First of all, we have moved! But never that far.  A larger studio (above) became available down the corridor here at Islington Mill so we jumped at the chance!  The studio stills houses Clip and our developer friend MGPHP but crucially allows space for another desk. This will allow for additional designers to be brought in on larger projects, adding another creative dimension to the business.

2011 will also start to see a natural progression into the world of mobile focused design alongside the ‘traditional’ web projects. We are really keen to develop sites built with all platforms in mind and are focusing development on this topic. So if anyone has any need for this kind of thing we would love to hear from you.   We are also really starting to push the capabilities of WordPress at the moment and so will be offering far more in the way of content management come the New Year.  Finally we have been working with GetHighSEO, our SEO partner for a while now and plan to offer some fantastic SEO packages for our clients as of the New Year.

So with lots of exciting projects in the pipeline we are looking forward to the New Year, roll on 2011!…

For any information regarding the above please get in touch!

It’s been available a few weeks now so I thought I’d write a few words about my experiences of using the latest (and greatest?) version of WordPress.

The first thing to say is that the transition has been fairly painless, upgrading is simple using the automatic update and nearly all of my ‘standard’ plugins (by this I mean the 5-10 I use on most installs) have authors who anticipated the upgrade and made sure everything worked without a hitch.

The admin panel interface manages to appear familar yet uncomplicated.  Indeed, a few weeks on and I have almost completely forgotten how WordPress used to look.  I can say that it is now cleaner, more refined and feels like a more heavyweight CMS rather than its now historic status as a mere blogging platform.  There is nothing there to ‘throw you’ though.  Everything is pretty much where it used to be, so there is thankfully no real learning curve for developers or end users.  The update introduces additions rather than wholesale changes to the admin panel.

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