BG Patterns is really simple tool that allows you to create repeating backgrounds by choosing a shape, a colour, the size, rotation and transparency for that shape, and finally the background colour and texture. It gives you a live preview of all your changes, and then once you are happy with the results you can [...]
Posts tagged with ‘website’
Create Repeat Patterns for Websites
January 17th, 2009 in DesignRed Bubble
December 22nd, 2008 in Design, Film & PhotographyRed Bubble is a website that allows you to display your photography, illustations and artwork and if you want – sell them as prints, t-shirts, calendars and greeting cards. Because the website does not tie you into selling your work – because some people either sell it already on their own site, or just want [...]
website grader
December 12th, 2008 in Designthere are plenty of seo (search engine optimisation) tools on the web, as well as tutorials and guides on what improvements you can make to your website to help push it up the search engine results pages for your chosen keywords. for the last few years i have been using an incredibly helpful pdf guide [...]
new website: janie pirie
December 10th, 2008 in Designlast year i designed and build janie’s first website – gold leaf prints – which has now been replaced by www.janiepirie.co.uk. this site was simplified from the original gold leaf design and content, offering prints and cards rather than all the bells and whistles that gold leaf contained. the site makes use of the paypal [...]
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fabric rehab
December 8th, 2008 in Designlast week saw the launch of a website that i have been working on for the last couple of months. fabric rehab is a company run by two sister’s (nancy and sally) who asked me to design them a website to sell ‘funky fabric’, they have been selling fabric on ebay for a while, but [...]
four seasons gazebo
November 12th, 2008 in Designthis month saw the launch of a website that i was asked to update and redesign. the original site was rather cluttered and was aligned to the left of the page leaving a large amount of white space to the right, it was also designed to fit into an 800 pixel wide monitor – which [...]
Love the Lakes
November 11th, 2008 in DesignOctober saw the launch of one of the largest websites that I have undertaken so far. The site was for a real bricks and mortar shop in England’s Lake District which specialises in products sourced locally – the products were main gift items such as mugs, books and clothing. The brief was to create a [...]
the highs & lows of the favicon
August 8th, 2008 in Designthat little 16 x 16 pixel square that sits in the url bar to the left of the website address isn’t very important to some people, to others – it’s something to sweat over, discuss and argue over. google changed their favicon a couple of months ago, i noticed to be honest wondered why they [...]
wordle makes your words interesting
August 1st, 2008 in Designwordle takes the idea of a tag cloud – a selection of words or tags – and sets about organising them in an eye-catching design. the example on the right is this blog and the previous five posts – notice how much i use the word ‘css’ more than all the other words on the [...]
bringing back the cuil in search
July 29th, 2008 in Designanother week starts and another search engine is released into the world wild web with it’s aim to slay the mighty google dragon. cuil presents it’s search engine results like blocks of magazine snippets, 3 columns and four rows of reports on websites that it has found for you from it’s very big database – [...]
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