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What does the death of IE6 mean for web design?
Posted on: 05/01/2012 @ 1:15pm by Dave Burton
The news that Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), initially bundled with Windows XP, is now used by less than 1% of Americans, has been celebrated by the folks at Microsoft with the baking of a cake. ...
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Merry Christmas 2011 from Doive Designs
Posted on: 19/12/2011 @ 12:06pm by Dave Burton
We would like to wish all of our customers, past and present - a very Merry Christmas and New Year. We have had another busy year, even despite the difficult financial climate and look forward to working with you again in the near future. ...
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E-Commerce: Friend or Foe?
Posted on: 16/12/2011 @ 1:07pm by Dave Burton
In a new study, it is claimed that as many as one in three UK small businesses consider e-commerce to be a major threat to their business. More than 3/4 of small businesses in the UK currently sell their products or services on the internet. This figure, whilst seemingly quite high, shows that the United Kingdom is lagging behind our European counterparts when it comes to the uptake of e-commerce. In Italy, for example, as many as 94% of small-medium sized businesses have an e-commerce website. ...
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A bad website is worse than no website
Posted on: 16/12/2011 @ 12:48pm by Dave Burton
According to a recent study of 1800 consumers carried out by one of the leading website hosting companies (1&1) bad quality websites are actually damaging to business for small businesses. ...
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Images Supermarket opens
Posted on: 14/11/2011 @ 11:59am by Dave Burton
We are very proud to announce the launch of our latest website, ImagesSupermarket.com. ...
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Bryn Y Groes goes live
Posted on: 14/11/2011 @ 11:47am by Dave Burton
We are proud to announce the launch of Bryn-y-groes Christian Centre's new website (www.brynygroes.org.uk). ...
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Fireworks
Posted on: 07/09/2011 @ 11:18am by Dave Burton
Not all the work we do is setting up new websites. We recently did a job for a firework display and supply company, Bulldog Fireworks. ...
Sponsors of Tiverton Town FC
Posted on: 01/08/2011 @ 10:36am by Dave Burton
We relocated from South Wales to the Devonshire town of Tiverton last year and since then we've been looking for ways to get involved in the local community. ...
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Cadoxton Methodist Church website goes live
Posted on: 01/07/2011 @ 5:31pm by
It has been a long time coming, but we are very happy to announce that the Cadoxton Methodict Church site has finally gone live! ...
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Exe Valley Churches
Posted on: 24/05/2011 @ 9:26am by Dave Burton
Our latest website launch was not for just one church, but for nine. The Exe Valley Mission Community, or the Exe Valley Churches as they are probably more often referred to, are a group of nine Anglican parishes in the Exe Valley, near Tiverton, Devon. ...
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Does your site need Facebook?
Posted on: 24/05/2011 @ 9:16am by Dave Burton
Facebook and other social networking sites, like Twitter, have taken the world by storm - even making governments have to re-evaluate how privacy laws operate in some cases. ...
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It's Black and White...
Posted on: 07/03/2011 @ 11:50am by Dave Burton
We are proud to announce that our latest project, "Black and White Finance" has now gone live. ...
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Christmas and New Year
Posted on: 23/12/2010 @ 12:14pm by Dave Burton
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our clients a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. ...
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Teaching 4 Wales relaunched
Posted on: 21/12/2010 @ 4:07pm by
Teaching 4 wales are a teaching recruitment company based in Newport, South Wales. We provided them with a new site back in 2006 and this Autumn we set about revamping it. The new site uses Tim Burton's Coraline as a basis for the rather gothic characters that decorate the site, which make the site unusual and yet still inviting and friendly. ...
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ASK UK is launched
Posted on: 23/09/2010 @ 9:48am by Dave Burton
The ASK Network is an international Christian prayer group who seek to encourage a new generation of people to take responsibility for their locality. ...