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		<title>Things To Expect From A Lifestyle Blog</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is used for many different purposes, from doing your shopping all the way to finding out information about specific subjects. In many cases, individuals that use the Internet regularly are going to have websites that they visit in order to follow a certain hobby or perhaps to gain information that they can use [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.jonblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/070809_urbangrace1-300x200.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-309" title="070809_urbangrace1-300x200" src="http://www.jonblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/070809_urbangrace1-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>The Internet is used for many different purposes, from doing your  shopping all the way to finding out information about specific subjects.  In many cases, individuals that use the Internet regularly are going to  have websites that they visit in order to follow a certain hobby or  perhaps to gain information that they can use in their lives. This type  of informational website often comes in the form of a <a title="Lifestyle Blog" href="http://cecyj.com/" target="_blank">lifestyle blog</a> in which somebody is going to share their views on various topics as  well as information that will be of use to their visitors. What are some  of the things that you can expect to learn from those types of blogs?</p>
<p>There so many different types of blogs that it is difficult to really  know where to begin describing them. They come on almost any subject  imaginable, from <a title="Interior Decorating Blogs" href="http://cecyj.com/category/homedecor/" target="_blank">interior decorating blogs</a>, which can help you to get your home set up just the way you would like it all the way to a <a title="Healthy Recipes Blog" href="http://cecyj.com/category/domesticgodish/" target="_blank">healthy recipes blog</a> which can assist you in making the food that is good for both you and  your family. These blogs are not just informational in and of  themselves; they also tend to be communities where individuals can  discuss these various topics as they are being posted. This not only  allows you to get the opinions and viewpoints of the individual that  posted the article to the website, it also allows you to get additional  feedback and perhaps additional suggestions from everyone who also has  an interest in the same subject and shares in the discussion.</p>
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		<title>Happy with Bigger Penis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people are not quite confident with their penis. It is because often men think that with bigger penis there will be better happiness. Therefore, many of them are trying to get the best way in making their penis bigger. Some men tries to make their penis bigger using particular exercise and tools while others [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people are not quite confident with their penis. It is because often men think that with bigger penis there will be better happiness. Therefore, many of them are trying to get the best way in making their penis bigger. Some men tries to make their penis bigger using particular exercise and tools while others prefer to take medicine.</p>
<p>Trough the internet, we are able to make our penis bigger. Many people think that our penis cannot grow bigger. However, nowadays, medical studies prove that with certain medication our penis is able to grow. The <a href="http://www.enlargementsolutions.com/penis-enlargement-pills">penis enhancer</a> is now available in several stores. However, we need to be careful in choosing the right <a href="http://www.enlargementsolutions.com/penis-enlargement-pills">penis enhancers</a> since not all the enhancers are suitable for our need. Therefore, if you need more information about <a href="http://www.enlargementsolutions.com/">penis enhancement pill</a> then do not hesitate to ask medical practitioners for better explanation.</p>
<p>Simply visit their website if you want to ask anything or simply want to make comparison on the penis pills that they have. Wait no more and get the best penis enhancer to make our life better.  Wait no more and get the best size you want from the penis pills and get the best life you want.</p>
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		<title>Blog Ideas &#8211; The Secret of Coming Up With Great Blog Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people who have blog sites often run out of fresh blog ideas. There are many people to whom web page design is very important and critical. Some people also like to change the blog or web page interface and they want to have constant change in terms of redesigning their blog sites. The problem [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people who have blog sites often run out of fresh blog ideas. There are many people to whom web page design is very important and critical. Some people also like to change the blog or web page interface and they want to have constant change in terms of redesigning their blog sites.</p>
<p>The problem is that although there are millions of blogs out there, you cannot really be satisfied by copying other people&#8217;s ideas. They want to generate their own because they want to keep their own personality and originality.</p>
<p>There is a secret to having unlimited blog ideas: keep it simple. A lot of people tend to make their blog pages too complicated and crowded that anybody who drops by seems to get confused and just gets tired of navigating the page.</p>
