Web Design

Case Study: interconnect/it

Our website has been on our list of things to do for as long as I have been at the company. I joined in January 2013. Finally we’ve had the opportunity to show it some love.

No, those animations won’t change the way we read the news

Our Senior Designer, Anthony Casey, looks at why you want your site to be more 60s Dieter Rams Braun, than 90s Aiwa.

The Blog from the Sea of Cortez

We recommend every project we undertake contains some aspect of ‘discovery’. Read on to find out more about this important part of any project we undertake at interconnect/it.

How The Spectator went from one million to ten million page views per month

There’s a direct link between web traffic and revenue when you’re a publisher. How well that works depends a lot on other factors – the business model, commercial relationships and so on.

Print design versus web design

Given that a lot of our clients are in the publishing industry, we thought it would be useful to talk about some of the differences between print and web design. Take a peek to find out more.

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.

Project Babb Case Study

At the start of April 2014, Telegraph Media Group hired us as a development partner to build what was code named ‘Project Babb’, an experiment in shareable content designed to broaden the paper’s audie…

Design Notes: The Plaza

We try to fit in one charity project a year at interconnect/it and this year it was the turn of the Plaza community cinema in Waterloo. Read on for the design notes behind this exciting build.

Foundation Trust Governor’s Association Goes Live With WP & bbPress

We recently developed a new site for the Foundation Trust Governor’s Association, which allowed for an easy self-hosted and self-managed yet sophisticated website.

Gill Sans Rides Again

Gill Sans and the colour red; that was the brief. Gill Sans rides again, on our new company website! Here we discuss the process of building our new site.

What Used to be Hard, Becomes Easy

One thing we talk a lot about is how important it is for costs to stick to problems which have already been solved. Get fancy and do something new, and your costs have rocketed away.

Coming Problems with Web Design

I just read an interesting article in A List Apart about how browsers that are forgiving of bad markup and css are bad for the web.