June 4th, 2010 
admin Some one i follow on twitter sent me this link. I think its brillant because it shows how much the Internet has moved on and how new ideas and stores can be moved all over the world at a touch of a button or a swipe of a screen 
Thank you:http://mobilelocalsocial.com/
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June 3rd, 2010 admin Over the last 15 years, web design and development has evolved tremendously. The introduction of CSS, advancements with HTML, the ever-increasing power of JavaScript, and technologies like Flash and Silverlight, have made the visual world of the 2010 web very different from the web from even five or six years ago. Except of course, for typography.
Typography is an important design element that can drastically alter the look and even the feel of content. However, because of technical (and licensing) restrictions, dynamic fonts used on the web have been limited to a small subset of styles. On the positive side, over the last twelve months the landscape for web typography has changed dramatically.
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June 2nd, 2010 admin When i am creating a website i always like to see what other people are doing on the web. I often use twitter and smashing magazine for inspiration and design ideas. There are thousands of websites big and small which are there for inspiration. Even we sometimes offers inspirational design posts.
I am not sure how other designs do it but i find, this is the best way to do it. When a client gives me a idea of what they need, i will often have a good idea on how i will do it. When i have this i go online and look at some of the free resources out there to give me more ideas on how to create a better and more beneficial website for my clients.
I think to often people will look at other designers sites and pick and choose elements they will re use/copy on to there new website. The problem with this is that they are not generating new design but just reusing some ones idea. But if they take their idea and then adept it in a new way or find a different ways to use it then that will lead to a better and more usable website.
Websites such as http://boagworld.com/ and http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ are very good for ideas and new was to look at design and the Internet.
So it all comes down to how you adapt what you see on the web and change it in to the way to suit your needs. I find the new Windows Snipping tools is a great way to rember what you liked from web sites you have came across.
Thanks For reading
Simon
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June 1st, 2010 admin I have searched for twitter tools that can help you create background for your twitter page. If you take a look at @STWebDesign You can see i have create a background that is linked in with my business. The tools below can help you create the same kind of effect and they are all free but some require a sign up.
4-www.twitter-backgrounds.net – Quick tool to create a basic background with a tutorial to help you out!! no sign up needed.
3-www.twitter-images.com Nice way to make a good background. Takes time and you have to sign up to it.
2- www.twitrounds.com – As good as twitterbackgrounds.org but requires a sign up
1-www.twitterbackgrounds.org – Very smart way to create what you want and no sign up needed.
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June 1st, 2010 admin This is shocking – If it looked like this i am not sure if i would use it!!
I would but would not enjoy it as much
Found it at: http://www.designerstalk.com/forums/typography/54361-comic-sans.html
May 30th, 2010 admin
What is LinkedIn? – Good video, gives you all you need to know!!
May 27th, 2010 admin In this tutorial I’ll be teaching you how to make a ‘web 2.0? styled navigation with a second row of links for the sub-links.
Take a look at: http://www.psdcore.com/tutorials/web-layouts/clean-two-level-navigation/
May 27th, 2010 admin Wufoo is an easy way to make online forms that can be inserted into your web page or used as separate pages. It is very flexible and honestly takes very little technical knowledge.
This system makes it very easy to build any kind of form you can imagine. The finished product sits in an iFrame, a little box on your web page that users can interact with without having to reload the whole page. The look and feel can be highly customized to fit in nicely with the rest of your site. A web page interface lets you set all up all the fields in form and then provides a code snippet to copy and paste into your site.
Its well priced and very easely to manage in a team becasue you can have more then one user. Over all i think its a very good service.
PS: to have a look at a form we made using this service click here.
May 26th, 2010 admin Share your favorite sites on the Web with potential clients and business partners by commenting on, uploading and ranking different newsworthy articles. You can also create a member profile that directs traffic back to your company’s Web site.
