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Product Shoot – Small objects

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Posted by Sandeep Singh Thukral

Post-processed images of small products I shot using my DIY light tent.

Strobst info – One SB-26 and One SB-28 fired at 20mm zoom, 1/16th power on either side of the lightbox. Some light ws reflected back into the shot using a piece of white thermofol/foamcore, sometimes handheld in front of the product, sometimes placed on the top of the lightbox. See the first/last photo in this set for the setup info.

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SEO pepiras

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Posted by ramesh pepiras

Web Design
We have a unique team of web designers who understand the art of designing and create the perfect picture of what the customers want with absolute precision and easy-to-use interface for their growing business. Our handcrafted websites act as a powerful tool in bringing an optimised experience to the customers and make them engaging for more.
Responsive Web Design
More traffic is ensured and our designs will put the focus on pivotal areas of the customers’ requirements with impact, efficiency and credibility. Our high standard of design tools and solutions will make you realise the beauty of our in-depth knowledge as we persevere to be as responsive a website could under any platform.

Each web page will be tailor-made to suit the customers’ demand and can be easily viewable, be it on laptop, tab or smartphone. Our responsive team of designers cater a adaptable environment where whoever gets in will be served with loyalty and most significantly work for their satisfaction in every possible way day-in and day-out.

What the clientele ask for is what they get but only more! Our ultimate vision is to drive them to stardom and the success path created by us is brimmed with authenticity as every snippet in the process of design comes from our brainstorming session rather than extracting an already existing template.
CMS
Content Management System bestows what the users desired for and letting them utilise the available services in their preferred customised manner. Our dedicated group of individuals assist our clients and make them feel at home besides providing support, as integrity and reliability are of our core values.

CMS is one such process where clients get to make changes whenever and wherever they want in their websites and the aspect of multiple users will promulgate the diversity in accessing the tasks beckoned. In addition to ensuring efficient design, our methodology carried out for CMS will give a confidence boost for every customer and make versatility an inevitable corporate mantra.

Once you approach us, you will become an integral part of our bloodline as our composed design troop will have you backed up through all the trials and tribulations. We expertise in using open sources like Open sources like Joomla!,WordPress, Mambo, osCommerce, DotNetNuke, PliggCMS,etc. Managing you content goes as far protecting your own identity and with our intuitive consolidating processes we will identify what goes wrong and how to deal with it without having to hinder you the slightest way.
Web Development
Our proven reliability is testimonial to the way we execute the web development process. We provide web applications with ease of usability and our main objective is to make clients with less technical knowledge access their site in a no-hassle manner. The contents in the website need to be persistently updated as well and we are there to help you throughout. We will give a portrait of the optimised solutions and from which your ideas will come into reality. With the group of talented personnel, we will interact in regular intervals with the clients and assure them of top notch web-based development solutions.
E Commerce Websites
The E Commerce portals are growing in large numbers in recent years. Having a sustainable platform is quintessential in the fiercely competitive environment to enhance your business value and engage people for visiting your website more and more often. As E Commerce sites have product displays and elaborative details to let buyers comprehend over the eventual product, the usability and functionality are of prime importance. The exceptionally skilled develops and designers make strides to get the website up and running as an user-friendly and easily viewable platform. The E Commerce sites are developed with Magento, OS Commerce, PrestaShop and other techniques to enable satisfactory shopping experience and good churn of revenues for the clients.
Custom Made ERP
ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning) brings all the processes together that are responsible for operation of an organisation. It can be developed to comprise HR management systems, Lead management, work flow management, Appraisal systems, Inventory management and much more. The major pros of ERP are to instigate satisfaction among customers and to allow for seamless data flow with accuracy. For any user looking to maximise the resource utilisation, ERP is the perfect process to consolidate higher range of monetary efficiency. We will give you continuous support after relentless testing period as we custom-make ERP to meet your requirements following the complete understanding of work flow in your business arena.
WORDPRESS THEME DESIGNING
We have been crafting websites for a long time now. With the expertise knowledge gained from technical masterminds and from the customers’ needs, we have entered into tailor-made WordPress Theme Designing. We have qualified designers who design eye catching and mobile friendly websites using HTML5 and JQuery.

It is of no surprise that most of the WordPress themes available online are looking reminiscent to each other. People looking for innovative and unique design should go for customised wordpress theme designing to highlight them in the competition. This is where our highly-skilled team showcase their ingenuity in making creative wordpress themes.

