tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:03:58 +0000This is my <a href="http://www.blogger.com"><strong>Blog</strong></a> about design, life and anything else I care to throw into the mix. Enjoyhttp://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)Blogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-2320097636636470390Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:37:00 +00002010-02-03T20:40:05.937Z I have recently launched the website for Core Vitality. Kate Foster is a personal trainer based in the Bournemouth and Poole area who requested a brand new website whereby her clients could aquire key information about her services and training programmes. All design and development was completed by me, Plexus Design, and was delievered on budget to the very happy client: "Jenna's creative http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2010/02/core-vitality-personal-trainer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-1298775843788968378Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:37:00 +00002010-02-03T21:03:58.535Z I have recently created 2 new Blogs which are designed to inspire and stimulate my interests and ideally be a go to place for interesting and fascinating art on the web. Creative Daze Posts to inspire creatives, thinkers, wonderers, doodlers, photographers, designers, illustrators, scholars and lost souls. Visit Creative Dave Circle Circle  A catalogue of circle based illustrations, http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2010/01/creative-daze-circle-circle-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-529025080306441514Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:57:00 +00002009-12-21T17:00:25.802ZDesigns for e-commerce websites have changed dramatically over the last few years. A genre that has typically been known for aesthetically poor concepts and strict grid like layouts has developed, along with the increase in market, into some of the most original user experiences available. 2009 has been a year of financial uncertainty but the outlook for e-commerce remains bright. The cleverest http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2009/12/designing-e-commerce-websites-for-2010.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-3976646591635431288Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:38:00 +00002009-09-10T15:45:15.421Z Yesterday saw the launch of Ferme de la Fleur. They offer holiday gites, hidden in the French countryside, perfect for holidays in Normandy. I designed the site to be clean and modern, incorporating an online booking system as well as an online gallery of accommodation pictures and scenes from local tourist attractions. All branding, design and development was completed by me, Plexus Design, http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2009/09/ferme-dela-fleur-holiday-lets-normandy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-1671119982207837397Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:29:00 +00002009-07-24T09:52:27.666Z Rae Hippolyte is an amazing photographer based in London, UK. Having graduated from the prestigious London College of Fashion this year, her work combines the areas of fashion, still life and atmospheric portraiture. Her new site was designed to be a clean, simple portfolio, whereby the work was the real centre piece. Please take a look and let me know your thoughts. More work coming soon! http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2009/07/rae-hippolyte-freelance-photographer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-8308279059523213347Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:47:00 +00002009-07-22T11:11:59.517Z You work very hard perfecting your website and when all the hard work is done- then what do you do! Well any good designer knows that to fully showcase your work it is important to get featured on numerous CSS Galleries. Not only does this give other designers and businesses the opportunity to view your site but also helps with page ranking as well as general industry reputation. The CSS http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2009/07/css-gallery-submissions-best-how-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-7967164903139697053Mon, 25 May 2009 11:55:00 +00002009-05-25T12:02:15.449Z I have just been featured on what I consider to be the best CSS gallery, CSS Mania. It has taken a long time to be featured but at last I have made it with my recent website makeover. Even better than that they have given me a rating of 8 out of 10!http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2009/05/css-mania-feature.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-1753373602287491685Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:04:00 +00002009-05-28T17:07:55.869Z I was lucky enough to recently have my portfolio of work showcased in the renowned Web Designer magazine, Issue 152. The feature is a great honour and comes as a fantastic seal of approval from this magazine giant. Web Designer magazine is one of the UK's leading authorities on all things web related. Their recently revised website is an excellent source for tutorials and up to date industryhttp://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2009/04/web-designer-magazine-showcase.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-5453613920993290940Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:40:00 +00002009-04-24T13:43:50.099ZI am currently working as a freelance web designer in and around the London area. Please get in touch if you have any projects that I can help design for you. I have just updated my site with a few new projects that I completed at Demonz Media in Sydney, Australia. Enjoyhttp://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2009/04/freelance-web-designer-london.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-1732353423231543242Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:41:00 +00002009-05-22T13:10:58.899Z Graduate Jobs South (GJS), has been selected as one of just three finalists in the Best Young Person's Website category of the prestigious Hantsweb Awards 2008. I designed this website whilst working as the Head of Design at Adido Solutions. A record number of more than 1,100 nominations were received for the awards this year, so it really is a fantastic achievement to make the final. http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2008/10/website-finalist-at-hantsweb-awards.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-5829821470176519289Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:46:00 +00002009-08-05T16:04:38.416Z Spicy Web Designer, is a website dedicated to answering the question "Where are all the good web designers?" and they answer this question by interviewing the top web designers from around the world. You can read my interview here and learn a little about what I do, how I do it and hopefully get some tips on what it's like to be a Web Designer in today's world.http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2008/10/web-designer-interview-spicy-web.