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Newer Entries » November 2nd, 2009
Having attended the “For a beautiful web” workshop in Newcastle I was very impressed with Andy Clarke and as such there’ll probably be a few more posts on here related to the stuff I picked up from the day and I would highly recommend anyone who can to attend a workshop or see Andy speaking if they get chance.
For those who don’t know, the workshop was all about using new technologies such as CSS3 and central to everything was the fact that websites don’t have to look the same in every browser. (Check out http://dowebsitesneedtobeexperiencedexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/)
I was convinced, the arguments for progressing and using this new stuff are great but I left and my first thought was “well it’s all right for Andy he gets good clients, but I couldn’t start doing that with our clients”. Which I’m sure is what a lot of other people think straight off, and then I did a bit more thinking and realised that was the stupidest thing I’ve possibly ever thought to myself.
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Tags: CSS3, HTML5
Posted in General Stuff, Web Design, Web Development |
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October 25th, 2009
They’re becoming ever more popular as a form of cheap, affordable and effective marketing but HTML emails can still be a pain in the arse mainly due to the dated rendering by most email clients. They’re something I’ve found myself doing ever more frequently recently (even getting an inclusion on the Beautiful Email Newsletters Gallery) so here’s my 10 basic tips for putting together your own HTML email newsletters.
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Tags: design, development, HTML email
Posted in General Stuff, Quick Tips, Web Design, Web Development |
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October 21st, 2009
Well a nice little jolly down to London for the eCommerce Expo at Earls Court today. Generally I was surprised that I didn’t learn much new, except maybe that UK Fast have a recruitment policy that involves women who look good in hot pants http://twitpic.com/m8t5w (the girls in the picture are actually UK Fast employees and not hired in like I thought).
Not learning much can I guess be a good thing as it generally means we’re doing everything right in work. Still I attended a Google University session on analytics and I would certainly recommend Google University sessions if you get the chance to attend one. Amongst the things I took away were what the speaker said were his 5 key metrics that you should know for any eCommerce site and they’re equally applicable to normal sites.
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Tags: analytics, conversion, ecommerce, google
Posted in General Stuff, Quick Tips, Web Design, Web Development |
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October 16th, 2009
BEN is a great gallery of good looking email newsletters and guessed who’s just had a submission approved!? — Yes me!
The first of our new look email newsletters for Armitage Online was added to the gallery recently. You can have a look and rate it by clicking here.
Be sure to have a browse around the great BEN site and check out some of the other emails you can view.
Tags: Armitage Online, beautiful, email, newsletter
Posted in Newsworthy, Web Design |
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