Our tailor-made websites begin from hand drawings before transforming themusing graphical tools and slicing them to HTML. All HTML codes are programmed within the wordpress theme designing ethics and all designs are ensured of smart mobile compatibility. After designing the wordpress theme, we start building the inner pages which support the master page. We follow a peculiar process in wordpress theme optimisation to make sure it loads faster and compatible to all devices. It is always important to give complete structure and functionality of the theme and pages where wordpress plugins need to be installed for search engine optimisation, Website security, important widgets and tuning settings in wordpress admin module.
WORDPRESS PLUGIN
Plug-in is a software element, coded in various programming languages affiliated in website designing to enhance user experience. WordPress plugin is a very important component to be added in the website for boosting up its functionality and to beautify its appearance.

Our versatile wordpress plug-in developers can customise or develop a new plug-in matching to your requirements which can jazz up the website features. We create and make changes as per needed and will infuse our knowledge to bring the best possible output under any circumstance.
E-COMMERCE – MAGENTO
Internet had reformulated the trading, today majority is habituated to the online shopping. E-commerce websites plays a pivotal role in this modern era of shopping and there are many businesses ranging from small players to big giants have their own e-commerce sites. According to the facts and figures, E-commerce has helped the businesses to reach the mass target of people electronically.

We, Pepiras technologies the avante-garde in developing e-commerce sites and we always stand unique in the web development market. We have no limits in designing and customising an e-commerce site to any extent. Our expertise team of developers are well versed in developing large e-commerce portals with easy navigation and usable product filters.

The most important part of e-commerce is integration .Magento based E-commerce website should be integrated to other stores like online and facebook stores to manage the products and make sure it is available whenever needed.

We can also develop full stretch upload option to upload your products endlessly and in quick process as well. Existing websites in other programming language can also be changed and customised to magento website where our talent skill showcased over and over.
PAYMENT INTEGRATION
One of the major challenge in E-commerce website is dealing with payment integration plug-in. It involves both advantageous and risk as well. Expertise knowledge will help to integrate the payment service plug-in to E-commerce site but processing of payment, payment security and reversal or failure in transaction needs practical and risk management thinking where Pepiras plays an important role.

Our wordpress developers and designers are put together for this process to ensure the innovative website design and high level of functionality for which woocommerce platform is used. Creating e-commerce website using woocommerce platform enhances the website to be easy, flexible, user friendly and highly protective. Small businesses to big players are benefited out of this Woocommerce plug-in in many ways such as easy product search, cash on delivery, flat rate shipping , free shipping, biddings, coupons and so on. Woocommerce plug-in is customised and integrated according to the clients requirement.
MOBILE COMMERCE
TECHNOLOGY is growing steady and also with emerging trend, mobile shopping is now trending and made ease of shopping . Mobile commerce paves a way to search, choose, check out, track and receive the products through the mobile device anywhere and anytime. At Pepiras trchnologies we do both native app and browser based app. Mobile commerce sites are well programmed with storage management, loading time and integrated with secure payment mode. The mobile commerce site we design is compatiable and user friendly with all type of devices.
SEM,SEO AND SEM
The Search Engine Marketing (SEM) plays a vital role in ranking your page and visibility so that the visitors will approach you over the rest of your rivals. With huge numbers of websites scattered across the internet, it is important to have an upper-hand in terms of ranking and analysing to make the most out of your business and to atop the Search Engine Ranking Page, our SEM techniques step in to lay the foundation for your online success. The following methods will assure you to stay on top of your game:

Keyword Analytics 2.Adwords Posting or PPC (Pay Per Click) 3. Regular Modification of Web Content based on Key Words 4. Website Analytics

A strong customer base is a pre-requisite for the success of any business. But how would people approach you in the first place? SEO, which is a part of SEM, provides the gateway. Contending with spending money for Ads will get the business nowhere in all honesty and thus specifically coining your own place on the internet is in no-doubt essential.

The traffic can only be attained if your site has presence in the first page of any search engine and no more than one in ten visitors will go beyond the top page. With effective content and keywords, dynamic indexing, constant updation and on-the-mark quality we at Pepiras Technologies will help make your business profitable while enabling it to be the stand out among targeted rivals.

To reduce needless spending, get instantaneous feedback, elevate your brand reach of any product or service the Smart Social Media Optimization comes handy. Social medial platforms act as advertising tool due to their enormous popularity and there is no better way to knock the doorsteps of your target audience than via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and so on. On the back of creating publicity and brand awareness, SMO will boost your site ranking through indirect traffic going by the theme ‘more you share, the more you care’. It is an added asset for the business’ reputation while enhancing the web presence by making social media sessions interactive. Promotion through video, forums and blog communication, engaging press releases and candid social media presence are some of the SMO processes we expertise in.
LOGO AND BROCHURE DESIGN
Designing a relevant and attractive logo in business standpoint is an integral part of customers’ reach in the market. An enticing logo is in the heart of your identity and reflects a particular business in different mediums such as TV commercials,name boards, business cards, letterhead and hoardings giving an instant recognition and appeal. The different types of logo designs used are Textual, 3D Logo, Emblematic, Conceptual and Iconic. With constant inputs from our clients, we wouldn’t settle unit the desired logo is re-imagined digitally by us with all the latest design trends.

