Monday, December 20th, 2010
Every year many companies, especially creative agencies have the dilemma of “what do we do for Christmas!?” We simply made some nice Christmas cards last year but this time we wanted to go one better and create something digital as well as something that’s fun, creative, and shows off our skills!
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Choosing the right font is key to any piece of graphic design, whether it be for web or print. Unfortunately web designers have been stuck with the same old system fonts for years, unable to create intricate typographical layouts without the use of images. I think we’ve done a pretty good job to be honest because any old-school print designers would have a heart attack if they knew we’ve been working with a choice of about six fonts to fulfil the needs of every website that we create.
There have been a number of different processes and applications written to try and solve this problem by allowing custom fonts to be embedded into websites. In this post we will outline the latest and most popular techniques, and the legal issues that you may unknowingly face by using them.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Getting your own blog is as easy as pie these days. There are so many platforms to choose from: Blogger, Posterous, WordPress, Tumblr to name but a few. But once you’ve set it up, what can you do to improve website traffic and earn your rights as a respected blogger? My introductory guide will show you a few tips and tricks to get you started…
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Everyone seems to be talking about the advantages of CSS3 and what it can do, and to be honest I don’t blame them. Along with HTML5 it’s really going to improve the way that we design for the web, making the implementation of seemingly simple design elements, actually simple! But as always with emerging Web technologies, there are problems with uptake. If you’ve been playing around with CSS3 then you’ll probably know which browsers recognise it and which don’t, but in case you aren’t sure… The newest versions of Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Firefox render most of the basics at the moment, but IE6 - 8 doesn’t. Thankfully IE9 will.
So, we can start working it into our designs, right?
Well, yes. But some people would probably argue that (for the time being) JQuery would be a better option. So what are the benefits of CSS3 vs JQuery?
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Now, this post was supposed to go out about two weeks ago, and since then it seems that every designer under the sun has written on the same subject - That’ll teach us for being lazy. Nonetheless, we decided to publish it anyway, just in case anyone missed any of the other great posts out there…
By now you should all have heard of the iPad, and if not then you must have been living under a rock for the last few months! Touch screen devices are here to stay and you need to start thinking about how to design and develop to get the most out of them. Apple would like you to believe that the iPad is the only touch screen device that anyone should own (and to be honest it probably is the best), but there are already some strong competitors, and many more coming to the market this year. So, you need to get your thinking caps on and start designing your websites to work with them, as well as updating your other sites, too. There are a lot of things to consider… here are just a few.
