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Fun4Kids Xmas Email Newsletter 2010

News by Steve

It’s that time of the year yet again, the time of the year when we send out the Christmas Fun4Kids newsletter featuring all the special promotions and offers available on their amazing range of outdoor toys over the festive period, including all the current voucher codes. Read More…

 

Heathcote & Ivory Choose The Pixel as Magento Developer

eCommerce, News, Website Design by Duncan

Heathcote & Ivory – producers of luxury hand cream, soap and toiletries – have asked us to redevelop their ecommerce website and manage their Magento system.

Heathcote & Ivory supply a range of high quality toiletries to high street stores including John Lewis and Waitrose. Their products consist of luxury hand cream, bath salts, body lotion and a range of exquisite soap and toiletry gift sets. Read More…

 

Lidl Use Our Copywriting Services for Xmas Brochures

News by dan

We’ve just completed a copywriting assignment for a series of Christmas brochures for the national supermarket chain, Lidl.

Lidl’s aim was to create a series of three Christmas brochures that would fully demonstrated their unique and premium range of products and how best to use them, using recipes provided by celebrity chefs Nick Nairn and Lesley Waters. We were enlisted to provide copywriting for all three brochures. Read More…

 

Stephen Arnold: Showcasing Our Specialist Web Design

News, Website Design by Duncan

Stephen Arnold is a leading crystal wholesaler selling Swarovski and other beads & precious stones.

We’ve recently been given the exciting task of re-designing their new website. Our brief was to create a more professional theme that complemented their impressive array of lavish precious stones and crystals. Read More…

 

Crystal Wholesalers Choose Magento Professional

eCommerce, News by Steve

Our latest Magento project is for the crystal boutique Stephen Arnold Ltd. Stephen Arnold Ltd are the premium wholesale boutique for crystals in the UK with vast market knowledge that’s respected throughout the industry.

StephenArnold.co.uk currently uses a custom CMS for all administrative duties. Our mission is to expand the current functionality to allow the company, which has outgrown the current website, to take more control over their ecommerce operations. Read More…

 

Grand Theft Auto Animators Install Lychee CMS

News, Web Development by Duncan

We’ve just implemented our new open source CMS, Lychee, for animation specialists NaturalMotion, who now use the system for all article publication on their website.

NaturalMotion Ltd is the creator of Dynamic Motion Synthesis (DMS), a break-through in 3D character animation that’s been used on games like Grand Theft Auto IV and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Read More…

 

Top 10 Tips for Avoiding The Football Word Cup 2010

News by Blog Master

1. Don’t watch TV at 12.30pm, 3.00pm, 7.30pm, or at any other time in-between because football highlights, post match commentary or some sort of late night football chat show will be on.

2. Don’t go in any pub that has a England flag – it will be full of people that should be at work and that have skived-off for an entire month with a sore throat, to become partial alcoholics in the name of football. Read More…

 

Akamai Deployed to Aid Google Search Update

News, Search Engine Optimisation by Steve

As ever at The Pixel we like to keep our finger permanently on the SEO pulse, so news of a search positioning shake-up from Google made our ears stand on end.

Google have revealed that website speed and performance are now going to be prominent factors in their search ranking algorithm that determines website search engine positioning. To accommodate these groundbreaking changes we’ve deployed the Akamai Content Delivery Network (CDN) to provide some of the fastest download speeds on the web. Read More…

 

The Pixel’s New Website: Revolutionary Web Design Imminent

News, Web Development, Website Design by Duncan

Here at The Pixel there have been some dramatic developments in regards to our new website. Our final concept art has materialised and it appears to resemble yet another phenomenally original and revolutionary piece of web innovation from our good, good selves. If we do say so ourselves.

Without further ado, let’s have a gander… Read More…

 

Fun4Kids Re-launch – Increasing Sales for Future Growth

eCommerce, News by Steve

The Pixel have helped Fun4Kids grow into a hugely successful online enterprise that’s now widely seen as the UK’s leading outdoor toy website. This is something we are greatly proud of. And now we have something else to be proud of – the new Fun4Kids website!

We’ve re-launched the Fun4Kids website with a brand new design, navigation and administration system to help accommodate the ever increasing sales demand from the buying public. We’ve taken the branding of the last website and created a brand new design to complement and expand upon that success. Read More…