Cooliris | What Is Cooliris

Cooliris | What Is Cooliris: "What is Cooliris?

It's simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll an infinite '3D Wall' of your content without having to click page to page, whether you'e on Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Kodak Gallery, or any supported site. Or channel surf the latest news, TV episodes, movies, and music videos all from within Cooliris."

Enterprising Charities Event

Enterprising Charities

Enterprising Charities is a series of events which encourages organisations to 'go the extra mile' to boost their income by exploring enterprise and trading opportunities.

Tuesday 15^th December 2009

Wearmouth Community Development Trust, Sunderland

9.45 for 10.00am–12noon

An event to help third sector organisations from Tyne and Wear consider social enterprise and trading as a sustainable way to generate unrestricted income to complement other funding sources.

Delivered in partnership with SES (Sustainable Enterprise Strategies), this event will be a chance to look at the following topics:

• Social Enterprise: something that you ARE, or something that you DO?
• Enterprise alongside other sources of funding (grants, contracts, donations)
• Legal technicalities – trading arms, CICs and charity law
• Support available for enterprising organisations

If you like what you hear at the event...

...and you want to further explore social enterprise as an addition to your existing work, SES will work with you to share their in-depth knowledge of social enterprise, offering one to one support and mentoring to organisations keen to develop their  enterprising activity.

Click here to download a booking form for this event

Enterprising Charities Event

Enterprising Charities
Enterprising Charities is a series of events which encourages organisations to 'go the extra mile' to boost their income by exploring enterprise and trading opportunities.

When
Tuesday 15th December 2009
Where
Wearmouth Community Development Trust, Sunderland
Time
9.45 for 10.00am–12noon

An event to help third sector organisations from Tyne and Wear consider social enterprise and trading as a sustainable way to generate unrestricted income to complement other funding sources.

Delivered in partnership with SES (Sustainable Enterprise Strategies), this event will be a chance to look at the following topics:

* Social Enterprise: something that you ARE, or something that you DO?
* Enterprise alongside other sources of funding (grants, contracts, donations)
* Legal technicalities – trading arms, CICs and charity law
* Support available for enterprising organisations

If you like what you hear at the event...

...and you want to further explore social enterprise as an addition to your existing work, SES will work with you to share their in-depth knowledge of social enterprise, offering one to one support and mentoring to organisations keen to develop their enterprising activity.

Click here to download a booking form for this event"

Top 7 websites to teach yourself SEO

Design Aid provides all it's charity websites hosted on a Heart Internet resellers account the little gem of info and links to SEO resources below was in their latest newsletter and I thought it was worth sharing with others on my blog.

So, here are some words and links from Matthew...

"When I first got into online marketing many moons ago, my main focus was on paid search (Google AdWords et al) and my job revolved around creating campaigns, bids, clicks, conversions etc however, although it wasn’t part of my job at that time, I found SEO equally as interesting and wanted to learn more. Without any on the job experiences to learn from I went looking online for websites that would help me, and they did. Since then SEO has become part of my job in a couple of positions and I can honestly say the following websites were a big reason why I knew enough about the subject to be able to work in that field.

Whether you are a complete beginner or you an SEO master, these sites have enough of a back catalogue and regular new information to keep you going for months!

1. http://www.seomoz.org/blog: Starting as an SEO agency they have used their blog to position themselves as a global resource for the industry
2. http://www.seobook.com/blog: A mix of practical advice, industry news and personal opinion
3. http://searchengineland.com/columns/: one of my favourite sites, the columns section covers all aspects of search marketing
4. http://searchenginewatch.com/sew_archive_experts&type=sew_experts/sem-101&issue=2009: Really good introductory articles to various aspects of online marketing
5. http://www.wolf-howl.com: This site has been around for years and it mixes advice with commentary and personal opinion
6. http://econsultancy.com/blog: The volume of posts each day can be a bit too much and some articles don’t go in to a lot of detail, but the percentage that do hit the money make it worth it.
7. http://www.toprankblog.com/: Good traditional ‘how to’ blog with some great advice for all levels of knowledge