Our expert design panel will direct your business towards the potential customers with a crispy and stylish brochure. There are several techniques followed in creating a spell bounding design and we have a group of well-trained designers with proactive thinking and having the ability to create a definitive edge for your market theme. Brochure carves an effective strategy and its physical presence will give customers an in-depth analysis into your promotions. The brochure design extends to flyers, folders, hoarding, banner, voucher, poster, newsletter, product brochure and so on.

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How to Create a Custom Business Website with Squarespace

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Posted by Connor Renwick

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The following post is brought to you by Squarespace. Our partners are hand picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design.

Neon colors have taken over the runways and street style blogs for the past several years so it was only a matter of time before neon signs infiltrated the decor space (move over marquee letters!). And they’ve been embraced with open arms by design magazines, blogs and Pinterest boards. Lately, neon has become even more affordable (and for sale at big box stores like Target). But unless you had a neon artist on speed dial (or very deep pockets), it’s been a little difficult to get your name written in lights. (Or your mantra. Business name…Or just about anything custom). Until now! Name Glo has taken up the challenge to get your name in lights.

The company was started by Lena Imamura and Sas Simon, in 2014. Sas was on the hunt for the perfect baby shower gift for her soon-to-be-born nephew. She hit on the idea of having a neon sign made for his nursery, but couldn’t find a source. In one of those light bulb moments, she remembered that her high school friend, Lena had a neon sign in her apartment, and so reached out. The rest is Name Glo history.

Of course, it didn’t happen quite that quickly. Lena had been making light-based sculptures post art school—not only did she love the power effect of neon, but she also loved that it didn’t take up too much space in her tiny NYC apartment. The pair spent the next two years taking commissions and fine-tuning the custom ordering process on their Squarespace site. (They had to develop a way of making custom ordering simple and intuitive.) Finally, they opened their cyber “doors” on April 12, 2016. On their “almost” anniversary, we asked them to look back on their first year of e-commerce and share the challenges (and highlights!) of making a custom business work on Squarespace.

What template did you use and did you experiment with others?

We use the Marta template (believe it or not) and we’ve really pushed the template with a lot of custom CSS. We love that Squarespace allows this.

We did a lot of research on different templates, comparing and contrasting all the various features. Yet despite all the research we went with Marta because it was just the most simple and clean. We trusted that the custom CSS would take our site to where we wanted it to be—and voila, it worked!

How long did you spend working on the site design? Did you work with a designer or did you do it yourselves?

We both like to divide and conquer, which is the beauty of having a partner who has totally different strengths from yourself. Lena does all the design work from the site to the branding to the neon designs. Our friend and great designer Stine Westergaard developed the logo for us. And from our rough estimation together, we probably invested a combined 1000 hours from inception to launch.

Can you tell me a bit about how you’ve used the platform to have a custom order business? I love the way you can try out phrases and envision how it will look in neon!

Thanks! We’re about to geek out on you, ready?

We knew we needed a custom designing process but there really wasn’t an easy solution available. After speaking with a bunch of Squarespace developers and getting outrageous quotes left and right to build a custom designing feature on the site, we came up with a simple solution that involved 1000s of woman hours

In order to recreate a custom designing process, we setup the pages so that you could pick a font, then a color, then a mounting type and a display color. We started out with 8 fonts and 9 colors and 4 mounting options and 4 display colors — if you do the math that’s 1,152 combinations…. That’s 1,152 items in our store for every combination of font, neon color and mounting type that was mapped out across 100+ page flow that created a seamless selection process.

After a handful of sales we decided to invest into developing our own custom design interface that you see on the site today. It’s actually hosted on a separate domain because it’s a web application (an app that works in a browser window). What you see there now is an MVP (minimum viable product) while we learn more about user needs and get feedback from our clients.

We’re really innovating the medium of neon with our modernized approach and it’s our website, brand and the custom design app that’s creating that experience and telling our story. We’re so thrilled at the response we’re getting.

What have been some of your favorite phrases in neon?

We did a custom bee in LED neon for a nursery of a close friend. Their daughters name is Bar and they call her “B” all the time, so we loved this one for sentimental reasons.

One of our first pieces we made were neon eggs, which we get asked about a lot. An art gallery ended up displaying the piece in their window and by chance Refinery29 spotted it and posted the neon on their Instagram. That little post really helped bring us a ton of exposure and take us to a new level

If you were starting the business today, what would you do differently/the same?

