Page Propeller's Blog

2012 a new year with new deals and opportunity

2012-01-25T20:54:33Z

Page Propeller would like to welcome you to a new year and we will be unrolling new deals. Pay close attention as the next couple of week as we start to roll out some great deals. Also don’t forget to add us on Facebook if you have not already. Also if your an artist don’t for get to contact as we would love to welcome you to the artist network. talentpool@pagepropeller.com is the place to send your contact information.

Digital 3D Artwork

2011-06-13T16:09:36Z

3D digtial Art work The dragon fight

: Close at the beach

Hello, to all you readers of the Page Propeller blog. We would to showcase another one our artist work here at Page Propeller.This time it’s from the Samuel Newton. Thank you Samuel for showing off some of your skills.

Page Propeller:
Samuel What inspired you to create something like this?

Samuel Newton :
Well you know how all the new cool updates to programes are comming out this year. I want to point out to Daz studio 3D for their new update from 3 to 4. They have some great new features. Also I want to point out that if you enjoy working on 3D projects then go get Daz Studio 4 right now. They are giving away the software till the end of june. Daz studio 4

Page Propeller:
Thank you Samuel. We would also like to point out that Samuel Newton is also an account executive here at Page Propeller. Any of our clients would be lucky to get to work with Samuel Newton on their next project. Thank you Samuel

Please enjoy the art!

Extensis Suitcase Fusion 3

2011-06-13T15:36:24Z

Hello, everybody once again it is time for a new blog post. This time I want to talk about Extensis Suitcase Fusion 3. For thoughs of you that a have many fonts and are in the graffic design business or design business and you have not heard about Extensis Suitcase Fusion 3. Extensis Suitcase Fusion 3 is great for organizing viewing you font collection previewing and so much more.

Adobe®CS5 Ready
Seamlessly auto-activate your fonts in Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS5. Plus, you’ll receive the entirely NEW plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop.

■ Adobe InDesign® CS3/CS4/CS5
■ Adobe Illustrator® CS3/CS4/CS5
■ Adobe Photoshop® CS4/CS5 (32 and 64-bit versions)
■ QuarkXPress® 7 & 8

Works on Mac and PC

Check it out.
http://www.extensis.com/en/products/suitcasefusion3/overview.jsp

Internet Explorer 9, bugs, flash not working – IE9 – conditional comments

2011-06-30T18:23:48Z

Today we would like to talk about Microsoft’s next attempt to release their new browser. IE9 is new and we were really excited about it’s release until recently. As you all know or maybe not know, we have just launch a new version of our website. Match all browser as far as looks and styles worked out any bugs. Everything was working fine on IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera. All major browsers working all displaying just fine. Along comes IE9, we have all been pretty excited. I guess the problem with IE is that for some reason flash is no longer working. At least not the way it was intended. Correct me if I may but when something works on all other platforms maybe you would want this to continue. Microsoft continues to try to make their own standards once again. Now This browser does not work right. It’s extremely hard to find any kind of information on the subject. How why this problem is happening. To all of us it is a complete mystery. It seem everything is working fine as far as a functions of the website. How do you mess up flash anyway. I guess leave it to Microsoft to do that for you.

Web Designers Solution for IE9 bugs

For those designers out their that are having problems and they are increasing your blood pressure we have a solution. Your best be is to use conditional comments. The best way to explain this so that everybody gets what this means is that if the conditions are correct then do this. In order to do this for IE9 you have to be very specific in targeting. As of writing this I have not been able to find very much information on this subject. Lots of IE6 or IE7 even IE8 information around the net, but not hardly any for IE9. So you want your website to look good on all browsers, even IE9. So what is the solution?

With conditional comments it’s easy to say display this style instead. This is really simple if you understand inheritance in CSS. external style sheet are the lowest followed by styles on the page itself, then inline styles have the highest priority. I don’t very often use inline styles. I would avoid this as this can prevent you from changing global styles. However it is useful if you don want to anything to change it.

The pages of this site are controlled mostly through external style sheets. With this in mind understanding inheritance if I do decide to place to place a style with the same name this will override my external style sheet. If I combine this with a conditional comment for IE9 then I can override my styles and display an alternate for just IE9.

<!–[if IE 9]>
<style type=”text/css”>
#apDiv12 {
position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:92px;
width:811px;
height:444px;
}
</style>
<![endif]–>

From the example above it would override apDiv12 but only for IE9 all other browser it would display the same as if it was not there.

So what about Objects like flash, photos, and any other stuff that I want to on the page that I might not want to display for IE9? In cases like this you might run into problems say you have flash on the page. This was our case. How to make something else display but only for IE 9.

First I create a new div but only for IE9 like this.

<!–[if IE 9]>
<div id=”apDivtopie9″>
<img src=”../flash3/frame2.jpg” width=”800″ height=”435″ />
</div>
<![endif]–>

This would never display for any other browser but IE9.

Next we need a style sheet to override our current styles

<!–[if IE 9]>
<style type=”text/css”>
#apDiv12 {
position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:92px;
width:811px;
height:444px;
display: none;
}
#apDivtopie9 {
position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:92px;
width:811px;
height:444px;
</style>
<!–[endif]–>

we use the display: none; to make the other div disappear. Thus we have told IE9 to display different content and make the other content disappear.

