Category - Design | Blog

Jenny from the Bay has a blast

Author: Jennifer Bain, Mon 5 March 2012, 14:18:27

Hello, my name is Jenny and I’ve been doing a weeks work experience at allmedia from the 27th of February, to the second of March, and i have really enjoyed myself from start to finish. As a sixth… Read More

Website leasing - a new affordable way to get the website you need

Author: Phil Hudson, Mon 5 December 2011, 10:15:43

The creative brains trust at allmedia Towers were recently in a meeting. We were discussing our product range for our clients with particular reference to a common complaint we hear from people. Essentially-… Read More

Artworking - then and now

Author: Johnny Snakeeyes, Tue 15 November 2011, 17:08:26

We recently came across a straight forward job to just preflight and proof some pieces of artwork supplied before dispatching to the printers. When checking these files we notices a few common mistakes… Read More

Using Visualator

Author: Ryan McElderry, Wed 26 October 2011, 15:47:27

Computer Arts' Visualator iPhone app is a handy and fun way to create abstract designs and shapes on the fly. However, It becomes much more interesting and useful when you begin to implement images created… Read More

Create CSS drop shadows the easy way

Author: Malcolm Hire, Wed 26 October 2011, 09:23:21

In most of our Web Development projects, we also design the majority of the builds and have discoved something that our design team likes to add to most of their designs; Box Drop Shadows. These give… Read More

John Hegarty: The Real 'Mad Man' - Design Event 2011

Author: Ryan McElderry, Mon 24 October 2011, 16:44:36

“Turning Intelligence into Magic” On Tuesday 18th October, the allmedia designers; myself, Stu and Mark, had the opportunity to attend a talk by advertising legend John Hegarty (thanks… Read More

Regressive enhancement in web development

Author: Colin Oakley, Wed 19 October 2011, 17:52:54

We talk a lot about progressive enhancement with web development, however in some cases we need to look at regressive enhancement. Elements of CSS3 and HTML5 provide the basics for a development team… Read More

allmedia joins Facebook

Author: Malcolm Hire, Tue 18 October 2011, 17:15:35

Today we finally joined Facebook and I think you’ll agree this was long overdue. We’ve recently started developing Facebook Like pages for several of our clients and were surprised by the… Read More

Speeding up web development

Author: Colin Oakley, Mon 17 October 2011, 15:45:22

To speed up web development we will often use a base set of tools to give a more solid base to build a website on. These can range from a web application framework, a publishing platform or even a CSS… Read More

James completes his work experience

Author: James Richardson, Mon 19 September 2011, 12:41:09

Hi, I’m James, and I’ve been participating in a work experience week with All Media Ltd, from the 12th of September till the 16th. I must say it’s blown my expectations of how a professional… Read More

Markup - brings instant mark up to any website

Author: Colin Oakley, Mon 5 September 2011, 17:23:54

Markup is a great bowser based mark up tool - it allows you to draw over a live web page with a veriety of tools. You can then publish the marked up web page instantly and share it with other people.… Read More

Twitter Bootstrap - Less based CSS framework

Author: Colin Oakley, Mon 5 September 2011, 11:50:03

Twitter Bootstrap is a CSS framework to help speed up web development. It is built with Less and consists of a grid system, typography and styles for forms, tables and navigation as well as other… Read More

Perkins - Design & Develop the Web, Faster

Author: Colin Oakley, Fri 12 August 2011, 15:23:36

I've already talked about Less.js and it's benefits but now LESS has been integrated into a framework. Perkins is an HTML5 framework which has a grid system, css typography and @font-face driven… Read More

I love jQuery plugins - part 1

Author: Colin Oakley, Thu 4 August 2011, 13:26:51

jQuery is a cross-browser Javascript library designed to make a websites more interactive or functional. Some parts are jQuery are very much about enhancing visual aspects others deal with validation.… Read More

Why is my bounce rate so high?

Author: Colin Oakley, Mon 1 August 2011, 10:14:18

We have recently inherited a site that gets about 1,500 visitors per month - sadly it has an 80% bounce rate. On one day last week it actually had a 100% bounce rate. What does this mean? Well bounce… Read More

Responsive Design Frameworks

Author: Colin Oakley, Mon 25 July 2011, 12:57:57

Its important to give web sites context in terms of the device you are viewing them on. What works on a desktop will not always work on a mobile. One way around this is to make your site adapt to the… Read More

AddThis - Real time Analytic and social sharing

Author: Colin Oakley, Fri 15 July 2011, 16:22:02

AddThis is one of the world's largest content sharing and social insight platform :- it offers key real time information on sharing of content via its analytics platform. It has a powerfull API that allows… Read More

Verifyapp offers user feedback, concept testing and more

Author: Colin Oakley, Mon 11 July 2011, 10:45:06

Verifyapp.com is a web based application used to quickly create tests and collect data about your website or application. It allows you to test user concenpts with immediate feedback which allows you… Read More

Less js brings variables to CSS and much more

Author: Colin Oakley, Thu 7 July 2011, 14:17:56

LESS.js is a tool that brings new features to CSS such as variables, mixins, operations and nested rules. This means you can write code quicker and with less complications it also means you can use site… Read More

ignite100 + North East = digital start-ups city

Author: Colin Oakley, Fri 1 July 2011, 17:16:58

Newcastle is to be the home to Europe's first £1m digital start-up accelerator. The ignite100 programe is an itensive 13-week programme that aimds to develop 10 teams start up idea. The programme… Read More

Tales from #DIBI - Responsive Web Design

Author: Colin Oakley, Thu 30 June 2011, 13:20:00

I had the pleasure of attending DIBI this year. This is a local conferenced with a two track approach. I spent the day firmly in the design it talks. One of the best talks was by Jeremy Keith which gave… Read More

Google Web fonts API hits v2

Author: Colin Oakley, Wed 29 June 2011, 12:39:17

Google had a busy day yesterday with Google+, homepage and mobile UI updates, Swiffy and v2 of its font directory. The new Google font directory includes a massive update to the layout including information… Read More

Work Experience Designer loves allmedia!

Author: Craig Whitfield, Fri 6 May 2011, 17:54:47

I was feeling quite relaxed heading to my work experience, but when i saw three blocks that looked exactly the same I got a bit worried, but soon took a guess and found three guys asking if my name was… Read More

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