Introducing Transformation with improvements

A special transformation online feature is developed to inform some exciting changes planned.

A new family of improvements & changes being planned for sharing project developments and achievements. Not just online but also social media and on printed & digital materials.

The feature will include the following areas:
* Online improvements
* The new look
* New style documents and materials.

The improvements & changes will be rollout on a gradual basis.

Watch out for a detailed insight on certain improvements soon on the developments.

Click here to visit the transformation feature online

For updates on the changes & improvements will be featured within the new update blog with a featured tagged section "Transformation19"

New Awareness project for World Mental Health Day

A new special awareness project has been developed to coincide World Mental Health Day (October 10th)

"Don't underestimate Differences & Mental Health" is the new awareness project with my awareness initiative "Plus Value Awareness". It is aimed for society to be more aware of how the human aspects of mental health can cause an impact on independent young people and adults with a family of invisible difficulties.

Mental Health is an ever increasing issue to society & the world. However how mental health affecting invisible difficulties can be easily undermined and disbelieved.

The project features explore through different subject areas. This includes examples of attitudes, compromising dangers through to Sustainable Solutions

This is presented into eight sections & features a pictorial icon to make it easy to navigate each features using a colour coded pictorial illustration.

As well as being featured online marketing posters have been developed for potential marketing of this project.

This project is planned to expand further in the future. Including target versions specifically for the general public and for invisible difficulties presented as an information bite-size guides onto leaflets, foldout flyers and online. Also, a PowerPoint presentation to be developed for potential training and detailed documents for more detailed insight. Both documents are potential services to business, communities and organisations in the future.

Explore the project by visiting the "Don't Estimate" pages of the plus value awareness website.

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Note:

Invisible Difficulties is related to independent people who have a high amount of intelligence but live with a number of difficulties which is not obvious to the eye. The initiative features issues affecting individuals with Autism (moderate level), Dyslexia, ADHD, Dyspraxia and Social Anxiety,

Awareness October Launched

My Awareness initiative "Plus Value Awareness" has launched a special online feature.

Awareness October is the umbrella features with links to focused cornet linked with different awareness events within the month of October.

This including specific annual awareness events for Dyslexia, ADHD & Dyspraxia. Also, World Mental Health Day will happen in October to include the conditions above along with Autism & Social Anxiety.

Each feature will include awareness extracts especially for the particular condition and Mental Health, facts & figures from the Awareness Series feature and an introductory information & linked to the focus awareness features for each featured condition.

This is the biggest special feature with the initiative history and will be the first time special awareness featured has been developed for Dyslexia, ADHD, Dyspraxia and Mental Health. The focused elements of awareness October will appear gradually during the specific awareness events occur.

Dyslexia Awareness Week
1st - 7th October

World Dyslexia Awareness Day
4th October

ADHD Awareness Month
1st - 31st October

Dyspraxia Awareness Week
7th - 13th October

Click here to the Special October Awareness Index

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Awareness Feature for World Autism awareness Day & Month

Projects & features has been developed for world autism awareness Day & month

A number of features and content has been developed to Mark world autism awareness day (2nd April) and during World autism awareness month (in April).

This year new original content has been added & an invitation of a brand new online feature as well as the annual presentation featuring a united nations statement.

Awareness presentation message
A family of 7 presentation awareness presentation messages has been developed. It was different issues ranging from human rights through to social attitudes & human aspects. This is designed to encourage Society to see autism awareness beyond the conventional issues and topics. Also to move away from the medical aspects.
As well as online if it’s shared regularly on social media throughout April. The awareness templates will be transferred to the differences and autism challenge feature at the end of April.

United Nations statement presentation
A designer presentation was also developed a statement from the Secretary General of United Nations to mark World autism Awareness Day (2nd April). This year theme is Focusing more on empowering the rights of women and girls with an autistic spectrum.

Awareness focus invitation featureIn addition and in the face of the special online feature which has been recently launched. Is a feature which specialise complete with the awareness projects and beaches with information more relevant for people living in the autistic spectrum.

Visit the special feature by clicking here

More details of the project will appear on the main website soon

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Social Media Changes

A new family of changes which affects existing social media profiles along with brand new ones.

