A few months ago I never would have thought that I would be writing an Evernote review.

I mean…I had heard about it, read about it, even viewed videos about it. And every person that would talk about it had good things to say.

So, of course, I signed up for my own free account. But, that was it. I didn’t use it.

Heck…I didn’t even really know how to use it. I mean, why would I need to store notes online? I loved using the little sticky notes on my MacBook, I had tons of them on my desktop. I used Google Docs to keep lists and I would bookmark websites on my Chrome Browser. Certainly I didn’t need Evernote!

But, then one day I decided to log in to Evernote once again to “check it out”.

I perform my own oil changes on my car (that is as mechanically inclined as I think I’ll ever be)…but I always forget the mileage at which I performed my last oil change because I use the 15,000 mile oil.

So, I decided to save the mileage in an Evernote. And that was the only note that I had in my account.

Wouldn’t you know it that several months later I thought that the time might be coming up for me to perform another oil change. But, damn!!! What was the mileage last time???

Ha! I think I saved an Evernote about that! Lo and behold, I was a couple hundred miles past the point that I really needed an oil change (I already told you…I’m not mechanically inclined).

So began my romance with my little note buddy.

I now use Evernote for everything, such as:

• Oil Change Log
• Recipes
• Favorite Websites
• To Do Lists
• Passwords
• Seminar Notes
• Business Card Snapshots
• Addresses
• Receipts
• Confirmation Notices
• ‘Print This Page’ Notices
• Things I See In SkyMall
• Article Ideas
• Drink Recipes
• Phone Numbers
• Measurements
• TV Remote Codes
• A List of My Android Apps
• Grocery Lists
• And More…

The best part is that I can access my notes from anywhere; My iMac, my MacBook, my wife’s MacBook, my Android Phone, and basically anywhere that I can get an internet connection from.

I can add a title and multiple tags so that I can search for the note later just in case I can only remember a snippet from my note.

You can take picture notes, text notes, audio notes. Basically anything you ever want to save and retrieve later can be added to Evernote.

But enough about me…what are your thoughts on Evernote? How have you used it? Let me know in your comment below.

If you haven’t signed up for your own free account, you can do so here —> www.Evernote.com.

It’s no secret that a creative environment will help you get your creative juices flowing. Whatever your budget is…whatever type of home or apartment you have…with just a little forethought and follow through you’ll have a beautiful home office workspace of you own.

But, if you feel you still need an idea or a little inspiration for your own project, I put together a list of 13 Beautiful Home Office Workspaces to Make you Salivate. Enjoy and post your comments below.

Recently some of my clients have asked me to create flash banners for their sites.

I like doing things the easy way so I googled “flash banner generator”.

A few sites came up, but nothing that I really liked. So I almost gave up on that and figured that I would just have to design them myself using Flash (uggh…more work).

After stumbling for a few hours, I came across Bannersnack (oh yeah!)

This is probably one of the ‘prettiest’ flash banner generator or flash banner creator tools that I have ever come across.

It’s super easy to use…and it’s free! (if you don’t mind having the Bannersnack logo showing).

Of course, if I were to use it for a client of mine, I wouldn’t want the Bannersnack logo to appear. You can do that by upgrading your account for like $9.

Their site is full of tutorials and examples of what you can do with their software. Check it out.

I created a banner of my own as you can see here…and it only took like 6 minutes. Let me know what you think.

Sometimes you want that stylish CSS menu…but you don’t want to code it and make sure that it’s cross-browser compatible.

Solution: use a generator.

Here is a list of the top 7 easiest CSS menu generators.

1.) CSSMenuMaker

2.) WebmasterToolkit

3.) IzzyMenu

4.) CSSMenuGenerator

5.) Suckerfish Menu Generator

6.) CSS Menu Builder

7.) Tabs Generator

It would be extremely arrogant on our part to insist that we can cover every aspect of web design.

We try our best.

So today we thought it would be a good idea to share some of the sites that we visited today with you.

We suggest bookmarking them and/or signing up for their RSS feed if you haven’t already.

• To Create a Website: The Blog
• Design Reviver
• Design Shard
• GoMediaZine
• HongKiat
• NetTuts
• Six Revisions

If you would like to recommend a site that is not listed, please do so in the comments section.