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8 reasons why we sent our newsletter on the Friday before the end of October

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Halloween Newsletter 2011 - Top Left Design's amazing masterpiece - one of many

We have just sent our latest newsletter masterpiece and this newsletter was dedicated to the number 8. We all worked on it – writing copy, coming up with all the little details, checking for typos, putting together the HTML and images – a real team effort! Thanks to all those who helped with proofreading our test previews!

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Playing the Facebook Game of Like – it’s not too late!

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Pre-Holiday Facebook Game of Like

The “Pre-Holiday Facebook Game of Like” is an idea from two US based social media strategists Dorien Morin-van Dam (originally Dutch, now based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) from More in Media and Keri Jaehnig from Idea Girl Media (based in Ohio). I learned about it from my friend/client/co-speaker/social media expert Alicia Cowan.

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Shiny new hairdresser website for Kell Skött Haircare – a website with personality

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

We are proud to announce the launch of the gorgeous Kell Skött Haircare website! Kell Skött Haircare are a leading West London hairdresser, who have a reputation for creating a friendly community atmosphere, whilst still delivering a highly professional, quality service. Kell Skött Haircare needed a website that would represent it’s brand identity: warm, yet professional.

Kell Skott Home page

The home page has a clean and simplistic feel with a slider explaining different core values of the Kell Skött brand and presenting different high quality images to show off the visual side of the service.  The site features a beautiful ‘meet the team‘ page, with a pop up light box that displays additional information about all of the staff members.
 
Meet the team gallery
Meet the team pop up light box

A blog page on the site is regularly updated with articles on a variety of subjects such as lifestyle, beauty and of course hair. However, our favourite feauture of the site has to be the 404 page, which we customised to include Mr and Mrs Skött’s beloved Cocker Spaniels, embodying the warm and friendly spirit of the brand.

Kell Skott Blog

a 404 page with a sense of humour

We loved turning the Skött’s vision for their website into a reality.  Here’s Jacqueline Skött’s testimonial:

11 things I’ve learnt at Top Left Design so far

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Now a full time member of the TLD team, I first came to Top Left Design as an intern for two weeks when I was just 14 years old. I’ve spent a lot of time with the team helping out for the past four years and have learnt  countless amounts of new and interesting things, and still have much more to learn!

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3 things you should know about “Pimp My Website”

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Pimp My Website - 6th October 2011 - 11am - 2pm

It’s so exciting that our next event “Pimp My Website” is just around the corner. For those of you who missed the news – it’s Thursday the 6th October, 11am to 2pm, at the amazing venue we have been using lately for our seminars.

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