A Summer Time Website Refresh!

I have just added some deck chairs to the DIY BY Design Theme banner. It is good to update websites and blogs from time to time, and a new graphic or banner can add just enough of change to keep things new and interesting.

Continuity and keeping a theme running

To keep with the scheme of DIY By Design and its beach hut design …. who can resist an ice cream!

Custom graphics and images add a unique feel to a website and can be colour co-ordinated to match you company branding. Great for promoting products and services.

If you would like a new website banner or seasonal graphics for your website visit our websites @ www.breakofday.co.uk or www.webchicboutique.co.uk

The Web Chic Boutique is One Today

We can’t believe it has been a year already, we launched the www.webchicboutique.co.uk website one year ago on the 4th May and it has been a great new addition to our business.

The “Web Chic Boutique” offers a wide selection of web design and graphic products and services.
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Interior Styles and Tips : Wallpapers – calculating what you need for that special job!

Today Adrian was featured on the website of Interior designer Françoise Murat as a guest in her Wallpaper feature in the Interior Design, Styles and Tips section talking about how and why he developed the www.propertydecorating.co.uk Wallpaper calculator.

Read the full article here on the Françoise Murat website : Wallpapers – calculating what you need for that special job! >>

The www.propertydecorating.co.uk website designed, built and coded by Adrian for our family decorating business as gone from strength to strength over the past two years.

The website includes many resources including a series of DIY / decorating calculators which allow people to imput measurements and calculate the amount of wallpaper, paint or tiles they may need for a job. These calculators have been designed and coded by Adrian.

Tips and Tricks of the Trade

The www.propertydecorating.co.uk blog now has over 50 posts, and features a series of articles on DIY and Decorating Tips and Tricks of the Trade. The blogs gets a lot of hits daily and comments on the articles are all favourable.

The Web, what’s in a colour? Article By Adrian Rayfield

Colour and it’s importance on the Web

The Web is a colourful medium and colour plays an important role in all Web sites. Colour can draw your attention to certain areas of a page, clearly showing navigation and links, as well as make the site look more inviting.

If the colours you choose are wrong or detract from the site or it’s content it can have a detrimental effect and actually make the site very hard to use, especially for those people with certain disabilities, such as colour blindness or poor visibility or users
who simply prefer to use a black and white screen set up.

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