Helibo

At 20:00 GMT earlier this evening, all entries were inputted in to a system where at the end it would automatically select one of them.

The winner of our first competition at Helibo has now been notified, whose name is Josh from standxhtml.

We hope to get some more competitions out in the future, but we will need your support.

*Note: Sincerely sorry for the lack of updates, still awaiting on a developer for the theme. Bare with us as more content is being prepared!

A great way to keep your website up to date, is by shedding some light in different areas. By maintaining the corresponding elements but manipulating the way it draws attention, you should see a significant change. Let me show you.

A great example I found today, was the re-brand of Eden.

You can the rest of the above image on their homepage, and it shows they’ve even manipulated the logo as well. And doing this can give your website another boost in freshness. What I would suggest is don’t do this continuously, but perhaps every 6 months or so. Keep your website the same from a very long period of time can start to turn peoples heads away. It’s true!

Design and the web itself is changing on a daily basis, so by keeping your websites design clean and fresh, you should be able to keep up with standards of that time.

I believe people could save a lot of money by doing this, instead of after 2 or more years, having a complete re-design of ones website. Wouldn’t you say so?

9 years in the web industry and I have seen the web separate into 4 sections. The most popular section now is the use of vector illustration, and flat based websites with gradients, points and blended shapes. Many websites being somewhat glossy, also known as the web 2.0 design trend. In the beginning of 2008, being a CSS gallery watcher, I had started to recognise that a lot of these websites are becoming more popular by the day. And the way these websites are being built design wise, is improving dramatically. Question is, “How far is web 2.0 going to go, will there be an end?”

The second section would have to be flash. There are thousands of websites being built in flash every year, but are not widely recognised compared to web 2.0. A question that I ask myself all the time is, “Why is flash not the best way to build your website?”

Many people will argue at the fact that Flash should be used depending on the websites type. For example, Ford. Ford could have been done in either plain html/css, using a content management system, however they chose to give the user, that wow factor when visiting the website. So why do designers, tend to ignore the use of flash today?

Now for the third section, I decided to give this to very informative websites, one’s which are built with no styling, or no design at all. These are still widely popular when searching in Google. We have all seen these, and I doubt there will be a day when we can discard them.

I decided to put the 3D section at 4th, because we are not seeing many websites at all with the use of this. Ignoring the use of 3D in flash websites, just 3D alone is becoming unpopular. The only genre I have seen 3D being used very well, is in the gaming industry. A very great example of 3D being used, would have to be at High Fidelity, which was designed and built by the guys at 9dots. I believe that this sort of website immediately attracts the users attention, where the great use of detail is immense.

So here’s the question for you readers, “Do you think the use of 3D should come back?“

Below I have put together a list of 7 great web applications to help you with your business. From Project Management, Cash Flow Management to Creating Invoices. So let’s begin..

5pm - Project Management

5pm™ is a next generation web-based project management tool.
It’s flexible and simple to use. The powerful features are accessed through a smart customizable interface. Everything is within a click or two.

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We are now providing a Web Consultation service which will consist of providing you with a highly detailed and unique review of your website, from the overall design and structure and its code, to SEO and marketing techniques that will help you get more out of your website.

All you are required to do to start is simply head over to the right hand side and click on the “Web Consultation” banner in the sidebar, and fill out the form briefly, providing some details of your website.

As an introductory offer, we will be providing this service at a one time fee of $50.00, that’s over a 60% discount from what the initial price will be. Cheap as chips for a quality service! And once payment has been authorised, a member of the team will be in touch with you to receive some details about your website, and then to give your review to you.

With our review we will be providing help and tips on how to lift your website off the ground. We won’t do this for you, but it will give you the correct information and roots to go down in order to get the best out of your website.

So what are you waiting for? Start your consultation today!

Months ago I had the idea to start Helibo as a personal blog. It wasn’t until recently when I decided to take Helibo to another level, where many articles about the web industry would be written by myself and 2 other people. So before I go on, I would first like to introduce, Xavier and Andy who will be writing articles for Helibo.

So today is the day where I announce the launch of Helibo, and how I will start this is by telling you where the name ‘Helibo’ came from. To answer, I was using a great tool called Tabeze to brainstorm my domain ideas really quickly. Roughly guessing, I would have made over a 100 attempts to come up with something short and decent. So there it is, and if you struggle to pronounce the name, this may help you - “Hair-Lee-Bow”.

I would also like to explain that this site was NOT created to be flipped, nor have I got the intentions of selling Helibo. With that being said, Helibo isn’t about making any money, it’s about providing thorough information about the web today which will give you as the user, a better understanding of it. Even if some articles are very detailed about different topics, we wouldn’t like you to turn your head away.

So if you know of a topic that you do not understand about the Internet, please feel free to contact us and we can add it in our topic box. Yes, we have one!

We have big plans for Helibo, and one way for us to succeed is by you giving us help. Give us honest feedback, interact with other members, and possibly submit your own articles and get paid. Helibo will be about sharing knowledge, and building an efficient blog about the web today.

If you a personal interested in any of the following:

• Learning about Identity, and strengthening your brand.
• How to interact with clients properly
• How to get yourself above your competition
• Dominating you or your business in the industry
• Making money online
• How to generate a buzz
• How to make your design a non 20 second look
• Learn more from programming
• Learning from industry leaders through interviews and articles
• And much more!

Then keep coming back or contribute to Helibo by grabbing an RSS feed, we know you love them!

So to finish off today’s introductory phase, I would like to Thank everyone for helping me launch Helibo. There is much more to come, so we suggest you be back very soon!