These are the sites that I relied on to get me up to speed early on and the ones I still read each week, and I’m sure many have your own, so if you’d like to share them leave a comment and link below…

P.S. For a great list of online marketing sites check our AdAge’s Power 150"

Fotolia.co.uk - Royalty Free Stock Photos

I use Fotolia regularly for ideas and a fantastic supply of low cost stock Photography perfect for the charity sector or an SME client with little budget for professional photographs

The UK's Number 1 Apple & Adobe Dealer - Jigsaw Systems Ltd

This is where Design Aid buys most things computer and design, it all started because it was one of the few places we could get our Charity discount on Adobe CS4 but we found they sell so much more and are very helpful.

They also send you huge useful catalogs to browse once your on their customer list

The UK's Number 1 Apple & Adobe Dealer - Jigsaw Systems Ltd

YouTube - This is not a cereal box... New 3D experience by Dassault Systemes

Some great advertising - nuff said

YouTube - This is not a cereal box... New 3D experience by Dassault Systemes

Online Event Registration for Everyone! Eventbrite is the World's Marketplace for Events

Eventbrite helps businesses & organizations of all sizes manage, promote and sell-out their events.

If your in the middle of the headache that is event management and want an easy solution to tickets, registrations and sales then this could be very useful for you, check it out and file for future reference.

Online Event Registration for Everyone! Eventbrite is the World's Marketplace for Events

Charities 'should get angry a bit more,' says Tony Elischer - Communications - Third Sector

Charities 'should get angry a bit more,' says Tony Elischer - Communications - Third Sector: "Charities 'should get angry a bit more,' says Tony Elischer"

They should even consider bad language, says head of Think Consulting Solutions

Charities should consider being more angry and more outspoken in their communications, delegates at the International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands have been told.

In a talk about the future of the sector, Tony Elischer, director of Think Consulting Solutions, said charities needed to be more closely engaged with the way people communicate in the real world.

"Real people are gritty, direct, outspoken and rebellious," he said. "It wouldn't be a bad thing for us to get angry a bit more."

He said the Bollocks To Poverty campaign by development charity ActionAid was an example of bad language being used effectively by a charity.

My Pantone on iPhone

Just found a new app for the iPhone - yep MyPantone!
Pantone swatches and more to carry everywhere on your phone. OK so the accuracy is not going to be fantastic as it can only be as good as the screen its on, but lets face it we have to deal with that everyday on our Mac no matter how much we calibrate it and always have to turn to an actual printed swatch for final appraisal or confirmation of exact colour.
But, that said this has to be the best tool a designer can have in their pocket at all times for only a fiver ish.

Get along to your iTunes store now and get it bought, not that many shortcomings for the price.

Blogger app for iPhone

As you can see from the default signature below this blog has been posted from my iPhone. I used the blogger app which works realy well and gan be used with multiple blogs on multiple accounts across the whole range of most common and popular blog service providers.

This must be a great little app for people who blog for the most part their own thoughts and reviews. For me it's use may well be limited as I mostly post links I find of interest and use to creatives, but who knows maybe this could be the start of me posting my own ocasional thoughts and ideas while I'm waiting for a haircut. No doubt it's a very cool app.


-- Posted from my iPhone

iPhone : Mobile Air Mouse

iPhone : Mobile Air Mouse

this has got to be good for quick presentations when you forgot the remote!

NO!SPEC

If you ever wondered why people should expect you to do spec work and effectively work for free! you need to check this out and get behind this campaign.

Typeradio, now we are talking

iTunes podcast on type - what more can you ask for on your iPhone?

Typeradio, now we are talking

misprinted type 3.0_ art, design and type (1998-2005) Eduardo Recife

Fantastic resource of free or very cheap grundge fonts and illustrations go check out this eye candy NOW

misprinted type 3.0_ art, design and type (1998-2005) Eduardo Recife

PhotoRogue.com - Request an Original Photograph

Looks like the very early days of a very good idea and like most of these things the more that get behind it the better it gets, so if you use photography go along and check it out.

