TSDG restaurant branding

Nightmares and twin souls

I've never met Mathew Browne but I think we are twin souls.

Client responsibilities

What? Clients have responsibilities too?

Dilemma

What do you do when a client wants you to do something that is so obviously wrong?

Search engines are businesses

Search engines are not charities. And you have no God-given right to have your site included in their index.

Can you believe it? Caps again

Why the fork image? It's probably something to do with the first and last letters of the word.

Do you know what you're talking about?

The grumpy old woman is mad again.

Color roundup

Once again, I am overhearing a conversation between a TSDG designer and a client about colour. (Or color, if you prefer).

Trust

Trust is a wonderful thing. Distrust is not.

Quick and easy email marketing

It amazes me how much some people pay for email marketing when it can be so quick and simple.

Have a good day ...

... as they say in MacDonalds. I knew, when I woke up this morning, that this was some sort of special day; a holiday of some sort.  And then I remembered.

Getting to know you

That was the title of a song that Deborah Kerr sang to a bunch of Siamese children in the King and I, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Speech!

We've had the apostrophe and the hyphen, not to mention erroneous capitals, so now it's the turn of speech marks.

Blueprint roundup

It sometimes seems to me that I rant about the importance of your website's blueprint every week or so.

Why potholes?

OK, it might be that I'm feeling particularly stupid today, but I can't see the connection between our feathered friends and potholes. Can you?

What your email address says about you

We all know about branding and about how every little thing counts.

Monkey business

Another one of those bizarre imaginary scenarios with a client in your restaurant...

Moving up

How's this for thinking outside the box? (Dreadful expression but it seems appropriate somehow).

Menu errors again - fonts

For several reasons, you might type up your menu in-house rather than have a commercially printed menu.

Common menu errors

As you can imagine,for the grumpy old woman, going out to dinner isn't as straightfoward as it may seem

Connect

You can rely on Chef Dean Max to be innovative - not only in the kitchen.

Your domain name

If TSDG, or another reputable company DON'T administer your domain name, then you really should read this.

Don't come running to me

Something my old mum used to say invariably made us laugh, in our daft, childish way.

You get what you pay for

I'm pretty sure that the majority of emails sent are received.

Load of bull

Sorry about that title - it is a bit obvious, isn't it? But still ...

Tough time paying bills?

They say that we are living in 'hard economic times'.

Website hosting

Now this is something that the grumpy old woman gets REALLY grumpy about.

Cheap and sleazy

I really didn't want to write about this again ...

Welcome - bah

 

I am TSDG's resident grumpy old woman so you expect me to have opinions about everything, don't you?

Will Paula win?

We'll be glued to the TV on Thursday evening this week.

Proofing

I can't believe that it happens, but sometimes clients say "there are typos in my project!"

Target

I read a simple, but very true comment in a design publication today.

Not again...

Yet again, I have come across someone suffering from CAPITALITIS.

My email doesn't work!

Question time again.

And another rose ... by another name

As I said in yesterday's rant, we have not yet developed the art of telepathy.

A rose by any other name

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet ...

No excuses

Our creative director has a phone similar to this one on his desk.

I got rhythm

It may  be surprising to some, but designers are people too.

K.I.S.S.

Menus are driving me nuts.