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A glimpse into our world. We cover company developments, staff opinion and industry insights.

Software is hard to do well. And your website is software.

We’ve been building software for the publishing industry for a long time. From business models to specifications to project planning, you name it, we’ve seen it all.

Team interconnect/it take on the Colour Rush!

Twenty obstacles, numerous colour stations, four team members…The aim: raise as much money as possible for the MS Society!

5 tips to get you thinking about content

Content shouldn’t just be a bit part player. It needs to take centre stage on your next project—you have to be thinking content-first. In fact, you need to be thinking about it as the star.

The Art of Time Well-spent

Developing a new product is hard. Launching a new product is hard. Developing and launching a new product whilst delivering Client Services projects is a whole other world

Rage against the vending machine

It’s very easy to make the wrong decisions based on a lack of real evidence—especially if ‘best-practice’ takes over and we assume we know what our users and audience need. Throwi

A day in the life of a front-end developer

As part of our ongoing partnership with Liverpool Girl Geeks, Claire has spoken to their team about her love of coding and how she got into the industry.

How much will your project cost?

When we receive a Request For Proposal, we have to consider any potential risks or challenges associated with the project. It’s about treating every client as an individual and every project as unique

Developing for Web Accessibility

Web accessibility can have a different meaning to different people, depending on their abilities. From visual to auditory, cognitive to motor or speech, we should be making the web available to all.

Recruitment and Employment Diversity Report for 2017

As part of our commitment to diversity and to ensure we follow best practice, we have now opted to publish an annual team and recruitment diversity report. Read on to get the stats!

Name fields are a metaphor for human diversity

In a recent system we built, we realised we were going to be storing the names of people from across the world. We thought we’d share what we learnt.

Goodbye to 2017 and Hello to 2018

Naturally, the end of the year is a time to look back and reflect on company successes and plan ahead for the new year to come

There’s life in Magazine Subscriptions

It’s a proud feeling for us when clients do well. Even better when they are on a list of top performers in the publishing sector