A new way to read news at OilPrice.com
By 18a, 23.06.14
OilPrice.com is one of the most popular energy news sites in the world, providing visitors with analysis and news from the global energy sector. We have worked with OilPrice for many years and have just gone live with a brand new news feed system and an updated homepage. The news feed…
Pearl Bay has gone live!
By 18a, 29.05.14
We are very happy to announce that the Pearl Bay website has gone live! Meet Pearl - a lovingly restored VW Camper van, available for wedding and event hire. Pearl provides a memorable way to travel on your special day, as well as adding a unique touch to other events and…
How to view the source of an HTML email
By tom, 8.04.14
Creating HTML emails is a bit of an art form, although as anyone who's had the joy of creating an HTML email knows, it's a rather semantically ugly form of art.Making an email work across the multitude of different devices and email clients requires an awful lot of tricks and…
Upgrading a Server on Amazon EC2
By tom, 17.01.14
Changing an EC2 instance type is not as straight forward as you might think, so I'm writing this post in note form as a reference for next time I come to do it. If it can also be of help to anyone else out there trying to get to grips with…
A new look for Muddy Boots Software
By lisa, 8.01.14
We built Muddy Boots' website back in 2010 and so it was time for a refresh!Muddy Boots' software has evolved over the years and so they have a different message to tell now. They also wanted an effective way of letting people easily enquire about certain products or request a…
New website for Hotrod goes live
By lisa, 19.12.13
We've worked with Hotrod Creations for many years, so we were thrilled when they asked us to build their new website!Hotrod's old site was flash based, meaning it didn't work on iPhones and iPads - not ideal for a company who do a lot of digital mobile work! So they…
Site for luxury fashion brand Frances George
By lisa, 18.11.13
Frances George, the UK based luxury hand bag and accessories label, asked us to build their new website using designs by Ben Carruthers.We discussed various options with Sarah Edwards, the talented founder of Frances George, and settled on a bespoke CMS which can grow as the company needs it to but…
Are you in technical debt?
By lisa, 11.09.13
Even though I wasn't previously familiar with the term, "Technical Debt" is something I consider for clients every day. I've just read a very interesting article on SitePoint about technical debt, putting it in comparison to personal debt and credit cards. Technical Debt, a phrase coined by Ward Cunningham in…
How to get around Duplicate Content issues with Cloudfront CDN
By tom, 10.04.13
Cloudfront is Amazon's Content Delivery Network (CDN) offering and provides web developers with an easy to use and cost effective way of letting people access content from a variety of regions around the world with the aim of speeding up website delivery. This isn't a guide to using Cloudfront -…