Monthly Archives: February 2009

Scratchcards – The Perfect Promotion?

Posted on February 9, 2009 by admin

Scratchcards or Scratch Cards? Whether it’s one or two words doesn’t really matter. We think they’re one of the best promotional vehicles in existence. We’ve been producing personalised scratchcards for many years now – have to hold up a hand … Continue reading →

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Promotional Scratchcards – A Primer

Posted on February 9, 2009 by admin

So you have a sneaking suspicion that your company would benefit from a scratchcard promotion but don’t know where to start. Well here’s a good place I’m discussing short runs of between 1,000 and 50,000 copies in this article as … Continue reading →

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About NHA

Posted on February 3, 2009 by admin

Brochure design? Yes Catalogue design? Yes Copywriting, photography and print production? Yes Web site design and maintenance? Yes Experienced enough to know what we’re talking about? Yes Experience across a range of industries? Yes Worth a call? Definitely – 020 … Continue reading →

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Gas Ghosting – Well I never knew that

Posted on February 3, 2009 by admin

Even after years and years of print buying: dealing with everything from 4.5 million brochures for Toymaster (www.toymaster.co.uk) to 250 business cards for our lawyers, every now and then a problem crops up that few have ever experienced. And it … Continue reading →

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Brochure or Catalogue? What’s the difference?

Posted on February 3, 2009 by admin

Not a lot you might think. But you’d be wrong – when it comes to design the two are as far apart as breakfast and dinner on a bad day. The two serve quite different purposes and need to be … Continue reading →

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Permalinks in WordPress – Solved

Posted on February 3, 2009 by admin

After such a promising start with WordPress I hit a problem: the default page links that it creates are NOT search engine friendly. The system creates meaningless links like “http://nha.co.uk/wpress/?p=N” which are no good to man nor beast if you … Continue reading →

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WordPress Set Up

Posted on February 2, 2009 by admin

After a couple of hours of fiddling the NHA Design blog is up and running. The WordPress “Famous 5-Minute_Install: (sic) worked a treat although I expect previous experience of wrestling with Joomla installations and creating databases helped. Having run through … Continue reading →

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