Granny's Mettle

About Granny's Mettle

Granny's Mettle is a 30-something, professional web content writer. She has created various web content on a diverse range of topics, which includes digital printing topics, medical news, as well as legal issues. Her articles are composed of reviews, suggestions, tips and more for the printing and designing industry.

Her thoughts on writing: "Writing gives me pleasure… pleasure and excitement that you have created something to share with others. And with the wide world of the Internet, it gives me great satisfaction that my articles reach more people in the quickest time you could imagine."

On her spare time, she loves to stay at home, reading books on just about any topic she fancies, cooking a great meal, and taking care of her husband and kids.

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Book Review: The Non-designer’s Design Book, Second Edition

One of the books I strongly recommend for non-designers like me is Robin Williams' "Non-Designer's Design Book". It is a must for dummies who want to have a career on graphic designing even without the formal education.
Date Posted: March 11, 2005

Hot Multimedia Tips

Some of Howwired's best web developers and designers have converged to share their techniques to create effective audio, video and animation in the web.
Date Posted: March 07, 2005

Web Design Illustration Tips

Pictures are worth a thousand words. So are illustrations and images on any web page. Your illustrations will either make your visitors stay and read on, or make them decide to skip and click on another web site.For best results, you could apply the...
Date Posted: March 07, 2005

Print Shop Deluxe Empowering Users To Do Publishing

Professional and business-looking cards have become so tedious that I have been trying to get other programs to help me create cards and albums without feeling that it's a lot of work for me.Broderbund's "The Print Shop" has been...
Date Posted: March 03, 2005

The Do's of Banner Designing

Banners are effective media materials that can make or break a company's ad campaign. For web sites, along with the corporate logo, the banner speaks of your message and what you want to achieve for your corporate image and identity.To help you...
Date Posted: March 03, 2005

Fusing Traditional and Technical Illustrations

The following is an excerpt from the tips and techniques provided by a designer using Photoshop 4. He based his techniques from a current project of creating illustrations for a story of a mythical city in a magazine.
Date Posted: March 03, 2005

How To Create Your Logo (Part 1)

For a businessman, image is everything. Big companies invest a lot to have an attractive, dynamic, eye-catching image to brand their identity. These eye-catching visuals are commonly known as logos.A logo is a name, symbol or trademark of a company...
Date Posted: March 03, 2005

Image Pro 9: Powered Desktop Publishing Program

Microsoft provided software carrying two CDs--- Digital Image Suite 9 and the Digital Image Pro 9. It comes with wizards that walk you through the process, and tutorials that help you get started right away.
Date Posted: March 03, 2005

Designing Digital Pieces for Digital Presses

Designers value the litheness of digital presses that let them print shorter four-color runs. But choices of paper and preparation of files require special care.
Date Posted: January 20, 2005

Digitalize It! : (Modification of images with tools such as Adobe CS and Corel)

Then it was a choice among crayons, paints and palettes for an artist and designer to create art. It was a box of crayons that make one happy designer during his early years of formation.
Date Posted: January 20, 2005