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Laura - May 26, 2012 10:32:54 am PDT #876 of 1416
Our wings are not tired.

Indeed, ita and Ginger. This occurred to me too. So I won't bother to tell them and will leave the project on my wish list. From their padded cells cubicals they rarely have a clue what is happening with end users anyway. Ha!

Also, if they find out my SQL knowledge is growing they will never give me a quick query again.


amych - May 26, 2012 10:36:02 am PDT #877 of 1416
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Go Laura, with the self-empowerment and the SQL and the glayvin! t crawls back into pit of ME3


Ginger - Jun 02, 2012 2:53:56 pm PDT #878 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Can I get some feedback on this business card design? [link]

Also, is anyone using a Google voice number as a business number?

eta: zipped file [link]


NoiseDesign - Jun 02, 2012 2:56:25 pm PDT #879 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

I use a Google Voice number as my business number.


beekaytee - Jun 02, 2012 3:03:18 pm PDT #880 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant

Ginger, I've used Onebox for a dozen years and have been totally satisfied. It's an integrated messaging system...and offers much more than I ever use. It costs, but it is a minor deduction.

I love the business card design. It has texture and whimsy in an otherwise digital-drenched field. That says something wonderful about you and what you offer.


smonster - Jun 02, 2012 3:09:29 pm PDT #881 of 1416
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I love the business card design. It has texture and whimsy in an otherwise digital-drenched field. That says something wonderful about you and what you offer.

What bonny said!


Ginger - Jun 02, 2012 3:15:16 pm PDT #882 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm thinking about using a Google Voice number on my card and website because I can customize it and because I'm trying to move away from AT&T as my phone company.


Vortex - Jun 02, 2012 4:08:40 pm PDT #883 of 1416
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I like the card!


§ ita § - Jun 02, 2012 4:52:26 pm PDT #884 of 1416
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ginger, the only thing I can think of is to give more space between words (not kerning character), since it will help parse that it's both an ampersand and a pen. Communications seems to be very bold and reasonably tightly kerned I think lightening it a *smidge* but not so much it doesn't draw the eye.


Typo Boy - Jun 04, 2012 10:03:17 am PDT #885 of 1416
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I've always followed a poor accounting procedure of having a single account that mingles business and personal. The reason I was able to do that is that I was always paid in a small number of checks my business expenses were not only small dollar, but few in number. In short I was able to keep track of my business in a single account, and record check numbers and keep receipts - so I have more or less gotten away with it. (Don't know if it might cost me problems in an audit,though hopefully, keeping receipts takes care of that.)

OK but now numbers of transactions are about to increase. So time to be a little more professional and get a separate account. Question: is there any reason not to get a second personal account rather than business account. At my bank, checks are free on a personal account. And they do let you electronically track expenses. I guess the disadvantage is that checks written to me still have to be made out to me personally. But at the moment, the account will be used for
A) my consulting business
B) books written by me and retailed by m

So I don't have problem with checks being written to me personally, and in this context I don't think it is unprofessional. Any feedback? Do you think being able to have checks written to [lastname] Information would make a seriously more professional impression than having checks written to Firstname Lastname?