<p>Some blog sites are very colorful that it shoos away the visitor because it is too painful on the eye. Others do not know how to mix and match colors and dynamic HTML and as a result, the blog looks very immature and not so user friendly. The interface looks so overwhelming and confusing that visitors would rather not read the entries.</p>
<p>Well, there is actually another secret in generating blog ideas: keep the real you or get personal. Many bloggers who are in need of a blog page change are overwhelmed by the many designs possible.</p>
<p>The problem is that after changing the templates or designs of their current blog sites, they do not feel satisfied because the design they chose does not really represent their personality.</p>
<p>Before changing your blog site design, try to sit down for a few minutes and find out who you really are or what image you really want to project. Try to see if the blog page you are creating matches the words you say on your entries.</p>
<p>If you are not writing entries but instead publishing photos, you need to make sure that the theme of your blog pages match the theme of your photos. If you take dark photos about life, you may want to choose dark blog themes, too.</p>
<p>It is very unbecoming that your blog sites are too light or perky and yet the photos you publish in your photo blog are dark and sinister. This will create confusion on your visitors and they might even tag you as someone who is unsure of what he is doing.</p>
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		<title>Simple Wall Paint Designs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residence may be the spot which gives you feeling of warmth and comfort after an extended tiring day. The wall paint shades can make your residence glance elegant or funky as per your wish. It has been proved that shades from the walls have an effect on us psychologically. Some shades offers warmth will others [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Residence may be the spot which gives you feeling of warmth and comfort after an extended tiring day. The wall paint shades can make your residence glance elegant or funky as per your wish. It has been proved that shades from the walls have an effect on us psychologically. Some shades offers warmth will others provide cooling effect. Since the wall shade room may be modified easily so it is thought of as the most effective way of experimenting with various inside tips. You will find various sorts of wall paint design obtainable inside the market which you can integrate inside your house to provide it a complete makeover. Wall stencil is a single of a fascinating wall painting approach which utilizes cutout or templates to make a style. Later on these stencils are eliminated as well as the structure stays there. You are able to create any type of sample via this technique like stars, animals, flowers and several others. This procedure if extremely basic and can make your walls appear entirely various.</p>
<p>Yet another form of wall painting design is fake painting which actually means false painting. In this sort of design you&#8217;ll be able to develop an illusion of components like marble, granite, wooden and other folks making use of the paint. Rubber stamping is yet another cold design that is quick, straightforward and above all looks impressive. In addition to these you also can go for accent walls, stripes, trim, graphics and several others. Irrespective of what ever style you may pick but always go for that right type of shade which suites the sample and also goes nicely with all the total looks of the space. Prevent extremely vibrant shades right up until and unless you would like to create the walls since the focal point of the rooms. It is always far better to go for your neutral shades of your option.</p>
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		<title>5 Brain Exercises Business Logo Design Artists Can Do to Avoid Boredom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Designers who create logos for corporate clients remain overburdened with work. There is so much to do. Brainstorm ideas, create sketches, conceptualize ideas, work with complicated design softwares and so on. Thus, designers have a hectic schedule and their brain gets saturated thinking of business logo design all the time. Therefore, when work is less, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Designers who create logos for corporate clients remain overburdened with work. There is so much to do. Brainstorm ideas, create sketches, conceptualize ideas, work with complicated design softwares and so on. Thus, designers have a hectic schedule and their brain gets saturated thinking of business logo design all the time. Therefore, when work is less, it is important that these designers engage in other brain exercises than design a logo.</p>
<p>The right side of the brain helps us to think out of the box. Designers make the maximum use of the right brain to develop innovative logo ideas. However, the left side of the brain should also be used by creative people to keep away from monotony. Studies have proved that the brain works more efficiently when both the parts work.</p>
<p>Here are some brain exercises for logo artists to break free of the monotony:</p>
<p>1. Practice Writing</p>
<p>The best way to break free of the monotony is by writing. It will not only exercise the left brain but also improve your written communication skills. You can start developing the writing habit by:</p>
<p>- Post in a Blog: You can create your own blog or write for somebody else&#8217;s blog. It will help you to improve your writing skills, and also do something different than designing.</p>
