Kahlenberg UK website launched

Second website launch of the week, this time for a brand new company – Kahlenberg UK Ltd, formed to handle the European distribution of Kahlenberg Industries, Inc’s range of marine and industrial air horns, electric horns, compressors, sound signal controllers and accessories.

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dupre.co.uk website launched

I have just completed the relaunch of the dupre.co.uk website for Newbury, Berkshire based business telephone and IT company du Pré plc.

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Skyscanner flight search without tears

Skyscanner flight search

I hate most conglomerate flight search tools; thanks to smart SEO they clutter up Google search results and yet mostly make you do all of the work to the extent it feels you might as well have searched all airlines yourself. But then I came across Edinburgh-based Skyscanner, which seems intuitive and reasonably comprehensive.

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Hebron becomes Double FirstHebron becomes Double First

Double First management information systems logo

Busy few days moving the whole company from its previous brand identity of 21 years, Hebron UK Ltd, to Double First Ltd. Intensive sales efforts in the Middle East over the past few weeks are adding to the list of schools that are using our management information system Engage. But sharing our company identity with the name of the largest city in the West Bank has created some concerns that we might be misunderstood in some way, a reaction that was never foreseen when Hebron was founded. So we’re moving the corporate brand to Double First, a name that originally featured on a successful suite of software written by the company a decade or more back.

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Good To Know launched

We’re beginning to reap the benefits of an awful lot of prep work in the team earlier in the year, and there’s no better illustration than IPC Connect’s recent launch of the new Good To Know portal which uses the IPC CMS2 project as a platform.

Following an extensive period of research the site

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Shooting UK portfolio launched

Have just launched a series of websites covering our shooting and field sports brands – Shooting Times, Sporting Gun, The Field and The Shooting Gazette, all of them clustered under a new portal, Shooting UK.

This particular set of web builds burned a lot of midnight oil in order to get them ready for the

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Strand Lighting’s new site: better but migration woes

Good news – Strand Lighting has done something to sort its website and it looks a lot better. Bad news – it hasn’t bothered to redirect any of its old links – try to access them and you get a page with some old navigation and a brace of javascript errors.

It’s not nice work,

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House To Home new website launch

Have been a bit buried of late getting a new website launched.

House To Home is the second website we have launched on our new Symphony-based in-house developed CMS platform and the third major launch for my team this year, following Country Life in February and InStyle in May.

House To Home’s key feature is

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The challenge of simple proposition websites

Paul Lomax’s latest blog, 10 tactics for Web 2.0 success, reminds me of many a late night spent conversing with him over some of the key issues surrounding internet development in the current age.

Of all of the points he makes his second, which points out the ideal of sites with a “strong, simple and

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InStyle site launched in the UK

After a lot of transatlantic effort we launched InStyle’s UK website last night.

On the surface it looks like a close cousin of the parent InStyle.com site in the US but there have been many changes to make it more suitable for a predominantly UK audience. The site editor is Maria Milano, who flew out

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