T-Mobile owns the color Magenta
While reading the article “Color: The Next Limited Resource?” on Six Revisions, I found the subject of brands buying and claiming a colour as theirs, a scary and interesting thought. T-mobile being the most active and controversial story, I thought I would look into it a bit more.
So what are the facts?
- T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom) have trademarked the colour magenta.
- T-mobile can only trademark in the industry sector that they are registered in, so T-Mobile has trademarked the colour magenta in telecommunications
They have been enforcing this in the last few years by suing companies like book-on-demand publisher, and most recently, web magazine blog Engadget Mobile.
On one side it's a scary thought that you could have things like trademarks to consider when choosing colour for design... More >>
12.11.09 Comments (0) 
Party Invitation and Guest List
My brother and Sister were throwing a joint birthday party and needed a way to manage a guest for the party. We looked at facebook but had issues with different groups and people not on facebook (mainly family members) and adding guest names. It was decided in the end that it was easier to have an open guest list added onto this site with invitations sent out with the URL on. So I designed the invite... More >>
28.09.09 Comments (0)
Speed up your website with these tips
Most of us have broadband nowadays but with sites becoming more complex with the use of Ajax and JavaScript Libraries the average web page has tripled in just five years. Developers seem to be getting lazy and building fat websites that are becoming too large for most of our average broadband connections. When at work our broadband line isn't fantastic and I often end up feeling like I'm using dial-up again!
A whopping 55% of users felt speed is the most important factor in a site.
Source: Study: Web Users Prefer Speed Over Customization (A very interesting read)... More >>
15.07.09 Comments (0)
Church website redesign and build
Wallingford Baptist Church's design brief was:
- Being welcoming to all
- Dispelling negative images of Christians as boring, judgmental or killjoys
- Showing how the church is a community and family
- Vibe: Friendly, warm, welcoming and vibrant
- Fit in with the CMS they had already signed up too
The design was based around the words warm and welcoming and straight away I went into colour brain storming trying out different colour groups I settled on the yellow and browns you see in the final design... More >>
08.05.09 Comments (0)
Updating conditional comments for IE8
CSS breaking in IE8? - have you checked your conditional comments?
If you don't know what conditional comments are Jump to the explanaition. If you do and you use them in your site and your CSS is getting messed up in IE8 you might want to check any you have. When I opened redwood.com in IE8 the top navigation was very broken and this was down to me controlling where the end "</a>" was being positioned for ie using conditional comments... More >>
22.04.09 Comments (4)
Use Google Maps API to mark a location or address
This basic tutorial will take you through the steps you need to embed Goggle maps API on your site and use a marker to point out your location and then show an info window with your address and a link to get directions with your location already filled out, helping out your users as much as you can. View the working example of what you can have on your site to see how this will look and work at the end of the tutorial... More >>
08.04.09 Comments (4)