ColourLovers & DeviantART Profiles

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 4:39 pm. 0 comments

Adding our ColourLovers and DeviantART profiles to the sidebar

New Colour Palettes @ ColourLovers

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 4:30 pm. 0 comments

Ok, so I haven’t been on colour lovers for yonks, so I decided to go and post some palettes!

Link to our Profile on Colour Lovers: www.colourlovers.com/lover/MinuteDesigns

My Previous Palettes are:

Named, Zesty Lime and Midnight, these were done in 2007!

Now, here’s the new stuff!

Hope you enjoy them! Give me some comments on colour lovers, oh and if you like them, and use them, let me know how! and where!

Thanks

Sky Digital, £130 Cashback!

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 2:31 pm. 0 comments

What’s this you say?

Today I was given a website, www.quidco.com

You get £130 from QuidCo when you sign up for sky via their website, PLUS, you get whatever deals sky are doing no doubt, ie recommend a friend and get a Free Sky+ Box!

Will be testing this very soon, so stay tuned!

Studio Lampwork, Logo First Draft

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 11:51 am. 0 comments

Another new client, and another logo, for a new Business.

So here’s the drafts, one with glass effect, one without!

And now with customers fonts;

Colour Trends, 2008

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 11:30 am. 0 comments

Been poking around, as a designer should do, and I found “This Years” colours..

Seem abit funky? What do you think?

Clean HTML Code = Higher Google Rank, and Higher AdSense Rank!

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 11:15 am. 0 comments

The debate over Valid HTML and CSS affecting your Google Rank has gone on forever, even though google state More Content, Less Code = More Relevant!

So I took the liberty of contacting Google, Their reply was:

“Hello Adam,

Thank you for your email. I understand that you want to know whether valid HTML and CSS help in better organic search and AdWords ad rankings.

Please note that clean HTML codes and CSS help improve rankings because they make it easier for our crawlers to find information. Sites’ positions in our search results are determined based on a number of factors designed to provide end-users with helpful, accurate search results. These factors are explained in more detail at http://www.google.com/technology/index.html.

In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages. To learn more about inclusion and ranking in the Google index, please visit our online Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters. Here, you’ll find answers to users’ most frequently asked questions.

To know more about how you can improve your site’s ranking, please visit http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34432&hl=en_US

If you have additional questions about your site, we encourage you to check out Google’s webmaster tools. Our webmaster tools can provide you with comprehensive information about your site, including which search queries trigger your website listing in our search results, potential indexing problems, and errors our crawlers may have encountered trying to access your pages. Get started with Google’s webmaster tools at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools?hl=en_US.

We welcome you to post any webmaster-related feedback or questions in our Webmaster Help Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help. Here you’ll find helpful conversations with both Googlers and experienced non-Googlers.

If you have additional questions, please visit our Help Center at https://adwords.google.com/support to find answers to many frequently asked questions. Or, try our Learning Center at http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/ for self-paced lessons that cover the scope of AdWords.

We look forward to providing you with the most effective advertising available.

Sincerely,

Rupam

The Google AdWords Team”

There we go I would say Clean doesn’t mean Valid, but if its Valid, it’s clean right?

Google’s Lego Logo!

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 11:03 am. 0 comments

I was looking through my “My Documents” today and I found something amazing!

How brill is that?

Hugh Frost Garden Design Logo Revamp

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 10:32 am. 0 comments

Hugh Frost Garden Design Logo Revamp, started well, but ended up being a complete waste of our time.

They still liked their “Artistic” or “Autistic” original logo, so its staying.

The final, END logo resulted in this

Enjoy!

New MinuteDesigns’s Logo

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 10:25 am. 0 comments

So, we’re planning on entirely recoding the “dull” looking MinuteDesigns website. We need to add all the services we do anyway, such as Hosting, Domains, SEO, Design, Print and everything else extra.

This will include the CubeCart / eCommerce solutions, as we did purchase www.cubecartdesigns.com with the plan on selling Templates, Mods and Special Offer Hosting, but we haven’t had the time to do anything with it!

Anyway here is the new logo:

Might spend some more time on the “reflection” as it was quick, and same with the glass effect.  If we TM the logo it will be completely plain

Google Adsense, Google Adwords

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 9:10 am. 0 comments

You may, or may not have noticed Google Adwords advertisements on this blog, this is because I have been “trialling” adsense.

So far, I’m impressed - to an extent.

They seem so very anal in everything that is to do with your account, and for some keywords the payment is laughable, on a “Dieting” website with adsense all over it, its been averaging 5p per click, which is a waste of time in my opinion.

On the flip-side of that, we’ve started various “SEO” orientated sites, one is a Blog with advice and a the ability to write a post, which can rank VERY highly in google! The other is a Directory, which is located on the same domain as the blog!

Anyway, the “SEO” area’s seem to be by far the most PROFITABLE, HIGHEST CPC (Cost per click) I know of, some giving me over $2 per click (that’s more than £1 per click). My thoughts came to, if we could archive just 100 of those clicks per day, for 365 days per week then that would make a total of £36,500 per year!

No wonder “some” people can quit their jobs and leave an adsense site chain running!