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10 Web Design Trends to Watch In 2017
The New Year has arrived, and as the Christmas period begins to feel further and further away, we’re cheering ourselves up with the many exciting things to come over the next 12...
Working with SIFA
We had the pleasure of working with SIFA Fireside for this project. Creating them a brochure explaining their services and opportunities for homeless people. Start Firstly a meeting was arranged with SIFA...
Branding. What’s the true cost of getting it wrong?
Branding. It’s a word that all too often gets confused with things such as a logo design, colour palettes, brochure design or, well, just plain old pretty pictures. Yet branding, in actuality, is far more than...
From first time blog visitor to firm fan – Seven tips
Let’s face it, driving traffic to your blog can be challenging, demanding much time, effort and, if you invest in PPC, money. Once your visitors have arrived, you’ll want to make the...
Most of your website visitors don’t trust you. Here’s how to turn it around.
Website visitors are seriously tricky customers – filled with mistrust and arriving with a protective defence that’s been built from years of digital marketing messages being thrust at them from every angle....
Squibble’s CEO scoops Young Entrepreneur Award
Squibble’s CEO scoops Young Entrepreneur Award Kim Leary, CEO of Birmingham based Squibble Ltd, has been named Young Entrepreneur. She beat off several competitors to win the prestigious award at the Forward...
Advanced UI Animations
UI Animations make the web experience more interesting, interactive and entertaining and with the use of modern web technologies are being used more and more. HTML5 has meant that animations can now...
What Are The 4 Types of Logos?
Logos can be exciting. For many new businesses, a logo is the first thing they think about – something about having an ident makes a business seem more real. On the other...
Why Is Packaging Design So Important?
Packaging is how a product presents itself. It’s also how it will stand out in a crowded marketplace. Whether on the supermarket shelves, in a promotional video or an online product shot,...
What Makes Good Packaging Design?
Good packaging design catches the eye – but also the imagination. Artwork, shape, material and size all make a big difference when it comes to packaging, and achieving harmony in your design...
What Makes A Bad Website Design?
Bad website design is confused web design – and we all know a muddled webpage when we see one. Our grandmothers might have told us that, if we’ve nothing nice to say,...
Why Graphic Design Is Important for Any Business
Graphic design is the art of appearances. Graphic designers craft how something looks so that it appeals to the target market, is appropriate to the function of an item, and projects the...
What Is The Purpose of Rebranding?
Rebranding: It’s not just about throwing out the old and bringing in the new willy-nilly. It’s akin to taking a trusted old wardrobe, recognising its essence, and then updating it to strut...
Graphic Design: What’s It All About?
Graphic design isn’t magic, but it can be mysterious. It’s easy to think it’s mostly about logos and Hollywood posters – but actually graphic design is all around us. Anything that has...
Are face to face meetings necessary?
Emails, phone calls, letters, social media… today there are so many ways of getting in touch with people that we can sometimes forget how important it is to meet face to face....
Digitally Delivering our Discovery Session
A big part of what we do, at the beginning of any web or branding project, is project discovery. We hold face to face session with key stakeholders to understand how the...
Why Animation Isn’t Mickey-mouse Design
Crafting Creative Content Marketing
Why WordPress is great for SEO
According to W3techs, WordPress powers 60% of all the websites (with a known content management system) on the internet. A service doesn’t reach that kind of market share on usability and good...
What is SEO and do I need it?
‘Google it’ is the answer to every question these days. A few clicks and you have you answer. But not many of us search through the pages and pages of results we...
SEO and all it’s complexities
Search Engines are complex machines. They sweep through millions of web pages and rank them all in order of, well, what? This summary seeks to try and explain their methods and how...
Why WordPress is great for SEO
According to W3techs, WordPress powers 60% of all the websites (with a known content management system) on the internet. A service doesn’t reach that kind of market share on usability and good...
How to Write a High-Quality Web Design Brief
A project is like a journey. Each has a destination, and the aim is to reach that place on time and on budget. This never happens by accident. A well written web...
Why UX Is Important for Your Website
News flash for those not in the know: UX is not the latest Star Wars droid (who can improve on BB-8 anyway?). In web design, UX – or user experience – is all...
Why have a blog?
What does a blog add to your website? Is it really necessary or just an optional addition? In this post, I am going to put forward some strong points for the addition...
Advanced UI Animations
UI Animations make the web experience more interesting, interactive and entertaining and with the use of modern web technologies are being used more and more. HTML5 has meant that animations can now...
The Future of the VR Web Experience
With the launch of hardware like the Oculus Rift, 2016 is the year VR (Virtual Reality) is finally coming home. VR is already being used in the tech industry with press conferences...
The Repetition of UI Patterns
One of the side effects of responsive design has meant that a lot of sites look similar and we are seeing repetition of UI Patterns. Responsive design isn’t solely to blame however....
