Monthly Archives: March 2008

Brownbook

I was watching BBC Click this morning about the evolution of the social network and it drove me to take a peek at Brownbook. I thought it was a clever idea using social networking to list businesses with the added benefit of customers being able to write a review. It’s a simple site to use [...]

Date Posted - 30 Mar 2008 | Posted By - Jacqui Sanwell | Comments 0

Great Blog Post – 101 ways to annoy your website user

I found this blog post today on alpha blog designs outlining the “101 Heinous Website Sins To Really Freakin’ Annoy Your Visitors” and I have got say I could not agree more. Some of my personal favourites are: Use unnecessary Flash Have “Site best viewed with…” somewhere in the page. Especially IE6. Have a huge [...]

Date Posted - 18 Mar 2008 | Posted By - Steve | Comments 0

Postal Price Increase

From the 7th April 2008 certain postal prices are set to increase. These include: First Class Letter (upto 100g) 36p First Class Large Letter (upto 100g) 52p Second Class Letter (upto 100g) 27p Second Class Large Letter (upto 100g) 42p Special Delivery Pre 9am (upto 100g) £10.30 Special Delivery Next Day (upto 100g) £4.60 See [...]

Date Posted - 12 Mar 2008 | Posted By - Jacqui Sanwell | Comments 0

Bookmark of the week

Bookmark of the week

  With so many web agencies and programmers claiming their websites are 100% compilant with current standards there was no real fun way to measure it (unless you run the W3C validator). Now there is. A web site has just been launched called xhtmlchallenge.com. The premise is very simple and very clever. Just add your [...]

Date Posted - 11 Mar 2008 | Posted By - Steve | Comments 0

Recent Posts

  • It's kicking off in the studio this Christmas

    Peace and good will to all… well, that’s the general theory this time of year isn’t it? Unfortunately, no one passed this message to the ‘troops’ in the studio at Escape Towers this year. Downtown Basra eat your heart out. There we’re no car bombs (we just couldn’t do it to our lego creations) but [...]

    Date Posted: 23 Dec 2011 Read More

  • Supporting INSPIRE-ing Businesses (sorry, couldn't resist)

    For a number of years we’ve been supporting a local business awards scheme, the INSPIRE Business Awards, which are organised by one of our lovely clients, Destination Basingstoke.  This year was no exception, and a few weeks ago saw the culmination of a year of hard work from all at ‘DB’, as the awards evening [...]

    Date Posted: 16 Dec 2011 Read More

  • New stuff: Honeywell F124 banner

    Its very early days, but we’ve started working with Honeywell. They’re based here in Basingstoke so our local-ness (pretty sure that’s not even a word!) is helpful when there’s a tight deadline to hit. This was the case with our first project for them, a pretty straightforward roller banner design for a show they were [...]

    Date Posted: 10 Oct 2011 Read More

  • Doing our bit for 'ch-ch-charidee mate': The Breast Cancer Care Fashion Show 2011

    Back in July I posted about our involvement with Breast Cancer Care and our charitable creative donation to help them out with the look and feel for their annual fundraiser… The Fashion Show. Time fly’s when you’re having fun and although (at the time) October seemed a million miles away, it soon came around, culminating [...]

    Date Posted: 07 Oct 2011 Read More

  • Beringer Tame website shortlisted for 'best recruitment website' award at the MARA's

    We just want to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone that took the time and effort to vote for the Beringer Tame website in the ‘best recruitment website’ category of the MARA awards. The fantastic news is that all those votes have ensured the site has been shortlisted as a finalist in the category! [...]

    Date Posted: 04 Oct 2011 Read More