A new changes effects Plus Value Awareness, and the "Creative and Achievements" profile with a new Plus Value Fusion profile.

Creative & achievements profile now as primary 
The existing creative and achievements profile on Facebook will now rebranded as become the new primary profile.  Also a brand new Twitter primary page is now live and now is the main profile on Twitter which replaced my personal profile. Both profiles will be presented to feature my personal logo identity more prominently for the profile. It will continue which features have family of focussed projects and developments. In addition will feature a portfolio of potential products and services ranging from creative and participation through to Leisure and activity related developments (Active).
Visit the new Primary Facebook page

Visit the new Primary Twitter page

Personal Google+ profile
My profile on Google+ will be phased out and will be replaced with the online Google photos galleries.


Plus Value Awareness
In addition with Twitter and Facebook in new profile is Now created on Instagram. This profile will mainly feature initiative projects and campaigns. It will feature small references on services and products (which will be mainly featured on Facebook & Twitter). No changes to the existing Differences & Autism Challenge profile on Facebook.
Visit the new Plus Value Awareness profile on Instagram

Plus Value Fusion
The umbrella name towards enterprise add new social media profile on Facebook. This will feature examples of potential products and services a long wave in a rented any developments in progress for enterprise.
Visit the new Plus Value Fusion on Facebook

Further changes
A plan to expand Plus Value Fusion onto Twitter and in the long term to create a profile on Linked-In

Keep updated online & on social media

(Notice to editors)
Plus value awareness
A campaign & resources based awareness initiative which enables a smart a sense of value towards independent people living with invisible related difficulties.

Plus value Fusion
The umbrella and identity towards Enterprise which covers social chain and focus related services. Which disk incorporate plus value awareness, differences and autism challenge and my focus services which is presented as"focus services from Keith McKenzie". (Including creative, participation and active.)

Awareness round-up April 2018

A summary of developments which has happened over the past few months

* Website redesign
Three years since the website was launched the website the plus highways website has been going through a major redesign. The new changes is enabled to  be more user friendly to make it easy for everyone to access the awareness projects, features and potential services to be planned in the future.


* Plus Value Awareness Website now features Differences & autism challenge
After an 8 month gap online content of differences and autism challenge has  transferred and now has become part of the plus value awareness website with a special online section.

* Awareness series has expanded
The feature awareness series has been recently expanded with new focus sections or associated conditions ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia and social anxiety. Each section features facts and figures and statistics or each of the conditions. Further content to be added in the future.

* New "Awareness Focus"
A brand new feature which enables everyone to understand how invisible difficulties effects people living with the associated conditions. This is broken down to focused section to cover autism, ADHD, dyslexia & dyslexia. With each section it features a special understanding page about the summary of difficulties with in each condition and a special customised information linked with the initiatives projects and features. This feature is an introductory starting point we're in the focus sections two discover the initiative projects and features. Further customise context content will be added. A section for social anxiety is planned to be added in the future.


* Capture templates redesigned
A new family are capture templates he's starting to appear across all social media channels full stop these templates capture elements of projects, campaigns and other content from Plus Value Awareness along with Differences & Autism Challenge.
The changes has been made after receiving several dream back and how to make the content easy to read & digest.

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Informing Plus Value Awareness at events

Sharing the Plus Value Awareness at regional awareness events.

Recent developments of spreading the word on plus value awareness at two different awareness events in the region.

One of the two events attended at Autism Central which is organised by Queen Alexandra College which took place at the Aston Villa Football Ground in Birmingham. This event Showcases products and service providers focusing on the lies which affects the autistic spectrum. 

The other event was a "disability hate crime awareness event call "Say No to Hate Crime" which was organised by West Midlands Police along with several local agencies in the Sandwell area. This took place at the West Bromwich Town Hall.

The Autism Central event wasn't just a showcase our providers and product makers but the event also hosted a number of seminars throughout the day. One of the seminars featured was an experience from an autistic adult who had gained many achievements including claiming international sporting achievements with the Special Olympics leading to a silver medal for tennis.

Meanwhile the disability hate crime event was highlighting what was on offer from the local providers providers who attended. 

