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NEW: Facebook Page Fan Gates

Richard Barratt — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:11:22 +0000

Here’s a heads up on a customised and ‘fan-gated’ Facebook Tab completed this morning for Damson Homes’ Facebook Page. Damson Homes are builders of new homes in the West Midlands. You can take a look at their new facebook tab here. What’s a Facebook Page Fan Gate? A ‘fan gated’ landing tab on a Facebook Page [...]

3 Facebook Marketing Tips

Richard Barratt — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:37:50 +0000

Howdy y’all! You will see I am not dead – I have just been quiet (long story)! To celebrate my return to the Coliseum of Internet Marketry Awesomeness here’s 3 quick and dirty Facebook Marketing Tips… Facebook Marketing Tip One Your profile picture – is it up to scratch? Remember social medial is basically digital-tree-hugging [...]

Thesis Tutorial: getting text to wrap round images in a pretty way

Richard Barratt — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:57:29 +0000

One of my little bug-bears is when you have some text (a sub-headline, list, paragraph, whatever) which doesn’t quite wrap round an image. Here’s an example. And we want it to look pretty, like this… Solve this issue with custom.css… Fortunately, there’s a very easy way round this. All you need to do is to [...]

Thesis Tutorial: How to create Multi-Coloured Headlines

Richard Barratt — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:03:58 +0000

In this Tutorial we're going to created multi-colored Headlines in the Thesis Theme for Wordpress using jQuery (lettering.js) and css. It's bangin'!!!

Thesis Tutorial: How to Add Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter & email share buttons without a plugin

Richard Barratt — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:59:48 +0000

A detailed tutorial on how to add email, facebook, Linkedin and Twitter share buttons into the Thesis Theme for Wordpress.

6 Great Thesis Tutorials for Noobs

Richard Barratt — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:01:11 +0000

There are so many Thesis Tutorials out there it’s sometimes hard to filter through them all. Here are six Thesis Tutorials which I consider essential for bookmarking. Each are by popular figures within the Thesis Community and are well worth a follow and subscription to their rss feed. Thesis Tutorial – Hooks For Dummies Widely [...]

Pimp your Thesis – For Free!

Richard Barratt — Fri, 13 May 2011 09:21:38 +0000

Fancy a FREE Thesis Customisation? Here’s how it’s done… Apply by sending me a link to your site along with details of what you’re looking to achieve through my Footer Contact Form with the subject line Free Thesis Mod. I will then get back to you to discuss your project in further detail. In return, [...]

Dropbox – Store and Share files easily, anywhere, instantly

Richard Barratt — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:37:21 +0000

DropBox is a great file-sharing tool that you should be using! Imagine a really easy to use USB pen – one which you’ll never forget to take with you and one which you can securely share with anyone in the world instantly. I was introduced to it by ‘Logo Yoda’ Graham Smith (@imjustcreative on twitter) [...]

6 tools to kick-start your business and productivity

Richard Barratt — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:05:08 +0000

To kickstart the ‘Toolshed’ series of posts here’s 6 essentials for any business startup or seasoned business veteran who is trying to slay their inner ‘technophobe’ demon. Firefox What’s Firefox? Firefox is an Internet Browser like ‘Internet Explorer’ which you get on Microsoft PC’s except is much better, it can be accessorised and websites feature [...]

A new promo video produced for Damson Homes

Richard Barratt — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:06:39 +0000

I have produced this nice little video which I though I’d share with you. It’s to promote the latest scheme by Damson Homes, a firm of New Home Developers based in the West Midlands, UK. The video was produced purely from photos which I took (is there no end to my talent ) and using [...]