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Archive for September, 2007

28 Sep 2007

Graduating into the Real World

When studying graphic design, should part of a university’s role be to prepare you, the student, for the “real world” industry, or should university just be an outlet for your creative experimentation, whilst you still have the chance to reside in its liberal environs? Working within the industry, and looking at students and their degree [...]

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19 Sep 2007

Ecommerce ‘peeves’ and ‘must haves’ – boost those conversion rates

Customer loyalty is going to make or break an ecommerce business. After you have attracted visitors to your website, how will you persuade them to buy? After that, how will you keep them coming back? Of course you need an excellent and well thought out ecommerce website design. But it needs to be backed up [...]

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12 Sep 2007

Power in a picture

Image Credit: NASA, Donald Walter (South Carolina State University), Paul Scowen and Brian Moore (Arizona State University) I saw this picture on the Nasa website yesterday and it made me think; Isn’t it amazing? We can take a picture of something happening 7,100 light years from earth of a star 40 times more massive than our [...]

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11 Sep 2007

About Ecommerce Merchant Providers, Merchant Accounts and Payment gateways

To trade online you need to set up an internet merchant account with an acquiring bank. The internet merchant account enables an ecommerce business to receive funds from credit card sales. You also need a payment gateway which processes the card information and provides the link between the ecommerce website and the merchant account. These [...]

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10 Sep 2007

Bristol podcasting company; thepodfactory launch their new website!

Podcasting, it’s the latest thing in digital media! thepodfactory, based in Bristol are talented and experienced in producing high quality audio and video podcasts for the tourism and leisure industry. Their clients include Bristol Old Vic, Destination Bristol, Longleat, The churches conservation trust and many more. thepodfactory approached us at Deckchair to design and build [...]

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