huiadesign

It’s spring! And so a brand was born…

Sheryl — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:58:03 +0000

I’m excited about this one! Those that know me will chuckle because I’m often told I keep my emotions under wraps, that could be something about still waters, run deep (who knows). Anyway… this brand has been in the prep stage for many months, we’ve been talking, researching, discussing, thinking, pondering…. I wanted to create [...]

How to create line breaks in WordPress

Sheryl — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:39:21 +0000

Most of my clients have WordPress sites so I thought it would be fitting to start posting advice and tips on the use of WordPress. One very annoying problem with WordPress is that when you hit the enter key after typing some text it creates a paragraph break – this means there is a blank [...]

3 new logo designs

Sheryl — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:05:36 +0000

July was a tough month! August is very welcome today. I thought I would kick the month off with 3 new logo designs recently completed. The Joyful Life is all about creating more JOY in your life through workshops & coaching both online and offline. The website is underway! Beautiful events is exactly that, Lisa [...]

Can Trade Me improve my site traffic?

Sheryl — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:45:33 +0000

The short answer is hell YES! We monitor around 30 websites via google analytics and last Thursday I was blown away by 1,000 unique visitors to the RPMS website in one day! While RPMS do receive a good amount of site traffic this was a serious jump. And the reason for it – a wee [...]

the big swell

Sheryl — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:41:31 +0000

Lately I seem to be doing a number of online community based projects. These are fast becoming my favourite type of work. the big swell is one of these – a community site dedicated to mums and motherhood. huiadesign completed the branding under direction from Greg at brand ecology. This was a new process for [...]

Starting out with social media and your business – part one: facebook

Sheryl — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:10:38 +0000

As if promoting your business offline isn’t enough we now have to invest time and energy into promoting our businesses online. Having a website is only the beginning we have to consider many options of spreading our word on a much larger scale. The great thing about online promotion is it’s relatively inexpensive and fairly [...]