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An interview with a designerPosted on July 28, 2011
New technology in print designPosted on November 25, 2010
Q&A with Joe ‘Danger’ StrongPosted on November 25, 2010
Google product search gets a revamp this Xmas seasonPosted on November 17, 2010
New Google Instant Search Preview DisplayPosted on November 15, 2010
- Q&A with Joe ‘Danger’ StrongPosted on November 25, 2010
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GAP logo redesign [FAIL]Posted on October 8, 2010
Does google instant affect seo?Posted on September 28, 2010
Q & A with our Graphic DesignerPosted on August 16, 2010
10 Examples of Large Image Website BackgroundsPosted on August 3, 2010
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30Mar2010
Link building and social media communications
Matt Cutts, the Google master, in an interview recently listed several methods of link building that are not only effective, but good for the community. Cutts discussed methods such as social media, blogging, original research and much more. Basically, it all boiled down to creating something noteworthy that people will want to share. Link building is without a doubt one of the key methods for driving traffic and page rank to your site. The more useful links you have the more authority you hold and your prominence in the search engines will increase. Continue reading “Link building and social media communications” »
Continue reading...29Mar2010
It’s Official: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Yep you heard correctly, Photoshop CS5 has finally been announced by Adobe and it is set to amaze designers and users alike with even more advanced yet easy to use features. Photoshop has been the number one key tool for designing and creating for anyone that likes to manipulate and create graphics or photographs. Continue reading “It’s Official: Adobe Photoshop CS5” »
Continue reading...26Mar2010
We get Avatar’d
Is that even a word? If you've been following our recent news you will most likely have heard that we have had a design student working with us these past two weeks. Well we decided as it was coming to the end of the placement to have a little creativity and make Avatar's out of each of the DSM team members. This is the result...the likeness is uncanny. From back left to right: Sílron`zem (Joe Strong), Bakteyo (Barry Moore), Yerik (Craig Moore) Front left to right: Taronyu (Aaron Darlington), Tsanten (Chris Newnham) Maddie, our work experience student, has also created some more serious graphic design pieces including her two week assignment for a Music Magazine co
Continue reading...26Mar2010
Bulgarian Sacked For Milking Virtual Cow
What a way to start the morning, with news that a Bulgarian city official has been sacked for milking a virtual cow in popular Facebook title Farmville. During government meetings. Dimitar Kerin, a member of the Plovdiv city council in the country's capital, Sofia, had been warned - along with several of his colleagues - three weeks ago that they were to cease playing the game while at work. Kerin didn't listen, and earlier this week was sacked as a councilman after he lost a vote of confidence amongst his co-workers. Kerin didn't go quietly. As local news site novinite reports, "The troubled councilor, Dimitar Kerin, has defended himself by saying he was not the only one in
Continue reading...26Mar2010
Should I spend time on tags in my blog posts
A common question often asked is whether you should add tags to blog posts? Tags are keywords that can be added to posts to illustrate to the search engines what the post is all about. Similar to Meta data in websites these keywords should highlight key areas within the text that are of particular mention. Last year Google announced that it no longer uses the keyword tag as a valuable SEO metric and here we can hear Matt Cutts discuss the issue further. In summary the tags are fairly disregarded in blogs as well as Google will more than likely be able to distinguish what your content is about from the text! Presuming it is written and structured well and contains the key phrase
Continue reading...26Mar2010
Effective ways for building organic links
Here is a really helpful video from the Matt Cutts Blog (Head at Google tech HQ) in which he talks about useful ways to gain valuable organic backlinks from relevant and useful sources. Link building is a valuable method of achieving high value SEO positioning through page rank and traffic increases. Watch his video and learn some cool stuff.
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