<p>- Maintain a Diary: Maintain a small diary and write about new ideas that come to your mind. Even if some unique logo ideas pop up, jot them down in the diary. You can use it later on when you are designing a logo.</p>
<p>- Tweet: Create an account in Twitter and start tweeting! I am suggesting Twitter since that will help you to limit your ideas within 140 characters. This will help you write crisp and catchy taglines for your logos. You will be able to use explicative words to convey the message to the end user.</p>
<p>- Contribute in a newspaper or Magazine: You can also contribute short articles for newspapers and magazines. You can write about anything. Share ideas and tips on designing or effective ways of handing clients.</p>
<p>2. Do a Little Coding</p>
<p>Besides designing, creative logo professionals can also do a little bit of coding using PHP, CSS, SHTML or JavaScript. This will help designers to code a website that only looks aesthetically sound but also validates as per standards.</p>
<p>3. Learn Something New</p>
<p>Another way of exercising the left brain is mastering something new. It can be mastering an intricate online tutorial or learning a new language. It can also be mastering the latest design software.</p>
<p>4. What About Some Number Crunching!</p>
<p>Working with numbers is also a great way to make the left brain work. As a designer, you are required to keep track of the payments you receive from clients. Do some number crunching when you are billing your clients during the delivery of a logo project.</p>
<p>5. Be a Book Worm</p>
<p>As a logo artist, you are constantly reading design sites, complicated tutorials and inspiration galleries. I would suggest you also read important books, magazines or articles like this.</p>
<p>You can visit your nearest book store and pick a book on your preferred subject. It can be about logo designing, website design or graphic design. It is important that you read to gain more knowledge and insight.</p>
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		<title>How to Be a Successful Freelance Web Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tips for a good Web Design A website, precisely a web page is designed with the audience in mind. A web page should always have a proper mix of multiple items to make it a go. The items include page setup, links, backgrounds, text, graphics etc to name a few. Perfect mix of all the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tips for a good Web Design</p>
<p>A website, precisely a web page is designed with the audience in mind. A web page should always have a proper mix of multiple items to make it a go. The items include page setup, links, backgrounds, text, graphics etc to name a few. Perfect mix of all the required stuff can be achieved with the perfect set of professionals working on the page. Improperly arranged text can look bizarre to the viewer&#8217;s eye.</p>
<p>Tips below mentioned are simple but very effective ones</p>
<p>Text</p>
<p>* Make sure the text is not too small or too big<br />
* Keep the text as precise as possible, 80% of people don&#8217;t have time<br />
* Use capital letters only when necessary<br />
* Never underline texts that don&#8217;t have a link<br />
* Never jumble texts with capital, italics and bold alphabets<br />
* Blinking texts must be avoided<br />
* Multiple colored texts can be a headache<br />
* Improperly aligned texts should never be presented</p>
<p>Page Outlay</p>
<p>* Choose the right color combinations<br />
* Never use grey backgrounds<br />
* Make sure your backgrounds are static and not moving<br />
* No one likes to scroll sideways, always remember that<br />
* Unwanted advertisements taking away major space on the page<br />
* Counters to show the page hits make sense to the web page owner and not the audience, so why display it</p>
<p>Links</p>
<p>* Improper links can be a black mark to your web page<br />
* Every link should be underlined</p>
<p>Images</p>
<p>* Always resize your images<br />
* Use images only when required<br />
* Make sure the images are not too big that they hide the content on the page<br />
* Never use blinking images<br />
* Too many blinking images on a single page can be confusing<br />
* &#8216;Under Construction&#8217; images can be turn-offs for a web page<br />
* Images that suit the business need only to be used.</p>
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		<title>Lawn Care Business Website Design Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the mowing season slows down, it&#8217;s a good time to look around your lawn care business and see what things you can do to improve. A simple step you can take is to create a website to promote your business online. Sometimes the difference between success and failure or doing ok versus doing great [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the mowing season slows down, it&#8217;s a good time to look around your lawn care business and see what things you can do to improve. A simple step you can take is to create a website to promote your business online. Sometimes the difference between success and failure or doing ok versus doing great can really come down to tweaking a few things here or there. A little improvement can many times result in a great return.</p>
<p>I recently had a discussion with a landscaping business owner who had previously managed to pull together a single page website. When he put the site up, he simply didn&#8217;t have much time to work on it, so there it stood as a single page for the entire year. Now he was looking to improve upon it and was looking for suggestions.</p>
