If you take the time to look around the Internet, you will find it’s awash with web development and design companies these days. The offerings range from small time bedroom operations to large design and development houses with multiple staff on their books? So who is really the best? Well, to answer that question, it [...]
If you do business online or have a website you may be hearing this buzz word going around ‘search engine optimisation’ and wondering what it is. If you are being asked to optimise your web site to get more traffic on it and are in a quandary. Well then here is some straight forward search [...]
I realise that the majority of the readers of this blog are up and coming designers who often charge for web design, business card design and poster design. That’s all well and good, but did you know that you can also make money by offering the whole printing and design process as a single package [...]
With so many logo designers out there, all offering the same sort of thing, it’s often had to decide who to use. For the most part, we base our choice on the quality / talents of the designer as a result of extensive viewing of their portfolio(s) but many individuals simply hire designers because of [...]
I am obviously a big Photoshop fan but one thing I constantly find challenging is cutting out selections from existing photos / pictures. In the past, I’ve used the usual / standard photoshop selection tools and literally cut out the selection I require – or, in the case of a more detailed area, manually traced [...]
There are many companies and individuals, particularly online offering web design services. All of them have different skill sets, levels of skill and overall creativity standards. It is often difficult to know exactly who to hire for your project. For me personally, I always choose to hire a local designer. I prefer to explain what [...]
Selling a site can be one of the easiest things you’ve ever done or one of the hardest – it all depends on what kind of site you’re selling, whether or not it makes any money, and how you go about presenting the sale. If you’ve never sold an established site before, this guide is [...]
How important are PSD’s these days? To me, they’ve lost a lot of there luster and importance. If only clients could see things the same way. Is it possible to design without having that key PSD layout completed before you start coding? You bet. The Dying Art Form A couple years ago I would never [...]
There are a couple issues with WordPress 2.6 that I am not very found of. First and foremost there is the additional code added when you insert images into the post. A class is added, along with the height and width of the image. All of this is not needed, and all a designer, you [...]
If you’ve ever been on the road, chances are you know a bit or too about reading traffic patterns. Whether you know it or not, just by watching the cars around you, you can anticipate when people are going to make stupid moves. You see that person in the left lane riding the car right [...]