Late last month, US authorities arrested an email spammer nicknamed ‘The Spam King’ and charged him with sending millions of junk emails. According to a news article posted on the BBC News website, the spammer, called Robert Soloway, was arrested in Seattle and charged with mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering. Part of the […]
No, not the Hazzards of Blogging. I am pretty sure they don’t have computers in Hazzard County. I am talking about something different. The internet is littered with news articles and blogs about bloggers whose typing fingers have landed them in hot water with their employers. It seems like even other week there is some
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This morning I came across a particularly chilling article about websites that use malicious code to infect the computers of visitors to that site. These sites use computer coding and scripts to launch programmes, steal password information and otherwise wreak havoc with our computers. What was really frightening about the article was that it noted
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As a owner/director of a small business, I was interested in the effectiveness of a blog as a business tool. As a graphic designer working in web media (and print), I was also curious about the business benefits of a blog site. I decided to investigate the value by starting a blog myself – which
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Stumbling about the internet recently, I came across Kuler: Adobe’s online colour selector tool. It’s a great site for playing with different colour schemes, with an eye towards that next design project. Kuler allows users to define and export colour palettes from a web browser. The exported swatch libraries can then be imported into a
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I was recently faced with an interesting production issue involving converting a large scale print file (for a poster series that were 700mm x 1000mm). My client asked me to convert the (40 page InDesign) print file to a PDF for posting on the web. My initial attempts at using Adobe InDesign’s ‘Adobe PDF Presets’
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There have now been two excellent sessions of Oxford Geek Nights at the Jericho Tavern. The basic premise of the evening is a couple of main presentations (15 minutes each), followed by a series of mini-presentations on just about anything under the great sun of web development. As a graphic designer, working in both print
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As part of a regular series, I gave a presentation yesterday on Successful Website Creation and Marketing. My audience was of designer-makers at Cockpit Arts, most of whom already had an online presence. The main focus of the presentation was therefore to provide some insight into how best to drive traffic to their respective websites.
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Liam Dempsey is a marketing and design consultant. Through his business, LBDesign, he works with businesses and non-profits in the US, UK, and beyond. He loves pizza, craft beers, and time with family and good friends.