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29 Sep 2009

Technical manoeuvres and exciting new work

Over the last few years Deckchair has started to focus almost solely on website design (although we still offer and enjoy branding and graphic design) and within the last year we have brought our web development in-house. Deckchair has always concerned itself with the functionality of websites – we’ve never believed that a website should just “look good”, it has to work, and work well. Having our own development team in-house has allowed us to concentrate and expand on our technical and functional offerings, and given us the opportunity to research and experiment with many different methods of application.

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24 Sep 2009

Moving towards a “new” Deckchair…

Over the next few months we will be planning, designing and building an all new Deckchair website. We’ve had a lot of good feedback about our current website over the years, and building on this, our current standing in the industry and a lot of deliberation, we feel that it’s time to move forward. We [...]

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04 Dec 2007

Design Deadlines – Do they compromise the quality of your design?

 
The short answer to this question is NO, they certainly shouldn’t! For a web or graphic designer there are always going to be deadlines. They are a part of any brief; a client always has a timescale in mind. The question is whether the client’s idea of a realistic timescale matches the designers and their [...]

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13 Nov 2007

Look out Broadband Providers! – We are coming after you!

Hi Folks, Any of you feeling disappointed with your broadband download speeds? Did the lovely salesman tell you on the phone you would be getting 8mb of band width? Well, what they mean is…”up to 8mb”. All the major broadband providers will give you a contention ratio of 1:50 which means that you are sharing [...]

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30 Oct 2007

Outrageous experience with a printer

Yesterday, I had an experience that I thought I would share with you all. Our colour copier in the office had ground to a halt. I urgently needed some A4 proofs printed, so I dashed round the corner to a print shop close by.
I explained my predicament and that I was from Deckchair round the [...]

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