Responsive Web – Percentages Not Pixels!

It seems that with every few months there seems to be a new industry way to build websites. Before it was the arrivial of HTML5 and now its the dawn of responsive web. So what is Responsive Web? I hear the non geek folk around saying! Well its probably best summed up by this quote [...]

JigoShop – Slick WordPress eCommerce

There seems to be so many eCommerce solutions around at the moment that finding one that fits a client brief can be tricky sometimes. However when a recent job came in that required CMS with ecommerce and blogging capabitllites, my immedate thought was WordPress and then find a ecommerce solution. My experiences with ecommerce plugins [...]

Appcelerator – A Friend Indeed (And in need)

Appcelerator – A Friend Indeed (And in need)

Generally we love Appcelerator (apart from a few annoying features!). Mainly because it means we, as a department, don’t have to spend six months with our heads stuck in Objective C books trying to work out the cryptic syntax (by all accounts you can get a cream for it). Some of our peers may think [...]

Extending WP Commerce

Extending WP Commerce

Love it or hate it, WP Commerce is out there. OK it’s no Magento in terms of its scale and functionality, but for lightweight E-Commerce it does the job. We already have a couple of add-ons that we’ve built for our clients but we’ve decided to have a look at writing an online digital voucher [...]

Grab A White Coat!

Grab A White Coat!

Sometimes it’s nice to be let loose as a developer and told to “go and have some fun!”. It’s a rarity in this industry but without it we’d end up as stale as the crusts on a wholemeal loaf. Most of our web offering and services come from messing around with new bits of technology. [...]

Recent Posts

  • We'll have a new 'home sweet home' from Friday 8 March

    We’re on the move!… and we’re moving Friday 8 March. Its very exciting. We’ve boxed up our crayons and Etch A Sketches and we’re heading off to our new home, a lovely old farmhouse (with beams, fireplaces and a garden – no cows or goats though) in Hatch Warren, the other side of Basingstoke from [...]

    Date Posted: 04 Mar 2013 Read More

  • New website for Cards for Good Causes

    December was a busy time for one of our new clients, the lovely ‘Cards for Good Causes’, who are the UK’s largest multi-charity Christmas card organisation. They sell beautiful Christmas cards for around 300 charities in their nationwide network of pop-up charity Christmas card shops and (this is where we come in) for 34 charities on their e-commerce [...]

    Date Posted: 04 Feb 2013 Read More

  • Hello, I'm Carla (the new girl!)

    My name is Carla and my role at The Escape is New Business Development Manager. I identify new business opportunities which fit with our services, client experience and team. In order to develop client relationships for the agency I devote significant time to understand the true benefits The Escape offers to reach your marketing goals [...]

    Date Posted: 02 Nov 2012 Read More

  • Bath's gone green!

    We’ve been working with our lovely clients at First, helping them to promote their Park & Ride service in Bath, which has just been re-vamped with the launch of some exciting new hybrid buses.  If you’d like a reminder of the background to this project, you can read about that here. Not only can you [...]

    Date Posted: 02 Nov 2012 Read More

  • Beringer Tame keep the coffee hot, flowing and easy on the eye!

    Last year, our friends at Beringer Tame, the digital and ecommerce recruitment specialists, took the plunge and sponsored the coffee station at the 2011 Internet Retailing Conference. Seeing the lure of the fresh black stuff (unless it’s a Latte obviously) as inevitable to most, the opportunity to have some brand engagement and exposure on-hand seemed [...]

    Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 Read More