Website Design: Why go with a website designer opposed to do it myself?

When you go to a search engine and run a search for your business.

A website designer will ensure that you rank highly in your field in search results.

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Exotic Leather Co. Website Design

I have been doing some serious website design work on the Exotic Leather Co. Website.  They offer a full line of exotic embossed leather.

King Crocodile

King Crocodile is available in these fine Colors:
Acorn, Antique Aqua/Pink, Antique Pink, Antique Red,Berkshire, Black/Grey, Bronze, Brown, Buckskin, Burnt Sienna, Celery, Cheek, Chestnut, Cognac, Cucumber, Ferrari Red, Gray Goose, Havana, Kelley Green, Khaki, Medium Brown, Papaya, Pecan, Rose Grenadine, Royal Blue, Summer Pink, Tangelo, Taupe, Teal, Turquoise, White, Wine, Winter Green, Yellow.

Check out Exotic Leather for more information!

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Red Bud Tea Co.

The Red Bud Tea & Gift Shop, Located in Shipshewana, Indiana has been an ongoing project for a few months now, and it is finally coming together.

You can go to their website and see all sorts of Premium Rose Bud Tea as well as teapots & Accessories, and Elmwood Inn Tea. The best part of the deal, apart from free shipping (On orders above $50.00) is that they are a home-town business that can cater to the big town people. They have a new blog too.  You can find out more about Red Bud Tea & Gifts and and specials and coupons they are running there.

Come on out the Shipshewana, in the upstairs or Yoder’s Red Barn, and see some of the beautiful tea sets, get a drink of fabulous tea, and bring some home with you while you’re at it!

Their website design caters to their needs, now let them cater to your needs! For website design, give Curtis Smeltzer a call at (574) 658-4153

The Red Bud Tea & Gift Shop is Conveniently located in Shipshewana, IN

The Red Bud Tea & Gift Shop is Conveniently located in Shipshewana, IN

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Curtis Smeltzer: Graphic Design » Bernis Smeltzer

This year, my dad’s mom passed away after a long fight with cancer. Please keep my family in your thoughts and prayers.

via Curtis Smeltzer: Graphic Design » Bernis Smeltzer.

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My WordPress Blog was Hacked!!

Well, I got hacked, so I’m going to have to reinstall my blog. For now I am reverting back to this old one. I’ve also made my passwords harder to guess.

Awesome.

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ESPN FAIL!!!!


I got on ESPN to read about “Heel Of A Win” Here’s the story:

Clemson is winless in Caple Hill. But the Tiger did snap a 10-game losing streak to North Carolina on Wednesday night 83-64. Recap » Road Warriors: TexasVideo PittsburghVideo Blog »

HARTFORD, Conn. — Hands up, really, from Monroeville to Butler, who honest-to-goodness thought Pittsburgh was going to start the Big East atop the standings at 4-0?

If your hand is up, you’re fibbing.

Yet here Pitt stands, in familiar territory: as Big East co-leaders with Villanova after beating Connecticut, 67-57.

And this isn’t just smoke and mirrors. The Panthers have won three of their four in some of the most hostile away courts in the Big East: at Syracuse, at Cincinnati at Connecticut.

What’s most impressive from this win is how Pitt won: it led big, gave it up, led big again, gave it up again and came back. Young teams aren’t supposed to have the mental toughness to do that. Yet there was Ashton Gibbs after a disastrous stretch for the Panthers — when they went more than nine minutes with just one field goal — swishing a 3-pointer in transition to push Connecticut back to a four-point hole.

The Panthers still have deficiencies. They don’t have a true point guard and in this conference, that can be disastrous.

Still, minus four starters from a year ago, the Panthers are leading the Big East.

So feel free to put your hands up Pittsburgh fans — this Panthers team is legit.”

Did you notice the misspelled word? HA! IT was on the main ESPN website. Fancy Fancy

When I’m designing & maintaing websites, I try to avoid such mistakes… Check some of them out by visiting Curtis Smeltzer Graphic Design

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The Vector House – Victorian Candy Company

The long-awaited vector drawing is complete! It took all of twenty days, a number of hours I won’t get into on this post, and a lot of Mtn Dew <— No I didn’t abbreviate Mtn Dew, that’s how they spell it on the can now. Se my response to that debacle here: http://www.youtube.com/curtissmeltzer

I started with a picture.From there, I did a quick sketch of the house. You can see that here.

After I finished the sketch, I took a picture of it and brought it into Adobe Illustrator. I started to use the pen tool to trace it.

As I mentioned before, it took quite a long time and many Mtn Dews, but this is the finished product:

Curtis Smeltzer Graphic Design does all sorts of Website Design • Website Maintenance • Logo Design • & Drawings, Digital and hand drawn. View More @ CurtisSmeltzer.com

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New header design implemented in an ad for Auto & RV



Last night I spent some time making a graphic for a header in Auto & RV Magazine, so I though I’d share it. It will be found in the next issue for Illinois.

Although I love designing ad for Auto & RV Magazine, I really enjoy working one on one with customers, so give me a call at Curtis Smeltzer Graphic Design (574) 658-4153

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Website Hosting

If you want to have your own website, regardless of who designs it, I suggest going through FatCow! They have awesome website hosting! Check them out!affiliate_link If you need website design as well, give Curtis Smeltzer @ curtissmeltzer.com a try!

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Curtis Smeltzer Graphic Design ad in the DEX Yellow Pages


I got my new DEX Yellow pages for Kosciusko County Indiana this week. I was sold on the point that I was the only business under the Website design section. As you can see, my ad is on the bottom corner of the page. There is just one thing… I’m the only business listed under website design, but DEX themselves took out a half of a page to advertise their website design service as well. It would have been nice to know if I’m wasting my time advertising in the DEX yellow pages. I didn’t expect to be the only advertiser under the website design heading, but when I was told that I am the only one listed, I’d expect that to be true. BAD DEX! BAD!

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