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40 huge Photoshop blunders

Now we’re not all Photoshop experts.  In fact, there’s always something we can learn from the tool.  The following list of published work shows that even the best in the business make mistakes!

A huge thanks to PhotoshopDisasters for collating most of this collection.  Pop over to their site where they have 100s more of unbelievable photoshop blunders!

30 Creative and Cool Bus Adverts

Trawling through the web as I do (a lot!) I stumbled across a great article on Demilked and could help but smile at some of the really cool and creative ways some of these designers have taken something a plain and simple as a bus and transformed them into a moving billboard for their clients.  Enjoy!

1. AirportBus Bern

(Advertising Agency: Neue Lgk, Berne and Zurich, Switzerland)

2. Limo Bus: In An Absolut World

(Advertising Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY, USA)

3. Garbage Bus

Advert for a Public Transport – “Keep Holland Clean Foundation” company. (Advertising Agency: GREY Amsterdam)

4. Just One Bite

(Advertising Agency: unknown)

5. Dr Best’s Flexible Toothbrush

(Ad: kim Sokola, Julia Neumann)

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Happy New Year

Chocolate Lime would like to wish all of our clients old and new along with our blog subscribers a very Happy New Year!  We hope 2011 is a great year for all of you.

In the last couple of months we’ve been busy bees, working with some great clients to produce websites we hope they all love.

Some examples of our recent projects are:

Gorgeous Graffiti – A design studio with an enviable reputation for unique and elegant contemporary wall art.  Visit www.gorgeousgraffiti.co.uk for more information on the great canvases produced by this talented individual.

Lothian Recycling – A Edinburgh and Lothians based company who donate to local and international charities through the recycling of clothing and textiles.  Visit them at www.lothian-recycling.co.uk for more information.

Brain Train Academy – On the courses, the time we spend together will literally change your life, before you can elicit fast and lasting change in others you must make some profound changes in your own life. Visit www.braintrainacademy.co.uk for more information about the courses on offer.

Chocolate Lime sees the launch of two new websites

Prior to heading off to Portugal with the family, we’ve just published two new websites for our clients.

Hospitality Advisory Services (HAS)

Stephan Riegel of Hospitality Advisory Services provided us with a simple brief – take his existing website and make it fresh and clean.  The result can be found here – Hospitality Consulting

AWS Recruitment Edinburgh

Alan Surgeon of AWS Recruitment Edinburgh asked us to provide him with a redesign of his existing business card / static website.  You can view the new website at – AWS Recruitment

How to get the most out of social media sites

Social bookmarking is one of the marketing strategies that you shouldn’t miss. Aside from it being the best way to bookmark all the websites that you are interested in, you can also meet other people with the same interests and build a business network amongst those who share your interests.

Of course you’ll probably think that making use of social bookmarking may be abused due to spamming because people can just submit their own blogs, sites and lenses so they could obtain more interest from their audience. It is not bad to submit your own content as long as it is in moderation. However, it would be better if you can also find relevant content which is not yours but is useful for you and to others.

Now, you also have to keep in mind that if you are to participate in posting to social bookmarking sites, you should be able to maintain a friendly environment and relationship with other people. You probably would like to share as many bookmarks you can each day but you might end up being ignored not unless the content is really relevant to what they are looking for. To resolve this, you will have to submit a sufficient number of links and try bookmarking some links from your circle of friends or reference their site on your blogs.

It is not necessary to make use of your real name when registering to a social bookmarking site. However, it is essential that you still get some popularity out from this Internet marketing tool. Of course you want to be able to share these relevant links to people but the question is how you will be able to get their attention. By having your own identity as well as good reputation, you will surely be able to establish good online presence and more followers as you wish.

Aside from this, you should also establish your own personality to get more friends and acquaintances through social bookmarking. To do this you have to completely fill up your profile so people can get to know you more. You may also update your bio and put some interesting information that will make people want to check out your posts and links. You can actually include links to your site in your bio but make sure that those links work.

There are a lot of social bookmarking sites out there and some may not be relevant to the information that you would like to share or links to what you may want to offer. Make sure that you find those which compliment your interests. This is necessary to assure you that you can make the most of those social bookmarking links which you have submitted.