Posted by: A web designer friend of mine said on Facebook and I quote “Some people run a mile when you quote them £25k for a website. Others are just cool with it.” Continue reading “How to Price Future Projects with Post Costing” »
How to Guides
Google guidelines for Faceted Navigation and Infinite Scrolling
Having co-owned and helped to run (what is now commonly called) a digital agency, I recognise fully that there are issues with a large e-commerce site in knowing what is the best method for navigation and avoidance of duplicate pages. Frankly it’s a minefield and of course can affect those all important search rankings due to all the various filters such as high or low price, colours, sizes to name but a few. Continue reading “Google guidelines for Faceted Navigation and Infinite Scrolling” »
So how do you remember all those passwords?
Don’t we all at some time or other wonder how on earth we’re going to remember all the flippin passwords we need and of course our brain is as befuddled with passwords for our computer, Facebook, Youtube, this tube that tube, pin numbers and more.
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Surviving Your First Year as a Self-Employed Designer
Going it alone can be both liberating and terrifying! Leaving the cosy surroundings of the office can be a big step but it may just pay off in the long run.
It can be tough going solo. Although the work can be much more flexible Continue reading “Surviving Your First Year as a Self-Employed Designer” »
New Google Plus Cover Photo Dimensions + Downloadable Photoshop Template
No sooner had we finished publishing our post on creating great looking Google Plus Cover Photos, than on March 6th, Google completely changes the layout of its user profiles and brand pages giving us a whole new set of dimensions (and headaches) to work with.
So we’ve spent the last few days reviewing these changes and as ever we’ve got some great tips AND a downloadable Photoshop Template Continue reading “New Google Plus Cover Photo Dimensions + Downloadable Photoshop Template” »
Facebook Cover Photo & Profile Picture Sizes + Photoshop Template & 7 Top Tips
Following on from our post last week about image sizes for your Google+ Business Page, this week our attention turns to Facebook Cover Photo & Profile Picture sizes as we reveal some of the tricks of the trade to get your images looking sharp.
Oh, and just like last week we’ve included a downloadable Photoshop Template to get you started Continue reading “Facebook Cover Photo & Profile Picture Sizes + Photoshop Template & 7 Top Tips” »
Google+ Cover Photo & Profile Image Sizes for Business Page + 8 Top Tips
For some time now we’ve been working hard on our Social Media profiles, not least the newest of the bunch; Google+. One of the first tasks we undertook was to brand our Google+ business page so that people would instantly recognise us, but as we quickly discovered, this isn’t quite as easy as Google would have us believe… Continue reading “Google+ Cover Photo & Profile Image Sizes for Business Page + 8 Top Tips” »
How to add the Facebook Recommendation Bar to your Website (and how to stop it from opening all the time!)
In this, the second in our series of guides focussing on the integration of social media plugins, this week we’re looking in detail at Facebook’s ‘Recommendation Bar’ by a) finding out if it’s as easy to install as Facebook claim, and b) conducting our own (rather non-scientific) tests to find out if it was worth all the hype. Continue reading “How to add the Facebook Recommendation Bar to your Website (and how to stop it from opening all the time!)” »
How To Load Social Buttons Asynchronously
Last week we set ourselves the challenge to find out how much page load time we could shave off our sister website, the UK Business Directory using Firefox’s neat little ‘Page Speed’ extension (available through Firebug). Now a few years ago this task would have been pretty straightforward and involved the re-optimising of images Continue reading “How To Load Social Buttons Asynchronously” »