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Free Gift box and tags

Free Gift box and tags

Free Gift box and tags

Print out your own mini gift presentation box with matching tag. Download the PDFs of fun gift boxes and gift tags and print them out on your colour printer at home. You’ll easily work out how to fold the small boxes for those special little gifts for your loved ones.

The thicker the paper you can use with your printer the more sturdy your small box will be of course. No need for special software to print out these fun items. Just print direct off the PDF. These boxes are suitable for small presents such as jewellery, small trinkets and sweets or chocolates just to offer up some ideas.

The tags may be used with the boxes or work just fine on their own too as decoration for gifts wrapped with paper.

Download the PDF by clicking on the thumbnail of your choice:

Free Happy Holiday cards

Free Gift box and tags

Here are two fun card designs for you to use. There are two up on the page. Cut the page in half where you see the dotted line in between the two cards and fold the card over having the Yeah Can at the back of the card.

There’s lots of lovely white space in the inside of the card for you to write your own loving message, draw hearts and many XXX to show your love.

Download the card by clicking on the thumbnail:

Happy Holidays to you from Yeah Can.

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If you ever wondered what Google’s take might be on Responsive Web Design then check this video. It spells out exactly what Google’s business philosophy is regarding the use of responsive web design on your website. They LOVE it.

Google’s Marcel Gordon discusses the benefits of responsive web design and mobile SEO. From Moboom’s 2013 User Conference in London. And the message is loud and clear. What Google doesn’t love is a mobile phone App of your website.

Consider this little nugget of information when deciding whether you should have a website for desktop, latptop and tablet and a completely different App (actually any App at all) for mobile phone devices. Might be an idea to go back to the idea of responsive web design. Could be a healthier solution for your website when it comes to Google search. And your customers/clients/visitors will love it too.

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Yeah Can’s team was invited to participate at Hope Center’s Creative Workshop on Saturday. And it was wonderful fun to join the disabled and disadvantaged people for a get your hands dirty fabric painting morning.

Iiris Jalkanen has been a Hue Help volunteer working at Hope Center since December 2010. She has been working with the handicraft artisans to develop new products. In particular her skills in sewing are most welcome by all at Hope Center.

As part of her placement and in line with what her University’s requirements are of her stay in Hue, Central Vietnam, she has developed a course for staff and workers at the Center. Every Saturday for six weeks the team at Hope Center will take part in a Creative Thinking workshop.

The Hope Center is Yeah Can’s social responsibility project. This means that events such as these are great opportunities to have fun together and to get to know each other better. In any case it is always a great pleasure being at the Hope Center as the people are so welcoming and friendly.

And the fun that everybody had will ensure that the Yeah Can team will be back the next Saturday. This time it’s going to be making wrapping paper and small boxes for the Center’s products. It will be both a creative and very useful session. The Hope Center needs pretty paper and boxes for its handicraft products especially the jewellery items.

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Yeah Can’s mobile friendly websites

Heard of mobile friendly websites? Yes heard of it but not sure what it means. And still don’t know a Static from a Liquid layout. Or Adaptive from a Responsive one. Whaaat…

Mobile friendly websites that is websites that change shape, snap into place or morph into something new when viewed on different mobile devices are changing the way we have access to content on the internet.

It’s a significant change in approach to website design. Before the days when hand held gadgets forced web designers to rethink websites, the only concern was whether a browser such as Firefox or Safari would open the site without any breaks or errors. What added to this problem were the many different versions of browsers. In fact older versions of Internet Explorer probably contributed to the highest headache tablet count that web designers consumed.

Now the main concern is all about screen size and how the site will reformat/resize itself to be easily and comfortably viewed on a mobile gadget such as smart phones or LED TV screens. And of course how does it look on screen sizes in between these two extremes. Never mind that within each category, such as for instance smartphones, there are hundreds of different sizes to contend with as well.

So here’s a great article to mull over. It will easily and without too much industry specific jargon give you a nice explanation as to you what all these different concepts are about.

Visit the blog post on Team Treehouse here.

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Brochure for HopeCenterHue.com

The graphic design work that Yeah Can is doing for Hope Center in Hue Vietnam is ongoing. It’s a pity that small Center’s such as Hope Center don’t have the service of a design studio. It’s so essential.

The current project is the design of a product brochure for the handicraft business of Hope Center. However, it was decided that to show off eery single product would mean a ten page full colour document. The Center doesn’t have the budget to bring out such a prospectus. It was decided to show just a few items that represent the product range.

One page of the Z-Fold brochure is dedicated to the recycled wire products that are very popular especially in the Canadian market. These are bowls, fun ear rings, key rings, picture frames and mirrors amongst other items.

The reverse side of the brochure will focus on the A Luoi fabric that the Center markets as scarves, multi coloured blankets and rugs and the new range of small handbags.

Also on this page are the other gift items that are part of smaller product ranges. These are rattan silk bowls and recycled bottle caps that are fashioned into multi-coloured ear rings.

The Hope Center will start to plan new product ranges within the next week. The opening of the new shop space will mean that more products will be required to fill the space and to make the retail space run at a profit.

This move will also mean that the product tags and labels as well as customised wrapping paper will need to be designed and printed. There is always work to be done for the Hope Center.

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Nothing is nicer than being able to do design work for a brand new entrepreneur. And working with Heidi on her new product called EyeFringe was really nice. It’s a new innovation for hair accessories developed by herself, a hairdresser and beautician working in the UK. The work ended up being a small website, YouTube channel, Facebook page and packaging printed insert.

Often the best inventions are those where the inventor has realised themselves that there is a gap in the market. It’s a need they have themselves. In the very same way many of the iPhone apps are developed because the developer has found something that they need help with.

