News, Articles and Case Studies

29 Jun 2010

Website personality


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 [...]

23 Jun 2010

Evolving your web presence


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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 [...]

16 Jun 2010

Building confidence in your website


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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, [...]

07 Jun 2010

What does your website do for you?


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 [...]

11 Jan 2010

LabSkills Development


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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 [...]

29 Sep 2009

Technical manoeuvres and exciting new work


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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.

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 [...]

16 Dec 2008

Merry Christmas and Happy New Offices!


Just a quick post to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And also to inform you of our new address… As of 22nd December 2008, Deckchair’s address will be: Deckchair UK Ltd, 54-56 Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5JN. All of our other contact details will remain the same, so [...]

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. [...]

24 Jun 2008

New residents at Deckchair…


New residents? No, not new employees, or unwanted mice, but 3 new ‘jungle’ plants for the office – a Yucca and two Dracaenas (Dragon plants). As part of our overall mission to brighten and add inspiration to the Deckchair office we visited the local garden centre to purchase our new office foliage. As Andrew Shanahan [...]

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