Recent Website Launches

May 16th, 2010

March and April were busy months for Swish Design with several website launches. We wish we could tell you about all of them, but for the sake of brevity and readability, we are keeping the list to three! Read the rest of this entry »

Can we make life even easier for you?

May 15th, 2010

It is probably the most consistent piece of feedback we get from our clients:

“You guys make things so easy”

We like to think that we are no fuss designers! You give us a brief and we get the job done, quickly and efficiently and at a high standard. Most of our clients are small to medium enterprises. You don’t have the time or budget for market research and pitching of concepts. You simply need the job done - quickly and at a high standard! Read the rest of this entry »

Inbound marketing - let your customers find you!

May 14th, 2010

Inbound marketing: a term used to describe methods which allow people who may be interested in your message to find you and engage with you under their own volition.

This is opposed to more traditional “outbound” marketing methods which involve sending your message out to a large group of people, many of whom are not interested in it at all (and are thus not receptive to it). Think tv/radio/press advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

Mind your apostrophes!!

May 7th, 2010

I do a lot of reading on the web - and generally it is user generated content dashed off in two seconds (think Facebook, blogs and forums).

I have always been very concerned at the ongoing abuse of the humble apostrophe so imagine my delight when I found this little gem in my online travels today (click on the image to view the full “poster”). Read the rest of this entry »

Thought for the day

April 28th, 2010

Read this on another blog I follow, a lovely quote from philosopher Rainer Maria Rilke. It just resonated with me so I thought I would share:

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always