Article 4 in the series ‘What does your website do for you?’ The business world can be an impersonal place; its need to remain professional often belies what is really behind it: people. People with knowledge, opinions, beliefs and all the other things that make us human. These people are the personalities that will attract [...]
Article 3 in the series ‘What does your website do for you?’ A website is an address that can be easily visited by all, that represents the ideas and personality of the organisation behind it. The beauty of the medium means that as the ideas and personality change within the organisation, so too can the [...]
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Article 2 in the series ‘What does your website do for you?’ People believe there is a solution on the web that can help them. They believe that by searching they can find the right service or product that their business needs and will make their lives easier. As we said in our last article, [...]
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Many a website is made and forgotten about, many more confuse the user when they visit them and a lot are just not taken seriously enough by the business behind it. Thankfully there are many great websites that get results. Over the following weeks this series of articles will explore how to get the best [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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