YoDiv Tips, Tricks, Help and Chatter http://blog.yodiv.com YoDiv is a great web based site that converts your PSD's into great XHTML and CSS Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:35:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en DivVoted.com - Vote for your favourite sites, or browse for design inspiration http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/07/04/divvotedcom-vote-for-your-favourite-sites-or-browse-for-design-inspiration/ http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/07/04/divvotedcom-vote-for-your-favourite-sites-or-browse-for-design-inspiration/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:35:30 +0000 Dan Griffey http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/07/04/divvotedcom-vote-for-your-favourite-sites-or-browse-for-design-inspiration/ Introducing DivVoted.com.

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!

]]> http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/07/04/divvotedcom-vote-for-your-favourite-sites-or-browse-for-design-inspiration/feed/ Global recognition and awareness for YoDiv.com… http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/06/30/global-recognition-and-awareness-for-yodivcom/ http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/06/30/global-recognition-and-awareness-for-yodivcom/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:42:21 +0000 admin http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/06/30/global-recognition-and-awareness-for-yodivcom/ Since their birth / arrival into this digital global world, the Divlets not only have they been trying to get to grips with numerous task’s set apon them from they’re counterpart foe’s, Mrs PNG, MR PSD and Junior AI, but appear to be gaining quite a reputation for being featured amongst all sorts of various magazine feature’s (most notably for good illustration examples) and design galleries. Now, seing as this is the world wide web, tracking all these recognitions can be a difficult task to accomplish for any no matter how popular one may be. Soooo, we got all excited and decided it be a good idea to keep all this awareness under one hat and provide you with a pre-compiled list of where the Divlet’s have been seen / heard.

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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!

]]> http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/06/04/want-more-just-ask/feed/ Designing with folders in mind http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/18/designing-with-folders-in-mind/ http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/18/designing-with-folders-in-mind/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:21:35 +0000 Wez Maynard http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/18/designing-with-folders-in-mind/ In order to be 100% confident that your design will be made exactly to your specifications, its helpful for the divlets if your files are structured in a logical and methodical way. The easiest way to achieve this is by using clearly labeled folders within your psd / png or eps file.

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]]> http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/18/designing-with-folders-in-mind/feed/ Make it easier with labels http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/05/make-it-easier-with-labels/ http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/05/make-it-easier-with-labels/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:14:00 +0000 Dan Griffey http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/05/make-it-easier-with-labels/ Some of our clients use YoDiv again and again, to work their great designs into some XHTML and CSS Magic. To make it easier for them to use our handy Studio we have added a place to add your own label to a job, meaning you can file your jobs for easy access.

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]]> http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/05/make-it-easier-with-labels/feed/ Starting your web app? Sprinkle it with some YoDiv Code… http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/04/starting-your-web-app-sprinkle-it-with-some-yodiv-code/ http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/04/starting-your-web-app-sprinkle-it-with-some-yodiv-code/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:36:34 +0000 Dan Griffey http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/02/04/starting-your-web-app-sprinkle-it-with-some-yodiv-code/ The team at Carson Workshops (the guys behind such great events as FOWD and FOWA, as well as ThinkVitamin.com) have put together a list of useful tips and tricks that should help you when building your web app.
Featured at Number 6 on their list of things they have learned:

6. Don’t have your developer do the XHTML and CSS.

This may seem like a small point, but it’s one of the reasons why YoDiv really exists, and we couldn’t agree more.
Your web app is the money maker, your website is your billboard, so use experts for each section of your new business. After all when you work on your house you don’t trust the builders with the interior design !

The developers can work up their magic behind the scenes, and by trusting YoDiv with your great designs you can guarantee a great XHTML website that is search engine friendly and faithful to every element of your designers work.

Yet again we agree with the Carson word, and if you are at the next FOWD (London) why not look out for us.

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]]> http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/01/31/web-safe-fonts-survival-guide/feed/ How to make your packaged site live! http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/01/31/how-to-make-your-packaged-site-live/ http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/01/31/how-to-make-your-packaged-site-live/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:53:33 +0000 Wez Maynard http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/01/31/how-to-make-your-packaged-site-live/ Once you have got your new website files back from YoDiv (reminder: you can download them at any time from the Studio) you will probably want to put them on the internet so that the world can see your fantastic new website, and marvel at your design work.

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]]> http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/01/31/how-to-make-your-packaged-site-live/feed/ Editing your sites copy, quickly and easily http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/01/31/editing-your-sites-copy-quickly-and-easily/ http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/01/31/editing-your-sites-copy-quickly-and-easily/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:05:40 +0000 Wez Maynard http://blog.yodiv.com/2008/01/31/editing-your-sites-copy-quickly-and-easily/ So you now have your site, all sparkling new and ready to be added to the world wide web, however you’ve filled your design with your clients copy, or “lorem ipsum”, and now your client has changed their mind and want to amend their copy. . .

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