The saying that the world doesn’t stand still has never been truer than it is today. Technology is moving at a fascinating speed and the pace of change is apparent in websites. A website has evolved from being a static, online presence to a dynamic marketing and resource tool, which no business can afford to [...]
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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 [...]
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Deckchair has worked with Learning Science over the last couple of years to develop their LabSkills brand and product. It’s an exciting product that is set to revolutionise the educational learning process and provides fantastic resource opportunities and practice previously unavailable to science students. LabSkills is an e-learning resource tool for schools and universities. It [...]
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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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So what is Web 2.0? A term that has been around since 2004 and is being bandied around across the technology, creative and internet based industries to name a few; over a series of blogs we are going to try and pin down what it actually is in simple terms and discuss the overall subject. [...]
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We are proud to have worked with the Environment Agency on this project; not only is it an environmental issue that is close to our hearts, but it is a Bristol issue that we have helped to tackle. The whole process was a pleasure; devising the concepts for the billboard advertising, the photography, the graphic design [...]
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What better way to illustrate to you what we can do for your business than to show you a case study of an ecommerce website that we designed and built for a client recently: The Client Chew Valley Trees are a long established nursery who specialise in hardy, native and ornamental trees, shrubs, hedging and [...]
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Need to order some champagne for a special occasion? Do you want a fabulous online selection of champagne, sparkling wines, fine wines and spirits at competitive prices? Of course you do! SPA Fine Champagne Ltd, Bath, is a new and dynamic family run company headed by Andy Russell and his two sons Stephen and Phillip. Andy [...]
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I was reading this book ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle to my youngest daughter the other night and I was struck by the thought that really this book has become somewhat of an institution. I remember my mother reading it to me as a child and I loved it too. The illustrations are [...]
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