September 2010
1 post
Our Festive Flags
We’re pleased to see our designs for sale. Check them out!
http://www.flagmakers.co.nz/christmas-flags/
August 2010
1 post
Our Sophie Brown Photography Logo Appears on...
July 2010
4 posts
Coming to a Street Lamp Near You Soon!
… hopefully!!
Business Card Design
Lipstick has been up and running since 2006 and I’ve finally designed myself a business card!
Packaging Design
LDS is proud to show you our latest branding & packaging design.
Our Winning Smackdown Tee is Selling on 1-daytee...
Here’s the pic…
June 2010
2 posts
HTML Email Services
We’re now offering a new HTML email service. Perfect for your regular newsletter! Send beautiful emails, manage your own mailing lists and track results with real-time reporting.
HTML emails are a great way of boosting visitor numbers to your website. And as readers can unsubscribe at any time, you are only delivering mail to those who want to hear from you.
Your template or ours, our...
Logo Refinement
I had fun recently refining a logo that was good in theory, but wasn’t quite finished. Here is the before and after…
May 2010
3 posts
Custom Blogs
Need a blog on your site? We’ve just completed a Blogger setup on a custom domain. It’s seamlessly styled with an easy to use Blogger backend! Check it out: http://www.blog.winningeagar.co.nz/
LDS 1-daytee on Sale
I’ve just received an email to say that our 1-daytee went on sale on Sunday and did really well!! Here are the pics…
LDS is (extremely) proud to be able to show you...
the new Pakistan Eventing logo.
April 2010
2 posts
Make your Yellow Pages Ad Pop!
With professional design…
LDS is proud to launch...
http://www.johnsonvillecarmaintenance.com/ - a simple but effective single page site!
March 2010
1 post
LDS is proud to launch...
http://www.o-range.co.nz/ Well! The index page is up… waiting on content from my client who is happy to have a homepage up at least. =)
February 2010
8 posts
The Design Inspiration Showing LDS Design
I just noticed a spike in my analytics. The Design Inspiration has picked up our Sophie Brown Photography logo. And it’s had a few Retweets. Very cool!
http://thedesigninspiration.com/logos/sophie-brown-photography/
Creating a Google Friendly Site
Straight from the Google Webmaster pages:
Keywords: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35255&hl=en
Google-friendly Sites: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40349&hl=en
SEO Starter Guide: http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
The Life, Times (and Death?) of Internet Explorer...
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/11/the-life-times-and-death-of-internet-explorer-6-comic-strip/#more-30334
Apply the Gloss to Your Twitter Page!
We’re proud to launch our latest Twitter background: http://twitter.com/DuoNZ (matching website coming soon!)
Business Card Design + Printing
Apply the gloss to your business cards! We’ll design a unique, eye catching design for you for the one off cost of $200 and you keep the artwork! This means that you can have your cards reprinted at anytime with a printer of your choice.
Want us to take care of the printing for you? For a limited time, we can arrange to have 500 cards printed for you for $94. Offer ends on Feb 28.
Private Sale Signs
Selling your house privately? I’ve just had great fun making a private sale sign. So next time your thinking of selling privately… add some gloss! ;)
Color Theory for Designers
The Meaning of Color’ (via @smashingmag) http://tinyurl.com/y8a49dk
Performance Comparison of Major Web Browsers
Not using Google Chrome? You should be! Here’s why: http://sixrevisions.com/infographics/performance-comparison-of-major-web-browsers/
January 2010
5 posts
Google Phasing out Support for Older Browsers
Woohoo! Now that Google has taken the initiative to phase out support for older browsers in Google Docs and Google Apps - I have my fingers crossed that the move will also phase out my IE6 bug fix headaches as older browsers slowly become obsolete.
Here is what they have to say:
Dear Google Apps admin, In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and...
Improving your Google PageRank: Part Three
Good Linking = Quality not Quantity
As mentioned in Part Two of our SEO optimization tips, exchanging text links with sites relevant to your own is the first step in improving your site’s PageRank. Although you won’t notice a difference overnight, incoming links from well trafficked and reputable sites related to your own should make a significant difference overtime.
For example....
Sophie Brown Photography Logo Makes it on to...
http://creattica.com/logos/sophie-brown-photography/29965
Tips for Improving your Google PageRank: Part Two
Part two in a small series of tips we offer to our own clients during the pre-launch phase of their new website.
Links
Links, both internal and external, are essential to improving your Google PageRank. Search engines place considerable relevance on the number of links pointing to a page on the web. This determines a page’s popularity (PageRank) and in turn its search engine ranking.
...
Tips for Improving your Google PageRank: Part One
The exact formula for improving your website’s positioning within Google is a secret only known to Google. But there are a few tips to improving your website’s PageRank in Google.
Over the next few days, I’ll be explaining a few of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques that we recommend to our clients during the pre-launch phase of their new website.
Key Words…
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December 2009
4 posts
1 tag
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
We’d like to wish you and your family a very happy Christmas and a safe and merry New Year. Lipstick will now be closed until the 11th of January, but we’re already looking forward to applying the gloss for you in 2010!
Add Custom Tabs to Your Facebook Business Page
Here’s a cool article for making the most of your Facebook business page! http://www.eleen.com/2009/08/add-custom-tabs-to-your-facebook-business-page/
Lipstick is proud to launch...
The new Gform Group website & portfolio. Check it out: http://www.gformgroup.com.au/
Lipstick's Latest Look!
I’m pleased to finally launch our latest look! I hope you like it.
I’ve always been a fan of bold simplicity, however, you’ll notice throughout my portfolio that my style is changing. I enjoy experimenting with the latest trends and I make it a personal objective to try something new with each site.
This site uses @font-face. New with CSS3. Headers can now be attractive and...
November 2009
3 posts
2 tags
Social Media Marketing
Facebook has more than 300 million active users, Twitter - 50 million and LinkedIn - 43 million. So why not use them to market your business? 81% of all marketers who use social media said it generates more exposure for their business. LDS can create a blog for you site, like this one, which will automatically update your social media pages - promoting your business one sentence at a time from...
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10 Blunders To Avoid On Business Websites
Here’s a pretty cool article on what not to do (or have) in regards to your business website, thanks to Best Design Tuts.
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Twitter Marketing
Are you using Twitter as a marketing tool? We can customise your Twitter layout to reflect your branding and embed your Twitter feed straight into your site! Contact us for more info.