Allchorn Design

Call me slow, or whatever. I have finally decided to give Flickr a serious chance. I’ve always known about it and had a profile on there for as long as I can remember. For some reason I always just saw it as another one of those “photo sharing” tools that were okay to post pictures […]

I’ve decided that I am going to re-brand myself. Starting with a new logo. Quite honestly, I’m sick of my glassy globe with cheesily gradiented AD.
The direct metaphor of the earth representing the “world” wide web being the audience of my creations is replaced with a pretty direct graphic representing design in the form of […]

High levels of stress and a reasonably obvious truth have driven me to write this post. A rather corny title it may be, it’s pretty spot on to what this is all about. It all stems from the true nature of the internet, and the common misconceptions of what that true nature really is.
Defining The […]

I’m busy writing about three articles concurrently. All of which lose my interest after sitting in front of them for longer than 10 minutes. I need to step back from them for a bit and this is why I’m writing this interim post. One is a piece on big brands with horrible websites, another is […]

Being the fact that I am in the website design industry, this post relates first and foremost to that specific line of design, but some parallels can surely be drawn with other forms of design.
First and foremost, my favourite saying is:
“Design is not about making things pretty, but rather about making things work.”
I don’t know […]

Before your eyes glaze over and you click on a link to go elsewhere, read the definition of a CMS:
Content management system (CMS).
The computer software, housed on your site’s Web server, that manages the publishing of content (text, images, video, documents etc.) to your website. Popular examples include Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Realm Platform and […]

It’s nice, and quite flattering for me to see that Google has appointed me as South Africa’s number one website design consultant. You can see in the SERP (search engine results page) that they have appointed me the organic position number one (at the time of posting this).
I think this goes to show quite effectively […]

No rest for the wicked, or should that be “no rest for the industrious”. I’m hoping the latter is the case as I don’t feel particularly wicked. With a slow start to 2008, things have thankfully picked up quite considerably around here.
From the inception of a new professional photography service called From the Camera with […]

I’m busy working on and have recently launched a beta(ish) version of a new concept. It’s called Sitepress and it’s a combination of all my accumulated website design, content management and consulting knowledge rolled into one offering. It has a twist however, and one I hope will bring professional website design to those that previously […]

Designing websites for a living, or for extra money, is an exceptionally popular part of life for people all over the world in all age groups. There are kids and recent school leavers either doing it as a hobby or full time, as well as many people with intentions of making it big in the […]