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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

step two

My first step in designing a blog that I like to look at and that reflects who I am was choosing the colours.

This last week I’ve been coveting tiles that are used for a regular event or to thank people for comments.  I saw several downloads but decided I should make my own.

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I realised this was a good use for the danceman font that I found recently when browsing dingbat fonts.  Some others that I liked and you might want to search for were carr balloons, dr seuss, MW Ding-A-Lings.

I like the energy of danceman and the quirkiness of the different positions.  The capital letter is the mirror image of the lowercase so often they look as if they are dancing together and I used this in my comment tile.  I made the tiles using picassa because it will access any font that you have loaded onto your computer.

I also love graphs and surveys and I’m curious about people so I added a survey too (on the left).  Please cast your vote before you go.

comment tile

15 comments:

nancy said...

Just got your comment on my blog... I LOVE CHAKOTAY!! *sigh* Those cheekbones... ;)

Fun Mama - Deanna said...

Oh, those are cute! I like what you're doing with your blog.

Sian said...

I voted! I'll be interested to see the next stage of your blog development.

Mary B said...

I love dingbat fonts too and your little dancing men look so cute

Rachel said...

Love your dancemen

sharyncarlson said...

Love the little dancing men! The comments graphic made me smile :)

Unknown said...

Looks good! :)

Linda said...

The dancing men are great. I also liked your poll, interesting!

MarleneMAZ said...

Love the dancing men ! Glad you are trying to make your own designs.

Kathy M said...

So are the dancing men going to be your header?

SarahLP said...

Ooo, interesting idea! Like your dancing men graphic. Must have a go myself, I use Picasa but didn;t realise you could do stuff like this with it.

Anonymous said...

Love those dancemen!

Krista Lund said...

your blog is looking good! keep it up!

p.s. we are classmates in Shimelle's class

Cheers!
Krista

http://kristalundphotography.blogspot.com/

Tammy said...

I love to find new fonts and the ding bats are something that I'm new to. The dancing men are very cool. Thanks for the referral.

Cheryl said...

I really love this. Nice job!

BTW, a very belated thank you for stopping by my blog last week. I love your goal of considering all opportunities. :)