Doug Cloud

Customized Feedburner Subscription Box

by Doug Cloud on April 7, 2010 · 19 comments

I received a great deal of positive feedback on the RSS subscribe box I made for my Blogger site. Some folks were curious as to how I put it together. This tutorial describes how I stylized my subscribe box and inserted the code into a text widget. For this tutorial I will be using Photoshop [...]

The Death of Conversation

by Doug Cloud on March 23, 2010 · 7 comments

Now just to let you know this post has zilch to do with design. More appropriately, it has to do with the art of communication – a lost art, or so it seems. Something I have noticed over the last few years is how people’s attention spans have dwindled along with the manner in which [...]

Twitter Me This, Twitter Me That…

by Doug Cloud on March 16, 2010 · 11 comments

I started my design blog in May of 2007 with more than a little trepidation. Although I read other people’s blogs regularly, both at home and at work, I was never interested in blogging myself. To be honest, I’m not a very sociable person, and the thought of coming up with a blog post on [...]

Blockquote Blues!

by Doug Cloud on March 3, 2010 · 14 comments

Recently I was cleaning up some of my posts on TBODC and I noticed one of my plain bland-looking blockquotes. Naturally, being a designer, I had to do something about this. The blockquote is a highly underrated character on a blog or website. Usually it just sits there looking bored or like a clone of [...]