One of the more recent additions to the mrhill portfolio is on-line boutique for Gemma Holley, a hat maker and designer based in the West Midlands. Her collection of unique millinery is simply stunning and has won her many accolades.

Gemma studied at Loughborough University and Kensington & Chels

ea College and is currently a millinery designer for an accessories company who supply to the high street. She has always maintained a passion for creating unique designs and styles and is looking to promote herself and her own collection.

Her final collection was chosen to be exhibited at the New Designers Exhibition 2004 in London where one of her pieces was then selected to be photographed for a New York fashion magazine. It was her final collection also that gained her work experience with Stephen Jones Millinery where she fell in love with the Industry.

Since then Gemma has gone on to work for the likes of the highly profiled Milliner Philip Treacy, as well as for Edwina Ibbotson Millinery and also Bailey Tomlin.

Her website, www.gemmaholleymillinery.com was designed by NYDP and features an interactive gallery of her bespoke headwear as well as an on-line catalogue of her purses and other items, all with basic e-commerce functionality.

The Gemma Holley logo and headwear designs are copyright Gemma Holley

Wait… fav-what?

A favicon is simply the small icon attached to most websites that shows up in your browser’s navigation bar or bookmarks list. They can really help to back up the branding of a website.

Considering favicons are so widely used it is quite surprising that top of the line graphics packages such as Photoshop do no support this format. There are patches available, but there is also a fast and free alternative to creating favicons on the web.

The “Favicon from Pics” software at HTML Kits website lets you upload any picture in a common image format such as GIF or JPG, and it will create a favicon for you based upon that image. Download the icon package from the HTML Kits website and you are ready to install the favicon on your site.

Adding the icon to a webpage is an incredibly easy task. Firstly, upload the .ico file to the root of your website and then add the following code into the HEAD section of the page you want to add the icon to:

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico”>

Et voila, your favicon will be visible to the world!