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Design Resources

The Posh Box Web Design Studio features clipart, graphics, illustrations, pixels and font dings used with commercial use permission from any one of the wonderful artists listed below. Please visit their sites to see if there is something you like.

IMPORTANT CLIPART AND IMAGE NOTICE: Whether clipart or images are sold for a fee or are free, PLEASE read the individual artists Terms and Conditions before you purchase and/or use them. Most artists have rules on how and where their work can be used. Even though I have artists listed here as commercial use okay clipart and images, you MUST read their terms on HOW and WHERE the items can be used.

Start Here First

Bloggettes ** Characters I Have on Hand
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 – $20 Class at Udemy
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.

Alison Online
Canva Design School
Coursera
Creative Bloq
CreativeLive
DesignLab
EDx
EnvatoTuts+
First Site Guide
Full Sail University
Future Learn
Hackdesign.org
LearnVern

Lynda
MIT Open Courseware
Open Culture
Open Learn
SCAD
Skillshare
The Graphic Design School
Teach Yourself Graphic Design
Treehouse
Tuts+
Udacity
Udemy

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
ImageResizer.com
Kraken.io
Optimizilla
PicResize
TinyPNG

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

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

Graphic Design Software

ClipArt / Graphics

1Everything Nice
Aino Clipart
Alphabet Planet
Blackleaf Studios
Clipart Cherry
Clipart Whimsy
Clementine Digitals
Cocoa Mint Designs
Corner Croft
Design Bundles
Designs by Kirsty
Design Cuts
Digi Diva Graphics
Digi Sweet Clip Art
Digital Bake Shop
Digital Paper Craft
Dollar Graphics Depot
Erin Bradley Designs
Honey Dew Designs
Janartism Graphics
Jazzy Patterns
Jessica Sawyer Graphic Design and Illustration
JW Illustrations
Kawaiinese Digital Clipart
Klouise Digi Art
KPM Doodles Digital Clip Art
La Cueva de la Osa Honey – Sugar Dolls ** $20 CU Fee
Lana Koopman Design
Lilian Ellaboudy Design
Lovelytocu Digital Clipart and Designs
Milk Coffee Clip Art
Miss Pickle’s Graphics
My Grafico Clipart
Moms-Angel Designs
Mujka Chic Clip Art
Paper and Mouse Designs
PeachPops Clip Art
Pink Fox Designs
Pixel Paper Prints
Plan F Studios
PremiumClipart
Primsy Doodle Designs
Sanqunetti Designs
Simply Brenna
StudioCinCo
The Hungry JPEG
The Naughty Penguin
Urban Willow Clipart
VectorStock **$25 Minimum Credit
Vera Lim Design
Vivera Design
Woofy World

Patterns and Backgrounds

Subtle Patterns
The Pattern Library

Pixel Art

Country Delights Graphics ** Membership Site
Mable’s Makings
Marcela’s Designs ** Membership Site

Scrap Graphics

A Note About Scrap Designers: When picking a scap kit, please read the designers Terms of Use, sometimes a scrap artist may change their minds about allowing use for Blog and Web design OR may require you to email them to obtain permission, please do so before settling on a kit. Please be sure to read the TOU carefully.

Capricious Scraps ** No CU Fee
Commercial-Use.com ** No CU Fee
Ellie Lash Studio ** No CU Fee
Honored Scraps ** No CU Fee
Laura Deacetis Scraps ** $15 CU Fee
Miki Ferkul Scraps ** Contact for Permission
Miss Tiina.co. ** No CU Fee
Peppermint Creative ** No CU Fee
Sabrina Dupre Scraps ** $5 CU Fee
Scrap Girls ** CU Items
Swheat Creations ** No CU Fee

Fonts / Dingbats

FREE FONTS:
1001 Fonts
DaFont
Font Squirrel
Google Web Fonts
Lost Type Co-Op

FONTS TO PURCHASE:
Envato Fonts
Font Freak
Font Shop
Fontspring
My Fonts

Free Stock Photos/Graphics

Burst Stock Photos
Create Her Stock Photos
Death to the Stock Photo
Epicantus by Daria
Foter
Foodies Feed
Free Designer Resources
FreeImages
FreePIK PSD
Freerange
Free Refe Photos
Freestocks Free Photos
Good Free Photos
Gratisography
Imagebase
IM Free
Jay Mantri
Je Shoots
Kaboompics
Life of Pix
Magdeleine
MorgueFile
MMT Free Stock Photos
NegativeSpace
New Old Stock
PD Photos
Pexels
Photogen
PhotoPin
Photos Public Domain
Picjumbo
Pickup Images
Picography
PikWizard
Pixabay
Pixeden
Pixelo Design Deals
Pixel Surplus
Public Domain Photos
Public Domain Pictures
RGBStock
Raumrot
Snapographic
Snapwire Snaps
SplitShire
Startup Stock Photos
Stock Free Photos
StockSnap Free Photos
Stokpic
Stockvault
Tookapic Free Stock Photos
Unsplash
USA.gov
US Library of Congress

Paid Stock Photos/Graphics

123 Royalty Free ** 15 Credit Minimum for $15, $1 per Credit
Big Stock Photo ** 5 Credit Minimum for $15, $3 per Credit
Can Stock Photo ** 18 Credit Minimum for $9, $.50 per Credit
CreStock ** 5 Credit Minimum for $5, $1 per Credit
DepositPhotos ** 5 Image minimum for for $39
Dreamstime ** 8 Credit Minimum for $9.99, $1.25 per Credit
Fotolia ** 10 Credit Minimum for $10, $1 per Credit
Fotosearch ** As low as $3 per image
GoGraph ** Credits ($35 for 25 min Credits) or Subscription
Graphic Leftovers ** $10 Minimum Credit Deposit
GraphicStock ** Monthly or Annual Subscription
iStockphoto ** 12 Credit Minimum for $18.25, $1.52 per Credit
ShutterStock ** 2 Image minimum for for $29
Stockfresh Stock Photos **From $1 to $15
Stocksy ** $10 for 1 Small Photo and Up
Veer.com ** 12 Credit Minimum for $16.92

Stylized Stock Photos

Gorgeous styled stock photography that can be used for Site Headers, Buttons, Featured Posts, Newsletters, Product Showcase, Advertisements, Promos and so much more. The possibilities are endless!

Anna Delores
Carmen Creative Shop
CGS Creative
Citrus and Cinnamon
Dear Miss Modern
Happy Soul Studio
Happy Styled Stock
Jenna Redfield Designs
Kate Maxwell Studio
Little Sparrow Shop
Love Plus Color
MadeByKasia
Maulana Creative
Modern Color Mix
Penny Jane Studios
Petra Veikkola
Place of my Taste
Place To
Román Jusdado
Rosemary Watson Productions
SC Stock Shop
Shop Lemon Fresh
Show It Better
Stockographer
Studio Chic Designs
Sublime Styled Stock Photography
Styled Stock Society
The Design House of Miss Modern
Type and Style
White Hart Design Co

Mockup Stock Photos

Like the above Styled Stock Photo section, mockup styled photos can be used for Product Showcase, Advertisements, Promos, Client Mockups and so much more.

Creative Market ** Paid
GraphicBurger **Free
Pixeden** Free

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The Posh Box Web and Blog Design Studio specializes in designing and developing fresh and fabulous websites and blogs to help small businesses, hobbyists and bloggers build a successful long-lasting online presence that is beautiful and unique while still maintaining
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