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Writing from our agency years on digital marketing, design, development and Umbraco. New posts will follow as we build.
The Importance of Having Great Logo Design
Whether you’re a small business or a large multi-national company, taking great care over your logo design is something all businesses should do.
Digital Marketing: 10 Signs You're Doing It Wrong
Digital Marketing is a term that is used to describe the practice of marketing online in the digital age. It’s more of an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of techniques and practices,…
Umbraco package.manifest Colour Coding & Intellisense in Visual Studio
Since Umbraco v7 was released, it's now very easy to create custom property editors and plugins using AngularJs. But one thing I've never really liked, was having to edit the package.manifest file.
16 Experts Reveal the Most Common Content Marketing Mistakes
Almost every digital marketer on the planet has referenced that phrase at least once in an article, seminar or interview. Those three little words have spurned on the content marketing revolution…
April Fools' Day 2015: The Best (And Worst) Pranks by Brands
April Fools' Day has always been one for mischief and mayhem, and each year more and more brands try to get 'in' on the popular trend by posting spoof press releases.
Responsive Web Design: Why You Can’t Leave it Any Longer
It’s a fact: mobile now exceeds PC. The majority of digital media consumption now takes place via mobile devices, which is why you can no longer afford to ignore mobile when it comes to the way you…
Debunking 10 Small Business Social Media Myths for Good
These statements are unfortunately all too common within the world of social media marketing. Many small businesses jump straight into social media with false pretences that can make them fall over…
The Strategy Behind Google’s Most Expensive Acquisitions (Infographic)
Over the course of Google’s short existence (16 years), they have managed to change the landscape of the internet and the way we access information. Google services 3.5 billion searches per day which…
27 Content Marketing Tools to Help Kick Start Your Projects
For many businesses, content marketing efforts have been doubled in recent times to help promote their brand by communicating with potential customers without directly trying to sell to them. The…
Pre-Populate A Field On Save In Umbraco v7
This is very common task that I used to do using the previous Umbraco events system. The Events have changed and it took me a little while to get my head around how to do this in v7.
Album Covers - The Bigger Picture
We all have a favourite album. One that means something to us more than others. Album cover art used to be meticulously created to portray some kind of message that the band or artist was trying to…
How to Establish an Online Presence for Your Start-Up
The internet is a huge platform, crammed full of information on almost any subject you can think of. It is easy for anyone to become their own publisher; to own their own corner of the internet –…
Why Your Business Needs Illustration (Infographic)
In today’s working environment we are expected to constantly be creative, innovative and original in everything we do, especially when it comes to branding and marketing.
Speed Up Google Registering Your 301 Redirects
When re-developing a website it’s sometimes not easy (Or sensible) to keep the old urls. So you are faced with 301 redirecting all the old urls to the new urls, and sometimes it can take Google a…
The Rapid Growth of Web Design: Past to Present (Infographic)
Web design has come a long way from the very first website which was published by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, who marked the beginning of the digital revolution.
31 Must Have Fonts For Your Collection
Creating the perfect arsenal of fonts for any task can be very time consuming. With thousands upon thousands readily available for download across the internet, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The…
Video Games Then and Now: How Visuals Have Evolved
Think back to the first game you ever played. It may have been an Atari, SNES, PS1 or even (for the young’uns) an arcade game on your TV or PC. Either way, think back to the graphics and the visual…
Why Social Media is the Hardest Marketing Platform to Crack
Almost every business has jumped on the social media marketing bandwagon, with a view that it can be used as a free way to advertise, promote and attract new customers. And it’s hardly surprising…
Creating A Partial View Picker Property Editor In v7
With Umbraco 7 comes a new way to create property editors. AngularJS seems to be the way forward, and I have to admit I’m still very new to it and desperately trying to get my head around it.
Rendering SEO Friendly Disqus Comments Into Your Umbraco View
Before I go on, I have to give a tip of the hat to Matt @ The Outfield for their original post about doing this using XSLT. I don’t use or like XSLT, so had to update it to use C# and to use it with…
Using Post-it Notes For Content Brainstorming
Using something as simple as post-it notes can be a great help when brain storming content ideas. It’s some we use internally and have Yes, No, Maybe/Refine groups.
Adding Responsive Client Side Images To Umbraco
It’s very easy to add real responsive client side images to your website, that download smaller and smaller versions on demand depending on the screen size. And best of all you it only takes a few…