It's finally here: NOISE 5 - the latest edition of the world-renowned series of design books by our friends at the Attik. As far as big design studio monographs go, the Noise series has a huge international following and each issue has become a collectors' edition.

Self-published with only a 3000 limited run, each book has cost over £200 to produce, resulting in a visual feast of experimental design and extensive print techniques. The book showcases over 250 pages of stunning design, using 9 different kinds of paper stocks and over 40 print finishes including hot foils, scratch-off inks, hi-build gloss varnishes, embossing and heat sensitive inks, and the result is a very tactile and very beautiful piece of work.

This book has been 3 years in the making so you can imagine that it's very hot property for those lucky enough to pre-order a copy. But since we're not just any old web design studio, no, Sizzle Media are one of the very few privileged enough to get a complimentary copy well before the book hits the stores!

Having pored over it since its arrival, we absolutely love it. It really is a work of art and has everything a designer could wish for and more. It's absolutely saturated with creativity and you genuinely sense the attention and effort that has gone in to the production – not to mention it cost a small fortune to produce!

Overall it’s a landmark piece of work by the Attik and a highly recommended purchase for any print or web designer when it does eventually hit the book stores.

Thanks to the Attik for our copy :)

We aim for greatness at Sizzle. We realise that our pay monthly websites have to not only appeal to humans, but to search engines too. So when we build a site we constantly grade and re-evaluate aspects of it in order to provide the best possible business advantage to our clients.

That's why we love sites like Raven's SEO Analyser. It's by no means perfect, but it gives us a pretty good gist of how well-tuned is a site towards search engines. While we don't pretend that every site we make is going to get 100% right off the bat, we aim to constantly improve scores over time, with high scores being the eventual goal of any site we make.

Raven's tool provides a decent (if brief) report into the aspects of on-page SEO which, when combined, can make real differences.

Here at Sizzle, we create 'pay monthly' websites. The idea's as simple as it sounds - rather than pay a hefty lump-sum, you spread the cost over a two-year period, in monthly increments. This system gives even the smallest businesses the ability to afford professional-quality sites. To illustrate this point further, here's a list of things which pay monthly websites will and won't do for your business!

• Pay monthly websites WILL help generate interest in your business by attracting new leads
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