We conclude our short weeks look 2011′s Design Trends with a simple look and simple colour designs.

Simplicity, there is nothing quite as striking as an simple message on a quiet backdrop. Quiet can usually mane more than just black and white for there are also many shades of green and red and blue and green …. you get the idea. Using green, yellow or even red as your primary colour and limit the range of your palette to two to three colours for the design will bring a simple and...

Are your ideas flowing freely? Plenty of new ideas to write blogs about? That’s great! Unfortunately there will come a day, when you sit down to write an update about your business and your mind goes blank… you get easily distracted, and decide to come back to it another day. And that’s where most people go wrong, you keep putting it off and it gets harder and harder to come back to it. Not only will this disastrously effect your search engine ranking over time, it will also be disheartening for...

Today our adventure into 2011′s design trends we look for the common Photographic Backgrounds.

Photographic Backgrounds have featured in websites for many years, this didn’t work well as file sizes were usually to high for the users connection meaning people had consumed the content before the file was displayed. Sites were also very slow to use, due to the way the page was rendered the picture would hog memory and the browser suffered. Designers moved away from this to more repetitive...

Are your ideas flowing freely? Plenty of new ideas to write blogs about? That’s great! Unfortunately there will come a day, when you sit down to write an update about your business and your mind goes blank… you get easily distracted, and decide to come back to it another day. And that’s where most people go wrong, you keep putting it off and it gets harder and harder to come back to it. Not only will this disastrously effect your search engine ranking over time, it will also be disheartening for...

Banners are not dead, they’re doing fine and they’re going to be around for a while.

They’re making a strong stance due to their new home – Google Display/Content Network to be precise. If you are advertising on the Content Network and not using banner ads then you’re missing out on a really big and tasty piece of the advertising pie.

The competition on AdWords is strong but there are still some places where the competition is not so fierce. One of those places...