Site architecture is an important SEO element, and one that is often overlooked (particularly as the site grows and extraneous pages and are consistently added). You probably start with a nice, flat architecture when your website is created, but over time this architecture can easily become far more complicated, giving you pages which are far [...]
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Designbysoap Wins SEC Solutions Contract
We’re pleased to announce that Designbysoap Ltd has won another high-profile contract; providing a web design and SEO package to SEC Solutions, Worcester. The company, who supply industry-leading estimating software to companies all over the UK and internationally, are one of the most highly regarded B2B software developers in the country and boast their own [...]
WordPress For The iPhone
WordPress, one of the most popular and widely used content management systems in the world, is now available as an application from the iTunes app store for the iPhone and iPad. The app allows you to add, edit and publish posts while on the go, giving you full capabilities for uploading photos and videos. You [...]
Web Safe Fonts – A Myth?
The term ‘web safe font’ is actually a bit of a misnomer. There isn’t actually any such thing. The term refers to a font (or set of around 20) that are present by default on a large percentage of computer systems (windows and mac basically). A belief in this myth has lead to the widespread [...]
designbysoap Wins Contract For Skindred Website
We’re pleased to announce we’ve just won the contract to design and implement a brand new website for the amazing Skindred. Skindred are an internationally renowned band who have sold over one million records worldwide. Suffice to say we’re all very pleased to win such a high profile client. We’re starting work Monday (England are [...]
Photoshop Now Free Online
In a bid to ‘complete the Photoshop line’, or maybe to encourage people not to download illegal copies, Adobe has launched an online version of the new CS5. It has most of the basic editing features that come with the full version, and a good online interface for using it all. This new service is [...]
Font Browser
I rediscovered this the other day, and thought this handy little online program deserved a mention. FontBROWSER by STC Associates is a simple program that automatically displays all the fonts you have on your system, and allows you to quickly scroll through them to see what looks best. The preview box gives a nice large [...]
The Ultimate Colour Scheme Solution
A friend asked me the over the weekend how we come up with our colour schemes; in the past we’ve utilised colour cards and charts in the office but over the last few months we’ve been using the amazing Adobe Kuler. Kuler is an online tool that allows you to make 5 tone colour schemes [...]
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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