<p>Some of the initial thoughts I had for him was to add a few more simple pages. Pages such as services, a photo gallery, testimonials, about us and a contact us page are good for starters. But if you have more time, you really might want to include a blog on your website. This will allow you to talk about different lawn issues you find are most common in your area. You also might want to show off the different landscape projects you have worked on and show some photos that you took through the construction phase.</p>
<p>Another tip I have found that has worked well is to include a photo of your lawn care equipment. This is especially handy when you offer landscape or excavation work. When a potential lawn care customer reviews your webpage and sees all the equipment you have, it will get them thinking about the different projects they could use around their property.</p>
<p>For instance, do you have a wood chipper? Include a photo if it. This will get the customer to think about the tree limbs or brush they could use chipped. Do you have a backhoe? It may get them to think about digging up those overgrown bushes in their front yard. You will be amazed at the different requests customers come up with when they see what you can offer and they can fill out a contact form on your website.</p>
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		<title>Personalized-Made Linear Actuators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actuator is an essential automation tool. We need it almost all the time. And almost all the time, we are fine with those ready designs. But if you find special cases, and it seems that only special designed actuator will solve the problem this time. So where can we order this special personalized-designed one? You [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actuator is an essential automation tool. We need it almost all the time. And almost all the time, we are fine with those ready designs. But if you find special cases, and it seems that only special designed actuator will solve the problem this time. So where can we order this special personalized-designed one?</p>
<p>You can order it from these professional hands on Progressiveautomations.com. Just as items they sell on ready stock, they can build you personalized-made <a href="http://progressiveautomations.com/">linear actuators</a> in 5 days on the same level of great quality. They will also offer it on the same affordable price. All items on this online store are affordable. Plus you may get lucky by getting extra discounts on several particular items. Of course, during your shopping, you will be assisted by excellent customer service. This is going to be a nice shopping.</p>
<p>In addition to it, they are ready to share their professional ideas, and suggestions. They are willing to help you use your bought tool effectively and efficiently. All of the items are on 18 months of guarantee. It means that they are serving on best service and help a customer can expect. Plus, the online catalogue allows you to shop on most comfortable way.</p>
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		<title>Web site design Tips &#8211; How to Improve Your Website Design Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to become a professional website designer, you must always practice and become creative. Before you build your website, first plan how it may be like and where everything is going to be on it. This is very important and will cause you to speed up. You need to learn to improve on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to become a professional website designer, you must always practice and become creative. Before you build your website, first plan how it may be like and where everything is going to be on it. This is very important and will cause you to speed up. You need to learn to improve on your creativity if you want your projects to be unique, you can&#8217;t just copy someone&#8217;s job. You can begin by merging pictures after which adding text into it, you will do this a great deal particularly when creating banners and I recommend you utilize Photoshop. You can also get free banner templates online and then use them to produce your banners.</p>
<p>As a professional website designer, you should visit other people&#8217;s site and find out their creativity, you should not copying them, but learn a couple of technique from them. You also should always save pictures, but you could possibly get a totally free picture tool from Google, it is called Google images, with this tool searching for pictures on any niche by typing the niche or keyword on the search box provided. You will be able to download good pictures from the Google Images google listing. You can also then add of those pictures to your website or banner.</p>
<p>Attempt to know how to blend colors properly, in case your website color does not blend, you cannot go anywhere by using it. Also note that whenever you are designing an internet site with adverts, the adverts must blend with the website content. Result in the website heading and advert heading the same color, also build your advert text as well as your content text exactly the same color and your advert links ought to be blue. To enhance on your Website design skill, you&#8217;ll have to sign up with some freelance websites after which take up jobs, don&#8217;t over price the jobs, even if you&#8217;re making so very little from it, just realize that you are utilizing it to improve on your skill.</p>
