Lessons from Silicon Valley

A really interesting video entitled, Lessons from Silicon Valley, popped into my inbox this morning, part of the latest businesszone.co.uk newsletter. Silicon Valley really does sound like a great environment for encouraging and nurturing startup potential. There's certainly a huge amount that both the UK business community and the government…

Use social media imaginatively for your business

Facebook isn't for every business. And for those that it suits, just creating a Fan Page isn't enough to bring social media success. You've got to think about your audience and what they want... One of the most imaginative (but at the same time a little nauseating!) uses of social…

Designing for WordPress

I love Wordpress - it's a great piece of opensource software that's really blog software, but because of it's feature of "pages", also makes a great CMS. I've been asked by a few designers lately what they need to consider when designing for Wordpress. So I thought I'd share what…

New invoicing system a success

As we do our invoicing at the beginning of each month for the previous month, this week has been the first chance I've had to play with our new invoicing system. After a year or so battling with the rubbish system our bank wanted us to use, we've now built…

OrchardOsteopaths.co.uk goes live

We were very excited this week to unveil the new Orchard Osteopaths website. The Chard, Ilminster and Axminster based osteopathy practice wanted a contemporary looking, easy to navigate brochure website for their services. They also of course needed it to be highly search engine optimised and as we got their…

How to embed a Google Map onto your website

If you'd like to display a Google Map on your website, then it's very easy to do thanks to Google's embed code. Just follow these simple instructions. (If you'd rather your website could get the maps from Google itself directly, then ask us about setting up the Google Maps API…

Last minute HTML emergency!

CCT rang us on Thursday afternoon asking if we could help them out by building 3 HTML pages and an HTML email (and test all of it across a variety of email clients and browsers of course!) by Friday lunchtime....! It was a tight deadline but we're not afraid to…

The Times and The Sunday Times to charge for online content

I've just read on utalkmarketing that the Times and The Sunday Times will start charging for access to it's content from June 2010. This is truly a big moment for the entire traditional publishing industry and journalism as a whole. But will it work? Personally while I might be happy…

New holding page for Organic Jam

The Organic Jam had a very funky design for the holding page of their website - and so I was excited to be asked to make it! The large, over blown background image is separate from the top layer, which gives a fluid effect when changing the size of your…

New website goes live for Stuff Advertising

Our friends over at STUFF wanted a new website to showcase their work and services, so we were happy to oblige! The site is a combination of a bespoke CMS - meaning their work and clients pages are easily updateable by them whilst there was no compromise on their design…

Should you use Google Adsense on your website?

I've been asked a few times in the past whether I think a client should put Google Adsense on their website. This question normally comes after they've just read a book called "How to get rich quick on the Internet" or some other similar title. Google Adsense works by displaying…

Win £50k in the Barclays Startup Competition

Getting funding for your startup idea can be a real challenge, particularly in todays climate of financial uncertainty. So a competition offering a prize fund of £50k is what every entrepreneur dreams of, and could really help a business get off to a flying start. This is what they say:…