Stock photos with a very big difference you can request the pictures and other members or volunteers will post some up for you or even go out and shoot them.

Of course the results could be a very mixed bag and might be perfect for you or no good at all but as they say "shy bairns get nowt" so it has to be worth asking.

The idea of this site deserves to work and grow huge!

PhotoRogue.com - Request an Original Photograph

LogoSauce™ - Logo design, inspiration and information.

Here is some more on logo's I appear to have doped into some kind of logo design groove in this blog today which would be ok but I'm working on websites today not logos! anyway this is a place to show of your skills or find inspiration from other's

LogoSauce™ - Logo design, inspiration and information.

Logo Design Process of Top Graphic Designers

Logo Design Process of Top Graphic Designers

Want to know the secrets of how top graphic designers create their logos?

This article will reveal exactly how top logo designers of today’s modern age create their logos. It will show the design process that these designers go through to get to their final logo design.
Want to know the secrets of how top graphic designers create their logos?

This article will reveal exactly how top logo designers of today’s modern age create their logos. It will show the design process that these designers go through to get to their final logo design.

Logo Design Process of Top Graphic Designers

Why logo design does not cost $5.00

"Logo design in today’s world is totally under rated. People do not understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business and this is why I am going to outline some very important facts telling you exactly why logo design should not cost $5 and why your logo is not something you should take lightly."

Why logo design does not cost $5.00

Funny Shit: Bad Domain Names

Just thought I would post this as a reminder that we all need to be careful when selecting new domain names and because even though these are very old now they still make me chuckle

Funny Shit: Bad Domain Names

Shareaholic for Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox

Shareaholic for Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox

The ultimate to keep all your social networking up to date - I think! I'm just about to give this a go it looks amazing!

Thomas' Myspace Editor

Thomas' Myspace Editor

The easy HTML editor for custom designs on your MySpace profile - dose what it says on the tin easy peasy and with a preview to easy check your changes/progress. So, simple I'm sure you could build custom designed profiles on your iPhone with this

Remember Everything. | Evernote Corporation

Remember Everything. | Evernote Corporation


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Search through all your notes, even find text within images, whether online or off
Download

JoomlaWorks | Professional Joomla! extensions | Home of AllVideos, Simple Image Gallery Pro, Frontpage Slideshow, K2 and more - SuperBlogger: blogging for Joomla! 1.5 just got easier and m

JoomlaWorks SuperBlogger:
blogging for Joomla! 1.5 just got easier

SuperBlogger is a new powerful plugin adding blogging functionality to Joomla! 1.5 articles. The plugin integrates popular services like Disqus.com (for comments) and Twitter, along with commonly used blogging tools like tagging, rating, bookmarking and social media sharing. Add to that MVC template overrides and the ability to process images server-side and you got a real Wordpress contender, if not better in some areas!

SuperBlogger's features can easily be set in the plugin's parameters, so you can choose which elements you want to make use of in your Joomla! website.

FEATURES

• Joomla! with SuperBlogger on!: This screenshot showcases the plugin with all options enabled. Using Disqus comments, Twitter tools and the built-in ajax-rating system among others!
  
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SuperBlogger extends standard Joomla! articles like no other plugin has ever done before!

