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.
Friday, June 11th, 2010
After tweeting yesterday that we didn’t have time to blog this week, it actually turns out that we do! So for those of you who haven’t noticed already, we have a brand new website! And I thought I’d tell you a little bit about it…
The decision to redesign wasn’t taken lightly. In my opinion there have to be strong reasons in order to make it worth while dedicating so much (unpaid) time to redesigning your website, and in our case I think there was. The original site was very simple, and quite popular! A lot of people seemed to like it, but in our opinion it just didn’t say as much about the company as we wanted. There weren’t enough images of our work, and from a clients perspective, there wasn’t enough information on how we approach our work and the way that we build our relationships.
Instead of spending a lot of time working this information into the current design, the decision was made to start from scratch as it wasn’t actually much more work!
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Last week saw the start of a two part series of posts entitled “An Introduction to Digital Marketing” whereby we began talking through some of the slides that we presented at the University of Huddersfield Barnsley Campus a few weeks ago. Part 1: Social Networking discussed various social media platforms and what they can be useful for, as well as going into detail on how to get your work seen by as many people as possible.
As we mentioned last week, this series is designed to educate newcomers to Web about the easiest ways to market themselves online, and probably won’t tell all you hardcore Internet geeks anything you don’t already know…
This week we will be talking about the benefits of blogging, and how sometimes, if done correctly, it can be even more effective than using the likes of Facebook and Twitter to draw attention to your creative output.
