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Five Things We Learned Redesigning a Restaurant Site This Year PDF Print E-mail
Written by Helen Marsh   
Monday, 02 June 2008 10:12

We just wrapped up a redesign for a local restaurant client who was still running a site built entirely in Flash back in 2004. Menus that never got updated, no way for search engines to read the text, and a splash screen nobody had the patience to sit through twice. Here is what we took away from the project, including a few arguments we had internally about whether to keep any Flash at all.

Last Updated ( Monday, 02 June 2008 10:31 )
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Studio Closed Monday 16 June for Staff Training PDF Print E-mail
Written by Helen Marsh   
Friday, 06 June 2008 11:20

The studio will be closed all day on Monday 16 June while the whole team is away at a one-day course on accessibility and web standards in Manchester. Phones will go to voicemail and we will reply to email on Tuesday 17 June.

Hosting customers with an urgent problem can still use the support number printed on their welcome letter.

 
Portfolio Update: Riverside Dental Launches New Site PDF Print E-mail
Written by Helen Marsh   
Thursday, 22 May 2008 09:05

Riverside Dental's new site went live last week, including an online appointment request form and a staff page their receptionist has already asked us to update twice. Full case notes are up in the portfolio section.

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Why We're Still Recommending Firefox to Clients PDF Print E-mail
Written by Tom Bradley   
Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:30

With Vista's compatibility headaches still fresh for a lot of our clients and a new Firefox release expected any day now, we keep getting asked which browser to standardise on for the office. Short answer: it depends what you're testing, but we still install Firefox 2 on every new machine we set up, alongside whatever came in the box.

Last Updated ( Friday, 30 May 2008 09:02 )
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Notes from a Client Meeting: Explaining RSS to a Restaurant Owner PDF Print E-mail
Written by Tom Bradley   
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 16:40

"So it's like a newsletter, but they don't give you their email address?" That was the closest we got in the first ten minutes. A few notes on how we ended up explaining feeds to a client who has never used one.

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