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Bolefloor – more floor per forest
I found this company today: Bolefloor who make wooden floors … but instead of creating straight planks, they follow the natural grain of the wood and make wonderful curvy planks that look really special. check it out. via
Pitching to clients … a broken process
I’m quite lucky. I don’t do an awful lot of pitching to clients. Lucky because it’s not something I enjoy very much, and lucky because I find the whole process to be flawed and not necessarily conducive to finding the best match between a client and myself. The pitch immediately creates a ‘them and us’...
It’s 2011. I want my flying car.
From the ever excellent XKCD.com If you’re reading this on FaceThingy and can’t see the picture – it’s here.
Re-framing the debate, iPhone vs. Android
This is a nice article about how Apple is changing the Android/iPhone debate away from an ‘open vs. closed’ framing, towards a ‘fragmented vs. integrated’ argument. It’s nicely illustrated in this quote from Jobs: We think the open versus closed argument is just a smokescreen to try and hide the real issue, which is, “What’s...
Logo design considerations
A nice article on how clients should prepare for having their logo redesigned … the example used in this article – for ‘Northland OB-GYN’ is a site I’m working on with Sally who wrote this piece. Can’t wait for the Northland site to go live … it looks great, and the logo is a wonderfully...
Our minds need to go on a diet … Alain de Botton
A lovely short piece from Alain de Botton on how our capacity to concentrate on anything at all has diminished dramatically. One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the task of relearning how to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds...
Divvy for OSX, and great HTML5 readiness chart
If you’ve ever spent about 15 minutes resizing and positioning windows in OSX so that you can get the optimal screen set up for the next several hours of your working day … then it’s time to automate it all with Divvy – this great little app for only $14 allows you to select a...
Web Designers who can’t code
This great post from Elliot Jay Stocks covers a number of points that I deal with on a few levels each week. To start off: I am a web designer who codes. I’m someone who enjoys the process of writing good, semantic code – loves the cleanliness of it, loves the craft, the constant learning, the...
Web design and development
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Website Hosting
As a full service operation, we strive to simplify your online activities. One way in which we can help is by offering web hosting services for your project. That way, the most important parts of your online business are all under one roof. If you need something online, you can call us – no matter...
Email Marketing
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E-Commerce
Whether you’re already trading online, or if you need a whole new web based shop, we can help you. We’ve developed custom shopping basket websites for a number of clients as well as integrated off the shelf packages that range from the free (Zen Cart, Magento Commerce) to the professional (Trading Eye, Interspire Shopping Cart)....