Thank you to the Manchester Evening News for publicising our new Website Surgery. It’s in the Business section of Tuesday’s newspaper.

You can read the full article at www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk.

If you have any web-related questions, we can offer advice on anything from setting up a website and selling on the web to blogs and search engine optimisation.

There are still places available at this week’s surgery. To book your place please telephone 0161 249 0901.

We’ve had a number of enquires recently from customers wanting to know the best way to edit photographs and images to upload to their web sites. In most cases we usually point them in the direction of Piknik, an online photo editor. The free service Piknik offers is usually sufficient for most users, allowing them to crop and resize images as well as tweaking things like exposure and contrast. A paid for service is also available which offers some more advanced tools and features.

Splashup, another free online service, offers slightly more advanced tools and an interface that will seem familiar to users of Photoshop. Although there’s a little more to Splashup, it is still easy to use and offers some tools you wouldn’t expect to find in such as program.

Both Piknik and Splashup run online, meaning you don’t need to install anything and you can use them from any computer with an internet connection. For a more powerful alternative that you can install at home, take a look at Paint.net. It is a fully fledged graphics package that gives many commercial products a run for their money. And, being open source, Paint.net is completely free.

We’re delighted to introduce our new ‘Web Design South Manchester’ service, a unique ‘web site surgery’ covering everything you’ve always wanted to know about web design but were afraid to ask.

The surgery is open each Thursday evening from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. If you have any burning questions, would like to discuss your ideas or would like a professional view on your own site, come along for a cup of tea and a chat.

Please phone ahead on 0161 249 0901 to secure an appointment and avoid disappointment. We look forward to welcoming you.

Welcome to the new look Vanilla Storm. We’re proud to introduce our brand new website. A new look for a new era.

We’ve been working on some exciting projects which you will find featured throughout the site. The portfolio and testimonials pages have been expanded to highlight our most recent work and to share our customer feedback.

Also new is the blog. We’re all avid bloggers and will be updating you regularly with all the news from Vanilla Storm and some interesting snippets that we think you may find useful.

As you can tell, we’re very excited.