Mary’s personality struck us as “genuine and warm,” and we wanted to incorporate a “crafty” feel to the website to compliment that personality. A vision of a “scrab-book-like” site came to mind, and resulted in one of our favorite layouts ever. Mary’s site features a custom flash site loader, a custom page pre-loader, and a “social network sticky” complete with a Twitter Bird to match her branding!

http://www.mkmckenna.com/

After finishing her site, we focused our attention on her proofing solution through Smugmug. Using Showit we created a custom flash header that ties right into her site and fits snug right inside Smugmug.

http://mkmckenna.smugmug.com

We’ve been waiting to see this for sometime now. The watermark that Showit previously donned was the same watermark used since the inception of Showit. With their branding moving towards a more “professional and serious” look, we knew the watermark would be updated soon. It seemed to be a server side change so nothing content wise was affected with this small update. No new news on the much-anticipated SEO update for Showit, however we can smell it and it’s getting close.

*Edit* Contest extended until 10pm on November 13th 2009!

Spilled Milk Designs is bringing you THE biggest Twitter giveaway of the century! Just follow these simple directions to enter to win a one year subscription to Showit WITH a custom design by Spilled Milk!

To enter you must send out a tweet with the hashtag #spildmilk included. The remaining 131 characters are up to you but be creative! Tweets from this day forward that include the hashtag #spildmilk will be considered an entry.  You may only enter once, and you may not enter from a second Twitter account. Winners will be announced sometime before midnight on November 2nd 2009. Contest void where prohibited. Full contest details can be found here.

To enter:
Step 1 – Sign up for Twitter if you don’t have an account.
Step 2 – Tweet whatever you want but be sure to include the hashtag #spildmilk in your tweet as it will serve as your entry.

That’s it!

Feel free to spread the word with this tweet, and follow us if you’re down with Spilled Milk and Showit:

One year FREE subscription to Showit WITH custom design by Spilled Milk! Details here: http://bit.ly/R76Fc

*Edit* We apologize for the confusion! Some parts of this post had “spildmilk” and “spildmlk” . We changed the post to reflect the correct hashtag #spildmilk, and those who entered with the hash tag #spildmlk WILL still be included as entries.

DEADLINE TO ENTER OCTOBER 31st AT MIDNIGHT EST

We promised a few super secret sneaked screen snips so here they are!  We don’t want to reveal too much of what Showit has in store for us, but what I can say is that your images/layers on your Showit site WILL be picked up by Google image search! There isn’t a flash site in existence with this feature!  Can we get an”amen” on Showit rocks!? Amen! More info as it develops, and Learn Showit will have the tutorial posted the same day that Showit pushes the update.

A few months back we authored and released the first unofficial guide to using Showit.  We initially thought that we would update this guide every 6 months or so to include the new features that we’re released, however with updates rolling out once per month it became apparent that a PDF manual wasn’t a viable solution.  After updating the guide for a second time, the day after Showit released an update which ultimately made the guide again obsolete.  We started to rethink ways to educate folks on how to use Showit and came up with the idea for downloadable tutorials.  We really have to thank our fans because it was one fan in particular who suggested downloadable tutorials.  Thanks Michelle!

We are proud to announce the launch of Learn Showit – HD quality screencast tutorials for Showit. These tutorials are available for instant download in a 1280p Quicktime file format. Tutorials are broken into several different categories, with new tutorials being added monthly.

We hope that this solution will help those struggling with how to use Showit, and more importantly how to use Showit as a global branding tool for your business.