At both events I have shared about the plus value awareness initiative emphasising the overall aim along with a family of proposed services and possibilities. He also said examples on existing products projects and the issues covered.

The feedback from the both events emphasise that there is a need for this initiative as they are a gap on what is needed which enables various people with invisible later difficulties to move forward.

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A note to Editor

The Plus Value Awareness Initiative has been developed by Keith Mckenzie. It is a collection of projects and campaigns towards a smarter sense of value towards independent Young People & Adults with invisible related difficulties (including Autism, ADHD. Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Social Anxiety) The initiates highlights issues and solutions focusing on the human aspects rather than the medial approach.

Plus Value Awareness website:

http://plusvalue.dudaone.com

Awareness round up

Behind the scenes many developments has happened for Plus Value Awareness over the past few months. See the information below for details.  

1 Prototype awareness documents & materials A family documents has been developed over a three months period to demonstrate examples on products and services which could be developed in the future based from the key principals of Plus Value Awareness. This ranges from education, training, relationship guidelines, survival guides and personal development tools. From the examples developed, a more focused & customised variations can be made the target audiences at different levels. 

If you're are interested further please go to the awareness collection on Plus Value Awareness website 

2  Project & Information snapshot for Social Media Developing a family information & project snapshot specially designed for social media. A total of Over 150 snapshot has been developed to display different examples from projects or elements the initiative. With extracts from a particular project including tips & guidelines along with images or visual designs from a particular project with additional examples from online content and documents. The aimed is to improve interest and engagements on social media. The information & project snapshots will start to appear soon via Plus value awareness pages on Facebook, Twitter & Google+' 3 Expanding the family information statistics for the feature awareness series. Expanding the redesign statistics presentation to ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Social Anxiety along with Mental Heath (which affected the majority of invisible difficulties). The completed family is developed after the first version for the autistic spectrum was unveiled during two events in April including world autism awareness day & Autism awareness month.  
This will appear on the Plus Value Awareness website soon 

4 Modified Content online Some online information has been slightly modified to include additional information & features. This including adding information pages on examples of products & service documents & materials. This will form part of a online feature which is under development called "The awareness collection" the information feature to highlight the variety of services & projects at a glance. 

5 Design & presentation update The next stage of the design & presentation layer has been added to the initiative. This is the addition since the major design overhaul of the initiatives including and updated logo & design presentation for the featured projects. This an additional design layer to enhancement to promote the initiative overall and it us will be also be develop to navigate into the different elements of the initiative. This will mainly be seen as the main promotional materials and it appear with some of the information & project snapshot templates on social media posts.

More to come Further information & project snapshot to be developed with customised variations across the five associated conditions (Autism, ADHD, Social Anxiety, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia). Also all of the new image snapshot will be represented further onto different sizes. 

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Summer presentation project

A family of special creative projects has been developed for the summer season.

The design is an abstract digital art design around the theme of Circle Pattern.

This is combined large abstract sun display, visual elements of the summer season against a circle pattern background. The initial design was developed during late June and through July and August with seven additional designs has been added with a general abstract, a version with a combined with five focused variations including Heat, Cool, Fun, Natural and Taste

The addition seven designs during August was developed to signify the final two weeks of the Summer season.

Click here to the Visual Showcase page to view the project

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A family of Awareness prototype documents designed & developed

A new family of prototype materials has been developed. Each material is examples of types of services and products for Plus Value Awareness along with Differences & Autism Challenge. 

It is developed with a non-stigmatising and a unique approach towards smarter awareness with more relevant information guides and support materials related to independent and intelligent adults and young people with invisible related difficulties. (High Functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Social Anxiety). Focusing more on the human aspects and not generalised content related to a specific condition.  

The family of materials developed ranges from education & training, relationship guidelines through to personal development tools and a survival guide. 

The examples of materials include:

Sustainable
A twenty-page relationship and interaction guide to enable smarter understanding along with concise knowledge. This can lead to not only to enable a sustainable relationship with the person with invisible difficulties but also to able to bring the best of them.

Sense of Value
A twenty-page education and training document which informing the conditions, how life affects the affected in summary. Also how what you need to be aware of and what you need to consider to make sure a person with invisible difficulties can be a benefit to you and society.