Common features include:
- Integration with the popular Disqus.com comment system (includes video commenting via Seismic).
- Tools for Twitter like 'Tweet this' button, Tweetmeme badge for tracking tweetbacks/retweets, latest Tweets feed from your Twitter account.
- Article rating system using ajax (built-in) or the online service Outbrain.com (for added features).
- Article tags (using the meta keywords field inside the Joomla! article form).
- Article tools like section/category links with associated RSS feed links, stats, date created, font resizer, 'bookmark this' button, social media sharing and option for integrating a social button from services like AddThis or ShareThis.
- Related content across the web provided by Sphere.com (as used in sites like CNN.com).
- Drop-cap feature and introtext emphasizing for cool magazine style typography. The styling can easily be altered on the article page template of the plugin.
- Author tools like author avatar (via Gravatar.com) and latest articles from author.
- Image resizing and resampling (server-side) for the first image in your articles. On listing pages (e.g. blogcategory) the image is wrapped with a link to the rest of the article and on article pages the image is wrapped with a link to lightbox popup for displaying the original image which was processed by the plugin. Your website will now have a consistent look, perform better (due to optimal image sizing) and your content editors will not have to worry anymore about resizing images in desktop applications!
- Predefined anchor links with smooth scrolling effects make navigating among the features of the plugin a breeze.
- Option to insert custom HTML at the footer of the article. Useful for adding copyright statements or other generic messages for your articles.
- MVC template overrrides architecture: It uses 2 templates for listing and article pages, with associated CSS files. That means styling flexibility
- You can select to render the plugin on specific (or all) categories and/or menus. So if your site has a "blog" category, you can instruct the plugin to render only there and not in the entire site. The selection is done easily is the plugin parameters.
- It can load any module position in 3 different places: after the article text, before and after the comments. These options are fully configurable in the plugin parameters. Using MVC template overrides or simply tweaking the plugin templates, you can move these positions elsewhere or even add more (e.g. some position with Google Ads, another with "related articles" etc.). For more, this is fully explained in the documentation page of the plugin.

MVC TEMPLATE OVERRIDES

The feature trully setting apart SuperBlogger from any other Joomla! plugin is its MVC architecture, currently available in Joomla! for components and modules only. That means you can use HTML and CSS template overrides inside your Joomla! template and completely change the way the plugin elements display on your website! So you can either choose to use the versatile base styling of the plugin or simply override it (both the HTML and CSS code) by copying the plugin's /tmpl folder within your Joomla! template's /html folder. SuperBlogger uses 2 templates for listing and article pages, with 4 associated CSS files (one common, one for Disqus comments, one for IE6 and one for IE7 - just in case). Of course you are able to override all files or selected files, as you would with any other MVC component or module, with the better exception that SuperBlogger overrides CSS files as well!

PERFORMANCE

SuperBlogger improves performance of existing Joomla! websites by resizing and caching the first article image. The cached copies reside in Joomla!'s /cache folder so they are refreshed whenever Joomla!'s cache refresh time is reached. If Joomla!'s cache is not enabled in your website, the plugin uses its own cache expiration time (set in the plugin parameters) and it will refresh your images. Whether Joomla!'s cache is on or off, you can always go to the "cache manager" in the administration and select to manually delete cached copies, whenever you want to "hard-refresh" the resized images.

One more great feature of the image processing mechanism in SuperBlogger is its ability to grab remote images (located in some remote server) and store them locally for even better performance. So if your first article image is located in some other server, SuperBlogger will fetch it, resize it and store the resized copy locally onto your server for better performance.

Caching is also used for your Twitter "status" (the 'Latest Tweets from' feature) thus speeding up the article page significantly.

SEE THE DEMOS

See a live demo of the plugin in action here: http://dev.joomlaworks.gr/plugins/new-jw-blogging-plugin-running-in-this-article.html
See the plugin running across the "latest news" category in the above website at: http://dev.joomlaworks.gr/plugins/the-news.html

If you navigate in the above demo website you'll be able to see Joomla! articles with SuperBlogger enabled or disabled, so you can see first hand what features the plugin adds to the Joomla! website.

The Typography Manual - For the iPhone and iPod Touch

The Typography Manual - For the iPhone and iPod Touch

Are you a graphic designer? Do you work with letters? Do you know the difference between a font and a typeface? Do your eyes light up when conversations turn to ems, kerning, and baseline grids? If you answered yes to these questions, then The Typography Manual for the iPhone and iPod Touch is for you!

