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Sans-serif logo design revolution Whilst working on a new logo design for a client - we were asked to keep the logo simple and text-based (typographic), yet with a luxury feel. Whilst researching it quickly became apparent that many luxury brands (in particular - fashion houses) have all started to converge... They have been swappin...Read more...
Open Graph: How to Drive More Social Media Traffic to Your Website Social media networks can be a major traffic driver to a website, so it is always in your best interest to optimise your presence on them by adding Open Graph tags to your pages. So what is Open Graph? "Open Graph enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph." - This is how the O...Read more...
Embedding Music and Video on your Website We look at a selection of embed scripts to allow you to place video, audio and other content into your website... But importantly the below examples are all responsive versions of embed scripts which are not always the 'default'. In addition to the scripts, there are often customisation parameters w...Read more...
The Porsche 9113601014 (2.7 RS Lightweight) Book Design Over the past few weeks, we have been privileged to work on a small information book of the Gulf Sponsored Porsche Carrera 2.7 Lightweight Chassis 9113601014 (known simply as RSL #1014). The book has since been printed and is available for purchase from selected retailers. The booklet displays some ...Read more...
The TKS Locksmith website is now live The new TKS Locksmith website is live. This site build was a fairly simple and straightforward build with a focus on good/honest SEO and clean design. TKS are based in Palmers Green and carry out locksmith services for domestic houses, commercial businesses, schools, hotels etc in the Nort...Read more...
New website launch: FC Drainage New website launched this weekend! www.fcdrainagesolutions.com - FC Drainage Solutions offer a 24h Emergency call out service to resolve your drainage or plumbing drama day or night... But they also carry out CCTV Surveys, Plumbing, Heating, Tanker Services etc... The new site is mobile friendl...Read more...
We design packaging! - Healthy Snacks Company We design packaging! We have just finished designing some new 'grab bags' for a new Healthy Snacks company... Next up, the website... #Branding #Designer #TheCompleteService #AdobePhotoshop ...Read more...
3D Secure 2.0 From September 2019, most e-commerce payments will have to undergo changes in order to comply with a new Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirement. To enforce this a new authentication protocol is being introduced by the Card Schemes (Mastercard, Visa, etc.) called 3D Secure 2 (3DS v2). In a...Read more...
Positioning HTML text on background images A great slider / 'Hero Box' or banner can add interest and can set the tone of a website in addition to conveying some meaning. Eye-tracking research has shown that people are attracted to information-carrying photos - but positioning HTML text on an image isn't straight-forward in responsive web de...Read more...
Uses of Colours in Logo Design The link between colors and emotions is very important specially to logo design. It is crucial for companies and graphic designers to understand the essential things about colour and its impact on design. Lack of an understanding can result in undeveloped and redundant colour combinations that can p...Read more...
Email spam filtering at DigitalFlare To identify and filter out spam email messages for our clients, our mail servers rely on a 'spam filter check'. We run an assortment of criteria tests to determine an overall score for spam. If an overall spam score is too high the email is marked as spam. In addition to our checks, we first check ...Read more...
Email Spoofing If it appears that someone has been sending emails from your email account, but there is nothing in your 'sent items' and no record of the emails being sent from the server then there is a good chance your email address has been spoofed... It is very common and there are plenty of tools on the int...Read more...