So you’ve got your self-hosted WordPress blog set up, optimized and have already published a few great posts and you want to offer an RSS feed and email subscription to your posts. What is RSS? RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is a format used to publish frequently updated content from the web on [...]
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How long has it been since you first used the internet? How much have your habits of information gathering changed since then? If you’re anything like me a myriad of different interests discovered on the internet crowd your mind as well as the exciting new ways you find out about them. The future is on [...]
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I’ve talked many times about the limitations of Flash. It’s issues with accessibility and SEO are two of the main ones. So if you want something to look a bit “flashy” on your website, always see if you can do it with JavaScript first. Simple and interactive image slideshow fader with JavaScript I got this [...]
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One of the questions I get asked the most by clients and other designers alike is about (surprise, surprise) money. So what is the hourly rate for a graphic designer? Ahh, there’s the question. If you’re fresh out of college, I would say (and don’t blame me if you can’t pay off your loans) around [...]
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H’mm, well, I’m not going to explain everything about print advertising in one little blog post. However, having just supplied a page ad for a magazine I thought I’d explain a bit about the process I went through from the initial ideas to supplying the final artwork. Supplying initial ideas Some designers will tell you [...]
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I have been asked to help publish a magazine by a hospital radio station. Anyone who has had any sort of stay in a hospital will tell you that hospital radio with it’s music, news and entertainment is a welcome diversion at a difficult time. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital One of the bigger hospitals in [...]
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This is an illustration I did for a business card which I designed and created in Illustrator and Photoshop for a motorsports development fund. Rather than the standard old 86.6 mm by 53.98 mm rectangular thing they asked for a graphic representation of a Formula One steering wheel. It’s great when clients come up with [...]
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I have a love/hate relationship with Flash. It gives you great freedom when designing, allowing you to use fonts, graphics and animation with carefree abandon. On the other hand, Flash sites are currently less likely to rank well with search engines than comparable HTML sites and the file sizes are generally larger increasing the wait [...]
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London time: This is now the day of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the President of the United States of America. Here is a couple of interesting quotes, first from Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964 talking to the BBC: Frankly, I have seen certain changes in the United States over the last two [...]
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Designing the title slide, front cover or homepage is almost always the most important part of any job. And this particular area will rightly be where you and your client spend the most head-scratching time. There was a good reason your mother always told you to tuck your shirt in, first impressions count. It’s impossible [...]
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