The Typography Manual has several useful features and resources for designers, including a visual type anatomy glossary, a font size ruler, an em calculator, and enough content to fill a 60 page book. It has all the essentials of a desk reference in a regularly updated pocket resource.

5 Passive Income Opportunities for Freelancers – FreelanceSwitch

5 Passive Income Opportunities for Freelancers – FreelanceSwitch


Yep passive income I think we would all like more of that, more time available for coffee and cake - perfect. I have already looked at and even started a few of these ideas, the trouble is you get to busy scraping a living and hitting deadlines I never find the time to follow it all through.

That said I'm pleased I found this reminder as well as some new ideas and plan to set aside regular time to invest in the concept and implementation of "passive income" lets face it the bleedin pension won't ever amount to much I have to find some sort of supplements for now and latter life.

Check out the rest of this website too some very interesting stuff posted here

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Welcome to intelsys

Welcome to intelsys

If only more clients had access to this type of service before embarking on advertising campaigns with us, a few more regions, and business support organisations providing members with this support could give a business some real direction when providing creatives with a brief.

Here is what they do:

Fully tailored, ‘third party’ managed

Rapid Response market and business intelligence services

intelsys provides your business community with rapid response specialist technology and business intelligence. We provide s dedicated intelligence team, tailored processes and custom branded enquiry tools that interface seamlessly with your existing services.

This service is essential for membership communities who want to remain competitive in today's knowledge driven economy. It will enable your community to access up to date intelligence through specialist sources and networks that may otherwise be unavailable, for example databases that would usually be fee based, personal networks and specialist libraries.

We create tailored services gives your members access to market information, and business intelligence on areas such as:

• Investigating or monitoring competitors
• Sourcing ‘hard to find’ suppliers
• Sourcing potential customer & researching markets
• Exploring scientific papers, technology research
• Searching Intellectual Property (IP)

FlippingBook Joomla Gallery Component

FlippingBook Joomla Gallery Component

If your looking to publish PDF's on a Joomla site - this is well worth a look and makes a refreshing change from just opening a PDF in acrobat - also keeps visitors on your site as this nice (cheap) e book reader is built into the page

Convert Files - free and simple online file converter

Convert Files - free and simple online file converter: "offer you free and easy to use online file converter that supports a wide range of file types. It can convert almost any type of documents, archives, spreadsheets, audio and video files from one format to another. This service is absolutely free, and there's no need to download any software!"

Designing Demand - Home

Designing Demand - Home

Designing Demand is a business support programme from
the Design Council. It helps businesses discover how to
become more innovative, more competitive and more profitable.
It does this by giving managers the skills to exploit design by
spotting opportunities, briefing designers and running design
projects that deliver.

20 Great Digital Drawings by Patrick Brown | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials

20 Great Digital Drawings by Patrick Brown | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials:

"The Australian artist Patrick Brown really impressed me with his drawing skills. If you play Gran theft Auto you will be amazed how similar his style is to the graphics on the game, and how he also adapts that in other drawings. Awesome work, great inspiration, Enjoy!"

Old Style Photo Effect » Free Photoshop Tutorials | PhotoshopStar

Old Style Photo Effect » Free Photoshop Tutorials | PhotoshopStar: "Old Style Photo Effect

Old Style Photo Effect

Now I’m going to show you how to create old style photo effect with interesting accent."

Computer Arts - Computer Arts tips posters

Computer Arts - Computer Arts tips posters: "Computer Arts tips posters


Discover the essentials of project management and dealing with agents with these two posters to download and print out

If you’re keen on the monthly top ten tips feature in the magazine and would like to pin it up on your wall, but don’t want to tear your magazine apart, then here’s just the thing for you.

Yes, we’ve bundled the last two portions of top ten wisdom into ever-useful PDFs and made them available for download, and of course there’ll be more on the way in the months to come.

So here’s your first helping, fresh from the enormous design brain of Lawrence Zeegen.

