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Design 51 launch new website for Emma Wynter

design51 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:34:08 +0000

Emma Wynter offers fitness classes, personal training, children’s parties and organises fun dance-themed evenings and workshops for both adults and children. We were commissioned to re-design the website to make it both more visually exciting and easy to use.

We chose the awesome WordPress for the site, it’s easy to use admin area means Emma is able to edit her website content and publish blog posts on the go. For the technically minded of you the site is coded using HTML5 and CSS3 and the awesome @font-face service for custom web fonts.

Visit the new website

Satisfy the Cat, a.k.a. User-Centered Design

design51 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:00:11 +0000

This great video was shared by Experience Solutions recently on Twitter, it shows why user-centered design is crucial and how important it is to think about your customers when designing a website.

We loved it and thought that it was worth posting on our blog to share with you all. The video was put together by John Boykin.

Heart & Sole – The second event is on it’s way!

design51 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:36:15 +0000

Heart & Sole Is Back!

If you didn’t attend the last event in January, then let me explain all about this awesome event for you!

Heart & Sole started in 2010 as a simple get together for freelancers and sole traders, with the intention to have a good ol’ jolly around Christmas time for those who didn’t have the luxury of being able to go to big agency Christmas parties. It quickly evolved into much more than that, the speaker list grew and grew until they could no longer call it a Christmas party, and almost by accident Heart & Sole became a conference!

The first event was a HUGE success! Great speakers and a good get together with folk traveling from as far as Spain!

Alex from H&S says: “The night in question was a complete sell-out, and packed to the brim with a roster of very special guest speakers, a raffle (which wasn’t a fix …honest!), and a social and networking session for all attendees. Check out the videos and more! ‘

With that, there was no way it was ever going to just be a one-off. Regular well attended monthly meetings and now, the next big event!

Below are some details from the Heart & Sole website, click here to find out more! We will be attending and helping out on the big night so be sure to say hello!

When & Where

7pm – Friday 18th November, 2011

Spinnaker Tower • Gunwharf Quays • Portsmouth

The Awesome Speakers

Heart & Sole are delighted to have secured some truly awesome speakers for Heart & Sole 2. The chosen speakers can only be described as experts in their respective fields, and we’d like to think that attendees will surely learn something from their experiences.

Check out our awesome lineup – click here!

From Heart & Sole 1

John O’Nolan talks to us about Designing WordPress.

Social Media Shoes by Lumen Bigott for Keds

admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:12:48 +0000

Occasionally we see products on the web that really stand out, and these social media shoes by Venezuelan graphic designer Lumen Bigott are no exception. Designed for the popular shoe company Keds as a concept, we think they look great. Ok, they may just be for fun, but we love the detail and thought that has gone into them.

Below are the concept images, which one is your favourite?

View all of Lumen’s work at her online portfolio – click here.

Video of the Month – October – Jeb Corliss ‘Grinding The Crack’

admin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:09:10 +0000

This month we are kicking things off with an awesome video of mad-man, daredevil & base jumper Jeb Corliss. You may have seen Jeb recently on ITV with his mad dive from a helicopter through a mountain in Japan. it was pretty special, but the quality of this video and the pure class timing by Jeb made ‘Grinding The Crack’ our choice for the month. Enjoy!

New branding… plus new website coming soon!

admin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:26:24 +0000

You may have noticed our new logo over there on the right quick look now! We have been working on a complete re-branding process over the past 3 months and decided while our new website is being coded up we would post a teaser of what’s to come!

Our current one page site has been up for a while now and in desperate need of some quality content – plus a complete portfolio.

We hope you like our new logo as much as we do, we feel it reflects our style and even ties in the Area 51 link (ok.. bit cheesy?). Although some people have said it is ‘superhero-esque’ which we think is actually pretty cool.

We Love MOO

design51 — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:00:25 +0000

To all our lovely customers:

We no longer offer a promo code for moo.com, but we are working with moo.com on an exciting new project. Watch this space!

In the mean time, check out moo.com they offer a fantastic range of products including Business Cards, MiniCards and other printed products!

A video about MOO:

Looking for Web Design in Chichester?

