http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog A blog by Dublin-based web design company, EdenWeb Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:49:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my clients is looking for a Graphic Designer for regular 'above the line' print design work.  If you know of anyone who is interested in producing design work for a high profile, dynamic and exciting company then please send me details (don't respond here). The role would suit a ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2008/06/19/graphic-designer-required/ Adobe have just released their new Media Player. AMP is a free download which allows you to view and stream Flash videos on their PC. Active channels at the moment include Arts & Culture, Comedy, Music, Lifestyle, Science and Technology and more. For such a new service, the range ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2008/04/10/adobe-media-player/ I've just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 for my design blog. The only bugs I can find at the moment are the SIFR titles on blogs which are now 1/3 the size. Otherwise, it's been a remarkably smooth experience. The hosting control panel actually handled everything so finger's crossed that nothing ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2008/04/09/word-press-25/ UPS arrived about 2 minutes ago. I have brand new copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Master Collection) sitting in front of me waiting to be installed. I can't wait to start playing with this. Here's a list of the included software in the Master Collection. Adobe InDesign® CS3 Adobe Photoshop® ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2008/04/07/web-design-software/ From one of my favourite web sites ( fontshop.com ) comes the latest FontBook type catalogue. Just like the right photograph, the right font can make or break any piece of graphic design. I love these font catalogues and can easily spend hours browsing through hundreds of pages of Serif, Sans ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2008/02/08/choose-great-fonts-for-graphic-and-web-site-design/ The Irish Webmaster Forum.com are organising a few drinks at the Harbour Master pub in the IFSC (Dublin) on Friday 9th February. If you're a Web Master, Web Designer, Marketeer, Search Engine Optimiser (or all 4!) and want to meet a few of your contemporaries the drop by and say ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2008/02/05/web-design-and-marketing-meet-up/ A nice feature on the HP Media Server flash demo is the ability to mute the volume on the demo before it starts playing. It’s an impressive yet simple touch that saved me having to turn off my own music. If you work in a shared office I’m sure at some ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2008/01/07/hp-mediasmart-server-and-flash-demo-usability/ We've been quiet on the blog and news updates lately as we've been wrapping up a couple of great projects. I can't believe it's November 1st today! Anyway, in the interests of publishing *something* this month, I wanted to announce the following clients and welcome them to Eden Web and ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/11/01/latest-web-design-news-from-eden-web-design/ If you've been nominated for an IIA Net Visionary Award or are sponsoring a category, you may want to display a badge on your web site or blog. You can grab a JPEG for your category over at the Eden Web resources page. The full suite of categories are ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/09/26/iia-netvisionary-award-logos-for-web-design-blogging-entrepreneur-etc/ I've been nominated for Web Designer of Excellence in the latest IIA Net Visionary Awards. I'd love your vote so if you like our work please vote for EdenWeb here - http://www.netvisionary.ie/vote2007.htm Thanks! Peter http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/09/25/web-designer-awards-iia-netvisionary-2007/ The IEDR today announced relaxation of the rules for registering personal dot-ie domain names for individuals. This means you can now register YourName.IE for approx 25 Euro per anum. Furthermore, most combinations of your first, middle and surname are acceptable. An applicant named ‘John Paul Smith’ can register the following alternatives: Johnsmith.ie ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/09/12/yournameie/ If there was one industry related to my profession that I'd love to plan, design and build a website for, it'd probably be a Hosting company. UK, Scottish, Taiwanese, Canadian or Irish, they just can't seem to communicate successfully to their target audience(s) and consistently misunderstand what potential customers are ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/09/05/the-host-with-the-most-2/ Now that the new Garda comissioner has been named, I wonder will someone at HQ add County Wicklow to their map of Ireland?   http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/09/05/somebody-put-county-wicklow-on-the-map/ An open letter to Apple I’m writing to you on behalf of millions of people who walk around wired to little tech devices and won’t leave the house without them. No, I’m not talking about the iPod — and that’s the point. While your brilliant product line enhances the lifestyle of ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/08/15/better-by-design-adaptive-path-introduce-charmr/ I've been working on a series of illustrations for the Biodiversity department at Fingal County Council. The 5 pieces form a series of illustrations to highlight the unique habitats found in Fingal County and will be featured on the new web site which we have also designed. Custom illustrations are a ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/08/14/bio-diversity-web-site-design-and-illustrations-by-eden-web/ On Friday I spent a few hours at Microsoft’s European Product Development Centre in Dublin with Reeves Little previewing project Gatineau and running through some of the new features being built into their upcoming website Analytics program. I’d been a fan (and customer) of analytics company and product, DeepMetrix for several ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/08/02/web-designer-previews-microsoft-analytics-codenamed-gatineau-in-dublin/ Congrats to Dublin photographer Derek Knight on winning a Nokia N95 in todays Irish Times Magazine Photography Compeition.   Photographers were asked to submit pictures on the theme of 'on the beach' and there were more than 1000 entries submitted. Visit Derek Knight Photography for more great travel, documentary, music, corporate and commercial ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/07/28/dublin-photographer-featured-in-the-irish-times-magazine/   http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/07/11/view-from-the-office/ Since moving myself and the business down to Wicklow several months ago I've been really impressed with the work that the Wicklow County Enterprise Board (WCEB) are doing for small businesses in the area and just how proactive they are on the seminar, networking and roadshow initiatives. So I'm glad ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/07/10/the-latest-it-tools-for-your-business/ Below are examples of a series of web site banners designed for Meteor.ie. I maximised the amount of information that Meteor could display in this small space by creating a mini slide show with up to 3 or 4 screens. Thereby allowing them to promote several products. The '1' and ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/07/10/meteor-banners/ One of the barriers to buying goods online is often just making it past the 'Buy Now' button. Poorly thought out form fields and unusable shopping cart systems are eCommerce killers! Here's a journey I took recently that is possibly typical of most buyer's click-path when shopping online. Do a search for ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/07/09/shopping-online-one-size-fits-all/ Some recent icons I developed for the My Meteor area of Meteor.ie http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/07/09/new-icons/ Michele over at Blacknight Hosting was asking why I FTP each individual image to my blog instead of using the file upload option. Good question. No good asnwer. I just assumed I had to FTP from my web app. Oops! Speaking of web applications and FTP, I am reviewing Microsoft's new Expression ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/07/09/uploading-images/ Stray markup or unclosed html tags are all over the modern web but I thought I was seeing things when I picked today’s printed edition of the Irish Times (yeah - they have a printed version too :O) ). Did anyone else notice the stray XML tag in the iPhone ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/06/29/irish-times-xml-tag/ From A List Apart... Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, ... http://www.edenweb.co.uk/blog/2007/05/16/web-design-survey-2007/