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The word “Avatar” is used to describe an image, icon or other virtual representation of a person. Avatars can be quite fun to design and you don’t need Photoshop skills to get started! For this type of designing you just need the Internet and your favorite photo of your lovely mug. If you’ve got that covered, then you’ll soon be on your way to transforming your profile into a great looking cartoon-like custom caricature, uniquely you, for use on your blog, social networks, chat and more.

There are several choices online when creating your new custom avatar. Though some sites, like zwinky.com and mywebface.com have toolbar downloads as part of their free program use agreement, there are many that do not. For example, over at cartoon.pho.to, not only can you cartoon your face, but you can morph it with animated effects like a smile or a wink. And, at befunky.com, you can cartoon your photo, but why stop there? If you have some time, stay a while and try out their Inkify, OilPainting, Popart, Sketcher and a couple-dozen other design options.

Sometimes, you aren’t required to begin creating your avatar from a photo. If you feel comfortable winging it, you can cartoon yourself from scratch. Maybe you’ve always wanted to try out a new eye or hair color? Haha.. Now is your opportunity! At faceyourmanga.com, you start with basically just a head and customize from there. You can even add a background, clothes and makeup. A couple of other fun avatar design sites are doppelme.com and tektek.org/dream.

There are of course more out there and not too hard to find with a simple google search. Some will require registration before use and some even come with required software download as mentioned above. Some will cartoon your features mildly (from a photo) while others allow you to completely redesign your look from top to bottom. It really depends on the type of look you are after. Try a couple out, for the fun of it and see what you like.

Perhaps your website could use an updated header design?

Or maybe you need a new logo to help brand your new idea or product?

I love my freelance work as a web and graphics designer and I’m available to work for you! You can purchase design work here and contact me with any questions at all.

Let’s get started on your new designs!

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I’ve totally redesigned the look and content (again!!) of wahmbuds.com. This time with my own custom graphic design and maybe I’ll stick with this theme design this time, who knows. Naw.. I’ll probably have something totally new by Valentines. ?[/third]

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I was going to sell this site but changed my mind. I’m so glad I did too. I enjoy the mom content (new blogging here too) on this site and it’s been around for a while now (2004). I think all it needed was a new look. YeahMom! Can you say PINK?[/third]

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I just recently started creating custom designed wordpress themes. I’m rather happy with this custom design I did for LP&P. I updated the site with new posts too.. I know it was feeling very lonely there for a while. Yes, my website have feelings – don’t yours!?[/third]

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This site is easily my most posted on site.. mainly because I feel a little more liberal with it, posting more daily, life and fun stuff. It too got a new design and plenty of blogging. Also added a Good Reads widget here, great book/read tracking site.[/third]

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MomsRewards.com – my oldest site (2000) saw a little bit of a face-lift with a new main image on the front page, a new design on it’s rewards blog and some new quality freebies of course. I’m happy to report it’s been seeing a lot of new visitors lately too. [/third]

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I just get around to this site as often as I would really like to. Maybe this is something I can change for 2011. I did however, spend a good amount of quality time with this site just this morning, blogging about my favorite teachers blogs.[/third]

Also, worked on some custom graphic designs for a client and updated my design portfolio and paid some attention to AnotherBabyBoomer.com and Wahmiam.com with new blog posts.

It’s been a good couple of weeks at home on holiday vacation being able to get these updates done. I did manage to get up from my desk once in a while and eat, sleep, visit the gym, visit relatives and enjoy some quality family time playing many many rounds of Scene It too.

Wishing you a happy and fulfilling new year 2011 too!

I like that I can control so many design elements through CSS and then include my own graphic design choices in the background and header, as in the example above which I created for my FromKarlyn.com website. It’s about time really. I’ve been using WordPress software for most of my sites for years now. I have enjoyed using many wonderful themes offered by other talented designers and always thought: “Someday…” Well someday is now, and over the last few weeks, I jumped in and started creating.

I plan to overhaul the look of all my own domains over time, but for now, I have most of them converted to some of my first custom designs. I created a Themes page so that I would have a designated area for sharing new theme designs and then, after a while.. offer them to others for use on their own websites and blogs.

That’s the plan anyway. If you have a chance, let me know what you think. Thanks!

Thanks and enjoy your autumn.. I hope it’s beautiful.