I must admit I do like using facebook and it’s reach in terms of audience is incredible. The marketing potential is massive as there is over 100 million users now on it. But all that aside I just go on it mainly to arse about, and chat to friends not as a sales tool.
I have recently (well, say recently) discovered the Graffiti Application which has to be one of the best apps around. Nothing breaks up my evening programming or designing more than going old school with one brush and an opacity setting. No fills, no stupid Linear Grads just old school painting.
I am no expert like some of the artists around there who must have some extreme on there hands but here is some of my creations. I am trying to move away from cartoon characters and do more serious drawings, but christ it is hard. (more…)
URL: www.horseracingtoptips.com
This is my Escape at the moment and a bad one in all fairness but I love a flutter studying form and winning some cash on the web. Horse racing - I am not bad at picking a winner or two so I have decided to write a site offering users horse tips and news. It is on the web but in a holding state at the moment.
Bathtimes is a family run bathroom retailer, installater based in Fleet, Hampshire that requires a a web presence. The primary feature of the site is a offers section which allows the webmaster to add there current offers.
More soon.
website:www.zenopro.co.uk
Zeno Pro the revolutionary new spot treatment product website went live today. The site is a micro site for the Hampshire Based Beauty Salon, Truly Scrumptious Beauty.
The aim of the site was to create a niche that would drive traffic to the shop for the UK consumer. The site already is ranked high in Google thanks to Craig Killick’s SEO savvy.
Website: www.rg-fencing.co.uk
Basingstoke based Fencing company RG website went live today. The website was a simple sales website to give the company a web presence that would potentially deliver sales.
I am currently designing a micro site for truly scrumptious beauty to promote a new product called Zeno Pro. The site already exists and is mearly a holding page until the new design is built, it is currently located at www.zenopro.co.uk
The site is a micro site to drive traffic to the current web shop for sales leads. It is a simple XHTML and CSS based site which may include some Flash aspects.
With the advent of Nascar 09 on the Xbox 360 and Playstation and its ability to create Custom Car Skins I thought I would develop on an online skin sharing site. It is still being built but there is a very crude holding page there at the moment. If anyone is interested it is www.nascar09skins.com
Should be live by the end of the month along with 3 other projects.
After the success of Forza Motorsport’s Custom car design option in the game EA has decided its time to jump on board. While its true to say that anyone who is use to doing custom skins for online gaming Forza was very powerful but a pig to work with in terms of using an xbox controller to do your work. In equivalent terms it would be like doing a design in Fireworks or Photoshop with a mouse that only went up and left, long winded and bloody annoying after a while.
EA following Nascar 08 (which to be fair was alright but its custom skins where god awful) have released a whole new paint booth feature which allows users to download a Photoshop or PNG template and design there own cars and then upload them via EA’s website for use online. Great idea, and hopefully others will follow.
Expect to see websites for skins popping up everywhere including one I am going to write (and unlike xbox league online it will get finished). Just got to buy the domain name now.
If you are intrested you can download the templates from EA’s Nascar 09 Page. I will post a basic PNG template for Nascar 09 soon so all your Fireworks users dont have to do all the transpaerency rubbish.
I was recently approached to do a website for a local fencing company in Basingstoke, Hampshire. The site had to be clean but have clear call to actions promoting various services.
As well as this the site also had to have a gallery of the companies work and client testimonials. The design is very simple but lends it self to the type of industry. The earthy feel to the website compliments the blue logo and the client is very happy with the way the site works.
The site is planned to be launched at the end of June.
A preivew of R&G fencing can be viewed here.
URL: www.nlpdiary.com
The latest wordpress theme that I created has gone live and is being used for a NLP Blog. The client required a simple design using a simple blue and green colour scheme. The original design has undergone some changes to fit the clients needs and tastes.
The result is a clean website that works.
