The parish of St Clement and St James in West London has two churches each with its own architectural style and congregation. The main purpose of the site is to bring the churches together under one site, appealing to a potential new audience and also serve as a place to find out what’s happening in [...]
This article is one of those that has to start with the caution that “we are not lawyers, but …”. From May 26th 2011 The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations will change so that every UK website has to receive explicit consent from its users before storing any cookies on their computer. The legislation is [...]
If you come from a print/pre-press background you’ll know there are a multitude of checks to go through to make sure your files are in order before you go to press. The same is true with launching a website, but how can you test that everything works without making it live? You might have checked [...]
Late in March we launched the new version of Contact Associates website, a project we worked on for Positive2. It’s a reasonably standard WordPress site with a custom theme built to reflect their new brand identity. It also needed to be accessible given that Contact Associates work with people with disabilities. As a growing company [...]
Another year, another round of development for the Biopharmaceutical Conference in Europe site that we work on in conjunction with ripe media. It’s an annual conference for CEOs and senior executives from the major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies from Europe and the US to meet and discuss the key issues for the sector. The website [...]
Here’s the scenario: you’re approached to quote for a project. Great. You read through the brief, you talk to the client, you may even get to meet them in person. You get a feel for what the job entails and something starts to niggle away at you. There are aspects of the project that just [...]
We’ve just launched Karen Woolven Floral Design a redesigned site on behalf of Recreate Design. It’s a fairly typical WordPress implementation for us – a custom-built theme, slideshows, specialised widgets to provide maximum flexibility for the client in the sidebars, etc. It also makes use of some of the newer features that have been introduced [...]
Over the years there have been a number of techniques to try to go beyond the common set of typefaces found on users’ computers and therefore are safe to incorporate in websites as text. If a designer wanted to go off-piste then in the past we would have been forced to use an image instead. [...]
It was exciting to hear last week that plans are afoot for the first BarCamp Canterbury, and since the second rule of BarCamp is: “You do blog about BarCamp.” I’d better get started … BarCamps are grass-roots, user-generated conferences. The key thing is that everyone who attends should participate in one way or another – [...]