<p>If you are a internet marketer, your creativity can help you earn more money from your websites. You also can get more jobs if you are a freelancer and this time you will be paid well. So after everything, you can now observe that as a website designer you have to be creative as well as if you don&#8217;t practice you can never improve, put your understanding to work, as continuous practice results in perfection. If you want to begin a business, create the site yourself so that as time goes on, you can develop the website until it might be professional. This is the way most website designers started.</p>
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		<title>Top T-Shirt Design Tips &#8211; 5 Secrets For Perfect Tee shirt Text (Plus One Bonus!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case your funny t-shirts are turning out funny-looking, the problem may be your text. Regardless of how awesome your cool t shirt designs are whenever you imagine them, in case your text is poorly designed, your shirts will invariably look unprofessional. Try not to fear! With these 5 tips for professional graphic designers, you will soon turn those amateur custom t shirts into perfect and polished works of t shirt art.</p>
<p>T-Shirt Design Secret #1: Choosing the Right Font<br />
When selecting a font for your t shirt text, make sure to select one that supports your message. For instance, if you&#8217;re designing a funny t shirt, choose a font that has a funny feel to it. If you&#8217;re designing a sexy t shirt, select a font which has a sexy feel to it. So if you feel designing a t shirt for any serious, professional lawyer, you most likely don&#8217;t want to use that font with letters shaped like kittens.</p>
<p>While this may sound like good sense, many new tee shirt designers and would-be t shirt entrepreneurs skip this step and merely pick any standard font they may have available. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s obvious within their results; what might have been a fun tee shirt design eventually ends up being boring and amateur-looking. If you are careful to choose a font that is representative of the content of your words, however, this can be avoided fate and your shirts will always be one step in front of your competitors.</p>
<p>T-Shirt Design Secret #2: Tracking and Kerning<br />
More often than not, when font text is typed into a computer program, the spaces between the letters and words are a little uneven, and often a little too wide. This extra and uneven space not just makes your text look a little awkward and unprofessional, additionally, it makes it a little more difficult to read since the words don&#8217;t visually hold together as units. Even if the viewer doesn&#8217;t notice it, the attention and also the brain have to work a bit harder which extra little bit of difficulty gives the viewer a subconscious sense of unease.</p>
<p>Fortunately for that novice t shirt designer, this problem can be addressed with a mixture of tracking and kerning, that are simply two ways of adjusting the spacing between letters.</p>
<p>Tracking is due to adjusting the average spacing of letters across entire words, sentences, or selected ranges of letters. By adjusting the tracking, the t shirt artist can either reduce the average spacing between all the letters in the selected range (making the spacing &#8220;tighter&#8221;), otherwise increase the average spacing (&#8220;opening up&#8221; the text), based on what&#8217;s needed. Since the raw, unadjusted spacing differs from font to font, you&#8217;ll have to decide which one is needed for your particular t shirt design. But a good trick utilized by professional t shirt designers is to begin by tightening the font an excessive amount of (so the letters are too close together) and then slowly helping the tracking until the words look right.</p>
<p>Kerning is extremely much like tracking, however with one important difference: rather than adjusting the typical spacing across a whole selection of letters, kerning only adjusts the spacing between two letters at any given time. This allows a larger amount of control than tracking, and allows a tee shirt artist to fine tune the spacing between single letter pairs that also don&#8217;t look quite right, even after the text has been tracked.</p>
<p>In general, the very best practice is to use tracking to find the entire selection of letters inside a tee shirt slogan to look very good, and then use kerning to fine tune the spacing between letter pairs until your tee shirt text looks perfect.</p>
<p>T-Shirt Design Secret #3: Word Spacing<br />
Once the letters of the tee shirt slogan have been properly tracked and kerned, the next important step would be to adjust the spacing between the words. Adjusting word spacing is very similar to tracking and kerning &#8212; in fact, it&#8217;s done much the same way as kerning and it is really just kerning the spaces between words instead of letters &#8212; however the guideline for proper spacing between words is a touch different, and thus word spacing is really a whole step on its own.</p>
<p>In general, the best practice when adjusting spacing between words is to visualize the width of a lowercase &#8220;L&#8221; in the font that&#8217;s getting used, and then suggest the space between each word that wide. This means that the width from the spaces between words will change from font to font (since the size of the lowercase &#8220;L&#8221; differs from font to font), but it also implies that the spacing is going to be custom-designed for the font under consideration. Creating the proper amount of space between words will support the effects of your tracking and kerning, thus helping what you are saying to hold together better as separate visual units and improving readability.</p>
