One of the most important aspects of design is to know your target audience, hence considering the needs of the target users, such as accessibility, layout formatting, and levels of colour and imagery versus text quantity that can be considered as acceptable.
The above points go without question if you wish to create an effective and successful website design that visitors will come back to day after day.
Having worked with creative agencies for some time now, we have seen some fabulous designs right through to their creation and all has been well. However, on occasion, when a design that we receive is predominantly image heavy and difficult to break down, we find that we have to go back to the drawing board with the designers and take a number of steps to make the website more accessible to those users who might not have quite as high speed an internet connection as those more fortunate, or those who are still running older browsers (such as IE 6) which do not properly support transparent PNG images, which are essential to many of the more aesthetically pleasing designs.
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Big Dot Media would like to encourage you to help support an appeal that is close to our hearts. The niece of a close friend urgently needs to raise £250,000 to get her the specialist potential life saving Photon Therapy Treatment in America.
At the moment the fund has reached over £60,000 but we have a race against time to reach the target. If you can help in any way possible or wish to read further then please see the link below.
http://www.justgiving.com/rubyowen
Text RUBY to 60777 to donate £3 towards 2 year old Ruby Owens potentially life-saving proton therapy treatment.
Millions of families around the world use the Internet every day to surf, search and shop, as well as to bank, share photos, play games, download movies and music, connect with friends, meet new people, and engage in a host of other activities. We’re just scratching the surface of this amazing tool, and there’s no telling what will come next.
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Twenty four of the worlds biggest mobile phone companies, including Vodafone, China Mobile and Sprint, have joined forces to rival the dominance of the app stores, such as Apple.
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Here at Big Dot HQ the office is a-buzz with the launch of Apples latest device, the stunning iPad.
Those who love the iPhone will no doubt be eagerly anticipating the release of the iPad. Having watched the presentation myself, I must admit to loving the prospect of getting my hands on this handheld masterpiece which is so quintessentially Apple. Sleek, sophisticated, unrivalled in its market, the iPad is destined for success. Apple has combined an internet portal, a bookstore, a music device, an entertainment device and an business device into one gorgeous multi-touch unit. And at the unbelievable price of $499, it’s just guaranteed to be a massive hit.
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Big Dot Media start 2010 as they mean to go on, by announcing acceptance to the renowned Recommended Agency Register.
Achieving RAR status is a real symbol of excellence and it is thanks to the sheer dedication and enthusiasm of the Big Dot team that we can now proudly display the logo on our website. The RAR logo is recognised worldwide as an independant mark of a trusted supplier, and is only awarded to those agencies who, via independant research, can prove their technical skills and abilities.
Big Dot Media never discuss the great work our team does due to our strict confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, so it’s nice that the efforts of everyone here at Big Dot is recognised in this way.
For further information, please get in touch: 08450 580586 or contact us here
www.agencyregister.co.uk
Big Dot Media has achieved the highest possible 5-star rating from the popular media review site ‘Which Web Design Company’. The WWDC rates over 2800 digital media agencies in the UK and rates them on factors such as their portfolio, their cleint testimonials and their contribution to the media community.
Big Dot Media Managing Director, Stephen McGrath says “The 5-star rating is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the Big Dot team. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them and also thank all our loyal customers and partner both old and new.”
Big Dot Media are rapidly gaining an enviable reputation in the media industry and are one of the preferred oursourcing partners for non-digital media agencies in the UK.
For more information, please e-mail press@bigdotmedia.co.uk
We have been doing e-mail marketing for our creative agency partners for some time now, and as more and more end user clients are realising the benefits and ROI of e-mail marketing, this is fast becoming one of our most popular services.
The only trouble is, sometimes, creative agencies that have not had much experience in designing e-mail campaigns, are a little confused about the standards and creative limitations of e-mail designs.
So here is a little ‘E-mail Design 101′ for anyone that wants some tips on how to create effective e-mail campaigns.
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Japan has come out of recession with the news that its economy grew by 0.9% during the quarter from April to June. Japan had previously experienced a contracting economy in four consecutive quarters.
It’s thought the rise comes amid a huge government initiative and it’s yet unknown whether the growth will be sustainable.
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With the current uncertain economic climate, more and more companies are tightening their belts in as many areas as they can to try and steer their business through these tricky times – marketing and advertising are areas that are really quite difficult to cut back on, simply because if you don’t remain on the front line, will those people who are still spending money, and there are some out there, be able to find you? Once the recession is over, will your name still be at the forefront of their minds?
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In its basic form, online Social Networking involves groups of individuals who share common interests and activities who are enthusiastic about exploring the interests and activities of others. Social Networking creates a social environment and is utilized by many companies as an online marketing tool to connect them with like minded people with the interests that their company can offer.
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It seems that the Government has joined the social media craze that is Twitter with the internal release of a twenty-page strategy paper for government departments on the how’s, why’s and when to use Twitter!
The full article can be found here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/27/twitter-socialnetworking
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Just a week ago, MySpace announced it was cutting over a third of its workforce in America. Is it feeling the pressure from the darlings of social media like Facebook and Twitter or is it just securing its future by tying up loose ends and streamlining its business. Today, it has been announced that MySpace will cut another approximately 300 jobs, although details are still unclear as to where they will be.
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Content Management Systems have historically only been implemeted on large corporate websites with large corporate budgets, but with the increasing popularity of open source systems such as WordPress and Joomla, many web developers are now implementing complex, but easy to use Content Management Systems into even the most basic of websites…
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