http://www.bold-type.com.au Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:19:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1013" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Homepage of website for Liza McKilliam, real estate specialist "][/caption] Bold Type has just completed the website for Liza McKilliam, real estate specialist for the western suburbs of Brisbane. Liza works under the RE/MAX brand but wanted her own presence on the web showing her properties for ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/publishing-news/new-real-estate-website-online/ The new website Glitterbox hair salon at Newtown in Sydney (built by Bold Type, of course) is not just a hit, it's taking lots of hits which are translating into new business. Since Bold Type started developing a complete web presence for Glitterbox, business has tripled. To get things going during ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/publishing-news/glitterbox-hair-salon-website-is-a-hit/ [caption id="attachment_995" align="alignright" width="150" caption="The latest website built by Bold Type"][/caption] The latest website built by the Bold Type web development team brought its own challenges with rotating images on the homepage that enhance the visitor's experience rather than annoy, collection galleries for a range of garments, and building content for ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/publishing-news/latest-website-development-living-silk-fashion-boutiques/ [caption id="attachment_969" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Glitterbox website is a unique design that captures the essence of this hair salon in Newtown Sydney"][/caption] The Bold Type team – web designer, developer, content editor and project manager – have just completed the unique and quite wonderful website for Glitterbox, a unique and quite wonderful ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/publishing-news/glitterbox-hair-salon-website-now-live/ Sentences and paragraphs that open in different ways and include connective words within will hold a reader’s attention because they help to lead the reader easily from one point to the next. Conversely, if sentences and paragraphs are written in short, staccato-like sentences with no words that connect the sentences, reading ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/print-publishing-tips/using-connective-words-when-writing/ [caption id="attachment_932" align="alignright" width="150" caption="This website was designed specifically for Sydney civil celebrant, Deborah Bedford."][/caption] Every website is different and should be. Why choose a standard web design that looks like so many other websites when you can have a website that is uniquely yours? You can have your own website, ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/publishing-news/free-consultation-for-web-development/ An important feature of the structure of any document, whether on a website or in printed format, is effective signposting. Signposting techniques include: using headings and heading hierarchies to map the structure for readers using lists to draw attention to key elements of the information cross referencing information: in print referencing other pages within ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/print-publishing-tips/signposting-information/ [caption id="attachment_793" align="alignright" width="278" caption="A professional edit can make writing sparkle"][/caption] It's true that content is king, and it is also true that unstructured content is death. Think of editing as the process of taking an uncut diamond and turning it into the sparkling gem that will be the centrepiece of ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/publishing-news/structuring-content/ Successful websites that get lots of new traffic and visitors need to be visible on the Internet. There is little point having a website that doesn't appear in the first 200 pages of a Google search for frequently searched terms. This is where the difference between a static website and ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/web-publishing-tips/difference-between-dynamic-and-static-websites/ [caption id="attachment_536" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Dynamic websites are good for SEO"][/caption] Firstly, dynamic websites are those websites that are connected a database or data source and changes to the database change what is shown on the dynamic pages. There are many open source web applications that are free, extremely functional and search ... http://www.bold-type.com.au/publishing-news/why-dynamic-websites-work-for-our-clients/