TPD Design Blog

New Site – Dean Butler Photography Gloucestershire

Simon — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:33:36 +0000

New photography site launched -> http://www.deanbutler.co.uk/

Dean is a fantastic photographer based in Gloucestershire and we have built a site to show off his work. Use the controls at the bottom to control and browse through the image sets. All images on the site are managed with a simple to use back end admin system.

The client area is built to allow Dean to upload completed work sets where the client can browse and download selected high-res versions directly – no more dvd’s in the post.

Dean provides services covering photography of product, lifestyle, food, architectural, location and portrait photography along with image re-touching and pack shots.

Water & Stone Bathrooms New Site Launched

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:21:14 +0000

We have just launched the new Water and Stone Bathrooms website -> www.waterandstonebathrooms.co.uk

Water and Stone offer a wide range of high quality bathroom, bedroom and interior products and offer full bespoke design and installation services winning numerous awards.

They have an amazing showroom which is located just outside of Nailsworth in Gloucestershire. The site utilises full background expanding images which gives the site a nice feel with the quality imagery from the products and showroom. The site has a full featured back-end admin system for managing products and content.

Gloucestershire Wellness Clinic Site Launched -> www.walking-well.co.uk

admin — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:04:27 +0000

We have just launched a small site for a Gloucestershire based Wellness Clinic – http://www.walking-well.co.uk

The clinic provides all sorts of information relating to general well being and matters relating to the feet and skin in particular. The site also offers a range of tried and tested foot and skin related products.

The Wine Journal – New Site Launched – http://www.thewinejournal.co.uk/

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 07:57:07 +0000

New site just launched for The Wine Journal – www.thewinejournal.co.uk

Great product for wine enthusiasts but also some really cool wine related products in the pipeline (check the coming soon page).

Mother Hubbard Site Updates

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:02:04 +0000

The Mother Hubbard website has recently been updated.

The shop is based in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Mother Hubbard not only supplies Old Original Pine pieces but has an extensive range of new and reproduction furniture in a wide range of styles all of which still retain the traditional Farmhouse or Period style, along with a large range of lighting, mirrors and unusual interior decorative items.

The evolution of Google’s logo over the years – from 1998 to today

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:44:25 +0000

Interesting little page on Google which shows the evolution of the logo used on the home page over the years from 1998 to current.

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/logos98-4.html

There really is clear improvement from early on to the current designs, I guess this reflects the success of the business to a certain extent

Site revamped for UD+M

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:56:03 +0000

We have recently revamped the existing UD+M website (http://www.udm.org.uk). A nice clean site with a neat jQuery plugin we created to add a colour fading effect to the navigaiton when hovered.

Also existing flash effects for text fade in and image transitions were replaced with jQuery to work on all platforms (and allow for easy maintenance).

The navigation effect plugin will be released as open source shortly.

Website Live – Encore Cirencester Designer Clothes Agency

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:58:53 +0000

Small but neat and clean site just gone live -> http://www.encore-cirencester.co.uk/

Encore Cirencester Website

Facebook Comments for WordPress = Slow Blog? Fix here

admin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:44:07 +0000

We installed the Facebook Comments for WordPress plugin – a very nice addition but found that it slowed the blog down terribly.

The solution I found was to uncheck the ‘Combine WordPress and Facebook comment counts’ option.

Speed back to normal

Our website goes live!!

admin — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:42:00 +0000

We finally have our new website up and live http://www.tpddesign.co.uk/

Its taken a while but we finally re-worked our website from scratch.

Just phase 1 but pleased so far, quite a few tweaks and updates to make over the coming months such as expanded details on projects along with more images, interactive forms, a client area and other design improvements.

It has been so difficult to actually find time to work on our own site, rather than all the ones we earn our living developing, I guess that’s always the case .

All the jQuery effects are hand written e.g. the slider on the menu, the portfolio slider etc by us, no drop in plugins, although we still need to go through and pull them into external minified JS files.

Anyway, a good way to finish the week out.