Ten Ways to Handle An Agent

Ten Tips for Perfect Project Management"

Make your own book with Blurb

Make your own book with Blurb

Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them.

Holding a finished book with your name on the cover is a truly amazing feeling; it’s one of those experiences everyone should have. As software people, designers, and publishing professionals at the top of our game, we realized something both incredible and obvious:

there’s no good reason why it should take tons of time, technical skills, big bucks, or friends in high places to publish a book. Or a zillion books, for that matter.

So we put our minds together, and developed a creative publishing service simple and smart enough to make anyone an author – every blogger, cook, photographer, parent, traveler, poet, pet owner, marketer, everyone. (This means you.)

Famous Fonts - Fonts.com

Famous Fonts - Fonts.com: "Famous Fonts

Here are some fonts that you will recognize. Some are the actual stars and others are convincing impersonators. Can you tell which is which? If you spot others, please let us know.

The Crocodile Hunter
Papyrus
Papyrus


adidas
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium


ABSOLUT
Futura Condensed ExtraBold
Futura Condensed ExtraBold

Time
Times New Roman
Times New Roman


Apple
ITC Garamond Light Condensed
ITC Garamond Light Condensed


Spider-man
Mata
Mata

Smashing Pumpkins
Victorian Swash
Victorian Swash


National Geographic
Times New Roman Condensed
Times New Roman Condensed


Morgan Stanley
News Gothic
News Gothic

Mobil
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold


M & Ms
Rockwell Condensed
Rockwell Condensed


Mail Boxes Etc.
ITC Lubalin Graph Book
ITC Lubalin Graph Book

fonts.com
Impact
fonts.com


Amazon
ITC Officina® Sans Bold & Book
ITC Officina® Sans


GotMilk?
Phenix American
Phenix American"

Download Free Fonts

Download Free Fonts: "Largest Free Font selection on the web – over 13,000 Free Fonts

A unique font can help your document stand out and attract attention. A perfectly suited font can help to make a design attractive and successful. Finding these high quality fonts is a task made easier with SearchFreeFonts.com. New SearchFreeFonts.com collection contains over 13,000 free fonts and over 91,000 commercial fonts

CurrencyConverter.co.uk: Widget

CurrencyConverter.co.uk: Widget: "Add a currency converter to your website in less than a minute

Adding the currency converter widget to your website or blog is a very simple process, simply copy and paste the entire code in the box below onto your website or blog. The rates are updated automatically approximately every 15 minutes."

11 Internet Marketing Skills That Must Be Second Nature | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversation Marketing

11 Internet Marketing Skills That Must Be Second Nature | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversation Marketing: "Search engine optimization. Search engine results are the starting point for at least 70% of all online behavior. How on earth will you help someone market themselves online if you don't even know what moves a site up and down in the rankings? Quick hint: Saying 'SEO? Oh, we optimize your meta tags' is the same as saying 'I am a severely impaired nubwit'."

School of Art and Design Creativity Test | Toxel.com

School of Art and Design Creativity Test | Toxel.com: "Clever advertising campaign for Panamericana School of Art and Design encourages people everywhere to test their creativity.

The objective is to draw as many things as possible that originate from X’s or O’s. How far does your creativity go?"

Design Council | About design | Managing design | Design at Starbucks

Design Council | About design | Managing design | Design at Starbucks

From its beginnings as a single coffee shop in Seattle 35 years ago, Starbucks is now a global brand which uses design to aid the delivery of a distinctive service experience to its customers. The Starbucks Global Creative team manages regularly changing design themes while working within a global brand

[re]design

[re]design

It's time to [re]design design... What is design for? It is widely accepted that we have no more than 10 years to turn around our unsustainable ways of living. In this state of emergency, what role can design play in creating positive solutions and true quality of life?

Climate change presents designers with a massive responsibility – and opportunity. As creative thinkers and doers, designers are uniquely placed to review, rethink and remake the products, services and systems that shape our future.

