I’ve personally been quite fond of Dafont for quite some time. It’s easy to use and has tons of fonts to choose from. Whenever I’ve needed a font to use, I’ve been able to find one at Dafont.

But now I’ve got another font site to look at. This one is called ‘UrbanFonts‘. UrbanFonts seems to be almost exactly the same as Dafont, except  the fonts are organized into slightly different categories. This means it’s more likely that I might find a good font ‘by accident’, since the categories are more general than Dafont’s.

Trying to create a logo for a new company or website can be a real hassle. What color? What shape? Can you even draw what you want to draw? I’ve done this logo thing before and it is not easy at all to create one from scratch.

Fortunately, you don’t have to design your own logo from scratch. LogoYes will help you create a custom logo in almost no time at all. They even let you try it out for free and if you like the logo that you create, you can buy various versions of it. If I were going to make a logo for my blog, it might look something like the example to the right. Even though just the logo costs only $99, I didn’t want to buy it just to show you in only one blog post, so you’ll have to click on the example to see the quick logo I made and the final screen.

It only took me about 10 minutes to make that logo (way faster than creating from scratch) and I was quite impressed by the selection offered. I could have easily spent a lot more time there in the careful creation of a logo since they have over 20,000 images to choose from.

And if I had wanted business cards, post cards or even more based off my logo, I could have chosen that as well. Not only do they have a lot of choices, but the price is also quite right as well.

Invariably, if you’re doing anything on the internet, you’re going to have to create or modify graphics at some point in time. My favorite program for this is Adobe Photoshop. The downside of this is the expense of the program, which really is a bit much (over $600!).

I don’t think it’s worth that much, even though it is a very nice program. Thankfully, I got a free version with an old WACOM tablet I bought years ago.

Anyway, I’m always looking for hints and tips on making and editing graphics with Photoshop. That’s how I found ‘Laurie McCanna’s complete list of Photoshop tutorials‘.  I’m not sure how ‘complete’ it is, since it makes reference to older versions and to Win95, but there may be a few things you didn’t know about Photoshop there. I know I found the seamless pattern tile creation useful, since I keep forgetting how to do that.

Making ASCII art is hard, even for some of the most simple things. Making complex art is much more difficult, pretty much impossible to do by hand. And most computer programs tend to not do the art so well.

But I have found the ASCII-O-Matic! It create smallish ASCII art in either black and white or color and with either letters or colored squares. It’s pretty good and you can tell what most of the stuff is, which is more than you can say for most ASCII art generators.

I just have to force myself to stop playing with it…