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Fun Resources to Make Posters Online

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A poster is a very versatile medium – a poster can fit perfectly in a teenage girl’s room, a CEO’s office, or any public location. They’re excellent for marketing or for just expressing yourself. If you want to create a custom posters, here are five fun online resources that will help you do it.

Zazzle.com

Zazzle is a print-on-demand company that allows you to create many different types of materials, including posters. It’s easy to make your own poster with Zazzle, and you have lots of options to customize it. You can choose from five different types of paper finishes. You can create custom framing or choose from a selection of custom frames. Your posters can be up to 40in by 60in, and you can get them in less than 24 hours. If you want, you can even decide to put your posters on sale in the Zazzle marketplace where you can set your own price and set up your own Zazzle shop.

Vistaprint.com


Vistaprint can help you design your poster with an easy-to-use interface. There are tons of customization options, including size, font, color, paper, and much more. There are hundreds of templates you can select from to use as a starting point for your poster. If you prefer, you can also just upload the poster you’ve already designed, or you can start with a completely blank poster. Vistaprint makes it easy for you to add your own photos to your posters, and they are very reasonably-priced.

CafePress.com

CafePress is another print-on-demand company with tons of different types of products you can customize. You can create posters, banners, yard signs, and more. CafePress is fun to use because you are literally given a blank canvas, and you have a tool bar of options like text boxes, graphic boxes, colors, fonts, and more. If you’re not great at designing things it could be a little challenging, but it’s an excellent choice for people who want to start their poster from scratch. Like Zazzle, if you want to you can sell your posters through your own CafePress online store for the price you choose.

Fathead.com

Fatheads are wall graphics that began as life-size posters of athletes and sports-related graphics. They’re made of die cut vinyl or canvas, and they’re a unique, memorable way to create a poster. You can design your own custom Fathead in an easy six-step process. Upload the photos or images you want to use, choose a layout, add effects or text if desired, and order. There are 13 sizes to choose from. While Fatheads are a lot more expensive than other types of traditional posters, they make a big statement.

PosterBurner.com

PosterBurner is a poster-making company that can help you create the exact poster you want. There are countless options for size, paper type, backing material, layouts, text, and more. Just start with an uploaded image of your choosing and work around it to design your poster. PosterBurner has a quick turnaround time, and its blog also provides insights on how to make great posters.

This article was prepared by M.P Brown. M.P writes about enhanced site solutions by Icon.





Thinking of buying property in Panama?

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Live in Panama? Looking to buy or sell property? Be sure to visit Encuentra24. Encuentra24 is the largest Real Estate listing service in Panama.

The website is very easy to use if you happen to be searching for a property to buy or rent. Actually if already own Real Estate in Panama and want to sell or rent it out you can create your own real estate listing quite easily. Listings are seen by as much as 800,000 people interested in buying or renting real estate.

Property listings include photos of the site, video and mapping. You can search for or list apartments, condos, houses or commercial properties.

As I browsed through the site I noticed that while Real Estate might be the main draw of Encuentra24 I was pleased to see that one could also buy or sell items on the site, buy or sell a vehicle, find a school, a job, view or list items in auctions, or find a service trade to work on your property. It’s a true multi-service site.

Last, but not least there’s also a article that lists a number of Real Estate Tips. You can find out where the best places to purchase real estate in Panama are, how to pay annual property taxes and many other helpful tidbits of information.

So if you’re thinking of moving to Panama or if you already live there and need to buy or sell property head on over to Encuentra24.

Home owners should keep a list of emergency services handy – just in case

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We’ve owned our house now for almost 7 years. I guess we’re pretty lucky that our house was structurally sound when we bought it and has needed very few repairs. Actually we’ve done a lot of renovation work on the house, but very little of the work we’ve done was stuff that really had to be done.

The former owners of our house did a lot of work before we bought it. They had a new roof put on, new windows and new copper pipes. Once we heard that we knew we were set!

Even though our house seems to be sound it’s always good to prepare for emergencies. One great idea would be to have the numbers for various emergency services written down and perhaps stuck to your fridge with a magnet.

One of the companies that we have on our list is the number for a plumber and sewer service. Like I said before you never know when an emergency might happen. Perhaps a large tree close to your house might have roots that grow into the plumbing and sewer system. This can cause a lot of problems and it can happen suddenly.

If you happen to be in the Seattle area you might want to take a look at the Seattle Plumbing website. This company has been offering services to residential home owners, apartments, and commercial properties since 1904.

Services offered by GoodServices.com include plumbing repair, remodeling, and installing plumbing, heating and mini-duct air conditioning systems.

