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Falcon Ridge website launch
Friday, July 16th, 2010
We are pleased to announce the launch of the website for Falcon Ridge Holidays, a Cornwall campsite located in the heart of Cornwall.
Falcon Ridge is set in 8 acres of South East Cornwall’s spectacular peaceful countryside enjoying uninterrupted and expansive views of Bodmin Moor towards Dartmoor, with 3 acres of grounds designated for camping for families and camping couples only.
Because of our existing relationship with Falcon Ridge, they approached Zenduo to create a themed website to promote their camping facilities. They required a website which displayed information on the campsite, detailing its facilities, local surroundings and tariffs, as well as allowing users to make bookings online.
Take a look for yourself at the new Falcon Ridge Holidays website.
Tags: camping, cornwall, dobwalls, liskeard, web, web design, website design
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Whybrow website Launch
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
We’re are pleased to announce the launch of the newly updated Whybrow Signing Consultants website. Building upon Whybrows previous website, the redesign and relaunch brings much more content with simpler site navigation and a much more coherent incorporation of the company’s branding.
Take a look for your self over at: http://www.whybrow.co.uk
The website has been developed in CSS, XHTML, Flash, Java and PHP to provide all content across a variety of devices and systems.
Tags: web design, website design
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How to Set an Apple Touch Icon
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
As iPhones and other Apple decives are becoming increasingly popular, it’s time to start paying attention to detail when building a website and adding in those little extra touches makes all the difference.
For pc browsers, websites can have a favourite icon, which is used when users bookmark your website. For Apple devices you can create a similar icon called the “Apple Touch Icon”, which when users add your website to their home screen.
This is done when the user:
- visits your website
- taps the + icon
- selects “Add to Home Screen”
Hopefully if done correctly, your icon is displayed (see below we’ve added ours). The good news is that it’s simple to do and easy to add as a new feature to your website.
The Code
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"/>
How to do it
- Simply create a 57 x 57 pixel icon in your favourite graphic editing software.
- Save your website iPhone icon as PNG and name it “apple-touch-icon.png”
- Upload to your websites root folder, e.g. where the index.html file is
- Then enter the code (shown above) into your websites head tag
- Job done!
Tags: iPhone
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Individual Interior Solutions
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
A sneak peak at a new website design for Zenduo:
Over the past few weeks Zenduo have been working closely with Devon Interior Designer and Owner of Individual Interior Solutions, Marie Hewitt to produce a bespoke website to help premote the business’s service and communicate Marie’s superb eye for design and attention to detail.
The company itself offers Corporate, Home and Marine Consultation, introducing style, colour and texture to your environment. From Heritage style properties to the ultimate contemporary apartments. The professional in-house team produce all types of bespoke hand made window dressings including curtains, roman blinds and pelmets. When it comes to furniture, Individual Interior Solutions upholstery and loose cover service is exceptional – from occasional chairs to 3 piece suites, they can transform your tired looking furniture to showroom conditions, whilst at the same time enhancing the interior of the room.
Launch Details
The website will soon to be launched at http://www.individualinteriorsolutions.co.uk in the new year so watch this space!
Tags: web design, website design
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Transparent background in CSS
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Transparent boxes are becoming a common element to many new designs, as you will see our latest design is build around the design of 2 transparent boxes however this was done using png’s.
There are a number of ways to achieve this effect but today i will show a simple example of how to achieve this using CSS. I am not certain to what extent this code will work on all browsers but any feedback that you might have please let me know as i will include it in this post.
The below example will show a box using the background colour of white and an alpha of 50%.
Transparent Box CSS
#mydiv {
width: 300px;
height: 50px;
margin: 20px 0;
background-color: #ffff00;
/* Internet Explorer */
filter:alpha(opacity=60);
/* CSS3 standard */
opacity:0.6;
}
Here’s what it looks like
50%
30%
10%
Advantages
The only real advantage, but a good one, is that you no longer need to use images (e.g. pngs) for your backgrounds which could result in faster loading times for your web page.
