Viva competition

To celebrate our partnership with Big Wet Fish Hosting, we have just launched a competition to run until 18th September. First up we shall reveal some of the tasty prizes up for grabs.

Free domain and hosting giveaways:

• 1x Resseller Hosting account, free for 1 year + a free .com or .co.uk domain name.
• 2x The Barracuda accounts free for 1 year + a free .com or .co.uk domain name.
• 3x Gold Plan accounts free for 1 year + a free .com or .co.uk domain name.

For more information on any of the hosting plans visit the Big Wet Fish website. If you are on the search for hosting you can also get 15% off at Big Wet Fish by entering the promotional code ‘designbyviva‘.

Other small goodies up for grabs:

• 2x Business Card packs designed & printed with moo cards.
• 1x VIVA design hoodie in white.

How to enter

To be up for a chance of winning one of the above prizes, you’ll need to:
Add

@designbyviva and @bigwetfish on twitter.

Post a tweet on your profile saying:

design by viva competition, visit http://designbyviva.com/blog for a chance of winning free hosting and other great prizes.

Lastly

Post a comment on this post with your twitter ID, this is to prove to us that you have added both accounts and sent out the competition post.

Winners will be drawn on the 19th June and posted up here. The winners will be contacted by twitter / email on or shortly after 19th June.

Good luck,
The viva team.

Cheers

We’d like to thank the following css & design websites for appreciating our website design and giving us recognition by showcasing design by viva’s website in their galleries.

viva partners with bwf hosting

Viva would like to announce that we have now partnered with Big Wet Fish hosting in an effort to offer a better, more personal web hosting and domain registration service.

This deal now allows us to provide bespoke hosting services to all our clients at a very affordable price. Working closely with BWF will mean that we can guarantee a high level of service when it comes to providing your business with a unique hosting plan to suit you and your customers.

Inspired.

Throughout my frantic wandering of the internet this week, I have come across a lot of beautiful and inspiring websites. There are quite a lot of trends emerging from interactive designers right now and I thought I would share a few of my favourites with you.

1. Media Flex

Designing for your audience

The upmost importance we see here at viva when creating websites for our clients is designing for the target audience of the client’s website. There are many different categories you could place a website design in, and we’ll go into more detail in those below.

Different people are impressed by different things. The young avid designer will be impressed by a lot of them, but your avid 40 year old business man that is likely to view your clients website will probably not be impressed by a minimal design, or some quirky new way of navigating a site in flash.

Viva’s design & build process

Here at viva we use a set out design & build process when taking on new clients or projects. This process helps to ensure every angle is covered and all our clients are happy. We’ll shed a bit of light on this process to help any freelancer’s / small firms out there.

Non-design Resources

I’d like to present my top 5 list of resources that has made designing easier for me.

As far as integration of design concepts goes, there are a few free resources out there that can make a big difference when it comes to implementing your design into an interactive piece of work.

SEO Tips & Tricks

There are so many people making millions out there from offering SEO services to web studios and professionals, because they keep up to date with the search engines and what they are looking for. These guys can make you top of Google if you pay them the right money, but what can you do yourself, here’s what I have learned from working with a few of these people.