Forwards
A comprehensive survival guide for invisible difficulties with information guides and items to consider to make sure they maintain their sense of value and belonging. This twenty-page document enables the affected to cope and many issues which affect their lives and what do at different stages which may be challenging.

Connect
A family personal development tools and references for invisible difficulties to assist them to be self-driven on specific skills and qualities which many other taken for granted including assertiveness,  and make a self-review & to create planners to keep track on the current situations.

It has taken a couple of months of research and development along with many months in designing and publishing the prototype materials. Further amendments and modifications to be made further until the finalised version are published.

All materials can be customised and specialised to deferent life balance groups along with the relevant environment. This means each publication can be tailor to everyone needs, situations and circumstances.

These prototypes materials are planed to be shared at networking and business gatherings as part of the strategy to generate interest to initiatives projects and potential services.

Go to the main website to view the details design aspects

Go to the Plus Value Awareness website to find out more on the type of materials developed.

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The main website is back online

My main website has returned online

This was caused by an online image library provider blocked all my images and templates, unannounced with no prior warning.

New changes added
The Navigation has changed focusing on the achievement categories and the main features:

A brand new feature "Information and about" with key links to pages such as about me, associated achievements and many more. This replaced the feature Information & Achievement

The Main Features has changed and features the Fever blog, One Vision and Publications

The content within the previous features "Projects & Initiatives" and "Networking Connect" has moved within the category sections. The Visual Showcase feature is now fully part of Creative.

It will take a period go time to completely restore all the images that were blocked and to add all the templates and the footer graphics to every page. So there are will be certain pages with no images or certain pages with no footer templates for the time being.

Click here to the main website

A huge amount of time has been taken to make sure to restore this website along with images and templates as much as possible, therefore the website cannot be the responsibility for any errors which may occur

Please note the websites Differences & Autism Challenge and Plus Lifestyle is currently unavailable. I have decided to build a brand new Differences & Autism Challenge website in the near future. 

The majority of contents from the website Plus Lifestyle will be transferred and will reappear on the Active Plus Blog in the near future. Meanwhile my participation information and content of the music project King of the Beats will re-appear as part of a new online feature to be confirmed soon.

More Updates will appear here. 

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My family of websites are temporarily unavailable

The main website along with the websites Differences & Autism Challenge and Plus Lifestyle is sadly unavailable for a temporary time. This is due to issues beyond my control.

The inconvenience has been caused by the provider of hosting images for the main website decided to block all hosted images at short notice without any sort of advanced announcements.

My family of websites will be restored soon.
It will take some time to make some modifications.

Further updates will appear on this blog update on Blogger along with social media page on Facebook.

In the meantime you can still able to access my blog update via blogger and my social media pages  on any updates developments and achievements. You also view the parent website Plus Value Fusion.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

New style awareness presentation

Updated April 2018 from the article originally posted in April 2017

The first of a series a new style visual presentation featuring facts & figures and statements and other awareness messages which affect the lives of people with invisible related difficulties have started to appear to mark World Autism Awareness Day (April 2nd) on via my online awareness initiative Plus Value Awareness.


Each presentation has been completely redesigned with new style presented facts & figures with restyling shapes and pie charts to support each information.

The new style awareness information & statics presentation is to be gradually rolled out in a colour coded format linked with different associated conditions. So not only to feature the Autistic Spectrum but also feature to related conditions including ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, and Social Anxiety.

You can now view all the family of the facts & figures presentation via the Awareness Series of the Plus Value Awareness website. Click here to the Awareness Series


Click here to the Visual Showcase page to view the design examples in detail

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Love & relationships creative teaser

A creative teaser on a new creative collection of a showcase project was unveiled on selected social media pages during Valentines Day.

This is part of the Love & heart project a series of the project which combines Love, relationships, creativity and related issues.

The feature design is an abstract interpretation of space & the universe and the emphasis of the Mars & Venus planners associated with men & women.

Further examples to added to this new collection.

When the third collection is complete a new developed “Love & Hearts” blog to be online. This will contain examples of Love & Heart projects from past & presents.

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New Year Creative & online feature

The annual online feature featuring a special creative project for the New Year is now online.

