In order to pay the bills help other brands maximise their audience, we have now made Advertising on DivVoted.com even easier with the great (and simple to use) system from BuySellAds.com.

If you are interested in reaching over 10,000 unique, and loyal users (minimum) then hop on over to our advertising page. Adverts range from $20 buttons to full site and feed sponsorship.

If you have any direct questions you can drop us a line at hello {at} divvoted {dot} com. Thanks.

Submit your first job in our easy to use studio, and take advantage of better rates!

Check it out here!

Update!: We’re also being featured on the latest article at dezinerfolio.com

Jump over to the great little Twitter app - DivVoted.com - and follow the simple instructions to vote for your favourite most loved Web Applications. Vote every day and check back here where we’ll be blogging about more YoDiv and DivVoted related FOWA greatness as the event approaches.

If you’re interested in how we used Ruby on Rails, Twitter API, Media Temple and Cloud Computing to build the new Twitter Voting site DivVoted.com, check out this post.

http://blog.ocvision.com/2008/07/08/tweet-tweet-vote-wwwdivvotedcom/

Recognising that YoDiv customers, some of the greatest designers and design agencies, love to show off, and also love browsing galleries for inspiration, DivVoted.com fulfills both needs in one simple to use website.

DivVoted.com uses Twitter, so it is easy to vote from the web, SMS or Instant Messenger. See a great new site - just drop the address and a comment into your Twitter account to vote!

Want to know what today’s hot sites are - head on over to DivVoted.com to check out todays chart, this weeks chart, or the all time Top 10 sites!

Commenting on the launch, Dan Griffey, Managing Director of Yodiv.com and OC Vision:
“This is a great new site to add to the YoDiv family. We love browsing other peoples designs and wanted to make it easy for people to vote for their favourite sites. Using Twitter makes sense, as our users will be using it anyway, and therefore can drop a DivVoted vote really easily.”

“We’re also really pleased that we’ve been able to develop this great little web app in a couple of days, proving our depth of programming experience, and Ruby on Rails knowledge. Now we want to watch the votes come rolling in!”

The DivVoted.com doors are open and ready for votes. There’s even some great site designs there to look at already!

Magazine Features:
Noupe.com has very kindly listed the Div army under item 30 in this list of character illustrations in modern web design.

Smashing Magazine, quite a widely known magazine amongst budding designers, listed the footer of YoDiv.com amongst their examples.

Design Galleries
1. StyleCrunch.com
2. csscatwalk.com
3. commandshift3.com
4. bestwebgallery.com
5. cssartilliery.com
6. designshack.com
7. cssmania.com
8. webcreme.com
9. cssmoon.com
10. w3csites.com

Miscellaneous Locations
1. YoDiv screenshots featured on sulcalibur flickr and lilit flickr accounts.

Many thanks to all those listed here (and more soon to come as time goes by) for accepting us on your site. Please feel free to drop by any more Divlet sightings on your www surfing’s by posting a comment below.

Clients often ask us extra questions: “How can I make this blog work?”, “Can you put my Flickr feed on this page?”,”Hey, it would be great to show my Twitter status here!”.
Our response - “Why not!”

So we are pleased to say that our team of Divlets can cater for your extra needs, including:

• Wordpress Integration / Themes (inc version 2.5) from your designs.
• Integration of API’s - Flickr, YouTube, Upcoming.org
• Integration of Micro Blog services - Twitter, Pownce

How do you get these services - just ask. There’s a small fee for each of the items we plugin to your site, but it’s not going to break the budget, and we do it a lot so can make sure it works for your site.

And what if it isn’t on this list - just ask. We’re happy to keep the Divlets busy with your every need!

Within the three premier design suites, (photoshop, fireworks and illustrator), folders can help keep you structured and save you valuable time.

By creating your master page layers, (see the “help” section to learn the difference between master and sub pages), within one folder and then duplicating the folder once you are finished with the design will give you a ready to go template to work your sub pages into. This in turn will save you time and make sure all your sub pages start with the same layout.

Below is a simple folder hierarchy for a site YoDiv has recently built. It is labeled perfectly and was very quick and simple for the divlets to create the subsequent site. There were 3 pages in this site, 1 master and 2 subpages. The site contain a home page, about page and a contact page. Within the homepage the designer had added other smaller folders that contained various complex elements such as picture buttons and “sign up” boxes.

In this image you can also see how the designer added header and footer folders. These could be anything, but if you have content that you’d like on every page, side navigation for example, it helps if it’s in its own folder.

When composing your creation, web design also allows the designer to think of additional elements unique to interactive design, “change states”. These are simply the effects the user experiences when they place their mouse over something, or visit a page.

These changes are usually unique to navigation elements, research has shown that if the user experiences one of these “change states”, it becomes naturally intuitive to think of these as links.

The various “change states” are written into your pages in 3 various stages. Its resting state, the state at which a mouse arrow hovers above it and how it looks when you press down to activate it. Its a useful tool to have at your disposal, and to keep the divlets on the same page as you (no pun intended) please create a seperate folder and keep all your “change states” within this folder. (It might be helpful to categorize your pages in sub folders within the main “change state” folder).

In the example below we’ve shown just a few of the great ways other designers engage their audiences with “change states”.

It’s a bit like Gmail. You could label your own jobs ‘Personal’, and jobs for your own clients with ‘Clients’, or the client name. This will make it easy for your to filter your jobs when you come to downloading your files, or even recharging your clients for the great design you have done for them.

We hope you like the added feature, and if there is something you want to see in the Studio, write to us and let us know!