May 19

Banner Fix For Five Dollars

InkWell1971 banner

Fixed InkWell1971.com Banner

This was an unusual job in that I was given an 800x500px banner to liven up.

I made the spilt ink banner look a bit more convincing, and moved it from the middle of the page to the left.

I then had room to make the very tiny contact information larger. I added the red to an otherwise black and white banner at the buyers request.

I reduced the size of the logo too so that the website address could be more prominent.

To add a bit of flare I added a slight gradient to the website address, and a bit of spilled red ink and the client was pleased.

This static banner fix was $5.00 of course. It was ordered through my fiverr gig where I offer to create static banners of any reasonable size for just five bucks. You can also click on the PayPal button at the top of the right hand sidebar to order your banner.

May 17

MobiKwik.com Of India Outsources To Me

MobiKwik of India

62.5cm X 62.5cm poster for India cell phone service MobiKwik

I suppose if companies based in India are outsourcing their work to me I should probably revisit my pricing. I won’t though because I enjoy doing graphics, and so I am trying to learn all I can about Photoshop. Well, actually I have a firm grasp on Photoshop, but want to learn more about using the massive number of plugins, brushes, filters and effects available.

This banner is actually huge, more of a poster that I did for MobiKwik.com, the Indian pay online payment service available for iPhone and Android users.

In the future I will not work on such large format images though. The time to save updates takes far too long making my usual quick completion impossible. The actual graphics work mind you takes the same amount of time, even with this 17 layer PSD measuring 62.5cm by 62.5cm.

I delivered this in an editable PSD, as per instructions. This was a good thing too. The MobiKwik logo, bottom left, the was supplied by the customer. However, once enlarged I noticed it has the very top of the arrows trimmed off. Naturally I Googled to find another logo but they all must have been derived from the same original because all were missing the very tips of the arrows. It messes with my mild case of OCD big time to have something not quite right ;)

May 15

Smiling Through Life Five Dollar Blog Header

Ashley Aliprandi's blog header

Blog header for Ashley Aliprandi’s blog “Smiling Through Life”

This is the header created for Ashley Aliprandi’s WordPress powered website, Smiling Through Life. The header was just $5, but I also made changes to Ashley’s template, added some must have plugins, and then tweaked the CSS and HTML to give the site a more personalized look and feel. Read the rest of this entry »

May 14

A Banner For Five Dollars

Clarksburg Roofing Company

Banner for Residential Roofing Company

This was a banner ordered through my fiverr.com gig for $5.

I really appreciated that Clarksburg Roofing Company not only supplied a high resolution photo of the house to be the background of  the banner, but very precise instructions. It made the job so much easier I didn’t mind creating the simple logo for the company pro bono.

Apr 19

Five Buck Blog Header

Five dollar blog header for lagartapintada.com

$5 blog header for lagartapintada.com

This header was provided as part of an overall order to tweak the design of a WordPress blog, but on it’s own was $5. The entire job was to changed the header, background, tweak the CSS, and realign the Social Media icons to reduce the width of the page to 1000px, the width of the header in full size. Total cost only $25.

To have a WordPress and website template tweaked for anywhere from $5 for simple CSS and HTML tweaks to a maximum or $85 for a full installations, setup and customization of an existing template check out this Fiverr.com Gig.

To see this header embedded in the blog visit lagartapintada.com

Mar 29

4 banners for the price of 3

This is another case of use of special offers earning a buyer 4 banners for the price of 3. One banner was just $5, but by purchasing an a second banner the buyer gets a 3rd banner absolutely free. The forth banner, the tall skyscraper was ordered later for an additional $5. Total spent, $15 for four banner and the buyer received the Photoshop files as well.

bannersamples

Two of the banners are 200×200 pixel squares, one 200×620 skyscraper banner and a 728×90 leaderboard banner. The entire package was just $15.00 and you can get it here. You can also simply click on the PayPal button at the top of the right sidebar to order you banner as well.

Jan 22

Simple Banner

The concept for FreeShippingAndDelivery.com is pretty simple. If a product is offered online and shipping is free, the business and/or the product itself is listed. Ditto, if a store provides free delivery either locally, regionally or nationally the store and/or the products are listed on the website.

I didn’t have to think about this banner, the order came with very precise instructions, and a logo, to create a very simple, yet attention grabbing banner…

FreeShippingAndDelivery-banner-728x90

Normally I charge extra to complete banner orders within 24 hours because it means dropping everything to get the job done. However, with very precise instructions and the job being simple, I did not charge more than the usual $5 through my Fiverr.com Gig for this 728×90 pixel banner.

As a bonus, I pin all my work on Pinterest, add a post to Facebook, and blast out a notice on Twitter. And of course they’re always added here with a permanent backlink to the buyer’s website of blog.

Dec 05

$5 Banner

Lube-X will be changing its name to Jiffy LubeThis banner was ordered as part of a rebranding of Lube-X outlets in Canada to JiffyLube. The banner has transparent background so it will blend with any website colour scheme.

There is a slight shadow on one corner of the counter top so that it shows up on white backgrounds such as this page.

The cost was just $5 by ordering here.

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