A bit about us …….

Diversify : Portfolio Careers / Businesses

In the year 2010 it is not uncommon for people and businesses to diversify?

Adrian and Hazel Rayfield (us) have been doing this for many years and have a small portfolio of careers / businesses.

Web Design and Development : www.breakofday.co.uk
Web Graphics and Website Concept Design : www.webchicboutique.co.uk
Professional Painting and Decorating : www.propertydecorating.co.uk

Plus Blogging :
DIY and Decorating Tips and Tricks of the Trade Blog :
www.propertydecorating.co.uk/blog
DIY By Design : www.diybydesign.co.uk this blog of web design and our news and events.

Continue reading Our Portfolio Careers / Businesses

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.

Working With Little Gems Handmade Cards

I am really pleased to be working with Little Gems Handmade Cards, since the begining of 2010 I have been designing graphics which have been made into beautiful handmade cards and are on sale online at www.littlegems-cards.co.uk.

There are now lots of designs online for both Wedding and Party invitations, ranging from the classic, chic and elegant styles to the fun and funky. From Wedding cupcakes to funky wonky tiered cake party invitations and from formual one cars to tea cups for parties of all types.

Tea Party

The tea party invitation was inspired by my love of a cup of tea in a china cup and saucer, I painted this cup and saucer in watercolours from a cup and saucer here at home, I then made it into a graphic and then a card design and it was created into a handmade card now online at www.littlegems-cards.co.uk/invitation_teacup.html.

In House Designs

At Little Gems Handmade cards all the cards and invitations are designed in house, and therefore can offer cards both bespoke and customised options to clients requirements. Why not check out the website, and if you don’t see what you are looking for contact Alison at Little Gems Handmade Cards and together we can off lots of ideas and suggestions for bespoke and custom designs.

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