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New tool on our website :)

Colour QR Generator [click here]Also worth checking out these cool business cards which put QR codes to use. 20 QR Code Business Cards Design Inspiration What is a QR code? […]

Passwords. Our access to the internet, to the services we need every day …. and a hindrance when we can’t remember them or we have to reset them. And when we do, we have to use upper case, lower case, numbers, symbols and it must be at least 8 characters long….it seems just too much […]

10 Web design trends for 2015

The Next Web has identified 10 web design trends we are likely to see over the next 12 months: Longer scrolling sites – as mobile devices become more important there is a switch to longer scrolling pages rather than lots of links Story telling and interaction – content has always been important but telling a […]

The Heartbleed Security Scare

The last few days have seen a particular internet issue, “The Heartbleed Bug”, hit the mainstream media. Terms you may not have heard before are being bandied about as if they are common parlance – OpenSSL, TLS, X.509, RFC, CVE…. So what do you need to know? How serious is this really? Let’s just say […]

Which Comes First: The Design or The CMS?

Working with CMS: Content Management System In today’s web world any kind of design, which is going to be continually updated with content, needs a CMS. This database stores your site content and allows the site admin to work with an interface which means you can then add, modify and remove content at your will. […]