It’s possible that since the weekend you may have noticed a change in the way Google looks and behaves. If it suddenly looks very retro and dated with the old black menu at the top, see below, it may be that you have fallen victim of Google latest attempt to encourage users to switch to […]
Happy times at Links House! It’s been just over a year since we lost Spot and we said we’d never get another dog. Spot may have been a small dog but he left a big hole. But time is a great healer and we really do love dogs so we found ourselves increasingly looking at dogs […]
I know that I have users that are still using Windows XP. They are clinging onto it because Vista had such bad rap. I must confess I have tried Windows 8 on my laptop and hated it. Hated it with a passion, so much that I uninstalled it and went back to Windows 7. I […]
Our wind turbine was installed yesterday so we were in a bit of turmoil with installation engineers in and out, but certainly worth it. It has been online for just over 14 hours (commissioned around 6PM yesterday) and in that time has generated 36.5kWh of electricity, result! This will have a huge impact on our […]
The Merry Dancers (Aurora Borealis) were in fine form last night. Got wrapped up and sat out in our back garden watching them, these are the best we have ever seen them. IT even prompted me to go and get my tripod and camera.
Mood boards are a great tool to help develop a general look and feel “mood” for a design. Mood boards are often used by graphics designers to illustrate a visual style or direction for a project, they are a collection of fonts, colours, images or really any objects that serve to illustrate or establish a […]
Here wishing all my clients and site visitors a very Merry Christmas and Happy and Prosperous New Year. I hope you like my little site decorations for the season. Here’s a little light entertainment from Youtube –
When a visitor views your website the time it takes for your page to load is directly proportional to the amount of content on the page. The biggest items to influence its loading speed are the images so it is vital that you prepare these images in advance so that they will load quickly. If […]
I’ve discovered something amazing! It’s probably been around ages, but it’s new to me. And, it’s amazing. I’ve just finished a Lynda.com course on digital painting and in the closing presentation the tutor mentioned other useful/interesting resources. Amongs other one was the Google Art Project. The Google Art Project is part of Google’s mission to […]
Very sad day today at Links House. We have had to say goodbye to our little dog Spot. Little dog, big heart. We’ve always had dogs but Spot was our first small dog. A lap dog, pah! what a waste of space they are, no use for anything! My how wrong can one be? Spot […]