Special online Feature
Now in its 5th year my special online feature for the New Year features photography and creativity. Presented in a brand new look and for the first time this online feature is responsive and it is compatible to mobile & tablet devices as well as desktop & laptop computers.  It includes a collection of Winter themed photography, web links to a full collection over on Google+ and Google Photos, the highlights on 2016 in developments & achievements and features my creative project for the New Year

Christmas Creative project
This special project showcase my creativity for the New Year. This years theme is double spheres theme, a  design which features an inner & outer transparent sphere with new year related celebration  visual elements. This project is featured on the Special online feature and online

Click here to view the Special New Year Feature

To see more of the special creative project in detail
Click here to the Visual Showcase page

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2016 Highlights

Creative

A new style creative project which combines, leisure & lifestyle. The Fever project combines photography and visual art.

A major design development year with my awareness initiate “Plus Value Awareness’ after a year long research, feedback and design development before completing anew family of awareness projects.

A series of Showcase projects including the patented sphere theme and spin off special projects for Easter, Summer and the Autumn season.

Awareness

My initiative Plus Value Awareness has been completely transformed 2 years after it was created. This was after a year long developments including research, feedback and design development before creative a new style family of awareness projects. This includes brand new projects such as “value is” and “is this the right value?"

As part of completing the new style projects to my style awareness projects shared to selected people for additional feedback. 

To spread the word of “Plus Value Awareness” I attended several events includes Social Enterprise networking sessions and autism awareness events. This includes attending the Autism Show event organised by National Autistic Society. As part of the event i attended a special seminar hosted by celebrity music couple Carrie & David Grant. I was one of many people on asking questions after their talk presentation on the issues on their efforts to maintain the best education with their teenage children who has Autism. Later had an opportunity to talk to they was both interested with the types of project I'm developing for “Plus Value Awareness" and gave me some advice.

Participation

I assisted in filming a line up of legendary Hip-Hop performances at London’s Forum at Kentish Town. The artists includes from the America’s East Coast KRS One and DJ Premier and London’s very own legendary DJ Cutmaster Swift and 279.  

An part of attending of the U.K’s biggest Salsa Music convention festival I assisting I setting up the flooring, sound system and the furniture for the event “Motion City” at Hilton Metropole Hotel at the NEC near Birmingham.

Active

Attended number of festivals related to music, visual & reforming arts.

The second City of Colours event happened in Central Birmingham combining street art with live breakdancing showcase & competitions. The first evert "B-sides" Hip-Hop festival  a weekend long event combing graffiti art, breakdancing and live Hip-Hop performances.

After a 4 years break the "Flyover show" returns featuring "Sweto Kinch" and a line-up of performances covering different music genres 

Attended selected concerts including Hip-Hop artists Smiff “n” Wesson, DJ Supreme with Curoc and The Mouse Outfit

 with a variety of live DJ’s include Nightmares on Wax, A Guy called Gerald, Grahame Park, Giles Peterson, Harvey Sutherland, Sean Mcabe, Feel my Bicep, Grant Nelson, Birmingham’s very own DJ Spaara (The two times DMC UK mixing Champion) and many more. In addition attended cladding events covering different music genre including Hip-Hop, Soul, funk through to house music organised by Funkademia (Manchester), Leftfoot, Subway City, Soul Fusion, Wobble, Sweat, Bruk up and Enter the Dragon. I also attended the Rainbow Warehouse’s special New Years Day party.

Attended more Salsa related events & festivals and social events  in 2016 than any pervious  year. Festivals including “Motion City” (one of the U.K’s largest Salsa music convention & festival), “Salsa all day festival & Valentines Ball”, "The Latin American Festival. I also attended salsa social events from Latinmotion, Smooth Salsa, Picante and the V.I.P salsa ball events. This is together with a regular session from the live salsa band "Del Camino"

I have made photographic & mobile captures on some of the events mention in addition locations such as the NEC pavilion at night and the Peace Padgoda gardens in Milton Keynes

It mark the end of 2016 I will attend for the very first time to Latinmotion's annual New Year event. Now in its 22nd year the event has become bigger expanding over two days on both New Years Eve & New Years Day. The event has a combination of special workshops, live dance performances and social parties. Located at the NEC near Birmingham. 

