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To the future…

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

I dread to think about the number of blogs that start by apologising for the lack of posts over the last few months. I’m not going to do that, instead I’m going to start by saying that this is a conscious effort, and the first step towards pushing our company forwards. We want to be better known, and we want to grow.

Blogging is just one of the things that has so far helped us along the way, so I’ve no idea why we stopped posting. I suppose it’s because we’ve been so busy - but that’s no excuse. You may have noticed that we’ve been tweeting more recently, too. That’s another thing that we want to do more of. We have all this knowledge about online marketing, and we educate our clients and push them to do all these things, yet we don’t even do them ourselves. If a client asks if this stuff works, what better example to use than our very own company? But that’s not going to happen if we keep making complaining about being ‚ ‘too busy’.
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Our new home: Leeds

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Hello, We haven’t blogged in so long and we feel bad! We’ve made a lot of changes recently moving citys, we have a new office and we’ve rebranded. The blog has therefore suffered, we are still planning on writing posts and giving back to the design community don’t worry!


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2012

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Last year, 2011, was a good year for us; busy, interesting, exciting, scary, all mixed into one. We learned a lot, honed our skills, developed new ones, new relationships, new ways of working, and created a lot of work we’re really happy with. We grew, too. We changed from a freelance outfit to more of a small agency, which was the scary part I just referred to - but it couldn’t have gone better.

We’re just over two years old now and 2012 is going to be a big year for us. We’re really excited.

It goes without saying that we want to keep doing what we did last year. Keep learning, every day, and keep producing work that we’re proud of by pushing ourselves at every opportunity. But we also have a few more specific things that we really want to do, and will.
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Movember!

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

This year both me and my fellow mo bro chris are taking part in the ever more infamous Movember season. For those of you who don’t know, this means that we’ll both be growing moustaches from the 1st to the 30th November in the hope that we can get some sponsors and “raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men”. We’ll probably look like we’re auditioning for the next 118 advert, but it’ll be worth it.

movember

If you want to look at our ugly mugs for the next 29 days and follow our progress, we’ll be taking a photo of ourselves every morning here: http://dailybooth.com/whatcreative
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Web Design Trends: Don’t be a sheep. Do your job right.

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Trends are everywhere, especially in the design world:
fashion, web design, interior design, even type design - we can’t avoid them. But are they actually a good thing? In many ways I think possibly not…

People don’t buy websites based purely on how they look

The Web Design industry is a little different from other creative industries who may be, for example, purely focussed on creating visual impact. We have many other variables to consider in order to create websites that benefit the users by having a good user experience, and that also benefit the client by increasing conversion and/or awareness of their brand - which both go hand in hand with it having a quality design. My feeling is that some people get so hooked on design trends that they forget what they are actually supposed to be doing as web designers / developers.

We aren’t paid to simply create pretty pictures and seek the approval of our clients second to our peers, we are paid to create usable systems that benefit the users of the Internet.

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