15th Oct

The W3C evolves and a new site is born

Great so it seems W3.org (World Wide Web Consortium or W3C) have finally redesigned their website. Now for those that have never heard of the W3C they are basically an international community that work together to sustain and develop web …

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18th Jun

We have a new site: Suggestoftheday.com

Frog (me) and Piggynap have created another pointless website to help us waste as much of our free time as possible. It’s called Google Suggest of the Day. We post a daily Google Suggest that we have …

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14th Mar

Herriots for Leisure – boutique hotel in Skipton

This week saw a new website launch at 9xb, a website I was very lucky enough to design, and for a client that was an absolute pleasure to work with.

Herriots for Leisure is an independent boutique hotel and restaurant …

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10th Feb

Bethemiddleman.com update

Bethemiddleman.com is a project we’re currently working on to provide the housing market a FREE option when selling …

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31st Jan

Archive44.com

Archive44.com is a fun little project I decided to do on the spur of the moment. It’s basically an archive of over 900 front pages of newspapers from all over the world on the day Barack Obama, the …

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8th Jan

Frog gives piggy yet another outfit for her blog

Piggynap.com is the blog of my girlfriend Zoe who works in online marketing and SEO. A few months ago I set her up a quick WordPress blog to start blogging on, with a simple design and …

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19th Nov

Selling your home privately – FROG ventures into the property market!

A few months ago I got approached by a contact of mine to see if I was interested in getting involved in a project they were starting. After a very productive meeting, …

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22nd Aug

WordPress theme for piggynap.com

This evening I finally got round to implementing a new WordPress theme for piggynap.com. It wasn’t a full theme build this time but it still took up the best part of my evening. I’ll be interviewing the owner of …

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30th Jul

St Annes Community Services

As a designer I’m sometimes asked to design speculative concepts to accompany quotes and tenders. This is work we are simply pitching for so the design has to impress the potential client or else we simply won’t get the job. …

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25th Jul

Alfresia – The direct conservatory and garden furniture store

I think this is one of the best looking ecommerce websites I’ve ever seen. It’s clean, modern, feels fresh and makes you want to buy Alfresia’s products because the user interface is so intuitive and easy to navigate. Each section …

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25th Jul

Cohen and Wilks International (CWI)

CWI (Cohen and Wilks) design, manufacture and supply clothing garments to some of the highstreets biggest retailers. They wanted a new website to replace their current one which is starting to show it’s age. I got to visit their headquarters …

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24th Jul

Tygan Speedster by Gmund based on the 1959 Porsche 356

This week saw a few new clients websites enter our studio at 9xb. One in particular, Gmund cars was worth a mention I thought.

Gmund cars is a specialist Porsche dealership based in knaresborough, selling such cars …

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12th Jul

Pleasure Island Family Theme Park

Another 9xb success story, another exercise in modern Web 2.0.

A snippet from the client case study on the new 9xb website.

Pleasure Island approached …

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7th Jul

New 9xb website: Launched at last!

6 weeks and over 200 working hours later my employers new website has finally gone Live.

It looks great, and has received rave reviews from all 9xb’s clients and associates. One client was quoted in saying “Most …

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7th Oct

L. R. Series has been launched

It’s a little bit belated, however The Floating Frog have launched L. R. Series – our first online shop.

The brief was to create an online presence for L. R. Series’ land rover parts business with integrated checkout and …

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