A Patron of the Arts?!


A Patron of the Arts?!
In keeping with the Saturday evenings of culture and learning (like the traditional Indian dances I saw the other week when we came across the cultural exchange show), and in a rather depressing sign that my youth and partying days are drawing to a close, I got invited to an art exhibition inauguration event by my friend who had some of her pieces featured. The exhibition showcased work from the final...
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Redesigning My Bedroom


Redesigning My Bedroom
I came across a really cool application today called Google Sketchup. It’s a free desktop app that is deceptively simple to use, but seems to produce very professional results, even for old hacks like me. I started playing around with it and before I knew it, I had used this cool little application to redesign my whole room. Well, OK, it’s not completely redesigned, I have a bed, a desk...
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Creating The Perfect SEO Optimized Website


Creating The Perfect SEO Optimized Website
On one of the forums I visited recently someone asked what was the perfect website design for SEO. It got me thinking because although I have a good idea what makes a perfect (or at least a best guess perfect because who really knows how the search engines work) design, I’ve never sat down and created one. What’s more, I don’t have any evidence to suggest that a search engine optimized...
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Another New Design!


Another New Design!
OK, so I got a bit bored of the old design – it was a bit too dark for my liking and the right hand navigation didn’t work so well, so I took the main menu element from it (because I liked that part) and created a new design around it. I’m quite pleased how it has turned out. I made the new design to be lighter and have more white space that gives it less of a cluttered feel. I also...
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CMS Should Be Easy…


CMS Should Be Easy…
And that’s why I have introduced easyCMS to the world today. easyCMS is the combination of 3 months of development to create a CMS that is targeted at webmasters and internet marketers looking for an easy way to create dynamic adsense sites. easyCMS Promises To Make CMS Easy (yeah, we’re still working on the slogan!) I’ve always felt that a CMS should be about managing your content,...
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Top 5 Places To Buy a Website Template


Top 5 Places To Buy a Website Template
A website template is a pre-made design and layout that you can adapt to your own needs. For a designer it saves lots of time in coming up with a design, for the webmaster it’s a quick and easy way to get an attractive design for your website and for the small business owner it’s a cheaper way of having a professional look to your website. The drawbacks to using website templates are that...
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Great Web Design Resource


Great Web Design Resource
Just a quick note for anyone interested in web design or thinking of building a website to go over and check out http://www.oswd.org as they have loads of good (and not so good) quality templates and layouts for free. There the occassional gems in the collection too. I think I have found where I will be getting all my templates from in the future The website is: http://www.oswd.org
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