It’s unbelievable really to think it’s almost ten years now since the days of the dotcom bubble era. One only has to survey the Internet landscape in 2009 to realise that we have probably witnessed the most rapid technological advances in the history of mankind this past decade. Compare the fortunes of Amazon and Google with the misery of Boo.com (who?) and Etoys.com (eh?). But ten years on from the days when nobody really knew if the Internet was going to be a genuine long term money spinner, how hard does your website currently work for you? For every business whose website labours on completely lost in the search engines and invisible from it’s client base due to a lack of effective marketing strategy there is another out there reaping the rewards, probably producing stunning returns on investment.
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Is your website working hard enough?
Five top tips for designing a mobile friendly website
Experts predict that by the start of 2010 the number of people browsing the Internet on a mobile device will be on a par to the number browsing on desktop computers today. Consequently, with an increasing audience and numbers only set to spiral, making sure your web content is optimised for mobile platforms at this early stage will surely reap the business benefits. However, before you dive in, remember that just as designing a standard website site that will fulfil the needs of millions of potential users requires some careful thought, so does your mobile offering. Allow our digital specialists to put down their Blackberries for a second to cordially guide you through the minefield…
BCM launch new website
We’re proud to announce the completion of another project with the launch of a new website for our client BCM.
Since 2002, BCM has been providing greener, more sustainable building services design solutions to a wide range of clients in both the public and private sectors. Leaders in electrical and mechanical design, they have established an excellent reputation through work on many high profile projects.
Visit www.bcmconsulting.co.uk
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New NIRAS website for AMEC
We’ve recently continued our work with AMEC by redesigning their NIRAS subsidiary website in line with AMEC’’s global brand guidelines. NIRAS is one of the UK’s largest commercial radiochemical analysis laboratories, providing independent testing facilities for all aspects of radioactivity analysis.
Myebook in launch phase
One of our more interesting creative projects from the last year is slowly coming to fruition at long last.
Myebook.com (http://www.myebook.com), a web-based ebook community, is launching to give people the tools to create book content and ‘get it out there’ for free. Every aspect of publishing content is covered – from creating, to sharing and reading – in a slick and simple way.
Studio North’s specialist identity and digital teams worked in collaboration over a number of months to create the brand identity and design the myebook website which has been developed in-house around our page templates and user interface designs.
New Leonard Curtis Website
We recently extended our working relationship with the national DTE Business Advisory Group by designing and producing a website for it’s rebranded corporate recovery business Leonard Curtis.
It follows on from our previous identity & digital work for Corporate Strategies and it’s subsidiaries. http://www.leonardcurtis.co.uk/
VAT People rebrand success
Recently, it was great to hear some good news about one of last year’s branding projects. Barnard Atkins, one of the leading VAT and custom duty consultants in the UK, had rebranded as The VAT People using us to design a new brand identity, website and a full suite of communication materials. Less than a year on and they are now discussing a creative recruitment campaign with us in order to bring enough staff into the business to cope with an “unexpected growth in business”.
Wing Management
Check out Wing Management’s new website designed by, yep, you’ve guessed it. Wing have some cracking bands on their books including local lads 1913 widely tipped for greater things.