Design 51 are specialists in creating beautiful websites for small to medium sized businesses. We love what we do, and you can see the recent projects we’ve completed in our portfolio. If you are looking for a professional web design company in Chichester then take a look at our services to see how we could help you. We are small but perfectly formed, our team is incredibly versatile and able to handle any sized project get in touch with us today and see how we can help you.

Design 51 Launches Southdowns Investigations

design51 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:15:40 +0000

This month we have launched a brand new site for Sussex based private investigation company, Southdowns Investigations. Paul from Southdowns has worked on some very high end jobs, the Sarah Paine case to mention just one!

The site is built using the awesome WordPress as it’s CMS and uses plugins such as SEO for WordPress by Yoast, Gravity Forms and Leaflet Maps.

We have enjoyed the process of this site particularly as Paul from Southdowns has been very open to a completely new look for his business. Plus we have learned alot about private investigation and heard some fantastic stories along the way!

Video of the Month – September – STRaNGe Beautiful LIFE – Take me to the sun

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:40:17 +0000

Welcome to the first of our post for ‘Video Of The Month’. We thought it would be a good idea to share with you a video that we’ve spotted this month, for inspirational purposes of course!

I was lucky enough to surf with Alan Stokes for 10 weeks during a trip to Costa Rica in 2009, he is one of the most awesome guys I’ve met and an amazing surfer.

While in Cr I also met Tim Davies, a welsh videographer and surfer. Tim and Alan have produced a new film series titled: “STRaNGe Beautiful LIFE” which follows Alan around the globe and filming everything on their way.

This is the first episode of many, and it rocks!

Enjoy!

A little message from Stokesy:

“Hello and welcome to episode one of an ongoing series titled Strange Beautiful Life we hope to have fun, entertain and get you stoked on surfing.

This first episode features my winter escape from freezing Newquay in Cornwall to the warmer waters of Central America.

Me and Tim spent two months making this and had an absolute blast in the process.
I hope you all enjoy and stay tuned for each episode.
Thanks
Stokesy”

How a Free Graze box code, ended up with £825 going to charity.

design51 — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:37:29 +0000

UPDATE – Febuary 2012 – Why we cancelled our Graze account and donated £825 to charity.

We have currently driven over 900 customers to Graze, by giving our visitors a free box. We applied to become an affiliate in October and since then Graze have maintained that they would not accept us, the scheme had some pretty major flaws with conflicting messages and details that we pointed out to them on several occasions. It seems that because we rank so highly for the term Graze.com they won’t accept us, even though in their terms (above) they say this is fine. Since we mentioned this to them they *decided* to update their terms and cut us out of the picture. This seemed very unfair.

So if you are looking for a free graze box, we are sorry but at this stage we are no longer able to supply a code.

Our experience with Graze has not been a pleasant one, and I’d personally avoid using them. My account will be closed.

Charity Mate!

We have donated the money we have earned from Graze (currently £825) to their Charity in Uganda.

If you have any questions about free boxes / codes please head to https://www.graze.com/help/contact

Original Article:

Free Graze Box

Sitting at your desk all day long is never good for your health, we all know that right!? However the folk over at Graze have come up with a way to get healthy snacks delivered straight to your door, that are nutritionally balanced and super tasty!

Graze (graze.com) is a new innovative way to get nature delivered & eat more healthy food (fewer biscuits)! They stock over 100 interesting food items, and only the tastiest natural foods get chosen. You get 4 punnets of nibbles, ready for whenever you feel puckish. Each week you get a personalized nutritional guide that tells you exactly what is in punnet! And all this for less than £3.50 delivered!

Another great feature of graze is the face you can rate your foods! This means that if you HATE olives but LOVE crackers you can ensure you get more of what you love and nothing that you hate!

Also, feel free to share the love, simply click the tweet button at the top of this page to share a free graze box with your twitter followers!

About the authors:

Design 51 are a web design company based in Chichester, we specialise in creating awesome websites that not just rank well in search engines but look fantastic too. If you are looking for a website design company in Chichester then check out our main site here or take a look at our range of services. We understand the web and we know how important it is to make your users engage with your site, why not take a look over at our recent work to get an idea of what we can do for you.