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Graphic Design For Network Members :: Posted by: Hazel on January 29th, 2010
Design : Members Badge Graphic Mums Like You
We have been pleased to work with Iveta of the “Mums Like You” online Network.
Following the brief we have worked closely with Iveta to produce a set of members badges for use by the networks ever growing membership on their own blogs and websites as a icon showing membership of www.mumslikeyou.com.
Design Brief
The brief was to design a graphic that included the networks logo wording thus keeping continuity with the website together with the birds provided by Iveta. We designed this graphic by continuing the theme of the bird image by incorporating the stitching as the border to the badge and made flower petals to highlight the pink bird’s patterned design.
The graphics can be seen online at the Network www.mumslikeyou.com/badge.php and on members sites across the web.
Tags: graphic design, icon, images, member, network
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Do You Twitter? Why we Twitter :: Posted by: Hazel on January 6th, 2010
Do you Twitter?

Social media is very much in the news and in many peoples lives, facebook, linkedin, myspace and of course twitter, and even if you don’t use social media the chances are you know someone who does, or you have seen the logos of these networks online, on tv or on your mobile phone.
Adrian and I have been on Linkedin for a few years and have been involved with, and post in forums relevant to our business and interests in web development, online accessibility etc for many years now. We hadn’t ventured into these other areas until earlier in 2009 when I started to Twitter, at first it was to experience this new media everyone seemed to be talking about online and to promote our new business venture launched in May 2009 “The Web Chic Boutique” www.webchicboutique.co.uk hence my twitter name @webchicboutique, now I’m hooked and twitter most days.
Twitter – what is it?
Well twitter it would appear is many things to many people! Essentially it is a mini message board / blog, you can post a message up to 140 characters and it is then displayed on twitter. You follow other people who post and other people follow you, but your posts can be viewed by anyone, weather they twitter or not, so caution on what you post is a must.
There are many articles online about how to set up yourself on twitter, the etiquette and meaning of the abbreviations so I won’t explain all the details at the moment (maybe that’s for another article) needless to say some knowledge is good as it makes it more fun. You can even customise the background to co-ordinate with your website or blog (or we can design one for you).
Twitter Growing Fast
Twitter seems to be moving fast, Continue reading Do You Twitter? Why we Twitter
Tags: Blog, icon, network, southend, twitter, web
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