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-1418285341673646035Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:55:00 +00002009-05-22T11:12:18.929Z You may not have heard from me in a while and unfortunately the site has not been updated either for some time as I have been travelling. I am currently residing in Sydney, Australia and working with various companies on a freelance basis to aid their design teams. I have recently finished a Mitsubishi website which can be viewed here.http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2008/10/freelance-web-design-sydney-australia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-6053325117262406943Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:04:00 +00002008-01-15T16:19:05.695Z It seems that, with no conscious effort at all, I have entered the number 10 spot on Yahoo! UK for the term "Web designer". (since posting this I have now moved up to the prestigious No. 5 spot) Have a look at my portfolio to see what I can do... This got me thinking about the way search engines spider web pages, because if you check the same thing on Google, I am miles away from the tophttp://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2008/01/top-10-web-designer-on-yahoo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-3691975991045604539Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:28:00 +00002009-05-22T13:10:16.568Z The BBC has recently launched the Beta version of their new homepage. Having studied their last redesign this template comes as a major disappointment... To be fair the widgets are nice, always handy to customise your own areas and the opening and closing draggable sections are a nice touch, however designers have been using these for years and we have all seen it done a lot better http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2007/12/new-bbc-homepage-beta-or-worse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-5412402029432146749Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:27:00 +00002009-05-22T11:20:06.354ZI often use divs and background images on a constant basis to get a modern look and feel to a website. When doing so it is important to know the CSS shortcuts for the element background-position.There are two basic ways of writing this in your stylesheet, 1.with Keywords and 2. with Percentages or Lengths. Keywords Horizontal keywords: left, center, rightVertical keywords: top, center, bottomForhttp://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2007/11/css-background-position-shortcuts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-6595562545972605997Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:44:00 +00002009-05-22T13:04:09.651Z It's good news all round at the moment. Plexus Design has been featured on another two CSS Gallery websites. CSS Vault one of my favourite CSS Design Galleries has been kind enough to give me 5 stars for design work. Design Shack a web design showcase, CSS tutorials and web standards gallery has featured my site on their elite list. Still trying my hardest to get on to CSS Mania- the http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2007/09/css-vault-design-shack-feature.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-1705464264802229545Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:10:00 +00002009-05-22T13:05:01.883ZAs a designer, who sometimes works on a freelance basis in Bournemouth, it can be quite scary trying to manage your money, time, schedules and invoices....however with the beauty of the internet, guaranteed there is always someone or something out there willing to help and even better, willing to help for FREE! Here are some sites for Freelancers out there that might make their, already http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2007/09/freelance-web-designer-bournemouth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-4709199394741363715Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:17:00 +00002009-05-22T13:03:31.746Z It's only be a few days since I launched my new site and already I have been featured on two CSS Design Gallery websites. The first site is CSS Based which is a "project providing web designers with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world." The second site is CSS20, a CSS Gallery for designers to show off their websites, or for general design inspiration. Ihttp://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2007/08/featured-on-ccs-based-css20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-6269742644255391349Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:19:00 +00002007-08-21T18:19:20.411ZYup it was getting to that point when I thought "Out with the old, in with the New". As the Head of Design at Adido Solutions I have been working on lots of new and exciting projects recently and it was time to showcase all this new work with a new look. I have streamlined the site and condensed all my portfolio work into one page making it easier for you to browse and easier for me to update. http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2007/08/plexus-design-has-makeover.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-4307044887159717579Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:31:00 +00002009-05-22T11:29:04.654Z Yesterday saw the launch of Muon Studio an illustration portfolio site for artist Asia Simpson. The site is still very much in development with lots of new photos, images and sketches being uploaded over the next few weeks. The illustrations are focused on Body Image and are beautiful and unqiue in style and composition. If you look on the Contact page you can even view images of the Muon http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2007/06/muon-studio-illustration-by-asia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-290081773480246077Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:06:00 +00002009-05-22T11:32:57.262ZI am currently working on re-designing this website and as a webdesigner you would think this would be a pleasurable task to undertake..wrong! When it comes to designing your own site there are many stumbling blocks. Firstly I want to create a logo that will become synonymous with simplicity and beauty. I have been through about 12 designs so far and somehow it gets harder every time. When it http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2007/06/css-re-design-inspiration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-117543610286950718Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:58:00 +00002007-04-02T19:31:29.776ZThanks to everyone who sponsored me. I managed to run the 10k in 1hour 15seconds! I have added somed photos of the race to my Flickr account- see below right for more. You can also watch the video of the start on YouTube Now I am off for some well deserved kip!http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2007/04/bournemouth-bay-run-2007.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-116652808789699182Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:23:00 +00002009-05-22T13:02:39.076Z As always I have decided not to give out Christmas cards this year and instead I am trying to encourage people to donate to charity instead...even if it's only a few pence-it will be worth it. Please click on the button below to find out how to donate to the ever important charity Cancer Research UK.http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2006/12/christmas-donations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-116540174244212024Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:35:00 +00002009-05-22T13:00:11.334Z Seeing as it's near Christmas I thought I would bring you a little unknown fact about my favourite Christmas film. Did you Know... It's a Wonderful Life (1946): Films made prior to It's a Wonderful Life used cornflakes painted white for the falling snow effect. Because the cornflakes were so loud, dialogue had to be dubbed in later. Director, Frank Capra, wanted to record the sound live, sohttp://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2006/12/christmas-movie-facts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217556.post-116429536179925422Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:43:00 +00002009-05-22T12:58:03.793ZIt is very strange but I had a colleague ask me the other day "What exactly should I write for an image alt text?" Alt text is the text that appears when an image is not displayed by a website. If an image has not loaded properly on a web page then you will be presented with the alt text. For individuals with sight difficulties alt text can be used by their computer screen readers to describe http://www.plexusdesign.co.uk/2006/11/how-to-write-alternative-alt-text.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenna)0