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11 Jan 2010

LabSkills Development

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 is [...]

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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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01 Jul 2008

Understanding Web 2.0

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.
Web 2.0 [...]

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12 Feb 2008

Ecommerce Website Design Case Study

 
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 fruit trees. [...]

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05 Feb 2008

Champagne online anyone?

Need to order some champagne for a special occassion? 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.  [...]

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25 Jan 2008

Top SEO tips to get you started: Google Analytics

Top SEO tip No.5 – Google Analytics

Once you have designed and optimised your website, you need to check your stats regularly to see how well it is working for you. You can then make educated adjustments to your web design or page content.
Sign up to Google Analytics (It’s free) and you will be able to [...]

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23 Jan 2008

Top SEO tips to get you started: Title tags

Top SEO tip No.3 – Title tags
Once you have written the relevant content for your website (See yesterday’s blog), it is now very important that your Title tags are written correctly and you are making the best use of them.
Your title tag is the heading of each web page that appears at the top of [...]

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22 Jan 2008

Top SEO tips to get you started: Content and Key phrases

Top SEO tip No.2 – Content and Key phrases
I’m sure no one will disagree with me that Content is still King in Search Engine Optimisation terms. When writing the content or copy for your website you need to keep the focus on your target audience. What are the phrases that your potential customers are using [...]

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21 Jan 2008

Top SEO tips to get you started: Domain name

Over the space of this week I will post a series of blogs containing some top SEO tips that I hope will be of some use to you, particularly if you are just starting out. So here goes with the first one:
Top SEO tip No. 1 – Domain Name
If you are about to choose the [...]

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