Zazzle Storebuilder on WordPress – Plugin Update
Have you tried a Zazzle Storebuilder WordPress plugin on your WP site? No? Or Not lately–should I update? A Zazzle WordPress plugin easily incorporates the Zazzle Store Builder (ZSB). Zazzle.com describes the ZSB:
Writing without Repetition – A Tool for Using the Right Word
You know those days when you can’t come up with new words? And every sentence is like, you know, just like all the others? (throws hands up in air) No one wants to write or read that boringness, of course. But sometimes your brain is just tired or the word you want is elusive. Perhaps […]
Custom Skins for iPads, Kindles, iPhones, Androids and More!
Zazzle just announced the introduction of custom skins for nearly 300 of the world’s most popular electronic devices made today (and more than a few classic ones as well).” We – designers and customers – have been waiting for these! There are skins for the brand new iPad and Kindle Fire, as well as all […]
Iain McGilchrist: The Divided Brain (A TED Talk)
TED talks are as snackable and delicious as cupcakes, aren’t they?
If you’re here, you are likely interested in the junctures of left and right: creativity and rationality, art and commerce, and (perhaps) the neuroscience behind the divided brain theories. Perhaps even in the meeting of frosting and cake!
TED Talk: The Divided Brain
I enjoy hearing new points of view and information (that’s the right half of my brain scanning) and learning more about the world and how we operate within it. All that focus is my left hemisphere. My frontal lobe is now trying to tell me I’ve watched enough TED today, but I can’t resist sharing this many-layered presentation, The Divided Brain, by Iain McGilchrist about our brain hemispheres and the latest theories on how they work.
According to his bio on TED,
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and writer. Before he came to medicine, he was a literary scholar — and his work on the brain is shaped by a deep questioning of the role of art and culture. As his official bio puts it: “He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise — the culture which helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains.”
His deep background in Western culture is evidenced in this talk and wonderfully illustrated by RSA. If you haven’t watch them “cartooning” a presentation before, you’re in for a treat. You may want to stop the video and read the details in several places.
Do we live in a world that has become unbalanced in favor of the left brain while the living, breathing, real right brain has lost its place? What does that mean to art and artists and creatives of all types? Will all future creativity be directed towards video games for the left brain?
If you find this yummy TED “cupcake” of interest, you may want to check out the whole cake! See Iain McGilchrist’s book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
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Overview of Zazzle Fonts
s of today, Zazzle offers 308 fonts for designers to use. The default font is always Folio Medium: a realist sans-serif font that was designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum 1957. It’s fine, but pretty bland, don’t you think? There are some grunge style and kid-friendly fonts as well as over four dozen script […]
Planning title and tagline font combinations for your website
ou don’t have to create a logo on your website! On WordPress, for instance, you can use built-in fonts to create a sharp title and tagline combination. Oh, you’ve been doing it that way, already? It’s not Arial / Arial / Arial, is it? I hope not! But you probably know you can can waste […]
Change the Nasty Yellow Promo Bar on Your Zazzle Storefront
Thanks to info from Retropolis_Travel and Stalldoortees in the Zazzle forums, it’s easy to revise the appearance of the yellow promotion bar (also called the nasty yellow bar for its unfortunate hue) at the top of your Zazzle storefront.
Download your Zazzle product images 75x faster to more quickly create custom advertising
Do you create custom category folders to show off your Zazzle products? Or use your product images on Facebook, a blog or another social media site? Or to create Zazzle advertising banners for your site or blog? Or showcase your designs on your Zazzle store header? To showcase your products effectively, you need to show them!
But you may be doing what I’ve done in the past: taking various size screenshots of all the desired product images and then placing them into Photoshop (or other graphics software). The screenshots all have useful names like this does:
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Another – better – way is to download as many as 75 product images simultaneously where Zazzle assigns the product name to each image for you. What a time and trouble saver!
To see how this works and examples of instances where you would use the images, check out this video. And please excuse the wayward mouse pointer – I just got it and we’re getting used to each other!
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Zazzle announces rare price increase – on new Rickshaw bags
iting raw material cost increases, Zazzle.com announced a price increase in the forums today: As of midnight last night, we increased the price of all Rickshaw products to keep in step with the dramatic rise in the cost of raw materials used to manufacture these cut and sew products. As everyone is aware, we do […]
Good tip. Thanks!!!
Great tip.Thanks much! 🙂