Three, yes three, websites for Serious

Like buses, these website arrived all at the same time. Unlike buses, there was a good reason: the client wanted to manage all three websites using the same Content Management System.

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Enhanced Link Attribution in Google Analytics

By Simon Leadbetter, May 2013

Did you know that by making a simple change to your Google Analytics tracking code and clicking a checkbox in the account setting you can get truer results when using the wonderful In-Page Analytics? No, neither did we.

Geeky Stuff

Credit Today advertising campaign for Athena

When you are new to the market, what better way to introduce yourself than by making a big splash (on the back cover of your industry’s leading magazine).

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Foreign language web pages for Prosell

It all looks like double-Dutch to me, but then it’s meant too. However, if you speak Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese or Hungarian then there’s a chance you’ll enjoy the new pages we created on Prosell’s website.

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Google Keyword landing page campaign for Farmers Weekly

The team at Farmers Weekly came to us with quite a shopping list: 7 genre-specific landing pages (with 30 sub pages), 4 regional landing pages (with 20 sub pages), 1 student special offer landing page (with 5 sub pages), 1 classified landing page and 2 responsive general subscription landing pages. Phew!

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Mereworth & Kings Hill Scout Group

Like every scout, we proudly promised to do our best.

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Do you know your straight from your curlies? Using the right quotation marks is just smarter

By Simon Leadbetter, Feb 2013

Marking a passage of text with quotation marks is simple, right? It is… if you know the secret key combination that unlocks the mystical curly quotes. All will be revealed.

Client seriesCommunication

Use a Dropbox account to synchronise your Sublime Text 2 settings

By Simon Leadbetter, Feb 2013

A decent text editor is a web designer/developer’s Holy Grail. Everyone has their favourite and being a recent convert to Sublime Text 2, I can say that it’s my new best friend – especially as it’s easy to keep it synchronised between multiple machines.

Geeky Stuff

An alternative for the missing if no_paginate tag

By Simon Leadbetter, Jan 2013

ExpressionEngine is great in a million-and-one ways, but if you’ve ever wanted to display content when there is no pagination then you will find there is no native tag for this task. However, this simple work-around does the trick.

ExpressionEngineGeeky Stuff

Monster horizontal scroll bars when creating a RTL (right-to-left) layout

By Simon Leadbetter, Jan 2013

When we say monster, what we mean is a horizontal scroll bar that is longer than the channel tunnel.

Geeky Stuff

Taylor Associates website

Taylor Associates provide bespoke training courses to the international banking and financial sector. They wanted a website that said they were serious. That resonated with their target audience. That was tailor made.

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Web Forms: a great big User Experience brick wall

By Simon Leadbetter, Jan 2013

Web forms are notoriously difficult to get right. In fact, they are invariably seen as the one area of a website that is attributed to a poor user experience and often the primary cause of frustration. So we’ve collated a few tips to help you avoid your web forms becoming an unsurmountable obstacle for your users.

Client seriesUser Experience

An alternative approach to business stationery

Business cards, compliment slips and a letterhead are the usual staple for a company’s stationery requirements, but Prosell decided to try something slightly different.

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