Select All in Image Ready

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…

San Fransisco Facebook Developer Meetup

As part of our epic US social media tour we're really excited to be meeting up with some Facebook developers and engineers from the other side of the pond at the San Fransisco Facebook Developer Meetup on June 28. It should be a great opportunity to discuss the new platform…

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

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: {$float}; margin-top: 10px;…

Second Sainsbury’s website goes live.

Back in January we launched a website for Sainsbury's new store in Ashton Gate, and so we were delighted to be asked us to build another for the potential store in Wadebridge. It's always nice to get repeat business :) Sainsburys-Wadebridge.co.uk went live today and features a custom built CMS and…

Lessons from Silicon Valley

A really interesting video entitled, Lessons from Silicon Valley, popped into my inbox this morning, part of the latest businesszone.co.uk newsletter. Silicon Valley really does sound like a great environment for encouraging and nurturing startup potential. There's certainly a huge amount that both the UK business community and the government…

Use social media imaginatively for your business

Facebook isn't for every business. And for those that it suits, just creating a Fan Page isn't enough to bring social media success. You've got to think about your audience and what they want... One of the most imaginative (but at the same time a little nauseating!) uses of social…

Designing for WordPress

I love Wordpress - it's a great piece of opensource software that's really blog software, but because of it's feature of "pages", also makes a great CMS. I've been asked by a few designers lately what they need to consider when designing for Wordpress. So I thought I'd share what…

New invoicing system a success

As we do our invoicing at the beginning of each month for the previous month, this week has been the first chance I've had to play with our new invoicing system. After a year or so battling with the rubbish system our bank wanted us to use, we've now built…

OrchardOsteopaths.co.uk goes live

We were very excited this week to unveil the new Orchard Osteopaths website. The Chard, Ilminster and Axminster based osteopathy practice wanted a contemporary looking, easy to navigate brochure website for their services. They also of course needed it to be highly search engine optimised and as we got their…

How to embed a Google Map onto your website

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…

Last minute HTML emergency!

CCT rang us on Thursday afternoon asking if we could help them out by building 3 HTML pages and an HTML email (and test all of it across a variety of email clients and browsers of course!) by Friday lunchtime....! It was a tight deadline but we're not afraid to…

The Times and The Sunday Times to charge for online content

I've just read on utalkmarketing that the Times and The Sunday Times will start charging for access to it's content from June 2010. This is truly a big moment for the entire traditional publishing industry and journalism as a whole. But will it work? Personally while I might be happy…