn a life free of materialism. You’ll be empowered to:

  • Determine what stuff in your life is worth keeping and what’s holding you back.
  • Jump start your purge – two powerful strategies to get started fast.
    Finally let go of sentimental items that keep you trapped in the past.
    Learn the 14 ways clutter costs you even after you’ve paid for it. [Page 17]
  • Unite your family and rally your loved ones to attack clutter together.
  • Save hours of time using our streamlined 13-step attack plan. [Page 57]
  • Learn which items sell well (and which flop) on eBay.

The Definitive Step-by-Step Guide to Selling Your Crap on eBay – a 35,000+, 171-page word monster with over 65+ screenshots that takes you step-by-step through the many layers of eBay. It’s thorough enough that anyone – regardless of experience – can gain all the benefits. This module will teach you how to:

  • Get started – even if you’ve never used eBay before.
  • Avoid common mistakes people make when researching value.
  • Create descriptions that sell with a proven 10-step formula.
  • Navigate the listing form – we cover every inch of the form line-by-line.
  • Gain the confidence to troubleshoot rare problems during and/or after the auction.
  • Take the hassle out of shipping – discover the best way to pack and ship your items.

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Create a Blood Elf Portrait in Illustrator (Illustration)

The 7th of December 2010 was the release of the third expansion for the largest massive multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. To celebrate the release, today I’m going to show you how to create your own blood elf inspired portrait from a reference image. Also I’ll be giving some hairstyle design theory which you can apply to any future projects, ideal if you like to give your portraits a unique look.

Tutorial Details

  • Program: Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop CS4 +
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Estimated Completion Time: 4 hours

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Setup a Dev Server for PHP, MySQL & Ruby on Rails (Web Servers)

In this tutorial and screencast, you’ll learn how to turn that old computer you have lying around into a full-featured test bed for your websites!

We’ll set up a typical LAMP server with Ubuntu Server 10.10, using Apache 2, PHP 5 , MySQL 5.5 and SQLite3. We’ll also build in support for your Ruby on Rails 3 apps!

Don’t have a spare computer to set up a server, but want to try it out? You can use a Virtual Machine instead – in fact that’s what I’m doing in the screencast!

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Creating a custom flash slider with Flash and AS3 (ActionScript)

Description

This tutorial is a very comprehensive guide to creating a flash image and text slider similar to the one seen here

It explains every step in the process and after you have read this, you’ll never have problems with creating advanced sliders in ActionScript 3.

This tutorial uses the free Tweener engine.

Credits

Photos taken for example from photos8.com

Please if you like this tutorial, comment below

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