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Berry, have you tried booting in safe mode? This is sometimes a good way to force the mac to check its self over and see if you can perform a disk utility check. Do the following and check. Be sure your Mac is shut down. Press the power button. Immediately after you hear the startup tone...

Is this the best promo website ever? http://www.alittlebitofsomething.co.uk/

I agree with the crap time. Why not do it afterwork over a pint or two.

I keep responding to the Camberley branch on twitter but never actually get a response. I can see the benefits and drawbacks of joining. Not sure how much it costs, but I suppose you have an almost captive market to potentially sell to.

Balders that does make sense, but when I wrote the article I was coming across a lot of teens actively selling services to companies. I just dont see how that can be a good thing?

Cheers for this guys. Have let alice know about the thread so she can contact people :)

Hi guys, My sister Alice, www.alicepotter.co.uk has just finished her latest piece of work and would like it printed on A2 Matt/Uncoated paper. Anyone know of any reasonably priced printers that may be able to help out? Cheers for your help as always :)

Hi Ben, if you're a student you may well be able to get hold of a copy of Adobe Illustrator Student and Teacher Edition from their site otherwise have a look at Opensource programs like Inkscape which can export to eps Hope this helps.

Such a shame as some of BT's pieces have a very strong visual look - take for instance some of the BT Vision idents

Captain, if you are still maybe reading this, if you're going to do a scrolling one page site like this, the menu bar needs to scroll with you - like this example http://www.makebetterapps.com/ - im just trying to offer you some pointers in usability that hopefully you can find helpful.

What do you want to convert from and to?

I use it, just for random scrapbooking, also added a lot of my portfolio up there, as well as pins that link to my GraphicRiver products I sell.

Hi Physalis, A few points from taking a quick look- Loose the lurid green to white gradient on the background - its drawing focus away from the work Loose the cartoons that show up on some pages - do they serve a purpose? You want the work to speak for itself, make sure you have big high...

I thought it might be good to share what little gems of software we use. Not the traditional ones, ie adobe etc... but the more obscure and small programs that may help people out in there day to day design days. The one I find really useful is Post Haste - a great program for making sure that...

Yes these are all best practice - but i think for beginners its a great resource to learn the basics... and for old hats to refresh our memories.