I don’t live in Seattle, but if I did I think it would be a good idea to look into a company that’s been offering Plumbing in Seattle for over 100 years.

Other services that you should know the numbers for would include your cities water maintenance department, the gas company, the fire and emergency services and perhaps even an arborist (tree surgeon) if you have a large tree on or near your property and worry that branches might fall and damage your home at some point.

Use a Natural Oxygen pool treatment and save money as well as the environment

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I hope that everyone is enjoying the lovely spring weather. It’s been cool here so far this May, much cooler than April was if you can believe that, but I know that there are warm days on the way. Perhaps you live in an area where it’s already warm enough that you’ve started planning what you’ll do on those hot summer days?

I wish we had a pool, but our yard is far too small. A wading pool would have to suffice for us if we were hot enough to want to soak! Some of our friends do have pools and we’re lucky enough to be invited over for pool parties often enough each summer.

Our friends that have pools have been starting to to talk about getting their pools ready for the upcoming season. I’m sure those of you with pools have been thinking about getting them ready too.

If you have a pool or if you’ve been thinking about putting a pool in this year have you spent any time thinking about what kind of water treatment you’ll use? It’s one of the most important parts of pool maintenance from my understanding.

I’m all for environmentally friendly pool treatment systems. We garden organically and try to live as green as possible so it only makes sense that if we did have a pool we’d want the safest type of water treatment.

If you feel the same way or if you’re interested in learning more about eco friendly pool treatments you should take a moment to visit Ecosmartepool.com. They specialize in chlorine free pool filters and spas.

By now I think that just about everyone knows that chlorine treated water or pool systems aren’t very good for the environment.

I always thought that salt chlorinators were a safe alternative, but after reading some of the information and articles over at Ecosmartepool.com I know better!

Did you know that salt water pools actually use chlorine generators to keep the water clean. Chlorine generators require quite a bit of maintenance, some produce messy byproducts that isn’t easily disposed of, and as I said before Chlorine treatments really aren’t considered green.

Why not use a system that’s 100% chemical free? That’s were EcoSmarte comes in … They specialize in salt water, chlorine and hazardous chemical free pool systems. They also have a line of spa and pond systems as well that are equally chemical free.

EcoSmarte’s pool systems use natural oxygen to maintain the quality of the water in your pool. Natural oxygen systems are more effective than ones that use bacquacil or bromine, plus they are easier to use than chlorine based systems. Not only that they are also safer than ozone treatments too.

One of the other products that EcoSmarte sells is called EcoSmart filter glass media. This can be used for pool treatment systems.

One of the things that I like about EcoSmarte is that they are dedicated to protecting the environment. They actually donate 5% of their profits to environmental charities. They have a strong belief in their water treatment systems and are in fact, against Chlorine and Salt water based pool treatments.

There’s lots of good reason to consider switching to a natural oxygen based pool treatment system. One of them is the fact that you won’t be purchasing dangerous hazardous chemicals to maintain your pool system. That will not only make your pool maintenance storage area safer if you have kids or pets, but by not having to buy all those chemicals you’ll save a ton of money! Think about it!

Oh and you’ll save on your energy bill too. The EcoSmarte pool system is so energy efficient that it costs less than $1 a month to operate. Cool! You can reduce your carbon footprint with your energy savings!

If you’re thinking about visiting the EcoSmarte website to read some of their articles or perhaps thinking of contacting them to get one of their product brochures or a free quote you’ll be pleased to know that they also offer a 60 day satisfaction guarantee and a 5 year warranty on all purchases.

EcoSmarte definitely seems to be a company that believes in and stands by their product. Do visit the site if you have a pool or if you’re thinking of installing a pool in the near future.

Telephone surveys

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Yesterday, just as I was about to take the dog outside to do her business the phone rang. I don’t usually answer the phone if I don’t recognize the number or caller ID, but I decided to pick it up. It was someone asking me to do a survey for our insurance company.

I didn’t mind doing the survey as we are pleased with our insurance company. However, as I answered the questions it occurred to me that it might not be a bad idea to call around or get an online auto insurance and home insurance quote from other companies just to see if we’re still getting the best rates.

I mean, the last time I really went around and got insurance quotes was 7 years ago when we were buying our house. Maybe there’s another company out there now that would offer us better rates.

It can’t hurt to check.

I’ve also been meaning to call our insurance company to see if they’ll give us another percentage off our home insurance rate now that we have a large breed dog. I’ve heard that some insurance companies consider a large dog in the home security so they’ll give a discount.

If you have a large dog have you tried to get a lower rate on your home insurance?

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