So we now have 2 ways to control IE9. Thus giving back some control to the designers and giving IE9 time to work out the bugs. You still can look good to visitors on using IE9 and don’t have to compromise your design just because Microsoft can’t seem to get their act together or decide to release a buggy version of their browser.

Another interesting work from the Page Propeller team

2011-04-23T01:36:11Z

One of our artist was messing around and decided to draw a cool illustration.
So we decided to post it here.
Artist credit Samuel Newton

Welcome To The New pagepropeller.com

2011-04-19T05:53:01Z

We would like to announce that we have updated our website and have just launched a new version of pagepropeller.com. We have updated our information about our packages and are now featuring new information and interactivity. Thank you for the support. We look forward to helping our new customers and we have added a mailing list. If you are interested in specials and deals then don’t forget to sign up. We will be offering all kinds of promotional pricing. We will also be offering deals via our twitter feed and our FaceBook fan page. It might be a couple hundred dollars off our web design or in some case we might be giving away free products and promotions. This is all part of our new launch of our website. So please connect and you could be lucky. Once we release the promotions only the first to respond will get these deals. Who know we might even give away a free WordPress template design. Whatever the case, we are happy about the new development here at Page Propeller. So don’t forget we might give away logo designs or a new set of business cards. Are you a talented individual? Become part of our network of talent. Check out our employment page for more information.

Thank you for your time and thank you for visiting our blog.
The Page Propeller Team

Linking MySpace, Facebook,Twitter and YouTube

2011-03-23T23:56:18Z

So today we would like to talk about linking your accounts together. If your new to the social media scene then you might only have a FaceBook profile. You also might have a Twitter account. Heck you might have a MySpace account also. After Facebook came to the scene a lot of people shifted their time that they spent on MySpace to Facebook.

So one of these sites alone can take up many hours of the day. But how would you like to post one thing and have it show up all of them. This is the topic of this post. First As I’m sure if your a regular visitor then you noticed the post we showed you below. This talk about updating your twitter account and when you write a new post on your blog. This means that every time you write a blog post on your blog it updates your twitter followers with everything that is going on.

Now if you happen to link up FaceBook with twitter then it will update your status. I find the easiest way to link up these accounts is by going to Myspace and account settings and choose stream settings.

You can also link Facebook to back to Myspace. And don’t forget to link your YouTube account so that when you post a video it updates your Facebook, Myspace and twitter account.

I hope this help to link your blog in a full social media platform. Your welcome just one more peace of information from the Page Propeller Team.

WordPress Plugin: Simple Twitter Status Updates

2011-03-22T20:45:36Z

Just thought we let you know about a really useful plugin for wordpress.

WordPress Plugin: Simple Twitter Status Updates

The “Simple Twitter Status Updates” plugin automatically publishes a status on your twitter account when a post has been plublished, modified or commented by an user.

The “Simple Twitter Status Updates” plugin is configured in just a few easy clicks and gets connected with your twitter account using oAuth. That means: you dont need to commit your twitter password!

Keep your follwers up-to-date with what happens on your blog!

Download the “Simple Twitter Status Updates” on wordpress.org

Visit the their home page

Check out the new look of our blog!

2011-03-22T18:44:08Z

Hi, We would like to thank you for being part of this blog. With this we would like to announce the new news that we now have a new look to our blog. But wait, this is not the end. Over the next couple of weeks will will be launching a whole new look to our website for 2011. So get ready for a whole new http://www.pagepropeller.com . So we hope you enjoy and we look forward to presenting you with a whole new look.

Does Design Really Matter?

2011-01-22T13:42:18Z

In this information age we can access information very quickly. We have come to know this as the rise of the internet. I think we could all agree that being able to access and find what we are looking for is important. But does design matter in this day and age? The internet has evolved and you can still find old websites from 1995. Then there are the websites that have embraced Web 2.0. Does having an eye-catching logo or website matter for your business? You can make yourself a website for $5 a month or you can pay someone else thousands for a website. Does it really make a difference? Yes! After talking to many people and listening to what they had to say, I think Hollywood has it right. They know that production value can make or break their product. I’ve noticed that when people look a website, the look and design will either draw them in as potential customers or send them packing. A lot of people think that optimizing a website is important and that having a presence can make or break a website. I would agree with them but in my opinion if they don’t consider design, it could easily break them in the long run.

Sure, finding your business on Google or any other search engine is important. What about when the customer finally gets to your website? The information, product or services that you provide are important but there is something about how your website looks that can cause a reaction within people and draw them in. Sure you can try to put together a website by yourself or maybe you use some online service. But is that going to give you the results you’re really looking for or do you just want something up for people to see? The design you use on your website is important. This is one of the most important optimizing you can do for your website. What about photography? Photographs are a major draw and if the quality is poor then potential customers might just leave. Having a good quality photos and designs communicate that you care. If you can’t even spend the time to make yourself look good, then why would I think you would do anything else in your life different, including your customer service, product or services you provide? Hiring a professional designer tells your clients that you care about your business. You want to give them the best quality of service you can. So what do you think? Do you think design matters? Let us know what you think?