Take it away

Posted by on Feb 4, 2011 in Announcements

I’m a musician in my spare time and I have two children learning guitar and piano. Music can be expensive in terms of instruments and equipment so I was really interested when I heard about the Arts Council’s Take it away scheme a year or two ago. Take it away is an Arts Council initiative designed to help more people get involved in learning and playing music. The scheme allows individuals to apply for a loan of up to £2,000 for the purchase of any kind of musical instrument, and pay it back in 10 monthly instalments, completely interest free. The scheme has helped thousands of...

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The Incense Route

Posted by on Jun 15, 2010 in Announcements

And now for something old and yet totally new….The Incense Route is a new online gift store based on the idea from the old trading route from the 3rd Century BC…exotic gifts and rare items that you just can’t get on the high street. [..] The new site is still under construction, and we are delivering the full online trading package with clear categories, totally secure payment environment and the easiest most elegant check out ever. Why not have a look at the holding page while it’s under construction, and bookmark it for next summer when it is due to launch....

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Million Prisoners

Posted by on Jan 11, 2009 in Announcements

Now this website is something else…if we do say so ourselves: our very first website for a political organisation/charity/lobby group. A simple idea – selling a million pixels on some specially commissioned drawings by political satirist Steve Bright; and in the process gathering messages from people who want to make a protest to the Labour Government. There’s some shopping to do as well! Steve Bright’s 1997 Visitors to the site are invited to join the prisoners by purchasing a ‘hypothetical’ pixel and leaving their messages to Labour. Each message can...

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Actinic ecommerce primer

Posted by on May 15, 2008 in Archive, Ecommerce

Welcome to my attempt at a brief introduction to the Actinic ecommerce websites that we are currently recommending to small and medium-sized businesses. Some of these points are covered in other articles, but I thought it would be good to collect them here for your convenience, and so I have a single article to point to when people ask me about Actinic (which is often enough now for me to take the time to write this article). First off, this article isn’t a how-to or a manual, it is an overview of the main features offered by the Actinic ecommerce system, and some comparisons between it...

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Launch of marc1wines.co.uk

Posted by on May 15, 2008 in Announcements

We’re raising a glass here today for the launch of marc1wines new ecommerce website. The site, based on our new range of general retailing ecommerce websites, has a great selection of mid to high-end wines from around the world. Specialising in French and Italian red wine, and champagne, marc1wines has a growing reputation for quality wine from rare and small (sometimes boutique) producers. This is an excellent site for anyone who buys wine online, and features some lovely photos of wine. The owner Marc Medland runs a successful wine merchants in Aldeburgh. The marc1wines.co.uk website...

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