Claudia Riccio: Advertising photographer

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Client: Claudia Riccio (2010)

Details: Claudia is a creative commercial photographer with over 10 years experience working with a wide range of clients. She needed a website portfolio to fit her brand and distinct preferences. I created a clean, easy to use portfolio site that fitted her requirements perfectly.

“John has provided digital marketing and website services to me for a number of years and I’ve been delighted with both the advice provided and the quality of work delivered. I’d definitely recommend him to anyone needing creative services.”
Claudia Riccio, Owner, Claudia Riccio Photography Ltd.

Sarah Britten-Jones: Appropriation

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Client: Sarah Britten Jones for Designation (2010)

Details: Sarah Britten-Jones is a British visual artist with a background in ceramics. Some of her work involves the process of appropriation, where something is taken and changed very slightly in order to create a new piece with new meanings, so her website has been designed to look similar to the website of a large well-known global furniture store. The site is built in WordPress and acts as Sarah’s portfolio and her blog.

“John is a very intelligent designer, with a thorough understanding of his subject and always responds promptly and effectively to queries.”
Sarah Britten-Jones

Blue Tomato: Email marketing

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Client: Blue Tomato for Designation (2010)

Details: Blue Tomato is a growing food magazine for London, with an expanding readership and mailing list. They needed a simpler and more effective way of managing their email marketing. I set up a online email system for them, with a bespoke branded template, so that even non-technical staff could easily send out great looking eshots on demand.

iPhone OS4 introduces iAd – adverts on the move

Okay, the rumours were true and yesterday (April 8th 2010) Apple’s Steve Jobs announced the release of OS4 for iPhone (rolling out to iPod and iPad soon).

OS4 has 100 new user features, and the one that was most anticipated (at least by the marketing community) was the iAd mobile advertising platform.

Developers have been embedding single adverts in Apps for a while but this is obviosly limited. iAd works like Google AdSense and delivers appropriate adverts  into your App experience. iAd allows advertising to appear directly within iPhone Apps, without the need to be redirected to a website. (more…)

Is Internet Explorer as evil as made out?

Okay, first things first we need to clarify that Internet Explorer (commonly known as IE) is a web browser made by Microsoft, and also that it’s currently on it’s 8th major release (i.e. IE8), with IE9 currently in Beta (as I write).

A brief History of Internet Explorer can be found on Wikipedia, which is very interesting reading (sic).

I’ve been designing websites since about 1994 so I’ve used every single version of IE and have seen it take over from the original Mosaic, fight off Netscape and now compete with Firefox as the browser of choice (with IE still accounting for over 60% of all browser usage, depending on which browser usage report you read). (more…)