Anyone over 30 will remember how funny, intelligent and entertaining TV commercials used to be, Benson & Hedges posters were almost works of art, ads in the colour supplements were usually more interesting than the articles themselves. But times have changed, the public eye has moved elsewhere – and with it, has gone the revenue [...]
2009 archive
Halko: Construction Web Design
A new website has been launched today by Northstar, for Halko the timber construction company. Northstar was approached by Dorrington Construction to create a website for their timber buildings created in partnership with Finlammelli of Finland. The project involved creating a company name (Halko is the Finnish word for logs), corporate identity, website design and [...]
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Permashield manufacturing website launched
Permashield is a wall coating manufacturing and application company based in Leeds. They had three websites covering different aspects of their operation – however none were performing on the search engines and a fresh approach was required to generate traffic and convert visitors into contacts. Rather than promote three separate sites, we proposed cutting costs [...]
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English is the global language
Hurrah! Much to the dismay of the Germans, and especially the French – English is now the definitive universal language for our planet. How did this tiny island achieve this? Well, some of it has to do with our popular writers such as Shakespeare and Keats, then there are the world-wide foundations we set in [...]
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Customised eBay shop
Northstar was approached by Martin, who was looking to set up an eBay shop to sell off a range of items from TVs and cameras, to old LPs and furniture. As he was new to eBay, he wanted to give potential customers reassurance of a professional and reliable service – as he had no longstanding [...]
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Tiananmen Square anniversary internet shutdown
Many ruling powers across the globe feel threatened by the freedom of speech provided by the internet. Every Government, TV news channel, newspaper, magazine, radio station – has their own agenda and since time immemorial the history books, works of art, plays and architecture were commissioned by the victors / rulers to reinforce their view [...]
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WDL Interior Architects website
WDL is a commercial interior design and architectural practice based in Leeds, who specialise in retail, leisure and hospitality projects throughout the UK and Europe. Their client’s include Virgin, Hamleys and the Rugby Football Union. The site features a newsletter subscription form which is fully automated and linked to a simple Email Marketing programme, so [...]
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Budget web design – Archer & Stone
Archer & Stone are health and safety consultants based in Leeds, specialising in legionella risk assessment and management. Being a new business start-up a low budget web design was required, initially just to give them a presence on the web. Times are changing, not long ago having a website was a novelty, today a company [...]
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Micro-site launched for girl dance group
UDC Dance Company’s website is over 4 year’s old and required a major re-design to meet their client’s needs. The site generates dozens of enquiries every week, with potential clients frequently asking more photographs and more information. To reduce admin, each dance theme and dance style will have its own microsite with separate gallery – [...]
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