Design Resources

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Bloggettes ** Characters I Have on Hand, $0 Fee
My Grafico Clipart
JW Illustrations
Lovelytocu Digital Clipart and Designs
Mujka Chic Clip Art
Dreamstime ** 8 Credit Minimum for $9.99, $1.25 per Credit * Do Illustration Search
iStockphoto

Bloggettes

An adorable collection of graphics/clipart I have on hand by several graphic artists each in their own category to easily select a character for your website or blog. I also have a few cute traditional scrapbooking machine clipart to be used on your website or blog.

Bloggettes
Traditional Scrapbook Graphics

Color Theme Palettes

Check out these sites for color theme ideas.

Color Combos
Coolors
Design Seeds

Extraction Services

Remove the background from images, illustrations, graphics, photos, etc.

Sarah Alannah
KPEG Design

Raster to Vector Services

Services to convert your raster files into high-quality fully scalable vectors.

The Vector Doctor
Vector Magic

Preferred Web Hosting

Twenty70 Hosting
**What I Use – Affiliate Link Above**
Cloudways
**I May be Changing to Cloudways**
SiteGround Hosting
FastComet
Kinsta
**Kinsta is Great for HIGH Traffic Sites**
WP Engine
**WP Engine is Great for HIGH Traffic Sites**
BlueHost**TRY NOT TO USE**
A2 Hosting**TRY NOT TO USE**

Blogger to WordPress Transfers

Lagniappe Marketing – Contact for a Quote
Layne Design Studio – Contact for a Quote

SEO Service Companies

Google Adwords – Advertise your business on Google
SubmitEdge – Professional SEO Services, Link Building, Directory Submission Service
Task Guardian – Professional SEO Services
UpCity – SEO for your Small Business

Learn About SEO

SEO Tutorial for Beginners – A Complete Introduction to SEO:
Search Engine Optimization Guide 2020
How to SEO Meta Tags – Keep Google and Other Search Engines Happy
SEO Tutorial for Beginners by Hobo – A Beginner’s Guide to SEO
SEO Practices to AVOID by Hobo – Googles List of Practices to AVOID
Google Webmaster Guidelines by Hobo – Get Familiar with the Most Important Guidelines
Google Quality Rating Practices by Hobo – Understand Google Quality Rating Practices
SEO for Idiots – The 10 Basics of Blogging SEO
SEO Made Simple – A Simple Step-by-Step Guide
SEO Tips for Bloggers – 8 First Step SEO Tips for Bloggers
The Beginners Guide to SEO – Comprehensive information you need for SEO
What is SEO? – Short article explaining, at the most basic level, what SEO is.
SEO For Beginners: How to SEO Your Blog Posts – SEO Your Blog Posts in WordPress!

Check Site Padlock Errors

Why No Padlock? – A Free Service to find SSL Errors

Site Maintenance Services

When you need a little help managing your site after the design.

ClickWP
LJ Computers Limited
Mandy Robertson Media
Site Doctor 911
Victor Font Consulting Group LLC
WPGeni
WP Site Care

WordPress Security (Important)

Sucuri WordPress Security Guide (2020)
The Best Way to Secure Your WordPress Site is to Learn About Security
The Ultimate WordPress Security Guide – Step by Step (2020)
WordPress Website Hacked: How To Discover And Recover – Step by Step Guide (2020)

Site Malware and Hack Services

When your site is hacked, who do you call?

The Hack Repair Guy

Legal Services for Privacy Policies, Terms, Cookies, Disclaimer Pages

Need help writing these tyes of pages?

TermsFeed All agreements and policies are free. However, they do sell optional premium agreements with additional clauses (one-time fee) that can protect your business interests better.

Learn

Blogger – Learn to use your Blogger Blog
Color Psychology – Why Color is Important in your Design
WordPress – Learn to use your WordPress Blog – Free Video Tutorials – You must Register First
15 Best Web Safe Fonts – 15 Best Web Safe Fonts that work with HTML and CSS
Know your Typography Vocabulary – A Crash Course!
Complete CSS Cheat Sheet – Updated with New CSS3 Tags!
Does your Site Need a Copyright Notice? – Copyright Information
Tools to Help Protect your Content – Theft & Copyright Information
Learn about WordPress Security from Sucuri

Learn More

Learn Graphic Design; however, whatever you’re interested in learning, chances are you can almost certainly find a course about it from one of the online educational course sites listed below. From beginner levels all the way to intermediate and advanced, there’s something for everybody.

WordPress Resources

Twenty70 Hosting **First Pick**
BlueHost **Second Pick**
SiteGround Hosting
Genesis Framework for WordPress
WooCommerce eCommerce Plugin for WordPress
CodeCanyon Plugins and Addons
Creative Market
Envato Premium Digital Assets
MyThemeShop

WordPress Plugins (Recommended)

IMAGE OPTIMIZATION

reSmush.It by reSmush.it:
reSmush.It Image Optimizer – This free plugin includes a bulk operation to optimize all your pictures in 2 clicks!

EWWW by Exactly WWW:
EWWW Image Optimizer – EWWW will automatically optimize new images that you upload, will optimize all the images that you have already uploaded, and optionally convert your images to the best file format, all for free.

WPSmushby WPMU DEV:
Smush Image Commpression and Optimization – Resize, optimize, optimise and compress all of your images with the incredibly powerful and 100% free WordPress image smusher.

Free Image Optimization (OFF WordPress)

The following websites offer free image optimization to reduce the FILE size of your JPG’s or PNG’s. I highly recommend using one to GREATLY reduce the file size without messing with the actual size of the image itself. This will help your page load faster AND gain good marks from Google. I use TinyPNG.

Compress JPEG
Kraken.io
Optimizilla
PicResize
TinyPNG

Free Image Resizer (OFF WordPress)

The following website offers free image resizing. You can also bulk resize more than one image at a time.

ImageResizer.com

Image Editing, Vector, 3D, and Data Visualization Software

On the following page is a fairly large list of online Graphic Design Software that allows you to edit and create beautiful images for blog posts, infographics, presentations, and more.

Graphic Design Software