recent website design blogs
security…

security…

This week - and last week and probably next week - we're all about security, Ramping up the security on all of our websites. We're hot on security, and as a matter of course, when we work on a website, we always update plug-ins and themes and carry out lots of general...

shout out to artists…

shout out to artists…

As well as designing websites for clients, sometimes we design them for ourselves and for projects we create. This is one such website - www.worldartforsale.com - and if you are an artist, you might want to read on... Is this you? Lots of artwork, wrapped in...

the joy of design

the joy of design

We're embarking on the design of a beautiful new website for long standing clients, in Manchester. We've worked with them for over fifteen years and have designed websites and created branding for all of their various business ventures. Initially in the hospitality...

what’s a vintage car got to with design?

what’s a vintage car got to with design?

What, indeed? Well, quite a lot when you think about it. And we did think about it. And that got us thinking we could offer a new service to our design clients. A service that a client could either go with or not, but a service where everything was laid out...

today is the day we…

today is the day we…

...change. The day we change our focus. The day we start on a whole new journey. Design will still be at the heart of everything we do, but we have been researching and planning and developing our business in the background for a good while now. And today we feel is...

we’re not just about websites

we’re not just about websites

It's true that website design takes up most of our time. Websites are what people usually enquire about, and a website is often the first project we'll collaborate with a client on. From the website, other design work then usually emerges, once a client realises that...

work hard. work anywhere…

work hard. work anywhere…

If you've come here to take a look at what we do, we expect that you think our productivity is a bit limited, given our lack of social media posts. Not so. We've been very busy. 2024-2025 has been an interesting time, to say the least. As well as working with our...

our take on projects

our take on projects

We now never take on projects that don't personally interest us. If we don't get that feeling immediately, from experience, we know it's not for us. In the past, we had to take on projects which, if we are honest now, looking back, didn't float our boats at all. Our...

feat of clay : website

feat of clay : website

We get clients in a variety of ways - but never via doing the rounds at breakfast meetings or putting ourselves on random websites which promise to deliver lots of new clients. Breakfast meetings are an absolute oxymoron, as far as I am concerned. If you can't have...

delivering exactly what *you* want

delivering exactly what *you* want

It would be very easy for us, as designers, with presumably the knowledge and expertise that clients might not have - otherwise they would design their own websites - to push an agenda. To convince clients that what they need, is really what we want to deliver. To try...