Blog from Leeds based Digital Agency Creode

Cutting the cost of Web Design

14 Dec, 2011     Posted by Luke     0 Comments

As more and more businesses and services migrate their operations into an ever growing digital world, it seems like the need for Digital Agencies has never been greater. The requirement for great designers, developers, account/project managers etc by a large number of agencies seems to be defying the current statistics regarding jobs and unemployment. However…

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Great Gifts for Geeks this Christmas

09 Dec, 2011     Posted by Tom Wade     0 Comments

With Christmas fast approaching it can be daunting to find a gift for someone more in tune with their geek-side than yourself, or maybe you are just looking something to put on your own list and struggling for ideas. Either way, I have compiled a list below of the top gifts for geeks this Christmas,…

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Why tools such as 1&1 MyWebsite can do more harm than good to your small business

30 Nov, 2011     Posted by Marc     2 Comments

I saw an advert on the television the other day, informing me that I could get a great website for just £150 in around 5 minutes. Naturally, working within the web, this seemed such an incredible offer that I just couldn’t ignore it.

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What’s the future of Interaction design?

21 Nov, 2011     Posted by Tom Wild     0 Comments
What I expected to see as a kid

Watch: Productivity Future Vision (2011) Let me introduce this post by stating that I love interacting with digital media, be it owning the devices themselves or by walking around digital conventions and electronic high street stores. I’ve owned some great products and some not so great; from an iPad, Android and iPhone’s, handheld consoles, Xbox Kinect and…

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UX Toolkit: Experience Mapping

02 Nov, 2011     Posted by Luke     0 Comments

As a digital agency, one of our keys roles in any project is to consult our clients (the brand) on how they should be targeting and interacting with their customers both on and offline. To allow us to do this we must become fully immersed in their business operations, and work together to formulate a strategy…

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10 reasons to choose Magento for your ecommerce platform

21 Oct, 2011     Posted by Richard     0 Comments

Magento is an open source ecommerce platform that’s rapidly becoming the industry standard. It’s produced by Varien and developed on top of the Zend Framework. 1. Full featured Magento is one of the most full featured ecommerce systems available in both the proprietary and open source markets. It provides everything you need to manage an entire online…

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When an agency should use an internal framework

18 Oct, 2011     Posted by Tom Wade     0 Comments

When starting out, some agencies go about creating their own content management systems in an attempt to offer an in-house solution to their potential clientele. Having fewer clients at the start, there is more free time to work on internal projects such as this. With a custom built framework, a system can be created that is…

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Tips for avoiding a monotonous design process.

10 Oct, 2011     Posted by Marc     0 Comments

At some points in our design careers we, as designers, get stuck in a groove and it’s hard to get out of. Everything seems to be “that’ll do” over “that’s awesome”. It can really be a tough groove to get out of, with all creative output not cutting the mustard somehow, no matter how many…

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