The Power of being SEEN
One of the most wonderful things that comes out of partnering with clients and working in teams on projects is the reaction it can bring. Julie Kennedy wrote this article following our photo shoot for her new website: The Kennedy Connection. And whilst Vinita and I...
The miracle of images and social media
I had an amazing photo shoot to revamp my website with Vinita Salomé from Vinita Salomé Photography last week and the results are outstanding. Being so excited by these images, I wanted to immediately change my Facebook profile pic to get the inspiration flowing for...
Celebrating the Opening of Smile Designer’s Second Practice
One of the greatest pleasures of being a designer is seeing your work come to life in the real world. There’s something incredibly special about walking into a new space and seeing the colours, graphics, signage, and visual details we created becoming part of the customer experience.
Big Ben’s Stint
Big Ben Kids Stint Have you seen these stints around town from Kinderopvangs? You know, the electric ones with someone standing at the back and a mass of kids inside from all of the after school clubs? Was great fun designing the stickers to go on these fab stints for...
Feel at Home in The Hague Fair
On Sunday, it was the 10th Anniversary for the Feel at Home in The Hague Fair organised by The Hague Online. I have been involved with the Fair since 2007 and this year I was fortunate to be able to wonder around the exhibits and stands catching up with colleagues and...
Changes to email forwarding policy
In the past we have offered a simple email forwarding option for all our hosted websites where we simply forward any incoming mail to services such as Google Mail, Hotmail/Livemail etc. This has worked without problems for many years even though 95% of the mail...
Amsterdam Odyssey Tour
Amsterdam Odyssey Tour I was thrilled to be invited on a personal Amsterdam Odyssey Tour this week by this new customised tour company. I had been asked what my likes/dislikes and interests were in preparation for the tour, and never having been on a tour of any kind...
Getting Hacked – a story from Zestee
Renée contacted me over the Christmas holidays to let me know her sites had been hacked. It involved all of her sites (6 in total!) and google was serving up a “Malware infection detection” notice if you went to her URL. Not only was she loosing visitors to her busy...
Blogging and using SEO friendly content
If you are blogging on your site, then it pays to think about how your blog will be found by your readers and the best way to write SEO friendly content without compromising your readership. SEO has come a long way since it was popular to pay an SEO expert to optimise...
Gmail and how to manage your spam
It seems that in the past few months Google have been tightening up their controls over spam and unwanted/scam email. While this is a good thing as no one likes spam it does mean that you must train your Gmail account to tell it what is definitely not spam and what...
More than 70% of WordPress installations are vulnerable to hacker attacks.
According to statistics From 40,000+ WordPress Websites in Alexa Top 1 Million, more than 70% of WordPress installations are vulnerable to hacker attacks. Ever wondered why WordPress is such a popular target for malicious hackers? Why in 2012 more than 117,000...
Typographical twins: 20 perfect font pairings
Contrast, as the name implies, is about finding totally different, but still complementary typefaces that are each fit for their intended application. Traditionally, this involves pairing a serif with a sans serif. Typefaces will generally conflict if they are too...