With the huge popularity of social media these days, most bloggers want a way for readers to be able to easily share their posts on outlets such as twitter and facebook. With that said, there are tons of social media plugins that are great for your wordpress blog.

Sexybookmarks is one of them (and I’ll be sharing a few more). While I’m not really a fan of lots of plugins going on in a blog, this one is very sleek and not very obtrusive to your blog or design. It’s extremely easy to configure with a settings page directly in your wordpress dashboard after activating the plugin. Depending on your wordpress theme, you may have to manually configure this to appear on all posts of your blog which would mean getting into the coding. If you aren’t comfortable doing that, I’m always here to help.

Just had to share another one. This is from the purse my hubby got me for our 5 year anniversary.

Have a great Super Bowl Sunday everyone!

I love photos for my color inspiration! And I’ve got this really cool ColorSchemer Studio 2 desktop application to put together schemes for me using tons of options. I saw this image and had to save a color scheme with it right away. Hope I get to use it soon

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Must be the season for event management companies to freshen up their sites.  I’ve been working on lots of these.  I just launched Savvy Soirees blog, and will soon be working on her Bludomain site.  I really like the bold colors she chose to represent her brand.  Very clean and professional.

Go check it out!

Once again, this is my second blog for Frugal Living NW.  I actually designed her website and blog to match, and she finally wanted to make the switch from blogger to wordpress.  So she took the plunge, and I was there to help!  We cleaned up the blog a bit, while keeping her same logo.  This blog is using the Thesis theme.

Go check it out!

Well, if you are still on blogger, then you know that when you upload your images, blogger automatically resizes those images for you. Thank you, but no thank you. I really don’t like that they do this. Especially for bloggers who like to show off their photographs! So here is a quick how-to on fixing this issue:

Once you are in blogger, and ready to edit or start a new post, use the image uploader to upload a new image. Make sure you are set to upload the Large image.
Upload everything as normal.
Once it’s done and in your posts, switch over to the html mode.
You will then see this:

Next, delete the parts that you see in red above.
Then, where you see width=”400px”, change the 400 to whatever width you need your image to be.
That’s it!

Please note: If the original image you uploaded was not larger than 400px wide, when you change the number above, your images will get distorted.

This is my second design for Savvy Events.  DeNeitra completely redid her logo and everything for the new year.  I’m loving her choice of tiffany blue here also!  This blog is hosted on blogger and has some special features up top with a custom search field and custom twitter feed.

Go check it out!

O I love the shades of pink. It’s one of my fav colors

This one is called Autumn. I miss Fall already.

Beautiful shades of teal. Makes me want to go to the beach.

And sunset colors. Naturally. I think my mind in on vacation. Which isn’t in the near future.

Very Pretty Combo here. Makes me think Cherry Limeade. Sorta.

This is my third blog design for Mommy Goggles! Tanya was actually one of my very first customers when I started Restored 316 Designs. I always love how easy she is! She says, have at it, and lets me do my thing. I love that! But I think this design is her BEST yet!

Go check it out!

I have been so excited to share this blog with everyone! It’s been a while in the making, but I’m so very happy with the end result. Heather came to me a few months back wanting a blog that was broken up in sections and that had different sidebars for each section. So we have 5 different blogs going all synced together to act as one. And this WordPress blog is loaded with features…

To the fun automatic featured gallery on the home page.

To the automatic categories on the left sidebar of all the blogs.

To the custom search featured up top.

To the custom archives page that sorts all the posts by category and will automatically update with every blog posts. Brilliant!

To the custom recent posts widget on the sidebar that will automatically update with every new blog posts with an Image from the posts! Brilliant!

But you can’t see all these features unless you go visit right?  So Go check it out!

ETA:  And yes,  this entire site was coded by me!

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