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Our ears are hard to the floor, listening out for what's being said elsewhere on the interwebs.

16th June 2010 Comments

We don’t need you to do our promotional campaigns anymore. We’ve just bought InDesign and someone’s coming in to do a two-hour workshop on how to use it. We’ll be able to handle all the design ourselves from now on. We might give you the odd phone call for a bit of advice here and there — you won’t mind will you?

01st December 2009 Comments

Social media is not all about you. It’s about people. It’s about being social, hence the name. Take the time to engage others in conversation. Don’t simply sign on and post something about yourself and leave.

30th November 2009 Comments

Your home page uses a combination of technologies that make it difficult (at best) and impossible (at worst) for your fans who have either visual impairments or cannot use a mouse to get to almost all of your content.

Andy Clarke writes an open letter to Taylor Swift regarding the accessibility of her website and how some small changes to the design would make a big difference to a lot of people. Dear Taylor Swift.

18th November 2009 Comments

With the floodgates poised to open and the promise of many typefaces being freed up for use on websites, choosing the right face to complement a website’s design will need to become another notch in the designer’s belt. But where do we start?

23rd October 2009 Comments

Go ahead, pull the “new email’ lever. Take a chance. Most of the time you’ll end up a loser…

23rd October 2009 Comments

And so, like the goat sacrificers and snake oil salesmen before them, a new breed of con man was born, the Search Engine Optimizer. These scammers claim that they can dance the magic dance that will please the Google Gods and make eyeballs rain down upon you.

Do. Not. Trust. Them.

Excerpt from a great article by Derek Powazek - Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists. Be sure to read the follow up FAQ article also.

Great stuff.

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