[re]design is a social enterprise that propagates sustainable actions through design. We seek out and promote products and projects that are friendly to people and planet, and partner with a wide range of organisations to pioneer sustainable innovation.

[re]design events and exhibitions examine the ecological imperatives, social and political drivers, and creative strategies that shape sustainable design. We aim to engage diverse audiences – public, education and business – in the [re]design of design.

The design process

The design process

The double diamond diagram was developed through in-house research at the Design Council in 2005 as a simple graphical way of describing the design process

Another Rocket themes result - but have I sold out

HandiSeat OMG whatever will I have to do next!

Ever felt like you sold out!
I'm sure you do - lets face it most of us are frustrated artists and we turn to photography or design to make money instead of art.

Well I have been lucky so far...
at least throughout most of my career I have sold out to benefit many worthy causes in the Charity Sector and while making little or no money (in fact often loosing or giving away both money and time) I have always had great job satisfaction, knowing that what I do not only made a difference but counted for something I cared about.

Not any more I don't...
Here I am giving you another excellent example of how much use Rocket Themes templates are and how easy they are to customise BUT its not an example I take any pride in I mean disposable toilet seat covers and to think I passed up a project that would help and save countless Orangutans for this!

Still it looks good!...
client loves it and even I have to eat and sleep and buy stuff eventually - lets hope I can make a few quid quickly and get back building on my past philanthropic efforts soon.

I mean WHO THE HELL WILL BUY THESE?...
That's what I said about bottled water - from time to time I forget that when we do our job well - people will buy almost anything.

Ugly Mug Coffee Posters | The Inspiration Room™ | Daily

Ugly Mug Coffee Posters

A fantastic use of good typography - love em! Be sure to check out these great posters.

Fotolia.co.uk - Royalty Free Stock Photos

Fotolia.co.uk - Royalty Free Stock Photos

Currently my favourite place for the cheaper end of stock photos - I hate not having budget to commission good photography but if money is that tight then why spend more than you need to and at a couple of pound each they don't get much cheaper!

Country Lover website - quick build - dating for countryside lovers

Country Lover - dating for countryside lovers
http://www.country-lover.com

Built this one in a day with a quick and easy adaptation of a Rocket Themes template (see previous post) ans some previously purchased stock from Ingram Publishing CD's.

The client was a start-up with little finance and delighted with this design and build as well as the CMS that gives them so much control.

Joomla Templates and phpBB3 Styles - RocketTheme

Joomla Templates and phpBB3 Styles - RocketTheme

Do you get a few clients that think you can knock out a website for them in a day and as cheap as anything - don't we all, they all think you press one button and then your done.

Well if you can't convince them to develop a sensible budget for their website and you are happy to use Joomla, instead of sending them away you should check out this great set of Joomla templates from Rocket Themes.

The templates look fantastic and have so many modules and colour variations available, they can be quickly customised to your design requirements (just not quite bespoke). membership is cheap and helpful as are the forums.

I have used these to great effect in the charity sector and for clients with a smaller budget.

Digital Photography Tutorials

Digital Photography Tutorials

Some basics and some advanced info and tutorials in using your digital camera - the more we understand these things the better the results we get, or understand what can be achieved.

www.dontclick.it

www.dontclick.it

Fantastic idea, websites with no clicks to navigate - it's great and easy to navigate, but the question has to be, how many visitors would get past the front page of your website considering how conditioned we are to the traditional navigation system?

How many people with the very first remote controls still got up and walked across the room to turn the TV over for a week or two - and that was just one TV set there are a lot more websites and they all have the same controls - until now!

Joomla!

Joomla!

I'll start my brand new blog with the obvious saying as its only a matter of time before it gets lost in the depths of the long list that is a blog.

Joomla great open source CMS website - use it with Heart internet hosting - they even have a quick install button, one click and you built a website ready for content and some design elements.

Joomla use it all the time and don't forget to send them the odd fiver or so as a thanks and for continued development of this great product.