Since 1996, Craig Grannell’s Snub Communications has provided cutting-edge web design and copywriting services. For all projects, people are the main priority: websites are created with a strong emphasis on contemporary graphic design, usability and web standards, and copy is ruthlessly edited, to ensure it’s pleasurable to read and to the point. See web design examples and an overview on writing below. If you’d like to work with us, contact details are at the foot of the page.
Concept, structural design, graphic design and implementation for Wire—one of the UK’s most influential indie bands.
Concept, graphic design and implementation for Rebellion’s range of 2000 AD graphic novels.
Complete website overhaul, including concept, structural design, graphic design and implementation.
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Concept, graphic design, artworking and implementation for artist Edith Garcia’s characterful project.
* Graphic design, templates and style guide recommendations for one of the UK’s best-selling Macintosh magazines.
Ground-up redesign for the Ludlow-based publisher, including concept, structural design, layout and implementation.
Craig Grannell’s work on the 2000 AD Books website has been superb, from design to execution. He’ a pleasure to work with: efficient and imaginative—a very good designer indeed.
Jonathan Oliver, Editor, Rebellion Developments
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Craig’s complete guide to taking a modern, modular approach to standards-compliant web design with CSS and HTML. The book includes reference guides, dozens of practical exercises, and ancillary information, such as sections on colour theory and typography.
Create cutting-edge websites in Dreamweaver, mastering CSS tools, typography, navigation and layout. Craig’s approach is as per his other web design volumes, concentrating on important concepts; this book therefore remains relevant to users of Dreamweaver CS3.
Some people consider words almost irrelevant when creating websites or marketing literature to send out to potential customers. These people are wrong. And yet despite employing or hiring specialists for sales, management, information technology and design, many companies continue to write copy themselves. But unless you’re a writer by trade, you’re just as likely to turn off clients than grab their interest. A popular saying suggests that a picture paints a thousand words, but a thousand badly chosen words paint a really appalling picture.
The reality is that sloppy copy loses you customers. Although grammatical errors merely compel some people to frown and go ‘tsk’, long-winded copy that goes on and on and on and on (you get the idea) results in potential customers looking elsewhere—and that’s bad for you and your business. Conversely, well-written copy encourages a reader to continue, and thus explore your website, brochure, press release or datasheet all the more.
Craig has written and edited copy for many organisations. During the past eight years, he’s regularly contributed to design, computing and gaming publications, including Computer Arts, .net/Practical Web Design, MacFormat, Retro Gamer, T3, SciFi Now, 4Talent, Digital Arts and Computer Buyer. He’s authored several books about web design, including the best-selling Web Designer’s Reference, and has written copy for a number of websites around the world. If you think he’s the ‘write stuff’ for you, contact details are below.
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