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There comes a time for every Internet Marketer when we need some sort of e-cover.  Perhaps it’s for a product you’ve created or maybe for a piece of PLR which you have re-branded and made your own.

But how do you create an e-cover which will do justice to your new product?

Well, there are a few ways, the first is to outsource the design and creation to a graphic artist.  You should be able to locate one at Elance.com But be prepared to pay quite highly for this service.  Note: If you’re product is going to be a major release or a high ticket item, then this is the way to go,  Don’t bother trying to do your own, spend the money.  You could even contact Sean Lowery, he creates covers for the biggest names in Internet Marketing.

If you are on a budget or are just knocking out a quick viral freebie or list builder then hiring a graphic designer is probably not the right path to choose, so why not create your own e-cover? Read the rest of this entry »

I was looking to insert some nice text into a web site I’m working on.  But all of the tools I have to create text with impact are, to be frank, a pain in the butt to use.  They are all great, but for a quick one off graphic it takes forever.

So I did a quick search of the free online graphics tools and found this:

http://cooltext.com/

Which has just blown me away.  It is simple to use yet powerful and the best part is that it is totally free!

Here are a couple of text graphics I knocked out in about 10 seconds.

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When I’ve spent time and effort altering the layout, look and feel of a flexibility 2 (or flexsqueeze) theme the last thing I want is the little downward pointing arrows in the title bar of my widget.

1/ If you are using Adsense in a text box then the arrow could be seen as a beach of Googles TOS.

2/ If you change the titles of the widget then the arrows overlay themselves onto the first letter – Ugly!

So to get rid of them find this file:-

/public_html/yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/flexibility2 (or flexsqueeze)/images/sidebar-h2-bg.png

Put it into a graphics programme and crop off the arrow. You don’t need to resize the file.

Now upload the file and that should fix it.

Easy.

(Thanks to Annerjen in New Zealand for that tip.)

I’m always on the look-out for decent royalty free, low coast or even better, free images to use on my sites.  Without doubt, SXC is my my favourite.  But sometimes they just dont have what you need.

This post by Sri Ganesh lists 180 sites with the types of images that could be useful to us.

http://www.animhut.com/inspiration/huge-list-for-royalty-free-stock-images/

Dave…