Tutorials

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  Great Logo Design

  21st August 2010 03:00 by tom

  Getting a good logo design is essential for any brand, but sometimes it's easy to get carried away with what you think your logo should encapsulate and lose any real originality or memorable identity. The best thing you can do is keep it simple and memorable.

  If you're designing the… Read more

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  The Internet of Things

  13th August 2010 03:00 by tom

  A nice little introduction to the Internet of Things or the semantic web as it's often refered as.

  People have been talking about the interconnections which are possible between systems for years and there's no denying that things are becoming more connected and smarter. At the moment the… Read more

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  Embargo a post or page in Wordpress

  20th July 2010 03:00 by lisa

  When you add a post or a page to Wordpress, you have the option of embargoing it so it doesn't display on your site until a set date. Really useful if you want to write a whole load of content once a month and have it drip feed through during… Read more

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  Using the Wordpress more tag

  17th July 2010 03:00 by lisa

  Sometimes you see blogs and just from looking at the first page you can read the whole body of 10 articles. Other times you see blogs and you can only read the first paragraph or so before you have to click on a title or read more link to see… Read more

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  Select All in Image Ready

  16th July 2010 03:00 by lisa

  Quick little Image Ready tip - if you're trying to select the whole of a frame using Ctrl+A on your keyboard, you need to have the "hand" tool on from the options palette. This is different to Photoshop, where you can pretty much use Ctrl+A anytime. 

  So just incase you're… Read more

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  How to change the border on image thumbnails in a Wordpress gallery

  9th June 2010 03:00 by lisa

  Just a quick little "tutorial"/pointer for anyone looking to change the thickness, style or colour of the border of a thumbnail in a Wordpress gallery....

  The details of the thumbnails can be found in wp-includes/media.php. Here you'll find:

  #{$selector} { margin: auto; }

  #{$selector} .gallery-item { float:… Read more

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  How to embed a Google Map onto your website

  8th April 2010 03:00 by lisa

  If you'd like to display a Google Map on your website, then it's very easy to do thanks to Google's embed code. Just follow these simple instructions.

  (If you'd rather your website could get the maps from Google itself directly, then ask us about setting up the Google Maps API… Read more

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  Gmail fetching emails via POP3 which then don't appear

  15th March 2010 12:00 by lisa

  I check my work email address via POP3 using Gmail which just means that Gmail goes to our server and picks up my latest email and shows them in my Gmail account. And I do it this way so I can manage several different email accounts all from one place.… Read more

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  How to tell what browser you're using.

  13th March 2010 12:41 by lisa

  I've just written a long support article on how to find out what browser you're using, and what version of that browser. So whilst it's useful for our clients, I thought it might be useful to anyone else too! So here's a link to it!

   

   

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  6 tips to great logo design

  1st March 2010 14:08 by lisa

  I've just read an interesting article on istockphoto with 6 tips for great logo design. Sometimes articles like this just state the obvious or retell you what you already know, but it's still helpful to read them and remind yourself of some fundamentals you might have forgotten along the way.

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