Keep Your Eyes Peeled For Our eBay Specials…

Keep Your Eyes Peeled For Our eBay Specials…

SOURCE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewcf/303284582/ designbysoap.co.uk often puts up very special offers at discounted rates on eBay for our eagle-eyed customers. We don’t advertise when the offers are up but in the next few weeks we’re planning to run discounted offers on logo design, website design, web hosting and infographic design. The only way to find these offers [...]

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designbysoap Birthday Trip

designbysoap Birthday Trip

It was designbysoap’s first birthday a few weeks ago, and and the whole office was treated to a trip to the City of Manchester stadium to watch Manchester City vs. Manchester United. Here’s a photo from my seat at the stadium, it was amazing to get to watch a Manchester derby, and with Paul Scholes [...]

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Google SEO Report Card

Google SEO Report Card

Google’s SEO Report Card Looking through through the Google Webmaster Blog the other day i stumbled across this; Google’s SEO report card – created to help Google’s engineers and employees better optimise their product pages for search engines, this card proves even Google are aware of and actively participating in search engine optimisation.The report touches [...]

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SEO Plugins for WordPress

SEO Plugins for WordPress

SEO Plugins for WordPress Someone said to me the other day that a major drawback of WordPress is that you can’t do any SEO without delving into the code, which can be a fairly complicated and confusing process. I explained that this simply wasn’t true, and that there were several plugins available that allow you [...]

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New business card idea!

New business card idea!

designbysoap Google business card I know it’s a Saturday and i’ve technically got the day off, but whilst messing about on Photoshop with some cool new business card ideas i came upon this design. I really like it and think it’s a great way of combining your physical networking and promotional activities with your digital [...]

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Interesting Social Media Marketing from WOOT

Interesting Social Media Marketing from WOOT

If you don’t know about Woot.com already, they used the ‘deal a day’ model to great effect, whereby one product only is sold per day from midnight to midnight, or until sold out. They have a large online presence to engage customers in creative competitions, deals and customer support through the use of various social [...]

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Photoshop CS5 – What’s New

Photoshop CS5 – What’s New

So what’s new in the recently released Adobe Photoshop CS5? – New photography tools CS5 reduces the number of steps needed (and therefore a lot of the complexity) in retouching and manipulating your photos. It has new, easier to use functions for sharpening, correcting lens distortions, adding grain, removing noise and creating HDR images. It’s [...]

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Pivot – Our Favourite Data Mining Tool

Pivot – Our Favourite Data Mining Tool

We’re big fans of data mining at designbysoap and our current favourite tool for the job is Pivot from Microsoft Live Labs. It’s an incredible visual tool designed to let you access and mine huge amounts of useful data like never before. As Pivot is a visual tool i thought i’d include the above video [...]

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