Debug Design have created various online stores using the ecommerce platform Magento recently and to aid our customers we have gathered up a few helpful videos to compliment our on site training.
The team as Debug had a training day yesterday and attended a business course presented by one of the original Dragons, Doug Richards.
Having made much of his fortune through web based ventures he was perfectly placed to help the team and also focus us in the exciting new direction of Debug Design
The course covered important topics including:
Doug delivered the presentation with a no-nonsense approach and raised many interesting points which will change the company forever
Watch this space!
The ITV food show Britian’s best dish was recently debugged as two members of the Team submitted their entries as contenders. The east anglian region hopefuls were brought together in a hotel just outside Norwich and had to have interviews, camera interviews and convince the food team at ITV that their dish was good enough to get through…
Katy submitted a tasty starter which was a goats cheese, mushroom and chutney tart and Ian; 3 bangers and mash stack.
Having BOTH got through the preliminaries they went for their first days filming at Pinewood studios in London.
With everyone feeling the pinch at the moment many people want to do anything they can to help keep costs down. Some might want to crop, resize, and alter images on their website, others want to design their adverts themselves and others might just want to tinker with code to become more involved
With this in mind we have created a list of 5 open source alternatives to software needed to tinker with images, code and documents.
This week sees the launch of Fred. Olsen Travel’s Arts Club website. Arts Club offers cruises designed to relax and indulge as well as rekindle or develop an interest in topics as diverse as antiques and dance, photography and gardening. The website was built to fit alongside Flagship Golf, another niche cruise website designed and coded by Debug Design.
The website features a bespoke content management system built to allow simple and easy updates to cruise, lecturer and ship information. The website was coded in PHP and CSS with modal windows. The modal window has many advantages; when a modal window contains a smaller element, the user doesn’t need to load an entirely new page just to access it, the modal windows allows them to view the content overlaid on their current page, improving the usability of the website. Having to load pages over and over will annoy most users, so avoiding that is definitely a good thing. Modal windows also allow you to save space by getting rid of large elements that don’t need to be on the main page.
Debug Design have just launched a brand new website for the Adastral Park Gym in Martlesham.
With a refurbishment, new equipment and additional facilities it was time to re-vamp the website. The new site features a PHP based online booking system with AJAX usability components. The online booking will make it much simpler for members to reserve their session times and news pages aim to bring in new members.
The custom made CMS (Content Management System) allows the team at Adastral Park Leisure and Sports to create new facilities (ie: squash court, tennis court), add recurring facilities, cater for clubs and communicate with all of its members with the newsletter functionality.
Would you like an in-house chef to create healthy balanced meals for you every day?
Butterflies Tailored Cuisine do exactly that, and chose Debug Design to create their new branding and identity.
The client wanted a professional and elegant look. After working through a variety of concepts, we were all very happy with the chosen logo; an aqua marine and sharp black contrasting butterfly icon accenting the luxurious font.
We also created business cards and a holding page for the client. We wanted the cards to embody the concept of Butterflies, and a little something special was called for. We have added a spot gloss varnish to the logo. This will bring it out in the design and accent it, also providing a silky texture to the deluxe cards that will make the customers want to keep them!
London based property company Panther Securities recently had their website updated and uses all the latest web tools.
These include:
- SEO Freindly URL’s
- Google Search Suggest for the search box
- Automatically updated share price (as they are listed on the UK stock market)
- User friendly AJAX Highslide contact forms
- Integrated Google Maps
- One Click Lightbox Galleries
- CSS Print Styles
- Custom CMS system
Panther Securities are enjoying the current slow down in the market by increasing their portfolio of properties ready for the revival next year.
Ipswich based home technology company ‘The Edge’ have recently been re-branded by Debug Design. The company who sell, install and maintain all the latest mod cons from TV’s that come out of ceilings to stereo systems controlled by wall panels have new cards, compliment slips and headed paper which coupled with their new upcoming website will show the word their professional nature.
A recent project for Patient UK involved Debug Design creating a new book cover for the family health compendium ‘Health Matters’.
The design had to incorporate various cartoon characters, be eye-catching and appeal to a wide family audience. Debug Design also created various associated marketing collaterals and internal drawings to go with the book
The book in on sale in various stores and can be purchased from Amazon for £12.99 – Click here to go to amazon >>
The front cover for the family health compendium Health Matters