I've been mulling over writing this article for a while as everyone who partakes in designing websites will have their own views on their own individual practices. My 5 do's and don't s are those that I personally believe in, and I'd like to share with you. I will admit that early in my career I fell foul to some of the don't s and it's amazing how many times I see and hear of others falling into these traps as ...

Having problems with Illustrator where the hand tool gets stuck? It was driving me insane before I realised the very very simple solution! After reading through lots of posts on discussion forums about stuck keyboards, flash issues and software reinstall solutions I finally found the answer... Press the spacebar. A frustrating problem cured after it had annoyed me for ages... phew.

A new website for Budgens Woodhall Spa - coming soon!

Imp-ressions has launched the new site for Southern Trowels, Building Contractors and Stonework Specialists, in Plymouth. The new website (awaiting some more images) can be found at www.southerntrowels.co.uk

With loads of opportunities of surfing the commercial and PR waves, this weekend offers a bumper opportunity as it's Mother's Day on Sunday and next week is the Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival and St Patricks Day. Why should you surf on these waves? Well, even if you're not a horse racing fan or you're not Irish it's likely that some of your customers are so why not provide offers on these themes? It's obvious that these 'special days' exist for commercial purposes ...

Over the years, I've been intrigued into why I get my best ideas and intuition at about 2am. To put this into context, whilst at University I did a majority of my dissertation in the early hours of the morning and regularly awake to great ideas, targets and aims for my to-do list, forge career targets and come up with my greatest ideas for clients' websites. I realise that this is my superconscious taking over, and something that I can only access ...

I look at a lot of websites. Some very good, some good, some bad and some very bad. In response, I've developed what I think is a web design nutritional information label that could accompany some kind of best practice guidance. This is purely dependant on the type of website being developed, however I think I've created some general rules that could be implemented into most websites.