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We design and build web applications and large-scale WordPress solutions for the best names in publishing.
Some of our featured clients include Creative Review, New Statesman, Catholic Herald, The Spectator, The Lawyer, Worktech Academy and NATS. We also work with NGOs, SMEs, Activists, Journalists and Developers. Take a look at our featured work.
Marketing Week
In 2014 we were commissioned by Centaur Media to develop their new Marketing Week website. Marketing Week is a London based magazine, publishing news and opinion from the world of marketing.
The New Statesman on Kindle
Adding The New Statesman to our portfolio of users was a great honour. This venerable magazine was founded in 1913 and has been providing political commentary in the UK since then.
Gender Champions
Commissioned by the UN in Geneva, Women at the Table and the US Mission to the UN, this was a complex build with a challenging brief. Here we discuss the main elements of this project.
The Spectator Redesign
Our Lead designer, Anthony Casey, discusses the redesign of The Spectator website and ponders on some of the main decisions made from a front-end, design perspective.
Products
Standfirst for Kindle
Our Kindle solution makes the production process of your e-ink periodicals faster and simpler, and your reader satisfaction even higher. We’re so confident that you’ll love it, we even offer a free three month production ready trial. No strings attached!
WordPress Performance Profiler
The brilliant plugin designed to help developers optimise the performance of WordPress sites, running on PHP 5.3 to 5.6 web servers.
Database Search and Replace Script in PHP
Search Replace DB is a powerful tool for developers, allowing them to run a search replace against their database where CLI tools or WP plugins can’t work.
News
A beginners style guide
Are you looking for some tips to get the most out of your new WordPress site? We’ve put together some handy style guidance to allow you to hit the ground running.
A Quickish Journey Through UX
I think many of us in the industry have only a vague idea what the term User Experience means. So it’s about time we took a look at the whole UX thing and the mystery surrounding it.
Introducing Standfirst for Kindle
Standfirst for Kindle is our first Software as a Service product, giving you fine and unrivalled control over your Kindle e-ink edition.
Welcome to Grégoire – Our 2017 Summer Intern
This summer we are happy to welcome Grégoire Linot, as our 2017 Computer Science summer intern. We distracted Greg from his summer project for ten minutes, for a quick question and answer session.
Embrace the lunch break and unlock your full potential
Before Andrea became a developer he was a chef. And as you will see, he’s still pretty passionate about food. Here he shares his personal opinions about the importance of a good lunchtime meal.
Has Business Blogging run its Course?
We’ve been blogging since 2007. From backend dev tutorials to posts about daily life, you name it, we’ve written about it. But has the world of business blogging run its course?
Team Building: A Day of Culture
As a bit of a change to the usual action-packed teambuilding adventures, I thought it might be interesting to go on a more slow-paced, ‘cultural’ tour around our local city of Liverpool.
30 Years of Information Technology
There was a scary realisation at a recent company meeting, when someone pointed out that I should write about my thirty years of experience in IT.
Working with Liverpool Girl Geeks in 2017
If you work in the tech industry around the Liverpool area, you may be aware of the work Liverpool Girl Geeks are doing to help to reduce the gender gap in the tech and IT industry.