I don’t think either of us anticipated how busy we’d be so quickly, which is a great problem to have, just sometimes a little overwhelming. We haven’t advertised our product anywhere other than our Instagram account and brand collaborations, so we were both pleasantly surprised with how quickly the word has spread. In hindsight, we would have a better system in place at the very beginning with how to organize all of our orders. At this point we have it down pat, but it took a few orders to understand how best to communicate the whole process from design to production to delivery to our clientele.

We would keep our mission statement the same, which is to make every moment shine, and we really do seek to do just that.

What advice would you give someone who wants to start an online shop?

Before you have your site go live, we would definitely suggest sending it to a core group of people who can give concise and helpful feedback. Be open and receptive to change and find people you really trust and listen to them. The way we thought the site should flow was often different than several of our friends and it was important to be receptive to their constructive criticism.

What have been your biggest lessons learned this year?

I think our biggest success so far has been to say yes to everything, try it out and learn from it. Not being afraid to take risks at the beginning is very important. It’s better to learn hard and fast at first, than stay the safe course and be afraid to make changes later.

For example our first collaboration was with an illustrator in Dallas who we had never met yet she was a big fan of our work. We just went with our gut and ended up creating a beautiful piece for her which resulted in new sales. Looking back, we didn’t know her from a hole in the wall! But we took that risk anyway.

We know it’s easier said than done but trusting your instincts and taking the risks you can afford to take, only helps you grow. For a startup, we especially think it’s crucial

Any final advice for starting a business/ecommerce site that you’d like to pass on?

SHIPPING! Always think about shipping. The shipping always bites you if you don’t think through your business model carefully.

We have a pretty unique shipping situation since we’re delivering fragile glass neons. But at the outset everyone told us that everyone loses money on shipping. It’s just become a standard on ecommerce sites to have close to free shipping — no one expects to pay for that these days. So building-in shipping into your operating costs is important.

Even though we ship our neons all over the place, we still are constantly iterating on the best ways to package, ship and install them. Maybe it’s always a work in progress but it’s a big part of an ecommerce business that is hidden in plain sight.

Make your next website using Squarespace. Squarespace offers online store, templates and domains to help you get your business off-the-ground! And when you use coupon code DESIGNMILK at checkout you’ll get 10% off your first purchase.

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Posted by Keith Wondra

Top of the Telephone Building at 910 15th Street in Denver Colorado. Following description from the Colorado Historical Society Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation’s website: The 1929 Telephone Building is important for its association with the growth and development of telephone communications in Denver and the Rocky Mountain region. The building served as the headquarters of the seven-state region Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph (later Mountain Bell) from 1929 until 1984. Architecturally, the building is one of the finest examples in the country of the American Perpendicular style, designated by the Bell system as “Modern American Perpendicular Gothic.” The distinctive characteristics of the style reflected in the building are the expressed verticality, steel framework, terra cotta sheathing, varied setbacks, continuous piers, stylized towers, recessed spandrels, and Gothic Revival style ornament. The building is the largest and most important commercial design of prominent Denver architect William N. Bowman. Bowman designed the building in conjunction with local Bell system engineers and it was erected by local builders and craftsman utilizing a variety of products from around the state. The building’s design took advantage of the setback provision of the city’s zoning ordinance, permitting buildings to rise higher than the nominal height limit of twelve stories if higher stories were setback from the wall-plane.

The building exhibits high artistic values, reflected in the intricate planning, lavish detail, and high quality craftsmanship displayed in its interior and exterior design. The terra cotta integral to the design of the building is among the finest crafted in Denver incorporates Gothic Revival design motifs, and includes mottled and polychromatic components, ornament in varied relief, extensive decorated panels, ornate arches, and massive piers. The Gothic Revival influence is echoed on the interior, which also includes aesthetic elements incorporating the history of telephone service in the state and representing emblems of the telephone company. The interior reflects the influence of noted Denver artist Allen True who selected color palettes, designed fixtures, and advised the architect regarding the choice of materials. The artist believed that beautiful surroundings had a positive psychological effect on workers, and he was a leader in the city in advocating carefully planned color schemes and artistic decoration for large office buildings. As part of this effort, True executed thirteen murals with communications and telephonic themes which grace the public spaces of the building. These murals are considered among True’s most outstanding work.

Finally, the Telephone Building is important in the area of engineering, for the technological advances embodied in its composition and construction. The architect and engineers worked in conjunction to design a building which would structurally meet the challenging practical needs of the telephone company while also serving aesthetic considerations. The building was erected to house the special equipment making possible the introduction of telephone dial service to Denver. The building was designed with an innovative independently fireproof core rising from the subbasement to the roof.

NRIS #04001555. Added in 2005.

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