2012 - Cascade Valley Designs

Change your Website Favicon, Please!

Author: Ann MarieOn: May 07Categories: Blog 2 Comments

I have to admit that one of my biggest pet peeves when visiting a website is seeing a default favicon image in the top title of the page, whether it be from your website hosting company or the theme logo. If you don’t know what a favicon is check...

How to: Add your Logo to your Outlook Email Signature

Author: Ann MarieOn: Apr 05Categories: Blog 2 Comments

Since I have had 3 clients in two days ask me how to add their logo into Outlook's email signature, I thought it would be beneficial to create this video...my first HOW TO video tutorial. Please let me know if you found this helpful. Best seen in full...

Optimizing Your Feedburner Email in 10 minutes

Author: Ann MarieOn: Mar 23Categories: Blog 236 Comments

Although I am just getting started blogging on my site, this is one post I have been aching to write even before my new website launched. Feedburner is no doubt the most popular method for emailing blog posts to subscribers. However, I think many...

7 Reasons why you should use an Email Marketing Service to send your Newsletters

Author: Ann MarieOn: Feb 27Categories: Blog 13 Comments

Gone are the days that sending bulk email from Outlook is common practice. If you are a small business and sending frequent email updates to a growing email list it is best that you set up an account through one of the many email marketing services...

Keeping site design simple is difficult

Author: Ann MarieOn: Feb 09Categories: Blog No Comments

From the words of the admired man who revolutionized the gadgets we use every day, Steve Jobs even admitted designing with simplicity is not an easy task: "Look at the design of a lot of consumer products — they’re really complicated surfaces....

A Web Designer without a Website…no longer!

Author: Ann MarieOn: Jan 21Categories: Blog 14 Comments

The day has finally come! My site no longer reads "coming soon..." I think after 2 years "soon" is not quite the appropriate word to use. But "soon" has finally arrived and I am so relieved to finally be a Web Designer with a Website. Yes it has been...