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Elevatelocal’s recipe for designing a perfect logo. Follow one of our designers, Ian, on some of the steps we take.

Just over a year ago Microsoft created iecountdown.com to raise awareness and to get people to upgrade their IE6 browsers to a modern browser. We were one of the first companies who supported this initiative and as a result we were contacted by the Internet Explorer team to get some “goodies”. Today we received a few IE6 Countdown shirts in the post and thought we should share a couple of pictures of our team donning them. As you can see members of…

A broken down look into the likes and dislikes of Googlebot, and how tickling his belly can lead to improved rankings for your website: Click image to enlarge: Simply click and copy the following code to embed this infographic on your website. Infographic by: Elevatelocal

Ever seen those fancy pants animated GIFs on Google+ pages (e.g. Red Bull’s Page: http://bit.ly/rEG9bj)? Ever wanted to do one yourself? Me too. Thus I tried. I failed. I tried again. I succeeded! Here is how I did it:

The Guardian challenged us to get creative with Google’s new Les Paul Doodle. They suggested Stairway to Heaven, but we’ve done something even more musically challenging (that’s a lie). Enjoy!

Any regular user of web based mediums will have seen the rise of the use of app style icons, spawning from the Apple iPhone and spreading throughout websites across the land. They are now being regularly used to harness simplified versions of logos belonging to familiar social media platforms such as Facebook, Linked In and Twitter. Here is a relatively simple way of making your own:

Typography is a major part of design on the web today. Most websites have a large text to image ratio, and it is important to make sure your content is as easy to read as possible. Today I want to show you how to choose correct font-sizes, line heights, line lengths and paragraph spacing. We will start with the size of your body copy. Depending on your site design and layout this may differ, but body copy is normally around…

Following on from my previous post “Getting the perfect brief“, the second part of our web design process, is the coding and creation of a website. Because of our strong roots in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) our design team is well equipped to make sure that all of our sites are coded in a very search engine friendly way. If a client is taking on an SEO campaign with us as well as a site build, a keyword study will…

This month I want to share the process that we at Elevate Local use to make sure our web design projects go as smoothly as possible, for both ourselves, and the client. I will be detailing how we take a project from the first time we meet a client, all the way through to project completion and after launch support. In this post I will be detailing part 1 of our process, Getting the perfect brief. Through experience (and a…

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