Selecting a text block before it can be edited.

1. Double click on text you would like to edit.
2. Highlight the text and begin to enter your own message.

Step 1

Step 2:

2. A set of visual support tool

• Zoom in/out  (Shift and – key , and Shift and = key)
• Move (the whole sign)
• Fit view

3. Alignment

when no guideline

• base on the canvas dimension
• center — move to object H/V center point  to a H/V center of the canvas
• top– move object top edge to canvas top
• bottom –  move object bottom edge to canvas bottom
• right: move object right edge to canvas right edge
• left: move object left edge to canvas left edge

when there is a guideline

• center — move to object H/V center point  to a H/V guideline
• top– move object top edge to a H guideline
• bottom –  move object bottom edge to a H guideline
• right: move object right edge to a V guideline
• left: move object left edge to a V guideline

Your brand sign is a critical marketing tool that should be reliable throughout your service network. Your marketing resource should never be spent on communicating with various vendors due to sign production problems.

With WeNeedSigns.com Corporate Sign Services, you can line up a series of branding signs in one location. These signs are pre-designed based on your guidelines:
– layout design, available size and material
– background color
– logo design
– editable data type in specified areas with maximum number of letters
– specified font type, font size, and alignment
– picture size and location

Comprehensive brand sign ordering website caters to your needs

Once you become a Corporate Service partner with WeNeedSigns.com, your business will own a comprehensive brand sign online system under your supervision.

Your ordering system will tailor to your business needs:
– Open a direct corridor from your intranet or another shortcut
– Determine who has access to the website
– Determine who orders signs with special payment terms and at special rates.
– When the sign is ready, we ship the signs to pre-defined addresses or any destination.
– Determine who will be responsible for the shipping charge
– Determine who has access to the real-time sales report
– Define mark-up charges per corporate request

Round-the-clock service from ordering, to production, to delivery

Your brand signs can be ordered by any individual at any level of your business organization, at any time. With a Corporate Service partner site established, there will be no more proof-reading, phone calls, or fax communications suspending your order. Your order is forwarded to the sign-making shop just a few minutes after it is placed. Our round-the-clock sign shop usually completes the sign and ships it out in 2 to 3 days.

WeNeedSigns.com assigns your own account manager to attend to daily operations and special needs on your ordering website. We’ll help you achieve your goal of becoming a top-level brand marketer!

Step by Step. “Click on image for a closer view”

Lobby logos or cut-out wall graphics are a great enhancement to your business or retail setting.

www.WeNeedSigns.com makes a wide variety of these type of signs and sell a 1/4″ thick expanded PVC wall graphic that is great looking, durable, light and very easy to install.

1. Make sure the surface is clean and dry.  If you have just painted, be sure the paint has a chance to dry for 10 days or so to be sure it is fully cured.
2. Tools: You will need a ladder, level, tape measure and a pencil.
3. Placement:  Measure the center of the wall or mark where you would like the center of you wall sign.  Mark the height of where you would like the “Bottom of the sign”.  The bottom of the sign shouldn’t be less than 5-1/2′ from the bottom of the floor, or shouldn’t crowd the ceiling.
4. Preparing the template:  Remove the paper cover from the adhesive tabs on the back of the template.
5. Placing the template:  The template will have a center mark on the front side.  Align the center mark of the template with the center mark you made on the wall.  Use your level to make sure the template is not crooked. Press down gently on the adhesive tabs to make sure the template is secure and will not move.  Step back  to see that the sign looks straight and is not too low or too high before sticking on the letters.
6. Placing the letters:  All the letters will come with a very high bond or “VHB” foam tape on the back of all the parts.  Simply peel off the paper cover off the tape and gently place the letters in the template making sure the bottom of the letters are touching the bottom of the template cut-out.
7. Securing the letters:  After placing the letters on the wall, take time to look back at the graphic and make sure everything looks straight and centered. Press the letters down firmly after you are sure the letters are straight.
8. If you are applying a boarder remove the paper cover off the left end of the boarder first and apply the first side then come back and remove the paper cover off the right side and apply the graphic.  This way you will not stick down parts of the boarder until you can handle it.  the PVC is flexible and the tape will be put on the boarder so that the process will be easy to handle.
9. Remove the template:  After all the graphics are applied on the wall and you have checked to make sure the tape is secured and well bonded, carefully remove the template from around the letters.
10. The WeNeedSigns wall sign is now complete and you now have a great professional wall graphic that will last for years.

The best way to start a sign design is to decide on a size.  If you have a size restriction and you want the bests results on the design be sure you keep your message clear and simple.  No more than 3 colors and never make the sign too wordy.

A common mistake for the designer is to use a busy color combination or background.

Remember the three fundamental rules to designing, (1) KEEP  (2) IT  (3) SIMPLE.

Two to three colors is all you need with signs and be sure if you have more than one sign you should use the same color combination, font styles, text sizes and spacing.  Designing signs online or with a computer has never been easier. The editing abilities of the computer makes trial and error less cumbersome and allows people to design their message the way they would like to see it.   My next BLOG I will share with you some ideas I have learned in my 33+ years in the sign industry that helps the sign message stand out, making you look good!