The 25th of December was the 1st birthday for our website. We still like it and it seems that others like it too: after submitting it to a number of CSS galleries our website design still appears in many other galleries and we still have lots of visitors from those galleries.

The year 2010 was also the first one for our initiative to help charities and other non-commercial organizations. We were extremely happy to launch the website for Forever Searching. Karen and Kathy from Forever Searching as well as other volunteers are doing a very important job during their free time – they support the families of the missing kids and people, by increasing public awareness to not only individual cases but to what can only be described as the phenomenon of missing people in general. Please drop by; perhaps you might also help somehow.

Another thing we started but to our regret had to suspend, was our «one wallpaper per month» campaign. We feel sorry about this. This was due to the incredible amount of work we had this year. We still hope to restart this initiative.

And a few more results of the year in a line:

• We did more than 50 projects (website design, branding, print design, html coding) and are already fully booked till mid of February.
• A number of new countries appeared in our clients locations: Poland, Ireland, Holland, and Switzerland.
• We started to use the Mockups tool from Balsamiq for wireframing. Love it!

This year was a fruitful one for us. We loved it a lot and we are now looking forward to the next year – its big and small routines and surprises.

Happy New Year! Happy New Days! Happy New Seconds!

Wireframes could be done using different tools:

• Special tools (Omnigraffle, Visio, MockupScreens, Cacoo.com, etc.)
• Non-special tools (Word, Power Point, Photoshop)
• Paper and pen (paper, pen:-)

We prefer to use those tools which could be as well used by our clients (like Power Point, Cacoo.com and paper with pen, of cause). It is a joint work when it comes to wireframing and having the tools that both sides can use helps a lot. Clients thus can easily explain and suggest their ideas and concepts.

The more detailed is a wireframe the easier it is for designers to grasp the whole idea and start designing. Those details can include the actual content for each of the elements, or at least the description (like, “for each news item in the news block we would like to have a small thumbnail, date, news title, and 2 lines of news extract”).

It is a tremendous help when designers have all the possible details in a wireframe. Thus they spend less time thinking about what elements should be placed where and what should be inside, but rather devote more time to designing, refining and polishing all the elements.

For our clients we always do simple wireframes free of charge as this really helps us all.

“Wireframe – a website wireframe (also “web wire frame”, “web wireframe”, “web wireframing”) is a basic visual guide used in interface design to suggest the structure of a website and relationships between its pages. A webpage wireframe is a similar illustration of the layout of fundamental elements in the interface. Typically, wireframes are completed before any artwork is developed.”
From Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website_wireframe

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What we are offering is a unique design for a micro website that will consist of 3 pages (extra works will have a 30% discount). So far we think we can design about 5 websites per year.

We are open to help those who help and hope that our small initiative will be useful.

This event was initiated by Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations) to mark the anniversary of Icograda establishment in 1963. It has been celebrated since 1995.

This year we are encouraged to speculate on why we value design.

I would say that at any moment there could be absolutely different values. Yesterday I valued design because it just makes things look beautiful, today I value design because it inspires:

• to buy/sell
• to forget/remember
• to ask for/give
• to hate/love
• to start/finish

So today I am inspired and that is why I value design. And I am thankful to design for being so diverse in its values.

If you would like to have a calendar of your own to be designed by us, please drop us a note.

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Now we are proudly listed in the following ones:

• CSS Mania – rate us!
• Most Inspired
• newwebpick
• cssdesignyourkshire
• designawardgallery
• CSS based
• .css{mayo}
• Design Gallery Package

By the way, after you are listed at CSS Mania you appear as well in a dozen or so other resources.

All these sites have already brought us more than 2000 visitors starting from March 04, 2010. And the leader is CSS Mania (about 70%).

So give it a try as well if you have a nice CSS based web site.

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Hope you will find here the information you need. We tried to describe our web design, graphic design and print design talents to our best. If it is not enough, do not hesitate to contact us (not during the NY night please:)

Happy holidays!

Sincerely yours,
People from People82