Disadvantages
This may not work on all browsers, it certainly does for the most recent versions but how far back this technique goes back I’m not too sure. Using the code above you will also need to keep the width set, in IE it seems to break without it. But im sure there is a work around for this.
Tags: CSS, web design, website design
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Posh and Cosy Salon Website Design
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Below is one of the most recent design ideas that we came up with for Posh and Cosy’s new website. The idea was to create a stylish feminine and professional looking website design to appeal to its ever growing client base (p.s as you can see its not quite finished).
Click on the image to see a larger version.
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How to Test your Websites Loading Speed
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
After stripping and streamlining my xhtml, css, javascript, php and images for the design and launch of the new website i thought id do a little hunting for a decent website speed checker.
I managed to find ‘Web Page Analyzer‘ which is a free web page analysis tool that calculates page size, composition, and download time and gives speed recommendations based on best practices for usability, HCI, and website optimisation.
This was not only good for showing the data that i was after but it highlighted files that were larger than first expected and pointed out a couple of small but non important errors.
Give it a go.
Tags: tips and tricks, web design, website design
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Favicon: How To Create A Favicon.ico
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Personalise your site by creating your very own icon, removing the standard browser icon such as the I.E or Firefox logo. This will change the icon not only on the browser tabs but when a user adds your site to their favourites.
Step 1 – Design your icon
Simply design and image that you want to use (standard is 16 x 16 px).
Step 2 – Convert your image to a .ico file
Once you have created this icon simply convert this to an icon. There are a number of ways to do this. Download/Purchase software to create .ico files alternatively visit http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ and create your own free icon by simply uploading your image and downloading.
Step 3 – Upload your logo
Once this has been done and you will need to put your favourite icon in the root of your website. e.g. www.mysite.com/favicon.ico make sure you keep the file name as “favicon.ico”.
Step 4 – Add the following code
In your webpage document simply add the following code anywhere within the <head> tags.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" mce_href="favicon.ico" />
or if you need it to work on a number of pages within folders simply link to the file direct.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.zenduo.co.uk/favicon.ico" />
And its as simple as that!
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Sara Sherwood website launch
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
After 3 months in development today we launched the all new improved website for contemporary abstract artist Sara Sherwood. Based on her existing website design we re-designed and improved many features such as artwork previews, new facilities to check availablity and request prices for individual items via the internet. Improved Search Engine Optomisation and not to mention a massive reduction in loading time and overall build quality making for a much easier and pleasant virtural gallery experience for any visitor.
The website has been developed in CSS, XHTML, Flash, Java and PHP and was built and designed from customer specific requirements to enable the fastest browsing experience possible, making the art appear as attractive as possible whist not compromising load times, functionality or aesthetics.
Take a look for yourselves, if the website doesnt impress you we sure the artwork will 
Tags: web, website design
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Falcon Ridge – Holiday Lodges Site Launch
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Today we launched the all new website for the new Falcon Ridge development, a unique development of 15 contemporary lodges at the old Dobwalls Adventure Park site.
The lodge features include:
- Double glazing
- Floor to ceiling windows in the lounge and bedrooms
- Solid timber cladding
- Flat screen TV
- Fully fitted kitchen
- Beautiful bathroom suite
- En-suite master bedroom
- Engineered oak plank flooring
- Recessed halogen lighting
- Stainless steel electrical sockets
- Architectural detailing
- Unique contemporary style
- Wonderful decking area creating the perfect link between outside and in.
Falcon Ridge is an exclusive and unique development of 15 luxury holiday homes, marrying beautiful quality and contemporary styling with a truly wonderful and natural setting. Offering contemporary living in a magnificent location, each home at Falcon Ridge is nestled within its own landscaped and spacious plot each with its own wonderful outlook – a truly perfect environment in which to relax, unwind and breathe.
The two bedroom homes at Falcon Ridge reflect the wonderfully natural setting in which they exist. Extensively built from timber harvested from sustainable forests – still the most beautiful building material available – before being blended with contemporary styling and state of the art appliances.
Click here to launch the website
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