Your digital publishing. Solved.
We specialise in designing and building web applications and large-scale WordPress solutions for the best names in publishing.
Our publishing industry clients include Creative Review, The Lawyer, Catholic Herald, The Spectator, The Engineer and many many more.
And we don’t just do publishing. NGOs, activists, journalists, developers and small businesses have all benefited from our capabilities and products.
Creative Review
Creative Review is a monthly publication with an impressive reputation as the go-to place for design related news and critique. Read on for the details behind this build.
Design Week
Following the successful launch of the Marketing Week site last year, we were commissioned by Centaur Media Group to relaunch their Design Week site. We’re proud to say this is one of ours.
WORKTECH Academy
We were approached by influential design academic, Jeremy Myerson, to design and build the first website for WORKTECH Academy. Here we look at some of the features of their new site.
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
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 version 3.1.0 allows you to carry out database wide search/replace actions that don’t damage PHP serialized strings or objects with a user friendly interface and experience.
My Eyes Are Up Here
Meet Ethel. She has a problem. She’s fed up of crops that don’t focus on her gorgeous, gorgeous eyes. In a tall full body shot, WordPress thumbnails show nothing other than her belt. In a photo like this one, a square WordPress thumbnail just shows half her face.
Spots
Spots is a plugin that gives you the tools to content manage everything. That means the little notices on sites, minor widgets and so on should not only be content managed, but they should be easy for both an end-user and a developer to work with.
Latest news from the team
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?
Our 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.