New article on Freelance Advisor: When is charging interest not in your interest?
We have a new article up on Freelance Advisor today.
If you are a small business of a freelance designer and want to know more about how and when it is in yoru interest to charge interest on late invoices this is the article for you. Packed with tips and advice from our own experiences here at Blink we hope it will help you when it comes to actioning overdue invoices.
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How social are political sites? Liberal Democrats website design (Part of the Red Vs Blue series)
We have taken a look at the Labour and Conservative sites so far to explore a little about how well they have managed to intergrate social medial and sharing into their user experience. Next up is the Liberal Democrats website.
The Liberal Democrats front page design: Bright and user friendly but how social are the Lib Dems?
Political design: How well has the Conservative party worked social media into their website design? (Part of the Red Vs Blue series)
Today we are looking at the latest version of the Conservative party website and how well they have intergrated social media and networking technologies into the design – does it look good? Does it add to the user experience? Does it work? And more exciting questions potentially answered in this very article.
The Conservative site – Its very ‘British’ with its Union Jack based motifs for the backdrop and logo, and its rather slick with its graduated block grid based web design – but how social is it?
Immediately it is obvious that someone has sat down and written a solid strategy for how social media will be utilised on this page. Read more
Political webdesign: How well has the Labour party included social networking into their site design? (Part of the Red Vs Blue series)
Those of you who have been reading the Blink Design Studios blog for a while will know that there is a ad-hoc series looking at political web design and marketing. This is the latest in a series which will follow over the next few months looking at how the main parties have updated their site designs and also at select areas of their site design. This article focuses on how well the Labour party site has integrated social media and sharing aspects and functionality into their designs and how well those work as part of the overall site experience.
The Labour party site: An easy to navigate, simple and clean design as always; However, how does it fair now the web is so social?
The new site has a few useful and well integrated social media sharing features such as the share to Facebook and Twitter buttons which are at the base of the main homepage and also the integration to Tweet or Facebook status items from their ‘advent calendar of broken promises’ which do encourage sharing, it would have been nice for this to have been accessible from the front page rather than via a page change although this does allow them to feature more stories in the section. Read more
Interview with Darren Founder & MD at Crunch Accounting
We here at Blink have recently signed up Crunch Accounting to manage all our books and those pesky VAT returns and have to say, the service has been great. So great we decided to interview Darren Fell, MD and founder at Crunch, to see how they have managed to make a service that is so absolutely tailored to the needs of freelancers, contractors and small businesses.
Clever #Xmas Idea: Tweetflakes
Ico has come up with a rather lovely way to wish their friends a Merry Xmas this year with their twitter driven Tweetflakes promotion. Read more
Festive wishes from Blink Design Studios – and the year in a Blink of an eye
It’s that time of year again – snow is falling (or was until yesterday) and the scarves and gloves are most definately out. So this seems like a great time to wish everyone happy holidays and write out a quick roundup of the year for Blink. Read more
Interview with Blink Design Studios on Whohub
Good afternoon all.
We have a brief company interview up on Whohub for anyone interested in finding out a little more about us.
The interview can be seen here: http://www.whohub.com/blinkdesignstudios
If you have any questions, want to know more about us or even request a free no obligation quote, you can always do so by sending us a message here.
News: CA Design Services happy to be working with Blink Design Studios Ltd
So happy in fact, the great guys at CADS and CADS 3D have written us a rather glowing recommendation:
“We have commissioned both print and web design work, and are always impressed with the creative flair and real understanding of the target market. Our designer at Blink is professional and talented, with a strong ability to not only think outside the box, but also guide us to do the same.“
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How to work with designers and agencies to get the best result for your business
How to be your service providers favourite client.
I wrote a post a little while back which detailed some of the basics of how to choose a graphic design provider to work with as well as a post on how designers can run projects smoothly to give the best results to their clients. This post looks at how companies can help designers deliver the best result for their project. Read more
