Creating a branded online Google form

...and after.
March 15th, 2011 · 2:10 pm  →  Web

Google forms are great for collecting data – whether you’re creating an application form, invitation to an event, or a contact form. But how do you brand it with your (client’s) styles?

Email marketing benchmarks

MailChimp publish handy data looking at different business sectors
March 8th, 2011 · 1:34 pm  →  Web

If you run a small business or non-profit, you might wonder how your open and click rates for email newsletters compare to similar businesses. MailChimp reveals all.

The Hearty Egg

The Hearty Egg
February 28th, 2011 · 2:26 pm  →  Our featured work Web

Creating animated GIFs in Photoshop

Creating animated GIFs in Photoshop
February 15th, 2011 · 10:16 pm  →  Web

Animated GIFs are a bit old-school these days – it’s really all about Flash, CSS3 transitions & transforms, and HTML5 animations.

Poverty Dialogue

Poverty Dialogue
January 14th, 2011 · 3:50 pm  →  Our featured work Web

Body Browser – Google Labs

Body Browser – Google Labs
December 28th, 2010 · 2:07 pm  →  Web

This has to be seen to be believed. A detailed 3D model of the human body – online. With inside bits and everything.

Embedding web fonts. Or, why images are bad

@Font-face face off
December 7th, 2010 · 5:02 pm  →  Web

So, you want to use a custom font on your website – i.e. something other than Arial or Times? To ensure it looked right, the only way to do this used to be to encode the font as a picture. Bad idea. Enter web fonts.

20 things I learned about browsers and the web

20 things I learned about browsers and the web
November 16th, 2010 · 10:00 am  →  Web

Recently launched by the Google Chrome team, a very nicely designed website, explaining browsers and the web in lay terms. The site is coded in HTML5 (the newest version of the language used to code webpages). Check it out at: www.20thingsilearned.com.

Art direction and design: supporting the story visually

November 2nd, 2010 · 3:15 pm  →  Web

Magazines have always twinned the visual appearance of an article with the content – evocative visuals help to reinforce the message from the text. Websites have evolved from fairly static entities to dynamic content management systems, often driven by blogs. But there’s still a void between online and offline publishing – often the content is [...]

Creating tag clouds from webpages & feeds with Wordle

Generating tag clouds
October 26th, 2010 · 10:13 pm  →  Web

Very interesting little website one of my friends sent me a link to today – wordle.net. You give it some text (from a webpage, document, RSS feed etc.) and it generates a tag cloud, based on the ‘weight’ of the words (usually how many times they appear within the text).