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How can I make an ad or logo image for my blog if I have no talent?

2008-07-26T06:01:00.008-04:00

You have set up a blog and have been posting to it for a bit.

You have decided to monetize your blog with some ads, like Project Wonderful.

After earning money for awhile, you begin to realize that you could earn even more if you had more traffic. You could have more traffic if you advertised.

After all...

He who has a thing to sell
and goes and whispers in a well,
is not apt to get the dollars
as he who climbs the hill and hollers.

So you have decided to place your own ads on other sites and now need a 125 square image.

The problem is, you are just not that skilled, have no art talent, and you don't want to have to buy or learn something expensive and complicated like Photoshop, just to make a little square ad.

So what can you do? How can you have an attractive ad that doesn't look like a five year old created it in Microsoft Paint?

Well, you could head over to Free 125 Cards and make one with their generator.

No talent or expensive software needed and it only takes a few minutes.

Just select a background from their collection, type in the text you want, choose the font, pick the text size, drag to position it, and click the save button when you are done.

It's that easy. And did I mention that it's free?

Don't just sit there...go make that ad image and get some more traffic!

Online HTML Editor

2007-10-11T14:19:00.004-04:00

Sometimes you have the need to create a quick page for a specific purpose. And it would seem a bit silly to purchase an expensive HTML editor for just the occasional page. And you really don't feel like downloading & installing an application that you won't get much use from.

That's where this nice little editor comes in. It's simple to use and packed with tons of nifty features that you would expect to find in a desktop application.

This is the best free online HTML editor I have found that wasn't associated with some sort of web hosting.

Features:

Page Properties:
Interface allows you specify page title, background color, foreground (text) color, upload a background image from your computer and apply a watermark to the image so that it doesn't scroll, and upload a background sound file.
Find & Replace:
Search your page for text, tags, and images and automatically replace all with something else.
Highlight
Use this tool to "highlight" (specify a background color for) selected text.
Hyperlinks
Click to easily convert text to a hyperlink and apply hyperlinks to images.
Insert Images
Browse to locate an image file on your computer and upload it to your page.
Table Wizard
Easily insert and customize your tables. Specify number of rows and columns, alignment, border size, cell padding, and cell spacing. Tables aid in the layout of your page.
Insert Bulleted Lists
Insert Numbered Lists
Insert Horizontal Lines
Form Wizard
Step-by-step wizard helps you to create and insert simple forms into your web page.
Insert Text Fields and Text Boxes
Easy Text Formatting
Format your text by selecting font face, size, color, bold, italic, and underlined via familiar word processor type buttons.
Paragraph Formatting
One click aligns all left, right, or center.
Button Wizard
Easily insert buttons anywhere on your page!
MORE

Whatever isn't covered by the features in this editor will most likely be covered by their other online tools, listed on the right side of their page.

So no more excuses...go make that web page you have been procrastinating about!

http://www.creatingonline.com/webmaster/html_generator.htm

Online Privacy Policy Generator

2007-10-11T13:41:00.002-04:00

Constructing a privacy policy for your website can be a complicated task, but it doesn't have to be any more.

With this generator it is as easy as checking off some boxes and filling in some blanks.

They give you the choice between generating an HTML page which you can just save, or emailing you an HTML or plain text copy.

http://www.the-dma.org/privacy/creating.shtml