Code String continues to grow and grow and this week we moved to a bigger office to accommodate all our staff! The team was getting a bit tired of sitting on each other’s laps, so we moved and now have plenty of space for the existing team members and any new staff we take on…
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When you start a new business, one of the first things you will probably think of is getting a website. It’s a business essential these days, but it can be a minefield if you are not really sure what you’re doing. Here are five things you need to think about before you launch yourself into…
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Have you heard of Two Birds? If you haven’t you soon will. They are a new distillery based in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, who produce the finest gin, vodka and absinthe. So good is their gin, that they have recently won the Craft Distillers’ Alliance craft gin award for 2013. It’s good stuff and we can…
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How do your customers make a choice from one of your products? Do you have a website that showcases all your items in static photographic form, or does your website allow them to create scenarios to help their choice? Image compositing is a really cool way of setting up scenes and choices to enable your…
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DIY. The thing that everyone thinks they’re a master of, but really only a few people can actually put up shelves that are straight and will hold the weight of twenty hard back books. We’ve all tried it and it’s not as easy as it looks. The same goes for websites. There is a plethora…
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This month we’re celebrating our first birthday. We can’t believe it’s been a whole year already! We started Code String in early 2012 as a home-based business. We quickly realised that we needed an office and more staff in order to fulfill our clients’ requirements and moved to our first office in March 2012. By…
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2013 has been touted as the year of responsive design for websites, but what’s the difference between responsive design and mobile specific websites, and why does any of it matter? In the period between May 2011 and May 2012, mobile internet usage grew by 3.9%, while desktop usage fell by the same amount, according to…
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We’re delighted to announce the arrival of Kirsty Bashford to the Code String team. Kirsty joined us on 7th January 2013, as a trainee web developer. Kirsty brings a wealth of experience to our company: she ran her own successful online business for six years, before moving her career to focus on web projects for…
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If you’ve switched to Windows 8 then you might be struggling to find your way around. We’ve put together a list of shortcuts that should make life a little easier for you: in : switch between the Start screen and the last-running Windows 8 app in + C : displays the Charms: the Settings, Devices,…
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Earlier on this year we worked with a large company to create a content management platform on which selected members of the public reported on the Olympics. The platform allowed the company to judge individual submissions based on set criteria, with them choosing a few winners who were really good at creating content. These winners…
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