Coffs Design – creative studio
We offer a full web and graphic design service
Whether you are after a website, brochure or email marketing advice, we will create a custom solution that will employ best practice and great design, on-target, on-time and on-budget.
Contact us for a free quote or just enjoy the web gallery and the graphic design gallery.
Signage – Iluka Bluff Nature Reserve Interpretive panels designed by Coffs… Continue reading
Design and development of CMS website
I was ‘volunteered’ by Rod McKelvey (an experienced community campaigner for environmental, social and economic sustainability particularly on the Coffs Coast) to create a website for MENtors, a voluntary group setup to help men identify and therefore increase their opportunities to engage in health and well-being services in our community.
KEY Statement:
Reading List
If you’re planning to setup a new website and you have the time, this book is fantastic. Even if you have an existing site that you’d like to update it is well worth a read. It will cover all the basics that you should be considering.
It is available as an ebook or pdf if you want to get started immediately.
Website Design and Development: 100 Questions to… Continue reading
Tips & information on how much content to use
This information can be applied to signage, interpretive display panels and posters. For the purpose of this blog I’ll refer to them as panels.
I’ve broken the types of panels into 3 areas and have provided examples of most … a picture paints a thousand words – so the examples should tell you what to aim for in your projects:
- Informative… Continue reading
Specifications for high content signage
- Size: 1500mm x 1000mm = 1.5m2
- Word Count – 1900. Character Count – 12000
- Client: Kempsey Council
- Text content covers roughly 1/3 of the panel but it is at a very small point size. Main body text is 24 points, with a large proportion including captions in 18 point.
- Images cover almost the other 2/3 of the panel with very little white space …(lets’ say… Continue reading
Glenn Innes Land Council Signage
Design Brief – To create a series of interpretive signs for the Glenn Innes Aboriginal Land Council. The Willows has been with the Glen Innes Land Council since the early 1980s. The property name comes from the large amounts of willows that used to grow along the banks of the Severn River. The adjoining Aboriginal-owned property is called Boorabee.
In 2010 they were declared an Indigenous Protected… Continue reading
Production tips and information
I will be adding images and more information as it comes to light.
Dimensions
- Specify your dimensions – width x height
- Good proportions for a small freestanding sign are 600 x 300 mm
- Good proportions for a large freestanding sign are 1200 x 1000 mm
Posts
- If the width is greater than 600 mm it will need two posts
- Is the sign to be angled at… Continue reading
Password Security
The most important thing is the length. D-zero-g with 20 full stops
D0g………………..
is 95 times more secure than a complicated one that’s one character less in length (based on pure mathematical analysis of searching capabilities).
That’s a long password and it doesn’t seem to be very complicated. It doesn’t have randomness or that entropy. Padding out something with just simple characters to make it long is better… Continue reading