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Logo Design Refresh Service

Our logo design refresh and renew service is perfect if your existing logo is poor quality and needs cleaning, refreshing or updating.

All our logos are redrawn as vector, which means the logo will stay crisp whatever size it is reproduced to. You can then use your refreshed logo on signage, web and print work whilst keeping your identity looking professional and clean.

Rocket Cycles Exmouth logo design refresh

Rocket Cycles Exmouth original logo renewed to a high quality version that can now be used on signs and print

Half Priced Web Hosting Until February

special offerHalf priced web hosting until February 2012. View all our great options and prices here – http://www.ltdeditiondesign.co.uk/web-hosting-domains-email.html.

Contact us today and we’ll help you get set up!
* New web hosting accounts only 

You Design – We HTML

Our IMAGE to HTML service is perfect for graphic designers who can design a “flat” website in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator or other graphic programs – but need it to be built for the web in HTML, CSS, Flash, HTML email or other. We are happy to discuss options and we can even work as freelance so you can claim full credit.

Thanks,
Limited Edition Design

Photo Retouching & Photo Manipulation Service

We offer an affordable, highly skilled retouching service for correcting, repairing and rejuvenating images. We also offer photo manipulation services to clean up an image ready for print/the web.

  • Corrections – Including colours, sizes, lighting and repairs
  • Photo restoration – Including cleaning, retouching and enhancing
  • Manipulation – Including adding or deleting object (view an example below)
  • Post production – Including superimposing, visual testing and “what will it look like” services
Photo manipulation to clean up an image

Photo manipulation to clean up image (removal of polish can) ready for printing

 

1 Year Free Web Hosting with any Design Service

special offerNow is the perfect time to move your website over to us! We are now offering all our clients 12 months free* web hosting and emails with any design service – print design or web! Benefit from all our great benefits all at amazing prices.

* New customers only 

What Does SEO Mean?

You may have seen the acronym SEO bounded around the internet and across our website.

SEO = Search Engine Optimisation

SEO is a marketing concept of improving a website to enhance the visibility in search engines, and to ultimately help you attain a higher rank in search engine results.

Thanks for reading,
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How to close the Hotmail image gap in HTML Email

Very simply, when sending HTML emails to Hotmail an image gap appears even though in Yahoo, Gmail and Apple Mail it looks fine.

To stop this from happening there is a very quick and easy fix for this issue that doesn’t affect the look of the email in other email clients.

Within the Email’s image source code:

<img src=”an-image.jpg” width=”150″ height=”250″alt=”Hello I am an Image” style=“display: block; />

Voila! You will have no more problems with image gaps in Hotmail.

If you would like us to design, host, send and track your latest email campaign, please contact us today!

James
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Introducing Our New Design Packages

View our new money saving design packages here. We have 3 currently on offer:

  • Logo Design + Stationery
  • Website Package
  • Business Start-Up Package (Logo, Stationery, Website Package, Hosting & Printing)

If you have any questions about our packages or you wish to have a bespoke package made, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Many thanks,
Limited Edition Design

What Does Cache Mean?

OK, I’ll admit it: for reasons unbeknownst to myself and the people around me I actually pronounce it caché – with an attractive acute accent over the ‘e’ that makes it sound a lot like café. I know what you’re thinking, “My, he seems very suave”. I bet you can almost imagine me sitting by the computer holding a long-drawn cigarette pouting excessively to the air after saying it, can’t you? Well, I don’t smoke but yes, I do pout excessively after saying it. It’s actually pronounced “cash” and it’s known in many forms when talking about computers but today I am going to quickly mention about web cache and how clearing it can cure a few browser headaches.

An internet browser’s web cache helps speed up your web viewing by temporarily storing (or caching) files and information about a website and it’s pages you once visited. It actually helps minimise information passed across your network as your browser calls on a version of the website already saved on your computer.

When should I clear it?

  • If you think a webpage is not opening or operating properly. Let’s say you’re logging in with a new username and password combination with webmail and an error occurs
  • To view fresh website changes (even after a page refresh/reload)
  • Clearing the cache is safe and should not delete any important information. Clearing it every now and again is good maintenance

Clearing a web cache is easy, and can be found in your web browser’s preferences, tools or options under the privacy tab. It may be hidden in a sub-directory under “Clear History” in some browsers (i.e. Firefox), but doesn’t clear your Web History as that is kept separate from the cache.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for reading
Limited Edition Design 

Web Hosting Control Panel & Features Updated

Hello! Our web hosting control panel has now been updated to a new layout and design. We are contantly updating our hosting and email features at no extra cost. Keep an eye on your latest features here. Thanks again for choosing us to host your website!

