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Roll on IE 9? eek

Hew — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:14:53 +0000

Using ‘web safe’ fonts has been a double edge sword. It ensures designers can’t go off the wall and present unreadable obscure pages that you need a migraine to read.

However, with the numerous stylish and classy non-serif fonts out there for example, designers have either had to juggle with Javascript to load hosted fonts or simply manually create graphics of their desired headings and sub heads in copy.

The following link poiints to the release of IE9 where the @font-face CSS tag will enable pages to load fonts from a hosted file. Superb.

http://developer.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1891-Web-Safe-Fonts-and-Beyond-Embedding-Custom-Fonts-in-Your-Development-Projects

YouTube can be ‘fun’

Hew — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:07:25 +0000

Its not all videos of people getting beaten up, football riots and celeb snaps.

and another cat related one

These vids and many more images both interesting and bizarre can be found at 9GAG.com.

Treliddon Farm 2010 site published

Hew — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:18:17 +0000

For several months now the Broad family at Treliddon Farm in Downderry, South East Cornwall have been converting a barn to provide self catering accommodation to add to their established farm house bed and breakfast.

So much time and effort have been put into the converted barn, the website has been relaunched to incorporate the new services.

If you are looking for friendly, home from home farmhouse bed & breakfast, or a self catering base from which to explore Cornwall, please visit Treliddon Farm B&B and the Old Wagon House.

World Cup 2010 Twitter replay

Hew — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:29:57 +0000

In the midst of heavy Surveylab workload, and Fullscope battling to get the American’s website launched at the start of July, the World Cup is proving an engaging, if frequently frustrating, diversion. Dan picked up a great link from The Guardian’s website which animates a record of Twitter traffic across World Cup games. Very clever.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/world-cup-match-replay

Sweet Lyons Wedding Site Launched

Hew — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:10:57 +0000

Julia Sweet and David Lyon’s wedding photography site was launched today – www.sweetlyonsweddings.co.uk. Partnering with David, they have now have a new site to promote their recommended wedding photography services across South East London, the UK and Europe. The site was originally planned to use WordPress, however a lighter, more managable site was more appropriate for the specific look and feel they wanted to reflect their business.

Julia has been busy in recent weeks and already has a WordPress site for Julia Sweet Photography.

Visit Sweet Lyons Weddings

Updated Wordle on Fullscope

Hew — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:17:55 +0000

The always popular Wordle.net reviews content of websites to create visually impressive ‘word clouds’. By enabling a small Java app you can play around with colours layout and now remove specific words you dont find relevent.

Click on the image below for a closer look!

Also found a funky portfolio site worth visiting. Very simple, very obvious and it works – 41six.com

Steve Holt Carpentry updated and relaunched

Hew — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:39:39 +0000

Steve Holt is a carpenter specialising in custom carpentry, kitchen and bedroom installations and a range of joinery, flooring, conference installations. Holt Carpentry provides its services around the South East of London and across to UK. Steve’s site was launched over a year ago, and he felt a need to revise his services page, add a testimonial and update the gallery of development and completed work.

The updates were duly applied but the expansion of the services from a single link listing information, to separate services pages meant a revised upper section of the page. A jQuery menu was dropped into the site providing a subtle stylish menu that can easily be expanded and new content introduced. The gallery was converted from JS Lightbox to a revised jQuery version to avoid a common conflict preventing the old version working.

Visit Steve Holt Carpentry

Ashwood Home Interiors website launched

Hew — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:43:13 +0000

The new website for Ashwood Home Interiors was published today. Ashwood Home Interiors provide home, kitchen and bedroom, design and installation services across Birmingham, Wolverhampton and the West Midlands. A single webpage, the site was specified to follow marketing material published by them – strictly white! I used a number of client provided images in a simply jQuery slideshow presentation, and composed the site to promote the brand, copy and of course ensure the telephone number is very clear. The site is a sister-service to the Ashwood Office Interiors business.

Visit Ashwood Home Interiors

New offices for Surveylab – The Old Church Wimbledon

Hew — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:46:51 +0000

Thursday 1st April was officially marked as ‘moving day’ for Surveylab’s new offices to The Old Church, in Quicks Road, Wimbledon Sw19. However the inevitable workload meant time slipped away from me, and as I hauled my office ‘bumph’ over to the car for a trip down the road to Wimbledon, I saw a had a flat tyre courtesy of a 3 inch lump of metal sticking out of the tyre. Changed the wheel with some help from the AA man (very nice man) but had to ask John to pick up the keys, postponing moving day to the first day after the Easter weekend. 1st April indeed, felt like a Friday 13th!

So today, 6th April, was the actual moving in day and the sun is shining, router setup, Internet working ok, IP’s all sorted … Surveylab has landed in SW19!

Customer Care Measurement & Consulting (CCMC) Logo

Hew — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:23:46 +0000

As part of a rebranding project, the Customer Care Measurement & Consulting (CCMC) logo has been signed off. CCMC is a consumer satisfaction and loyalty research and consultancy business based in Alexandria, just outside of Washington DC.

The website in its final stages of development, before the last marketing and PowerPoint deliverables are finalised.

The brandwas developed over 8 weeks, with various graphic elements and forms proposed and discussed. I learnt a number of lessons – not least that a final design I pushed for turned out to be suspiciously similar to the new AT&T logo!

At time of posting, the new website has not been published – visit again soon for the new site. In the meantime, please visit the Customer Care Measurement & Consulting (CCMC) website.