Posted by Graham Holtshausen in Featured Articles, Reviews on 06 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
Online invoicing system for a web design & hosting company – from time-wasting pain to absolute pleasure.
Why we use Fresh Books As a small creative solutions business specializing in web design, website development, hosting and graphic design – bookkeeping is not on top of our priority list. Although we really do like all of our affairs to be in order, we simply don’t have the time to concentrate all of our energy in this area. When the time came around for our monthly invoicing it was both a happy & frustrating time. Happy in the sense that we were sending out invoices so we could get paid....
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Posted by Graham Holtshausen on 06 24th, 2009 Inbound links = inbound in...
I can’t begin to exclaim how important it is for your website to receive inbound links. These links could ultimately be life or death to your website. Inbound links? What are they exactly? Inbound links are links that come from other websites directly to your website. The more websites you have linking to your website, the higher your search engine ranking, which means more traffic. Ultimately the...
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Posted by Graham Holtshausen on 06 5th, 2009 Why professional websites ...
This might sound a little “out there” but I think there is a serious misconception among the general public & small businesses. For years people have been playing around with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editors and claim that they are web designers – sorry to break it to you, but they are NOT web designers, they are novices. I can personally recall occasions where potential...
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Posted by Graham Holtshausen on 01 20th, 2009 From print to web: Transit...
There seems to be a huge mind block when it comes to traditional designers feeling that they are unable to design for the web, when in actual fact it is a rather simple transition. I have heard several designers tell me that they are clueless when it comes to design for the web.  Some say it is because they were never taught web design in college or that the coding element scares them. Although I...
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Posted by Graham Holtshausen on 01 13th, 2009 Springleap T-Shirts...
A while back I was invited to take part in a design competition at springleap.com. At the time I simply had way too much on my plate but still thought the idea was great. In turns out that they run a competition every month to get the best designs from the top designers on their T-shirts. They give away some great prizes including cash, vouchers, goodies and a whack of exposure! I still don’t...
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Posted by Graham Holtshausen on 01 12th, 2009 Awesome looking website!...
Today I cam accross what must be one of the freshest most creative websites I have seen in a long time. Branded07 is the online portfolio for Newcastle based designer Rob Palmer. The site is clean and brilliant. If only more sites could be of this quality. Some of the neat features used on the site include: Integration with Wordpress Clean accessable CSS AJAX feature slider with nice comments balloon Everything...
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Posted by Graham Holtshausen on 12 19th, 2008 Inspirational Site: Logo o...
Inspirational Site: Logo of the day
The web seems to be filled with a large collection of sites that truly inspire and Logo of the Day does just that. Jacob Cass has teamed up with Jeff Fisher to judge and provide comments on different logos that are submitted directly from the LOTD website. Apart from getting your logo’s judged it is also a fantastic place to see what other designers are getting up to. A place to find inspiration...
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