By aprilholle | general observation, life news, new idea!, self-reflection
Sorry I’ve been in hiatus the past three weeks or so… I was all on track to get some serious blogging done over the break and instead found myself in a mess of personal life crisis that made me wonder if Doctor Phil needs me to fill in some days. In the last three weeks
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, art forms, self-reflection
CSS is easy enough to start to learn, but it really takes some practice to master and understand the beautiful efficiency it provides. These techniques of efficiency separate the apprentices from the masters in the art of CSS. Now that I know what I know now, I wish someone would have told me these secrets
Tags: blog series, Cascading-Style-Sheets, css, css-continued, css-stylesheets, front-end-architect, front-end-development, style-sheets, stylesheet, tutorials, Web-Design
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By aprilholle | general observation, self-reflection
Why do we do the things we do? When we’re born we can become anyone and effect anything. Why is it we choose the paths we do? Why are we so inspired by some experiences in life and not others? A person’s attention is very segregated to what they what to pay attention to. But
Tags: abilities, becoming-interested, being-interested, experiences, general observation, human-inspriation, inspiration, interests, new-direction, paying-attention, personal-investments, self-reflection, things-we-do
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By aprilholle | general observation, self-reflection, seo
I’ve been getting a TON of hits for the search term “evofc”. Now, at first I thought there had to be something else that was picking up the audience and mis-guiding them to my site. So I took a look at the results, headlamps and a soccer team… college enrollment codes…. hmm. But you’ll notice,
Tags: April-Holle, E-Visions-of-Creativity, EVofC, general observation, google-results, Search-Engine-Optimization, search-term, self-reflection, seo
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By aprilholle | art forms, general observation, self-reflection
I was surfing some of my more design-related RSS feeds when I came across a very interesting artistic work featured on Quipsologies. Tim Gaudreau has made a huge photo collage out of all the trash he’s thrown away in the last year to make a statement regarding America’s waste and energy consumption. After 365 days
Tags: art forms, artistic-expression, artistic-work, conserving-energy, enegry-consumption, energy-conservation, environment, environmentally-responsible, garbage, general observation, green-living, landfill, personal-experiment, photo-collage, photos, Quipsologies, recycle, recycling, self-reflection, Tim-Gaudreau, trash, trash-reduction, Under-Consideration, waste
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By aprilholle | life news, self-reflection, things to do
It’s that time again! October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and to spark awareness around the world wide web PinkforOctober.org has asked web site owners to go pink for the month of October. Last year, I grabbed a pink wordpress theme and called it a month. This year, I’ve gone ahead and created a pink
Tags: life news, self-reflection, things to do
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By aprilholle | art forms, life news, self-reflection
Oh my goodness! What an amazing time I had in Austin! I want to thank Aaron, Brooks, Parts, Derick, Domino, Erica and all the rest of the Red Bull staff who made this event amazing and the weekend just a blast! Austin is definately living up to it’s city slogan “Keep Austin Wierd.” While I
Tags: art forms, Austin, Flugtag, flugtag-photos, life news, Red-Bull, Red-Bull-Flugtag, red-bull-flugtag-photos, self-reflection, South-by-Southwest, Terralever, Texas, travel, web-broadcast
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, general observation, self-reflection, speaker reviews, things to do
Last night I attended the Refresh Phoenix speaking event featuring Pam Slim, author of the blog Escape from Cubical Nation. Pam focuses on transitioning corporate employees to the freedom of entrepreneurship, and gives us some simple steps to freeing ourselves from the bonds of the cubical. Create your life plan: Visualize where you want
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, self-reflection
Just finished reading the book The Dip by Seth Godin. I enjoyed it! The majority of the book covers quitting and when the right and wrong times to quit are. As I was reading the book, through my mind I was going through all the times I had quit, wanted to quit or didn’t quit
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By aprilholle | general observation, self-reflection
I always read these on the side of Starbucks cups everytime I get my Venti (some silly word for large) Vanilla Latte. However, they usually never express the way “I” see it. Which may be the point, to expand the WAY I see it. Anyhow, I read the one on my cup today, and I
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