Category Archives: life in general

Banner adverts – animated or static?

February 5, 2010 – 10:01 pm

I was contacted today by a colleague for whome I had recently designed a static banner, she requested that I animate it, when I asked why an advert with one simple message needed animating she told me that during a presentation to her superior she was reprimanded and told it should have been! – I was stunned that a senior member of our [...]

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We lost our boy, now just let us mourn!

February 1, 2010 – 8:51 pm

This is an unusual post for me, on-the-whole I like writing tutorials or web design posts but something recently has affected me on a personal level and I feel I need to vent my frustration.  Six years ago my wife and I lost a son and since then we have tended his plot with tasteful and appropriate items, [...]

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Windows 7, i’ve got my copy – now is it any good?

November 22, 2009 – 8:29 pm

The long awaited release of Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 was last month and finally a few days ago my copy arrived, now I can finally upgrade from Vista and hope that Windows has become what Vista was supposed to be.

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How and when the media industry started to collapse

June 22, 2009 – 8:59 pm

I have worked for a local newspaper firm for some years now and when I took my first creative roll it was during high times, things were great, it was a job for life and I thought I had landed on my feet. However, over the last 13 years the industry has become complacent and [...]

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Is it too late to save the web from over-the-top advertising!

May 12, 2009 – 8:44 pm

Adverts are an integral part of the web, without web advertising most sites wouldn’t be able to bring us all that wonderful content for free so it is a shame that this medium of advertising has become a problem.  Users now have to cope with the ever increasing on-slaught of banners, pop-ups, pop-unders impact ads [...]

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