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Here are 10 great looking Facebook fan page designs to get you inspired.  These pages are becoming every more popular by companies at the moment and with the user base of Facebook, it’s not hard to see why.

So, in no particular order…enjoy…

1. Lacoste Red!

Lacoste Red!

James Montgomery (Managing Director of Realising Designs) will be clocking in some miles over 2010, raising funds for the Stella Rogers appeal. At just 17 months, Stella was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer known as Neuroblastoma MYC-N amplified (high risk). An expensive antibody therapy only available in the USA, costing a massive £250,000 upwards, could increase her chances of survival to 80%. The aim is to run 1000km over 2010, using a GPS mobile software to keep track of the runs, so please sponsor if you can via our Just Giving page: www.justgiving.com/James-Montgomery-1000k.

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We are pleased to show our recent work for The 7 Scouts website.  The 7 Scouts is a new teen adventure book and film series, created by Sterling Long-Colbo and co-authored by the accomplished author Cathy Carson.

The 7 Scouts homepage - masthead section

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We are pleased to launch the new website for Vivo Active “…your personal gym, online“, including useful information & tips covering Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Sport and Events.

The Vivo Active homepage

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Introducing a new blog section featuring a slice of design inspiration each Wednesday, with the truly great BBC promo for the Vancouver Winter Olympics.   I was totally blown away with the style and feel of this short animation and love the event transitions.

We were pleased to once again work with Selise Ltd (Weybridge, London) on a project for Havering Beauty Academy, who operate training courses for beauty, nails and make up.

Havering Beauty Academy

You can visit the site at www.havering-beauty-academy.com/.

We were exciting to release our latest custom Facebook Fan Page design for The 7 Scouts, a children’s mystery and espionage thriller that is to be released in 2010. The page features use of embedded YouTube video and tabs to display various content in the HQ Database area.  You can view the design and become a fan at facebook.com/7scouts.

The 7 Scouts Facebook Fan Page

If you sell on-line, whether large or small and you despatch goods then you definitely need to be clued up on the Distance Selling Regulations.  If you don’t then you might get a nudge from the Office of Fair Trading and some unhappy customers.  Basically the act provides the customer 7 days as a cool-off period for which they can notify you that they intend to return the goods and then a further period in which to actually do so.  As the seller you are also obliged to refund the full amount including the postage cost originally charged and without additional charges.  You can read more info on the OFT website.

Free download of Twitter background template, showing areas for the most common resolutions with a rough guide on percentage of people that have that resolution or higher.   So, keeping your important info to the left-hand 260 or so pixels is advisable to keep it visible for over 68% of people.  It is for out own use and shared as is, but please let us know if you have any questions/suggestions.

Example screenshot:

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The Google Labs Browser Size tool overlays a visual guide to fundamentally help you assess whether your audience can see the important bits without the need to scroll (http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/).  The core problem is that while offering some degree of use vertically, if you have a centred column (as this website does) then it shows at your browser width and does not update the visuals.  The other item to bear in mind, is that with the wealth of add-ons and widgets, some people may have a crowded tool and in effect see less vertically than it suggests.  Its certainly a good point to revisit and can be useful to think again on what you want people to get from your site and whether they can see that when they first land at your site.