December Specials – Holiday Cards

It is time to start thanking customers, partners, and vendors that you work with for another great year. CPD can help create email templates and holiday cards that are custom to your brand and target audience. Contact us by calling (858) 352-6292 or email sales@crownpointdesigns.com. This Month Our Specials Include: 1) $30 Off on Holiday…

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Support World Bicycle Relief This Holiday Season

As we enter the holiday season it is always a good time to help others in need through charitable giving. In that regard, I want to introduce a non-profit organization that we have fallen in love with and are helping spread awareness for. The organization is called the World Bicycle Relief (WBR). In essence, the WBR…

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WordPress Tutorial – Adding Images & Video To Posts

In our continued effort to provide a gallery of tutorials for WordPress users, we would like to share the tips around adding images and video to your blog posts. Adding images and video can help enhance the design and appeal of your content. Static content heavy sites are often ignored even if the content is…

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10 Inspiring Quotes on Design

Inspiration often comes from those who said it best. Our industry is filled with graphic designers, website designers, and other artists who all have a creative viewpoint (and often philosophical) on their work. Quotes can often give you a different viewpoint on how to achieve your goal. We have put together the top 10 quotes…

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November Specials – Hosting & Business Cards

We have two great promotions running this month at CPD. The first is 1-free month of website hosting on all new accounts setup during the month of November. Learn more about our hosting packages. The second is a $50 discount on business card design. Get a two sided full color design for only $100 (discounted…

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Awesome Design Video :: Addicted

At CPD we love contemporary art and are always fascinated to see what can be done with the use of existing art techniques like spray paint and new technology. This video is a great representation of the power that graphic design can have in the modern world. What was once looked at as an old…

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WordPress Tutorial on Creating Blog Posts

CPD is creating a series of tutorials for beginners using WordPress. These tutorials will be posted on our blog on a weekly basis and will all become available on our YouTube channel. The types of useful tutorials you can expect will include: creating blog posts, adding images and videos to posts, managing page content, creating…

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Book Recommendation- The Web Designer’s Idea Book

All website designers need a source of inspiration. Often it comes in the form of browsing the web and looking at other designs. Perhaps industry competitors or some of your other favorite designs will spark an idea for the design of a new website. There is one book above all others that I recommend to…

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Website Designers & Graphic Designers Portfolio Tool

If you are a website designer, graphic designer, photographer or artist you should get on the Behance Network. Behance is an up and coming social media site that allows creative experts to show off their portfolio of work through a variety of online platforms. Very often, graphic designers and photographers don’t have the web skills…

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Managing Sponsored Search Campaigns

Are you spending money in sponsored search? Adwords is Google’s product for managing sponsored search campaigns through pay per click advertising (PPC). If so, Adwords campaigns need to be nurtured and have a daily focus in order to achieve top results. When managing a budget in Adwords, it is important to test various campaigns and…

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