Essex County Greenbelt Association's 50th Anniversary

Sarah recently completed a timeline banner for Essex County Greenbelt's 50th anniversary celebration. Their mission includes the preservation and stewardship of open space within Essex County, Massachusetts, where over 14,000 acres have been preserved through their efforts.

The timeline banner was made using Adobe Creative Suite 5 applications and is printed on premium smooth banner fabric. The banner measures 12 feet wide by 30 inches high and will be hung by grommets placed at the corners and edges of the banner material. The challenges inherent in a project of this physical size include making sure images are of sufficient resolution to reproduce cleanly when scaled up and making sure the computer processing power and memory are up to the task.

Congratulations to Essex County Greenbelt for their success in preserving a very finite resource of inestimable value.

eBooks @ Raleigh Design

Well, we've just completed our first eBook project for a client. Six software downloads (free, thankfully) and much experimentation later it's a snap! Not all the software downloaded quite as planned nor was it intuitive to use, but we found lots of info on the web about the ins and outs of publishing an eBook, and in the end it all worked.

Our client's choice was to present the eBook for sale on Amazon and readable using Kindle software. Although not the open systems standard for eBooks, the Kindle software is available for a wide variety of devices including Kindle readers, iPad, iPhone, Windows PCs, Blackberry, Android, Mac, and Windows Phone 7. Not a bad selection.

So the bottom line is that for $2.99 you can buy some fine poetry from Amazon's Kindle eBook store and don't forget to download the free Kindle reader for your device of choice.