Control panel screen shot with options in tabs

Here's a screenshot of our new Control Panel design

 

Quick Links to Useful Downloads

Web Browsers
All the browsers below are free to download and for PC or Mac. If you’re not sure which one to like you can always download them all and see which ones you like!

Google Chrome

 

Google Chrome

 

Mozilla Firefox

 

Mozilla Firefox 5

 

Internet Explorer

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

 

Apple Safari compass

 

Apple’s Safari

 

For Email
Free to download and a lot better than others out there. It’s very similar to Microsoft’s Outlook. We recommend this if you want to download your emails from the web.

Mozilla Thunderbird

 

Mozilla Thunderbird (PC/Mac)

 

For Security
Free to use and if you keep the program up-to-date actually does a pretty good job.

AVG Antivirus
AVG Anti-Virus (Windows only)

 

For PDFs
A PDF viewer which is great for viewing books, quotes, design proofs. (PC/Mac)

Adobe PDF Reader
     Adobe PDF Reader

 

Thanks for reading
Limited Edition Design 

How to Submit Your Blog to Google

Is your blog not being found in Google (Google UK)? Try searching for it here first: Blog Search and if it doesn’t show up then you can always enter your blog address here http://blogsearch.google.com/ping in the following way:

ltdeditiondesign.co.uk/blog - There is no need to put http:// or www. in front of the address.

That’s it! You’re done. Google will now take over and index accordingly with the added benefit of gaining you more readers.

I hope you liked this quick tip.

Thanks for reading,
Limited Edition Design

Website Updated

Hello! We’re currently updating our website to incorporate some of our latest design work and a spot of maintenance. If anything looks a bit odd during this time – don’t you worry, it will all be back to full working order soon. Bye for now!

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Top Tips: How to clean Apple’s Mighty Mouse scroll ball

Apple's Mighty Mouse

This Mighty Mouse works fine (for the time being)

When it’s working, the Mighty Mouse is a clever, well designed and tidy desktop companion that through thick and thin seems to work with you… And then it all goes wrong. When it’s not working it’s the world’s worst designed and most frustrating computer peripheral out there and you’re more or less left thinking: “INSERT SWEAR WORDS HERE.”

Rest assured. I’ve been there and everyone else who uses the Mighty Mouse has been or will be in this situation very soon. There’s no quick-release logical way of opening the mouse so as far as I can see this as a massive design flaw. I wouldn’t advise you to try and open it because, trust me, I’ve sat here with a knife or flathead screwdriver ready to blow the thing wide open many times but then noticed how much a new Mighty Mouse would cost. It’s bound to go wrong, isn’t it?

Anyway, here are my Top 10 solutions of cleaning the blasted thing out without using a hammer:

One. With an alcohol cleanser and a soft, lint-free cloth: Turn the mouse upside-down and rub the lightly damp cloth against the track ball. Try doing this once a week as a bit of maintenance to avoid it ceasing up in the future.

Two. Turn the mouse upside-down and roll the ball on a piece of white paper. Press lightly but firmly to begin with rolling it in circles, up, down, left, right, zig-zags, recite the alphabet… whatever works. You should start see a trail of gunk or fluff fall out or smear on the paper (mine sometimes takes 2-3 minutes or up to Y if scrolling the alphabet). I don’t recommend it, but I gradually press harder and as I’m usually quite frustrated at this time I possibly tend to press harder that is actually good for it so please be careful. Repeat tip number 1 to keep it clean.

Three. Use a piece of paper and with the corner, slide in in-between the ball and inside the mouse. A slightly thicker paper seems to work best and slide any gunk or fluff from the edges of the track ball. Try tips number 2 and 1 after you do this as it may have dislodged anything that was stuck inside.

Four. Use a medium to hard toothbrush (not your partner’s!) and gently press it down the sides, rolling it around the sides and lifting any fluff out. This has been a revelation if the above tips don’t work. Try tips number 2 and 1 again because you may have moved flecks of dirt trapped inside.

That’s it! Thanks for reading.

Limited Edition Design 

Submit Your Website to Search Engines

Everyone wants their website to found in search engines. If you haven’t already, and you don’t have any incoming links to your website, we recommend you use our Quick Links below to submit your website url:

Google - http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Yahoo - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

Bing! - http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

Top Tip · If your website is already being found in the above search engines we recommend you do not submit again.

Top Tip · Having your website hosted on UK servers (if you want your website found in UK searches) is recommended. Please click here if you require web hosting in the UK!

 

Welcome to the Limited Edition Design blog! Now again we offer the chance to stay in touch with our latest news and offers as well as sharing useful tips, tools and links.