Callie, one of our designers was overjoyed to see Bill Purvis pull up outside our offices in his brand new motorcycle and sidecar. Callie immediately was thinking Wallace and Grommit (and she’s a big fan!). Bill however wanted business cards and leaflets for his new business, Sidecar Safari. Callie was happy to oblige and of course had to at least have a sit in the Sidecar Safari machine parked outside… It’s great to see these types of innovative businesses spring [...]
FIG Creative, the leading Glossop-based design and marketing specialists have announced plans to work with Barclays as part of the financial services provider’s integrated approach to help local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) thrive and survive in today’s challenging economic conditions. New clients to Barclays, throughout Glossop and Buxton, will be entitled to a free 45 minute consultation with FIG Creative. Designed to give small business owners useful, practical advice these interactive sessions are an opportunity to ask questions and [...]
I was astounded to read a recent survey of over 2000 UK businesses*, that 23% of those surveyed didn’t have a website and 30% of those who didn’t have a website weren’t thinking of getting one. I think this is very short sighted. The internet has literally transformed our lives and how we buy products and services in the last 10 years. Even if we don’t buy online, we’ll probably do our research first and have a look at a [...]
WordPress is a well known standard as a blogging platform but its use for websites has grown dramatically in the past two years. In fact, at the last count there were 72,561,070 WordPress websites* out of 612,843,429 websites in the world** and growing, so they can’t be ignored. WordPress is an open source platform which means it’s available to anyone to use, to modify or update, free in a lot of cases or at very low cost. When it first [...]
