Ahead of next year’s Industry Conf, a Newcastle-based event covering practical talks from experienced web professionals, we caught up with founder Gavin Elliott to find out a bit more about his approach, tips and projects, and what we can expect from the conference and accompanying workshop. Could you provide a bit of information about yourself? [read more…]
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October’s website of the month winner was Swap Boards, a beautifully designed community and ecommerce store focused around UK snowboarding enthusiasts. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and Swapboards.com? Basically I’m passionate about snowboarding (probably second only to my children!), I actually only took it up later in life about 7 years ago [read more…]
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Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got started in the web design industry? I started my career at a small agency back in ‘97, as a ‘trainee web designer’. I didn’t even know what web design was then to be honest, but was desperate to get into a design related [read more…]
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Back in August, the other joint Website of the Month winner was Seewest, a property company based in Portgual. We caught up with owner Pedro Guerreiro to find out more about what it’s like running a multi-lingual website and the benefits of running a business in such a lovely part of the world. Hi Pedro! [read more…]
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One of August’s joint Website of the Month winners was Project Barnum, your first port of call to avoid psychics’ scams. Project Barnum is definitely a different kind of website, so we caught up with founder Hayley Stevens to find out more. Tell us a bit about yourself and Project Barnum. In my teens I [read more…]
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Ahead of WebDevConf 2012 on October 19th, we spoke to “modern superhero” Syd Lawrence (aka “Kid Syd”) to find out what he will be talking about at the event, working with Blur, and life as a web developer. Hi Syd, tell us a bit about yourself and your background. Hey, so I started off coding [read more…]
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We caught up with July’s Website of the Month winner, Breton Coastal Homes, to find out more about their business, their social media strategy, and how they create people’s dreams. Tell us a little about yourself and your business. We are an architectural design company, based on the Isle of Skye, specialising in providing designs [read more…]
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As well as running the web design forum designerstalk.com and WordPress blog wplift.com, Oliver Dale recently created his own WordPress theme store themefurnace.com. We were intrigued about the challenges he faced entering such a competitive market, so we got in touch to ask him some questions. Thankfully, he was kind enough to answer them! The [read more…]
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We talked to Website of the Month winner Dan Taylor, owner of SEOwned.co.uk, to find out more about the importance of search in the UK, the relationship between search engine optimisation and social media, and much more. Hi Dan, tell us a bit about yourself and your background. My background is quite varied and I [read more…]
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April’s website of the month winner was Italian restaurant Romazzino! We caught up with Peppe and Giuseppe to find out about the challenges of running a local UK business in a recession and why their website is crucial to their success. Tell us a bit about yourself and Romazzino. Romazzino is owned by Peppe and [read more…]
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