All there in black and white - or full colour: a new home page for Jericho Writers
By lisa, 28.09.23
We've been working with Jericho Writers for a few months now, getting to know their very complicated WordPress membership site. If you're not familiar with Jericho Writers, they're a passionate team offering a host of services to help budding authors get published. The team consists of a lot of successful…
ChatGPT or Bard: Which is the better coding assistant?
By tom, 2.05.23
How developers code, is changing. We now have amazing 'assistants' in the form of AI models, able to generate code quickly and easily. But how good are they really? I've been playing around with OpenAI's ChatGPT 4 quite a bit lately. But on receiving an invitation, I've now given Google's Bard a…
Why your traffic stats are changing: GA4 vs GA Universal Analytics
By lisa, 30.03.23
Google Universal Analytics is being turned off in July 2023, as they move everyone to their new beast - GA4. Google have also been sending people emails lately to say they're automatically moving you over to GA4 this month (March) if you haven't moved yourself already. The change over -…
Speeding up arranging meetings with AvailabilityCal
By lisa, 27.03.23
We've recently launched AvailabilityCal.com - a neat little tool to help ease that back and forth over email when you're trying to arrange a mutually convenient time for a meeting. Apparently the average meeting takes 7 emails to arrange - eugh! Now, as long as my Google Calendar is up…
A fresh look for Woodcarving Workshops
By lisa, 15.01.20
When we launched a new site for Chris Pye and Carrie Camann back in 2016, the brief was to keep the design familiar to their existing users. The new video based e-learning site, built on CodeIgniter to replace their previous Umbraco site, stuck to the previous colour palette and certain design…
Why have my Instagram pictures stopped appearing on my website?
By tom, 3.06.16
If you were a user of the Instafeed.js service for Instagram, you may have noticed recently that your pictures have stopped automagically appearing on your website. This is due to some recent legal changes Instagram have made to their API, which has unfortunately stopped the app (for now atleast) from…
ClaytonERM move to WordPress
By lisa, 4.02.16
At first glance, the new site we created for Clayton Euro Risk looks pretty similar to the old site ... which was exactly what was requested. However, as similar as it may seem in comparison, just like a swan, the feet were paddling frantically below the surface. Metaphorically I mean…
New video subscription website for Woodcarving Workshops
By lisa, 20.01.16
Master woodcarver Chris Pye's popular online video learning tool, Woodcarving Workshops, needed a make over and we were more than happy to help! Their old site, which was built using Umbraco, was a little tired and not responsive so they needed a site that could keep up with the requirements…
Re-branding for Mapp Media
By 18a, 15.09.15
We recently helped Mapp Media rebrand their website, changing all of their previous purple into green! We made the changes to their blog site and holding page for their new brochure site which we're currently developing on WordPress. The blog site is fully responsive and kept up to date with…