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A new look for Romany Granite

Romany Granite came to us wanting to update the look and structure of their website. They didn’t have a huge budget to work with and so we needed to keep things simple yet professional. Their old site was very difficult to use and feedback from clients told them that information was hard to find. Our [...]

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Stylish and GRACEful

When Yorke Dance Project needed their tour print and programme designed, who better than the company who has already given them their website, and brand identity. The job required a six sided leaflet, A4 and A3 posters, an e-flyer, gala

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XTH – the XHTML to HTML converter for wordpress

John Kilroy, September 9th, 2009
Keywords: Technical, Web Standards, Wordpress

Download XTH (v2.01) here

By popular demand here it is – version 2.01 of the original XHTML-to-HTML wordpress plugin. Now called XTH (bit catchier, no?), it is a complete rewrite of the original version and aims to fix the Javascript CDATA and RSS feed issues that the original suffered.
Caveats
OK, this version seems to successfully avoid parsing [...]

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London Locksmiths

We’ve recently finished what is Probably the Best Locksmith’s website in the World. We don’t drink Carling but we did go to some lengths to make sure that this website offers things that none of it’s competitors do: a mobile phone version for example (so you can find a locksmith’s number when you’re locked out); [...]

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Peach of a gem of a beaut!

John Kilroy, October 21st, 2008
Keywords: Web Design

The latest site to roll over our production line is a peach of a site for London Locksmiths.
This little fine cut gem is:

100% valid HTML,
AAA accessible (that’s the maximum),
it works on mobile phones,
it has proper print styles,
it’s thoroughly search optimised,
it looks identical across IE6, IE7, Safari and Firefox,
…and looks a beaut!

What more could a boy [...]

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Milk Street Brewery

John Kilroy, September 4th, 2008
Keywords: News, Small Business, Web Design

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a website for the Milk Street Brewery in Frome. Complete with pages about the famous Griffin pub including what’s on and their Gig schedule, the site explains the history of the Brewery and their other activities such as the Brewhouse in Poole and the Bar at the Cheese [...]

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Mark Bruce Company

John Kilroy, September 3rd, 2008
Keywords: News, Small Business, Web Design

We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest site, for the South West’s flagship professional dance ensemble – Mark Bruce Company.
Though based in Frome, Somerset for the past five years the Mark Bruce Company is nationally recognised for their dramatic and provocative style of dance theatre. Performing to sell-out crowds at the [...]

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Unlocking the elusive number 1 spot

John Kilroy, September 3rd, 2008
Keywords: News, Web and Search Engine Marketing

Saying that our methods are “proven” is a little bit like saying that Lewis Hamilton drives “fast”: every one of our marketing clients is in the Google top ten* and most are at number 1. We use the most forward-looking ethical marketing techniques, some developed by us over the last 10 years, and others drawn [...]

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A dummy’s guide to ecommerce, #3: Tips for Success

John Kilroy, August 9th, 2008
Keywords: Ecommerce

Top tips for turning browsers into buyers

Do your research and try to sell products that have a market and are in demand.
Set your prices as low as you can.
Market your business from the outset, don’t leave it until after your site has launched, and make sure you have a healthy marketing budget for at least [...]

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A dummy’s guide to ecommerce, #2: taking credit card payments

John Kilroy, August 6th, 2008
Keywords: Ecommerce

There are four main ways for your ecommerce business to take credit card payments.
Secure capture & swipe
This method is probably the most common, is the cheapest to you the retailer and works as follows:
Firstly, your ecommerce system stores your customers’ card details securely online, usually in a database used by the system. I most highly [...]

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