Designers and their Skill Levels

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Designers and what people look for when employing a junior to senior designer.
A Few Tips to Improve Any Site

(Originally taken from buildinternet.com) This was an example of some design tips to improve your website. So many of them are true and mistake you see out there all over the web that I felt talking about them again might help some people. 1. Brighten Colours If you are having problems trying to get your website [...]
Windows Media Center 7 – Plugins

With the new Windows 7, come a new version of Media Center bigger and better. But still some people find it lacking in power. There are a few plugins that will keep you enjoying the experiance. Media Browser Media Browser is one of the most popular movie browsing plugins for Windows 7 Media Center, featuring [...]
Origen AE S21T Media Case
This is the Origen AE S21T. It retails at over £800 in the UK but is by far the daddy of all media PC cases. With its built in 12.1 inch, screen and its 10 drive bays, it packs a punch. The 12.1 inch motorized TFT touch screen monitor scrolls down seamlessly to reveal the DVD [...]
Browser Wars – CSS3 and HTML5

The problem with CS3 and HTML5 is that over 36% of people still use IE. This along with the fact that IE8 has no support for these, this puts this line of coding back by at least 2 years. Browser trend for Dec 09 IE8 – 13.5% IE7 – 12.8% IE6 – 10.9% Firefox – [...]
Google Chrome beta – Top 10 New Extensions

I’ve always been a Firefox fan, for the last few years its been the browser of choice. Then out came Google Chrome, at first I thought this was going to be a flop, but knowing that Google were behind it I knew it would catch up quickly. One of the big downfalls is that there [...]
iPhone apps created in Flash CS5

Adobe have announced that Flash applications will be able to be produced and compilled on a PC via Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and then iTunes Connect. Flash will compile a .ipa file, then leving only the developer certificate. A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned [...]
Adobe Creative Suite 4
Adobe worked hard and anounced the new creative suite just over two years ago, the following year out came CS4. Now I’m a big fan of the creative suite, but this latest version is a massive backwards step for adobe. For a year now I have been hampered with the fact only two Adobe products [...]
SEO, SEO, SEO

Blogs, what are they good for? Well a few things actually. Ranting, information, personal diary, this list is endless. But the main thing the I will be using this for and investigating will be for SEO. Search Engine Optimisation is when sites like Google scan your site with a bot (more to follow) and refrence [...]

