Some Cool Tools

Here are some useful sites I've been using lately:

dafont.com
When your basic fonts won't do, check out this site that has hundreds to choose from. If you looked at the Riptide Marketing Guide below, I used 'Kimberly' for the headings. Some of my other favorites include: ChopinScript, PenguinAttack, and Refuse.

blurb.com
I haven't used it yet, but this is most likely the route I'll take to print the marketing guide. Printing rates are comparable to Kinkos and infinitely cleaner and classier (no gross spirals!).

wordpress.org
Different than wordpress.com, wordpress.org is free open source that you upload straight to your own site. It's all the nasty back-end PHP code needed to run a blog in a nice package. I just got it up and running on my site (still not published) this morning, so I have to go through and customize the styles. From what I've seen so far it looks great and I'm relieved and very happy to have a solid way of getting blogs on the sites I'm designing. Over the next few weeks I'm hoping to revamp this blog and publish my site...now that I'll have a decent amount of stuff for a portfolio.