Realising Designs web design Canterbury Kent, Canterbury based web designer Kent, Hosting, Domain names, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Sketch artist.

Google have launched a new feature for displaying large background images on the Google homepage, whether logged in or not and currently with no option to turn off. It seems a strange move to us, considering many of its users (such as us) enjoy the lightweight Google classic to find information quickly. Let us know your thoughts, but we certainly hope it will be back to normal soon.

Google's new background feature

In the meantime we have made our own classic page quickly this morning, so as to avoid seeing a slow loading and blurry picture of a wooden structure any more. Feel free to use it at: www.realisingdesigns.com/tools/classicgoogle/

A quick and temporary 'Classic Google' page

We have recently been working on a project for the Whitstable Carnival 2010 and are pleased to show our design for Whitstable Carnival 2010.   This is a great event, so if you’re local please do offer your support and become a fan on Facebook to keep up to date.

The Whitstable Carnival homepage powered with WordPress

For more information please visit: www.whitstablecarnival.co.uk

As you may know, our Managing Director, James is running 1000km in 2010 to raise money for the Stella Rogers Appeal. We are exceptionally grateful to the Kentish Gazette for the support and following article.

Please note the correct Just Giving link is: www.justgiving.com/James-Montgomery-1000k

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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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Here is the logo we created for a new venture named BuzzComic.com.  They are currently developing the site and accepting pre-registrations.  We can’t wait to see the site live as it sounds great.  You can take a look at signup.buzzcomic.com.

Three  short and thought provoking videos by the highly successful Chris Brogan about making it as an overnight success.

Part 1: Overnight Success

Part 2: A Call to Arms

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It is not that clear how to then get at your newly installed certificate, so you might find the links in this post useful: http://budurl.com/rsy9

We all know the sinking feeling after sending an email with a “see the attached”, especially if important such as to prospective employers or an important client.  If you use Thunderbird, then worry no longer and install the free extension ‘Attachment Reminder’… you can get it here from Mozilla

We are now proud sponsors of the BA Racing team, a champion winning European drag racing team.  We look forward to working with them and are working away at a brand new website to promote the team.  We also wish them the best of luck at this weekends FIA Main Event at the Santa Pod Speedway.

2008 MSA British Pro Modified Champions BA Racing

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We recently worked on a CD and Poster artwork for a University project in Birmingham, shown below:

N.D.F CD front and rear

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