// Archive for the ‘My Work’ Category

Why Social Media is good for your Small Business

Posted on: October 6th, 2011 by Ellen No Comments

This week I have learnt that part of consulting about Social Media is convincing people that it is worth their time. There are many non-believers who simply don’t understand the value of devoting time to the likes of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. However, this is usually down to certain misconceptions. The fact is, Social Media [...]

Some quick design “doodles” via Gimp

Posted on: September 29th, 2011 by Ellen No Comments

Sure, they’re never going to win awards, but here are some quick and easy designs I’ve created when playing around with Gimp this week. Love in many languages: It’s a boy! Coffeee – (pretend coffee shop) menu:

Sometimes it’s ok to design in Microsoft Word

Posted on: September 8th, 2011 by Ellen No Comments

Small businesses (particularly in the tourism industry) often have to be cautious not to take leaps and bounds to improve their marketing – because if they did they would risk cutting off their nose to spite their face. If your marketing material and branding suddenly goes from naff-looking flyer to fancy-pants brochure, your current clients [...]

New Site Design

Posted on: September 3rd, 2011 by Ellen No Comments

Have release a brand new design for this site – still based on WordPress but removing any reliance on Pagelines’ Platform Pro. Instead I created my own design and set it as a WP template. In doing so I have learnt to employ MAMP and lots of lovely WordPress-specific PHP. I re-designed because Platform Pro [...]