Diamond D Graphics • Equine Web Design • Ranch Logos • Horse Ads http://diamonddgraphics.com 515-238-9314 • diamonddgraphics@gmail.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:47:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Stallion Ad for Palomino Stallion ER Hot Chex http://diamonddgraphics.com/stallion-ad-for-palomino-stallion-er-hot-chex/ http://diamonddgraphics.com/stallion-ad-for-palomino-stallion-er-hot-chex/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:17:42 +0000 Susan http://diamonddgraphics.com/?p=521 Long time customer Overlook Farm hired Diamond D Graphics recently to design a full page color ad for the upcoming Quarter Horse Journal. We used an ad design I had created a few years ago as the base of the design. ER Hot Chex is siring offspring that are winning in the show pen so it was time to feature them in this ad.

When a customer asks me to include a graphic element in their ad design, I either have a photograph to use or create the graphic from scratch using Adobe Photoshop Software. This ad is an example of creating the lariat rope from scratch. I’m proud of my expert level of knowledge in Adobe Photoshop Software and love to use my talent to create artwork like the rope used in this ad.

Thanks Overlook Farm.

Susan Davis.

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For the background design of this horse ad, I chose Carol’s animal print show shirt as the graphic element. I personally liked the design of the shirt and thought the colors would compliment the horse colors and make for a cool looking background. I took that shirt, sized it to fit the ad dimensions and worked my magic.

Scanning Photos for Ad Design

The pictures Carol sent for the ad were pictures she had scanned herself and emailed to me. When you hire Diamond D Graphics to create an ad design, one of the professional services you are getting is my knowledge of editing images you send me for an ad (or website). In these photos I edited the levels of light, color corrected the photos (too much red in them), sharpened them, and performed other corrections for their best output in the printing process. The scanned pictures had small white dust specks on them, which were not visible to Carol with her scanning equipment. When I pulled the scanned photos with my professional software, I could see the dust. I have no way of correcting that scanned image from dust particles. The photos needed to be scanned again with special attention to blowing the dust off the photos and the scanner; OR taking a digital photograph of the photograph that can be emailed to me. I’m mentioning this to help inform and educate my customers on duplicating photos for ad design. Make sure your photos and scanner are clear of dust. Those small particles of dust are not visible with the naked eye, so try to blow the dust off too.

Thanks for reading,
Susan Davis

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Painted for Performance Horses
Stephanie White

http://www.paintedforperformance.com

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George Jackson
Owner
http://www.cooperativeadvertisinginc.com

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Logos, Business Cards, Website all the same graphics!

The thing about equine website design is…
learning website software takes hours, and you don’t have hours to learn software. You want a horse person designing your website. I’ve been raising and showing paint horses for 30 years. I KNOW HORSES! That is why you hire Diamond D Graphics – to design your horse website (website details) showcasing your horses to their best photographic features and attention grabbing web graphics that achieves results for your business. This saves you many headaches and late nights trying to figure out website language.

Equine Web Packages

Website Bundles…
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Logo, business cards and website packages!


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Our Website Services Include:

  • Custom Website Design
  • WordPress Websites
  • Content Management
  • ECommerce Websites
  • SEO Site Optimization Service
  • Remake/Upgrade Features of Your Current Website
  • Facebook Custom Graphics
  • Twitter Custom Graphics
  • MySpace Custom Graphics
  • Updates to your Website

Hiring Diamond D Graphics will:

  • FREE UP YOUR TIME
  • INCREASE SALES
  • GET FOUND THROUGH THE SEARCH ENGINES
  • WORK WITH YOUR BUDGET
  • CREATE BRAND AWARENESS

We are here 24/7 to monitor your website, build your website, maintain your website with updates, make sure your domain name gets renewed, your hosting renewed, all the details that keeps your website live and moving forward for your business. (read about me)

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Diamond D Graphics has years of experience developing horse websites; from simple informational websites to complex online store websites. We can handle any type of website function you require. So ask.

I’ve created horse farm websites, ranch websites, thoroughbred race horse websites, miniature horse websites, native American websites, equine artist websites, band websites, entertainer websites, vacation cabin websites, blues music websites, music websites, cowboy websites, ranch websites, and business websites of all kinds.

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Susan Davis

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The next marketing piece was business cards. I designed a western themed card with her logo as the center of attention. Lots of color and design work for that “wow” affect when she hands them out.

A new website was in order using all of her graphic elements, new logo, colors, western theme. Jennifer wanted to be able to work on her website, so I built her new website using Karma Content Management Software. Karma CMS is the easiest software I have found for my clients to make changes themselves. Plus the pedigree module is perfect for displaying her horse’s pedigree in a chart that Karma creates automatically. Sweet.

Jennifer can post news easily with Karma too and the article shows up in her “teaser” news section in the right hand column with a link to view the whole article on the news page. She can also post a different “main photo” on each page.

Thanks Jennifer for being a long time Diamond D customer and using us for all of our marketing materials for that “branding” synergy!

www.rockytrailacres.com

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Susan, you are the Pro. You always do such lovely work…

Love the creek running through too…

Judy Nordmeyer

www.coyotecreekminis.com

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Customers in the entertainment business, music business, bands, are a perfect fit with our Karma Content Management Website Software. Diamond D Graphics is an approved reseller of the Karma System and can create custom graphics and layouts for your business. Karma, much like WordPress, comes with built in features making it easy to add pages, photo galleries, forms, the list is long.

Diamond D switched the T-Bone site over to the Karma Software system right after becoming a reseller for this software. The built in modules to display artists bios, band bios, add events, song clips, etc. was the perfect fit for this blues festival website. And we have built many websites using this software, not just music websites. Just ask us if Karma is the right fit for your website.

Flash is used on the T-Bone Site’s Intro Page. We can develop a flash file for your website needs too!

Thanks to the T-Bone Board for allowing Diamond D to be your webmaster! Visit their site at: www.tbonewalkerbluesfest.com

]]> http://diamonddgraphics.com/t-bone-walker-blues-fest-website/feed/ 0 Healing the Sacred Child WordPress Website http://diamonddgraphics.com/healing-the-sacred-child-wordpress-website/ http://diamonddgraphics.com/healing-the-sacred-child-wordpress-website/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:49:34 +0000 Susan http://diamonddgraphics.com/?p=452 Diamond D Graphics is webmaster to non-profit organizations around the United States. In fact, when we feel strongly about an organizations message, there have been times when we discounted our rates to help out. Healing the Sacred Child through the Spirit of the Horse is one of those non-profits we help support through building them a WordPress website.

This organization helps native youth: The Sacred, Beautiful Horse has been an integral part of Native Culture since the beginning of time. Today more than ever there is a great need to re-introduce our youth, back to their traditional life-ways to help them deal with the issues of alcohol & drug abuse, gang violence, increasing suicide rates, and the effects of historical trauma.

Visit their website: www.healingthesacredchild.com

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