Heidi realised that there was no solution to her problem available. She wanted to be able to wear a fringe with her long hair but found her hairline was not suitable. Her hair had a slight waive that made it difficult for her to wear a fringe.

She searched for solutions, found none, and made her own one work. It’s a very easy accessory that slips over the head to fit the fringe securely at the hairline adding a new look to a hairstyle without hassle and furthermore always offering a well groomed look, easily.

Heidi took a trip to Thailand to have her product made. As part of the items necessary for the product Yeah Can designed the insert for her packaging providing instructions and health warnings as well as a nice looking backing for the hair piece to rest on.

In support of her online shop, the website was developed, a YouTube channel set up and a Facebook page started. With additional help she has been able to set up an online shop where people can buy their hair accessory. It’s sure to be a really successful new product. After all everybody likes to look good.

Yeah Can wishes her all the best in her new venture!

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A different white label web design partner approach
EWPNet came to Yeah Can via their SEO Agency a white label web design partner. SEO Travel specialises in helping companies operating in the travel industry to get their sites in front of their customers. As much as SEO Travel is a white label web design partner this business relationship is slightly different.

SEO Travel prefers to let Yeah Can deal with clients direct. In all things white label web design Yeah Can is happy to approach each business relationship according to the requests of the partner.

A new approach was needed
After many years of building their own site the folk at EWPNet realised it was time to upgrade to a more modern look for their website. It was also important to get a responsive site. There are new trends in how people search the net.  Customers are using mobile devices to look for travel ideas and deals.

The old sites tended to focus on offering a lot of information. Now visitors want to be wowed with visual material rather. What can we see rather than what can we read is the way the net is developing. Visitors are more knowledgable. They don’t need pages and pages of copy. Experience is more important.

Screenshot of old Website

The New Site is Visual
In line with what is happening on the world wide web team Yeah Can redeveloped the new EPWNet site to be more of a visual feast rather than a learning one. People want to immerse themselves in the feel of what the travel adventure would be like rather than read too much about how it all works.

Screenshot of new Website

A happy ending
Overall the project was a great experience for both EWPNet as well as team Yeah Can. This is what the client said at the end:

“Yeah Can were recommended to us by an SEO provider – and boy are we grateful! Ours was not an easy task – a complete redesign of an existing very large site that had become outdated over the years. They are a great team to work with, communicative and responsive – professional throughout. Not only did they have great ideas, but they also listened to ours which resulted in a website that we are extremely happy with, all done within an affordable budget. Their prompt and personal service gives us no hesitation in recommending them to others. Thank you Yeah Can!”

Visit the new website here: ewpnet.com

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Great-Website-Design-for-HueHelp.org

Word spreads quickly! Once Yeah Can had offered its web design services for free and had uploaded the Hope Center’s new site other non-profits operating in Hue, Vietnam took notice and clambered to get the same help.

Hue Help which works closely with Hope Center by arranging volunteers to teach English at the Center and help with product development asked for help for their site.

Originally it was going to be just some lessons to the Director Graham Buckley in how to work with a content management tool. But it was soon agreed that the original site was not worth saving and that a new one should be built in its place.

Yeah Can saved the content and got to work using WordPress as the preferred content management tool. New designs were approved and the site was built using a fair number of new features.

One of the nice new features is the sophisticated sign in form for people interested in volunteering. Hue Help is all about volunteering and bringing volunteers to help disabled and disadvantaged kids and adults in central Vietnam. But mostly Hue Help serves children.

Yeah Can wishes Hue Help all the very best with their new web site. May they grow from strength to strength and continue offering their important and worthwhile service to the children of Hue.

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Mobile Website Development and Logo for 2 Markets

A mobile website development for 2 Markets

It’s always great to get involved right at the beginning. When a new business client comes to Yeah Can it’s fun to work with them on their branding and their web presence. This was certainly the case with 2 Markets.

2 Markets is a telecom expense management service company. Although a brand new business entity, the two Principals involved, have each over 20 years experience in the field. They have worked for large enterprise clients and vendors gathering invaluable skills and expertise. It was logical for them to combine forces and start on their own.

2 Markets new Logo

First Task: The Logo

With a comprehensive creative brief Team Yeah Can was able to develop a range of logos for consideration. It’s not always easy to find the sweet spot with brand new clients. It does get easier once one knows how they think but a new relationship always needs some luck as well to get it right.

This time around Yeah Can got it quite close almost immediately and with some further tweaking the right one was found to everybody’s satisfaction. The two clients were really easy to please which is always gratifying.

As part of the project the business cards were also developed at the same time. In the past design studios used to have to design a range of material ready for print which included letterheads, business cards, compliment slips and print brochures. Now it’s only business cards usually and of course a website.

The new site needed mobile website development
As soon as the logo had been signed off the website design and lay-out was worked on. Very professional and seriously corporate colours of blue and white were chosen. This was  of course to match up with the logo, but also to follow through the concept that 2 Markets deal with big clients and they needed to present themselves seriously.

Mobile technology is the future. Or at least the immediate future. One can never say what might lie on the other side of the horizon when it comes to technology. Seven or so years ago nobody would have given smartphones or tablets another thought. Now websites have to be viewable on these gadgets. Join or die!

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London Fight Factory

A web design project for a martial arts enterprise ended up being great fun to work on and resulted in a visual feast of a site. Web design with images. A designer in heaven. It’s all about people and this site shows that London Fight Factory is all about people challenging themselves. At the same time it’s also about people being enveloped by a community that cares about each member.

The images, video material and copy that the club provided for the website design and build supports the fact that this is a great place to go to. Friendly but still focused, proud of the achievements of its members and instructors and open to new members of whatever persuasion.

Members of the club are proud of their website. Yeah Can gets the most referral traffic from this fabulous website.

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