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I’ve just had a check and Caffeinehit is back as #1 for the Google search term “graphic designer london“, at least on Google UK. Caffeinehit.com has been in the top 10 for some time and was briefly at #1 earlier in the year. I tweaked the SEO and markup of the site a month or so ago and it appears to have done the trick.

I find that 80% of my work comes through Google searches and other online networking websites. Getting your SEO fully optimised and streamlining the site code will more than pay for the time you spend working on it. Updating the code and making changes to enhance your listing on search engines like Google should ideally be done every month to keep your site on the first page.

I realise that there is a hell of a lot more to it that simple tweeking the code, if you can find that balance and get the code and copy right on the site you’re on to a winner.

Adobe says next Photoshop will be 64-bit native on Windows only

Adobe’s John Nack has an interesting post on Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe’s 64-bit roadmap. His purpose is to break a bit of news as gently as possible: that the next edition of Photoshop will have a 64-bit-native version for Windows 64-bit operating systems, but not for the Mac.

The problem is that Mac OS X has two different programming interfaces, known as Carbon and Cocoa. Nack explains:

As we wrapped up Photoshop CS3, our plan was to ship 64-bit versions of the next version of Photoshop for both Mac and Windows. On the Mac Photoshop (like the rest of the Creative Suite, not to mention applications like Apple’s Final Cut Pro and iTunes) relies on Apple’s Carbon technology. Apple’s OS team was busy enabling a 64-bit version of Carbon, a prerequisite for letting Carbon-based apps run 64-bit-native.

At the WWDC show last June, however, Adobe & other developers learned that Apple had decided to stop their Carbon 64 efforts. This means that 64-bit Mac apps need to be written to use Cocoa (as Lightroom is) instead of Carbon. This means that we’ll need to rewrite large parts of Photoshop and its plug-ins (potentially affecting over a million lines of code) to move it from Carbon to Cocoa.

Naturally the news has brought a small number of less charitable Mac users out from under their rickety old bridges, but as John Gruber says on Daring Fireball: “I think it’s hard to argue that Adobe should have somehow known the end was near for Carbon when even Apple didn’t know.”

Currently, Windows XP and Vista come in two versions: one runs 16-bit and 32-bit programs, while the other runs 32-bit and 64-bit programs. Today, Photoshop runs happily on both the 16/32-bit and 32/64-bit versions. However, the 64-bit version of Photoshop will only run on the 32/64-bit versions of Windows. Both versions are included when you buy Vista, though Microsoft only ships the code in the box with Vista Ultimate.

The Mac users who plan to run Windows versions of Photoshop (as they did before the so-called “universal binary” version of Adobe’s Creative Suite came out) will be happy to know that Apple’s BootCamp software already supports 64-bit Vista.

Another release via Caffeinehit Ltd is the new look last name pages for Kindo. The original design was made only for one country, Sweden. Now there is last name data for a number of countries there needed to be a page that was easy to add future countries to.

Anyway, here’s the design I came up with, since it’s launch traffic has sky-rocketed. Watch this space and while you’re at it, why not see if your surname is in one of the countries listed on the site.

More: Kindo Surname Pages

Another recent creative release from Caffeinehit Ltd was the photo gallery solution for Kindo.

Kindo is one of the fastest growing family tree websites on the internet, their recent release of photo albums is set to increase their web traffic even more. The final design was designed to be simple and allow users to easily browse and share their photos with their family.

I can’t wait to hear how people react to it, Kindo is becoming such a massive website it really does make it a great testing ground for my designs and UI solutions. Let’s see how this one goes.

Check out Kindo here: www.kindo.com

Well the latest creation to come out of Caffeinehit Ltd has hit the web, the new Nintey Ten website has just been put live.

I had the challenge of re-designing and re-branding Ninety Ten. With quite a short deadline it was about creating something that was simple and effective, allow people to go to the site and find out about the company and their products quickly.

With a new style navigation, updated logo, colours and branding guideline I think it updates the brand and gives them that web2.0 look they were looking for.

Post your thoughts here…

OK, now I really don’t know why or how I found this. Actually, I was searching for hotels in Paris and this image came up. This really IS the treehouse we all wanted when we were kids. This is either someone with far too much time on their hands, someone protesting about the building of a new road bypass or the set of a new Ewok movie.

Wherever it’s from it’s seriously cool!