23rd Mar

Colour Theory Quick Reference Sheet For Designers

Just stumbled onto this fantastic Colour Theory Quick Reference Sheet For Designers and wanted to share it.

If you’re fresh into …

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15th Dec

What is the difference between a Font and a Typeface?

Aren’t they the same thing?

After being shot down by an over enthusiastic designer …

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15th Dec

Quick Photoshop Tip: Save Space By Turning Layers Off

Photoshop files (PSDs) can be huge in file size, especially if you are working on a large format high resolution file. Here’s a quick tip that can save you valuable HD space, anywhere between 10% – 90%, simply by turning …

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30th Oct

13 reasons why your online store will fail + Solutions

This set of points is designed to help you critique a design, specifically for ecommerce websites, to make them perform at their optimum, to help with usability and inevitably increase sales and conversions. Each point may or may not be …

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14th Oct

Design concepts explained: Affordance

The design concepts explained series aims to explain ideas behind design. This week we focus on the concept of affordance and its use in graphic and UI design.

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28th Sep

5 reasons why you should stop writing list posts

We’ve all seen them. “5 ways to cut your toenails”, “10 things that will bore you silly”. What are they? List posts, link bait style.

Here’s the concept. You take a subject or topic. Devise several tips or points on sed …

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5th Sep

Left hand side of iphone not working

I’ve had my iphone just two months and the left hand side of the iphone has stopped working, and is completely unresponsive to touch. So on the touch screen keyboard letters Q, W, A, numbers 1, 2 and character ‘-’ …

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27th Jul

Important Notice Regarding Your Website

Internet Explorer could be affecting how your clients websites are displayed…… and I’m not just talking about IE6! IE8 has finally thrown it’s hat into the ring …

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26th May

A 20 Minute Intro to Typography Basics

Mark Bowley wrote an interesting post on PSDTuts about the basics of Typography. I think it’s a great read and I think you should take 20 minutes out of your day to read it….

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11th May

SEO Best Practice – 13 Top Tips for Web Designers

SEO fundamentally starts at the development stage of every website. Semantic code and SEO related structuring of the site’s source code will make you a favorite amongst the SEO collective in the department next door whilst equipping the website with …

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21st Apr

The CSS Bible – CSS is your God!

Here you go, a stellar assortment of CSS related links for you to reference. If you’re a CSS beginner or even a CSS guru we’re sure there is something here for everyone, enjoy!

The CSS Box Model…

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2nd Apr

PNG Fix for IE6 – brucey says “come on down”!

We all know IE6 is a bag ‘o’ shite poo right? Well unfortunately there are still loads of people who use it. This is not necessarily a problem in …

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25th Mar

Is Twitter digging DIGGs grave?

Like a lot of people I know I was a little late attending the DIGG party. Achieving a front page listing for one of your stories a few years ago was extremely achievable, and many bloggers benefitted from what became …

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18th Feb

The 14 Days of Grace

Finally you launch a website, the client is over the moon with the way the project went (due to your expert project management) and you have a few celebratory jars down at the local. Life couldn’t be better… until……

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3rd Feb

Your CSS framework needs you!

What’s a CSS framework?
A CSS framework can help you achieve rapid development of websites, web apps and mashups. It eliminates repetitive tasks while prototyping designs by using …

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