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Why Should You Use A Creative Agency?

By Web Design

While there are templates and tools that can help a professional launch a DIY website, often only a creative agency has the expertise that can drive results. Today’s web designers specialize in knowing exactly which design elements and colors to put on different sections of a page to engage customers.

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Website Time Machine

By Inspiration, Web Design

Apple in 2001

Ever wondered what websites used to look like back in 1999? Well now you can!

After some recent browsing we came across a great site that caches complete websites back as far as 1996. This really is an awesome time machine in more ways than one. Before you know it, hours have drifted by from browsing global giants like Apple, through to your very own website.

It’s amazing to see how software and graphics have evolved over the last 10 years. We have all come along way with regards to design and functionality. There was also a huge amount of flash that existed on yester-years internet which has obviously diminished due to Apple’s introduction of web devices.

If you have a few hours or even days to spare, take a look it’s fascinating.

To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported.

This is what Apple were doing back in 2001:

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Steffans Win Best UK Jewellery Website

By Our Work, Web Design

Steffans Jewellers have been very excited over the past few months about being nominated for best independent Jeweller and best Jewellery Website for the third year running. We ran a magazine campaign with three bowler hats marking their hat trick, we also uploaded this design to the homepage of their website. Out of the two nominations Steffans won the award of best UK Jewellery Website.

Congratulations!

We would like to congratulate the Steffans team for this because they are the ones who really work hard to keep their customers happy and to Steff Suiter who is constantly coming up with wacky ideas along with the Blayney Partnership to promote his Jewellery range. To celebrate this achievement with have redesigned the main page headers and homepage buttons, so poor a glass of your favorite champoo and raise a cheers to Steffans.co.uk

Steffans will return with Steffans.TV – Watch this space!!

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Sir Elton John blows Northampton away…

By Northampton News, Our Work

THE legendary Sir Elton John brought thousands of fans to their feet in a sell-out concert which rocked Northampton – for one-night-only.

Being huge music fans we decided that we would take out a hospitality package to thank our clients and staff, plus the celebration of Rob’s (Blayney Director) 66th Birthday. We enjoyed front row action as Elton blasted out all his greatest hits from ‘Bennie and the Jets’ to ‘Candle in the Wind’. The excitement didn’t stop there! We were lucky enough to have the privilege to go back stage with the company of our guest Ben Cohen, to meet Sir Elton in his dressing room. This made Rob and myself very happy and we were extremely star struck.

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After our brief encounter with one of the world’s biggest music legends things got even more crazy when he dedicated the concert to Ben Cohen and his “old friend and drinking partner” Northamptonshire cricketer Allan Lamb.

The sun shone and the rain held off for the entire evening boosting the electric atmosphere in the seated outdoor venue.

Thanks Elton for an amazing night that we and most of Northampton will never forget.