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THE DARLING NEWSLETTER APRIL 2010 |
IN THIS ISSUE:
The Smashing Book Giveaway
New Designs by The Darling Tree
Darling Favourites
Blogs and Wordpress
Welcome to the April edition of The Darling Newsletter.
Wow, this year is flying by quickly! The last couple of months has seen lots of new projects in the works and the launch of new sites for Sas' Magical Mystery Tour, Inspired Naturally and the revamped home of Susannah Conway.
Read on to find out who will be receiving a copy of The Smashing Book in last month's giveaway, along with some great websites that were shared with me as part of the giveaway.
As a regular feature in this newsletter, I've also included some of my favourite blogs and websites right now and would love you to share your sources of inspiration with me.
Enjoy!
Best Wishes, Jo.
THE SMASHING BOOK GIVEAWAY
Thankyou to the readers who entered the giveaway and shared their most loved websites with me. I'm happy to announce that Alison Kerr will be the lucky recipient of a copy of The Smashing Book!
Here are some of the great sites that people shared in this giveaway:
NotCot - A visual filtration of ideas, aesthetics and amusements
Reform School Rules - Online store featuring art and crafty goodness
ffffound - Share your favourite imgaes found on the web
Eat Drink Chic - Stylish ideas and inspiration
TED - Riveting talks by remarkable people
Spezify - A search tool present results in a visual way
NEW DESIGNS BY THE DARLING TREE |
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SUSANNAH CONWAYRevealed this week is the new and improved home of Susannah Conway. We merged her popular Typepad blog and previous website into a sparkly new Wordpress site. Check out her gorgeous polaroids! |
SAS' MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURAnother new Wordpress redesign, Sas' Magical Mystery Tour shares the observations of an ex-kiwi living in London. It's fun and quirkly and well worth the read. |
INSPIRED NATURALLYKate MacAndrew endeavours to reflect the beauty and tiny details of nature in her artwork. Her new website Inspired Naturally reflects her unique style and ideas. |
DARLING FAVOURITES
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ANIMAL REVIEWAnimal Review takes a humurous approach to reviewing animals and giving them a grade based on real scientific facts. The Panda receives an F, citing "maybe we should spend our time on a species that at least wants to survive". |
DAILY DROP CAPA beautiful concept. Daily Drop Cap is a project by Jessica Hische, where each day a new hand-crafted decoration inital cap is posted, free for everyone to use on their blog posts. |
FEMALE ILLUSTRATORSA blog featuring work of female illustrators from the 20th Century. Female Illustrators is full of beautiful and vintage imagery and a worthy archive of female talent. |
BLOGS AND WORDPRESS |
Many recent projects have involved Wordpress integration and I thought it would be fun to share some great plugins you can implement on your own Wordpress blog.
Advanced Event Registration - A free plugin to accept paid registrations on your site which is integrated with Paypal. Be it for live events, workshops, or e-courses, it makes the process very easy.
BackType Tweetcount - A simple solution allowing your readers to retweet your blog posts and share with the rest of Twitter. Includes a counter on each blog post for the number of times it's been tweeted.
WPtouch iPhone Theme - This plugin transforms your blog into an iPhone application-style theme when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device.
LinkWithin - LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive.
CONTACT THE DARLING TREE
Email - jo@thedarlingtree.com
Website - www.thedarlingtree.com
Twitter - @thedarlingtree