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Written By: Ferg on August 27, 2009 Comments
Does Validation Affect Ranking?

Does validating your code improve your ranking? The short answer is no. In fact, Google’s website doesn’t even validate.

They don’t care, and in general, it won’t affect rankings, though this depends on the type of error we are talking about. Google’s website (at the time of writing), has 65 Errors & 8 warnings.

There used [...]

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Written By: Ferg on August 24, 2009 Comments
Finnish Logo design

Anssi Uimonen is a talented 24 year old Finnish designer, who is a relative newcomer to the graphic design industry. His roots lie in graffiti and urban art (his canvases are daubed with the famous alias; ‘QMTK’). Anssi burst on to the graphic design scene three years ago when he began working working [...]

Written By: Ferg on August 23, 2009 Comments
Logo design & Branding

(I wrote this article on commission from Anssi Uimomen – a graphic designer in Finland – and decided to reproduce it here on my own blog)

You don’t need to be a digital artist to be a designer. There are many good designers out there who contract the final artwork out once [...]

Written By: Ferg on August 22, 2009 Comments
Corporate Jargon Syndrome

Now I’ve never been big on shoptalk of any kind, and I find that parlance can easily become a habit that is akin to swearing. Jargon is generally used by people who have a need or desire to fit in (a fine motive in itself), but like all habits, the use of jargon can spiral [...]

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Written By: Ferg on August 20, 2009 Comments
The Mighty PNG

The PNG format has many advantages over the GIF and TIFF image formats forĀ  web designers. If you’ve been using GIF’s rather than PNGs, perhaps this article will be of some help to you.

The gradual phasing out of the GIF format in mainstream development is inevitable, and will ultimately enhance everyone’s web experience, especially with [...]

Written By: Ferg on August 19, 2009 Comments
What is branding?

Branding is the entire process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product or service in the consumers’ mind, through advertising campaigns with a consistent theme. Branding aims to establish a significant and differentiated presence in the market that attracts and retains loyal customers.

A brand is essentially a promise. By identifying and [...]

Written By: Ferg on August 15, 2009 Comments
Guitar Vector Tutorial

I started to build a vector of a Gibson SG, and thought I might create an (adobe illustrator) tutorial to go with it.

Written By: Ferg on August 1, 2009 Comments
Electronics Design

Rocolec are European sub-assemblies electronics engineers who needed a re-design around their existing brand and colours. They wanted a real simple, minimalistic feel, and wanted the logo big, so we gave them ‘big’. The 3D CAD modelled graphics were created (and photoshop’d) in house.

Website: www.rocolec.com

Written By: Ferg on August 1, 2009 Comments
Quality Cars SEO results

P&V Quality Cars wanted a content managed website to showcase their cars online. This is an entirely bespoke system, which incorporates a cross referenced search system, and SEO friendly product implementation. Despite having no SEO contract, the website is performing well in the search engines under the desired keywords, which [...]

Written By: Ferg on August 1, 2009 Comments
George Barnsdale SEO

This website was designed and developed to give customers in-depth product information. SEO work produced a high increase in traffic with page 1 rankings in google.co.uk for really generic keywords such as: wood windows & stormproof windows.

Website: www.georgebarnsdale.co.uk