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This is the blog for my web design, development and marketing company, Red Kite Creative. Mostly what I'll be writing about is work-related but anything is fair game. Read more about me here...


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Busy week/month

May 9th, 2008 by debbie campbell

A very productive May so far - two sites finished and launched, two new clients with signed contracts for mid-sized projects, several new hosting clients, and my business site now has a pagerank of 6.  I got a Blackberry this week and am now wondering why I waited so long. And I’m be going to the WebVisions conference in Portland in two weeks.

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I really like this site

May 7th, 2008 by debbie campbell

http://twistori.com

You can’t post on it though - it’s compiled from Twitter posts and they use Summize to pull out the relevant words.

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Hand-drawn clock

May 7th, 2008 by debbie campbell

The hand-drawn clock from Yugo Nakamura - I read an article about him last night and am looking more deeply into his web/visual work. I found it interesting that his background is in landscape design!

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Pixel art

May 6th, 2008 by debbie campbell

An inspiring look at some really cool pixel-based designs.

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Photos from my morning outing

May 3rd, 2008 by debbie campbell

These were taken at Fossil Creek Regional Open Space and Running Deer Natural Area in Fort Collins. All were taken with my new 170-300mm lens (equivalent of 340-600mm on my Olympus E-510).

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Color palettes from images

May 2nd, 2008 by debbie campbell

Found a nice color tool this morning - it extracts multiple color palettes from any image you upload or from a random image it pulls from Flickr.

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Crackberry!

May 1st, 2008 by debbie campbell

I finally got my first Blackberry - a Curve 8320 Titanium. It came in the mail today and I left it in the box because I knew once I got it out that would be the end of work for the day.

I got it for one reason - so I can catch emails while out at meetings. Some days, like last Thursday, I spend 4-5 hours away at client or networking meetings, and being able to quickly respond to an important email is critical sometimes. I figure if it gets me just one additional hour of work per month, it’s earned its keep.

I’m excited to see what it can do…

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