Now fast forward to a couple of weeks ago and I was asked to watch a friends' child whilst they popped to the shops.  This child was a girl and my tool box of kids entainment is better suited to boys so as I was sat there with this small child expecting me to entertain them for half an hour I turned to the faithful Plop Trumps and we began playing.  Then half way through the game,  I was losing and had just lost my Snow Leopard poo card which is ranked highly for smelliness.  This young girl turns to me and says something that struck a real chord with all my web design work I have ever done and ever will do.  She said, 'The funny thing about this picture is I know it's poo and it's gross but it looks quite sweet as well.'  This puzzled me for a second as I took on board the magnitude of that statement.  What this small innocent child was saying was that despite the fact that she was looking at poo the poo looked good.  I thought about the pictures differently from that point on.  It was no longer about what the images represented in reality it was about how they made the person feel in the moment.  Now if the photographer who shot the poo in question (a camel poo, i'm sure you were wondering) was trying to upgrade that image beyond it's physical reality they had achieved it.  In a sense that poo had reached enlightenment.  It had transcended its smelly physical form.  Strangely like a star giving off old light at the point at which the enlightment had been achieved the poo was long since decomposed.  (That's sounding quite philosophical now.)  You get the idea though.  The images we use in design need to make people feel and if you can get an image that is inherently gross to make someone feel differently about it, if that's your aim, then you are doing a good job.  Thankfully I have never had to show a poo in a good light before but I will be using the poo test with all my image and design work in future.  If this website was a poo would it be a good poo?

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This weekend has been really busy.  For starters you may have noticed that the new WebEd logo is in place.  I think I will add a picture just so you get the full look.  As well as getting our new logo up and running we have been busy creating education resources for the up and coming classes we will be running on Web Design.  Have a look at our intro presentation below to give you an idea.  As if that wasn't enough we are going to be launching our Facebook page in the next 24 hours.  As the website is still in its Beta Phase we appreciate any feedback from you if you notice something odd going on... Get in touch through Email, Twitter, G+ or the new Facebook page.

Over the next couple of weeks I will be adding more articles on the design and education sector.

I have had a few people asking me about Google+ and if it is worth the hassle of setting up yet another account for social marketing.  Google + is gaining some traction but they missed the boat in the social media gold rush days when everyone was signing up to every social media platform under the sun.  The thing to remember about google is that they kind of own the internet.  They have a huge amount of influence.  With the new changes to how the are catagorising search results it will be much more important to have lots of followers and fans.  Google are likely to put more emphasis on there own social media layer as time goes on.  I found a great video that show people how to use Google+.  Remember if you have a business then make your google + page.  You can find ours WebEd google+ page

You know when something you've been looking forward to is so close but you have to hang on a little longer.  Well the full bells and whistles launch of WebEd is getting a little like that.  Every day I'm getting more and more excited as all the hard work is starting to come together.  It wont be long now.  It's so important to try and get everything in order before you are fully live and all systems go.  This is a creative process so we have to be mindful of bumps on the way and use them to steer us ever upwards.  So tomorrow we will be continuing to work on Twitter and Google +.  We will have a nice new custom lay out before long and the new logo is just around the corner.