Involvement

Months before Birmingham City Council redesigned it website I attended their consultation on feedback and the effective way to make their initial idea better before the website became live for the general public. I made several points based on clarity, legibility and the importance user friendly countering variating abilities from all types of society.

General

My website has being transformed for the first time in 4 years. The  completed the website to be 100% compatible onto Mobile & tablet devices as well as desktop & laptop computers.

In preparation of developing social enterprise a social umbrella parent name & identity was developed currently presented under “Plus Value Fusion”. As special website was developed and information materials. The Plus Value fusion is design to cover all types of service and projects. This includes my focus skills such as creative and participation also there “Plus Value Awareness initiative” and “Differences & Autism Challenge"

New style publications was developed to share my developments & achievement in total new ways such as a family of digital portfolios.

New style Awareness invitation

An online invitation has started for everyone to the new family awareness project.

A special page was created on the Plus Value Awareness website to introduce at total of 6 new style awareness projects. This is promoted from the Plus awareness social media pages on Facebook, Twitter and Google+  Some are brand new and others of new updates version of projects. 

The new style projects was made after 6 months of research, feedback and design developments followed be creating new content online. The new changes also includes and new updated brand identity for Plus Value Awareness. 

The new changes was aimed to more be more clearer and more appealing on the issues & topics.

Click here to the special page on the Plus Value Awareness website

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Notice to editors:

The Plus Value Awareness initiative is developed & designed by Keith Mckenzie with a unique approach to awareness project for independent young people and adults with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Social Anxiety.

To approach project is to address the issues based on ground levels experiences and to move ficus on the human aspects rather than the medical aspects. The project is aim towards a better sense of value with Invisible difficulties. 

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An important name change notice for enterprise

The umbrella brand identity on developments & services for social enterprise its changing its name. So from now on the brand name is changed to Plus Value Fusion. 

The reason of the change is because the previous name using the name "Plus Value Enterprise" is already used as a business therefore could risk facing legal problems.

The website and blog update will display the new name however the content & information will remain exactly the same.

The new “Plus Value Fusion” name changes will also apply to all associated focused website including Plus Value Awareness, Differences & Autism Challenge and the focused services My main website

The website address for enterprise will remain the same for the time being. But will update you on developments on any website address changes.

The name changes will gradually appear as a footer on my main website and blog update and the associated websites

Click here to the Plus Value Fusion website

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Special creative design & online feature for Christmas

The annual online feature featuring a special creative project for Christmas is now online.

Special online Feature
Now in its 5th year my special online feature for the christmas hilly features photography and creativity. Presented in a brand new look and for the first time this online feature is responsive and it is compatible to mobile & tablet devices as well as desktop & laptop computers.  It includes a collection of Winter themed photography, images of street Christmas decoration both have web links to a full collection over on Google+ and Google Photos and features my creative project for the Christmas season

Christmas Creative project
This special project showcase my creativity for christmas holiday. This years theme is radiated elements, a integrated design which features an abstract glass tree along with 4 visual elements associated with christmas with floating colour shapes with a winter snow background. This project is not only feature on the Special online feature but also is shown on social media and presented onto a greeting cards

Click here to view the Special Christmas Feature

To see more of the special creative project in detail
Click here to the Visual Showcase page

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Major changes affecting the main website

My main website is going through major changes. The website is currently converting all pages to 100℅ responsive. When completed all pages will be fully compatible to all devices onto mobile & tablet devices as well as desktop & laptop computers. 

Most of the pages on the website will remain unchanged as it is now. However certain pages will gradually be moved to directions sections or replaced as part of a total new page. This is part of a on-going development process of restructuring the main website as part of transformation project. 

You may start to notice a new enhance look with new style banners and template pages and link also background images & additional colours as a background. Thus will enhance the appearance and will gradually start to appear especially with index pages & specialised pages and blog pages.

During the process of converting every page to responsive format you may notice some images & page templates may appear oversized when viewing from mobile devices for a temporary time until every page images & templates are modified to be fully responsive.

Keep updated via the transformation elements of this blog update & via social media

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