We’re very happy to be working with SouthernSpearsSurf in the creation of their E-commerce site, Email Marketing Campaign and design of their social media presence on Myspace, Facebook and Twitter. Because Social Media is very important to SouthernSpearsSurf and that it was very important for them to have a blog included on their E-commerce site we made the executive decision to develop them a Wordpress site using the WP-Ecommerce plugin. Click on your left to see our work in progress!

Finding a designer can be a tricky, and even a stressful process. Let’s face it there are an awful lot to choose from and making the wrong choice can have disastrous consequences, so how do you know which designer you should choose, and once you have made your choice, how much should you trust them with your creative visions?

Read the Signs

Designers are everywhere. Yellow pages, directories and freelance sites just for starters, but any website designer worth their salt is going to have a dedicated website with a comprehensive portfolio for you to browse through.  Your first indication of how good your new potential website designer might be is the quality of their website. It’s as important as their portfolio in showing you their capabilities and strengths and it should be very well-designed. If it isn’t then move swiftly on.

Read the rest of this entry »

As designers we’re often asked about images, where we find our resource images, what the copyright situation is with images on the web and various other questions. There does seem to be some confusion about what images are ok and not ok to use so here is a quick run down of how it all works, and where you should go to find images appropriate to the medium you intend to use them in.

Google image search is great! But not terribly helpful because in searching for images you will be presented with many thousands, the majority of which will be copyrighted to the website where Google found them. Using these copyrighted images is illegal and could land you in a heap of trouble. Luckily there are a great many sites around these days that offer you a cheap, (and sometimes even free) safe to use alternative.

Read the rest of this entry »

We’re delighted to have the opportunity to be working for Danny Brown, one of the nicest people we have had the pleasure of running into “online” and certainly one of the most knowledgeable in his field of Social Media Marketing. His blog is a veritable haven of information, tips and ideas to help you market yourself, your business or blog using Social Media. He has some very interesting perspectives and his blog has become hugely popular as a result. If you’re interested in Social Media and how to better approach it, use it and understand it we would suggest you pay him a visit. Danny gets a lot of comments on his blog posts but always takes the time to reply to everyone that stops by.  We’re redesigning his blog and there is a work in progress version currently installed, in the next couple of weeks we will be rolling out the final version so watch this space, and Danny’s blog to see the final result. Danny’s blog is powered by Wordpress and the impressive Headway theme. Click here to find out more about it.

We’ve designed several Constant Contact email newsletters for Applied Scholastics International and the newest edition is now featured in our portfolio. HTML emails remain one of the best ways to stay in touch with your customers, clients and members and should always incorporate as many extra promotional features as possible to expand the reach of your newsletter. You can add icons for all your Social Networking sites, forward to friends buttons and a mailing list sign up button for example. Click here if you have any questions about our HTML email design services, we specialize in designing reusable templates for Constant Contact, Aweber, Mail Chimp and many others.

We were delighted to have the opportunity to work for upcoming songwriter, singer and guitarist Lucas Martin and his team in the redesign of his website. Lucas had a traditional HTML design originally bit after some advice from us his management decided Wordpress would be the best way to go, the powerful blogging system is going to allow Lucas to post regular news and updates for his fans.  Lucas’ Wordpress site has some cool automated features to allow his team to keep his website current and updated with minimal effort on their part. The home page pulls the latest blog entry and gallery uploads automatically. In addition the website features Lucas’ music, video, an events calendar and more! Read the rest of this entry »