<p>T-Shirt Design Secret #4: Leading, aka &#8220;Line Spacing&#8221;<br />
Another place that new tee shirt designers often fail is incorporated in the leading, or &#8220;spacing between lines of text.&#8221; Leading &#8212; which is pronounced such as the metal &#8220;lead&#8221; instead of like a &#8220;leader&#8221; taking people somewhere &#8212; dates back towards the times of the printing press, whenever a person would actually use small, thin pieces of result in create vertical space between the lines of type. Nowadays, obviously, computers handle the leading for us. Unfortunately, with regards to t shirt text, they often handle it poorly.</p>
<p>Whenever a t shirt slogan is typed right into a software program, it often starts after some too much space between the lines. This helps make the text look very &#8220;fonty&#8221; rather than natural, as well as making the tee shirt design (and also the designer) seem very amateur. With only a small change to the key, however, that same t shirt text can be made to look very tight and professional.</p>
<p>With leading, the aim is to create enough space between your lines of text so that they fit nicely together and do not interfere with one another, without creating a lot space they look artificial or become hard to read. The attention should be able to easily jump visually from one line to the next without losing its place, and with no effort whatsoever. While there is no real rule of thumb for the proper quantity of space between lines, a tee shirt designer who begins adjusting the key will quickly learn how to &#8220;feel&#8221; when it&#8217;s right. Generally, the easiest method to start is to decrease the amount of leading &#8212; tightening the space between the lines &#8212; after which keep tweaking it up or down until it feels visually balanced. If this looks natural and reads smoothly, your tee shirt slogan is a step closer to the large time.</p>
<p>T-Shirt Design Secret #5: Phrasing, aka &#8220;Line Breaking&#8221;<br />
Phrasing is due to where a t shirt designer chooses to break the lines of text, and it is yet another aspect of good t shirt design that&#8217;s often overlooked. Many new designers will just key in their text in the size they want, and don&#8217;t pay focus on which words the lines end on, and just how those line breaks modify the t shirt&#8217;s readability. Generally, this produces a t shirt that reads terribly and feels amateurish.</p>
<p>For instance, a poorly line-broken tee shirt slogan might look something like this:</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a<br />
doctor however i play<br />
one out of real<br />
life</p>
<p>As you can see, it is a little hard to read this slogan because the semi-random breaking of logical phrases and groups of ideas causes both the eye and also the brain to work harder to make feeling of it all, and the result is the tee shirt slogan ends up feeling choppy. After some more thought and effort put in smashing the lines at natural points within the text, however, we end up getting this:</p>
<p>I am not a doctor<br />
but I play one<br />
in real life</p>
<p>Suddenly, the t shirt slogan flows naturally and it is easier to read. By continuing to keep the logical phrases visually together, you can create an infinitely more natural visual rhythm to your t shirt text, and also the audience easily able to process the t shirt&#8217;s message without having to combat poor phrasing to understand it.</p>
<p>Tee shirt Design Secret #6: A Bonus Tip (Because I Like You)<br />
Once you&#8217;ve applied these 5 strategies of the t shirt design professionals, you&#8217;ll find that your t shirt text already looks far better and much more professional than it did when you started. Unfortunately, you&#8217;ll likely also find that you&#8217;ve been staring at your text for such a long time, it&#8217;s become difficult to really properly judge its improvement. Such may be the life of a tee shirt artist! Try not to panic! The professional graphic artists have a couple more tricks up their sleeves that&#8217;ll help you overcome this professional hazard.</p>
<p>To determine the spacing of the t shirt text and ensure it&#8217;s truly perfect, you are able to:</p>
<p>Look at the design upside down. If you notice any spaces that look uneven or inconsistent, fix them.<br />
Look at your design reflected in a mirror. If you see any spaces that appear to be uneven or inconsistent, fix them.<br />
Print your design on the piece of paper, hold it up to some source of light, and then review your text from the back from the page. If you notice any spaces that appear to be uneven or inconsistent &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; fix them.</p>
<p>By doing any of these three strange things, you force your eyes as well as your brain to concentrate on the empty spaces between your letters rather than trying to read the words themselves. The words become abstract shapes for your brain, and also you, the tee shirt artist, have the freedom to properly judge the empty spaces between the words.</p>
<p>And That&#8217;s It!<br />
As you can tell, professional t shirt text design is really just a matter of creating text that not only supports your message, but additionally presents it in a way that is visually balanced and nicely spaced. By properly applying these t shirt design tips, your tee shirt text will be much more pleasing to look at, simpler to read, and miles in front of those amateur t shirt designs striking the market. And, most significantly, your funny t shirt designs will finally be funny inside a good way.</p>
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