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A new website for Pufferfish Displays Ltd

ufferfish Displays produce eye-catching spherical displays and content for clients such as Disney, Coldplay and Eurovision. When you see one of their products – you’re guaranteed to stop and stare.

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Why we always ask questions at the start of a project?

In a previous post, What is getting tacked on to your brief?, I outlined some of the problems we are increasingly coming across in the briefs we receive. This is a universal problem that doesn’t just affect us.

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How Google works, a fantastic infographic

When I first joined Border Crossing Media I spent quite a lot of time familiarising myself with the way that Google and other search engines operate.

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Do we really need the user research & usability testing?

This is a question we are often asked by prospective clients. Normally a quick conversation is enough to convey its importance and the fundamental role it plays in the design and technical projects we undertake.

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Kids, work & websites

Judging by our website you wouldn’t know it but we’ve been flat out over the last couple of months. We’ve had babies, deployed several websites and undertaken more consultancy work than we’ve done since starting out in 2006.

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Happy 2011 from Border Crossing Media

As this year draws to a close we’d like to wish all of our customers, collaborators and friends all the best for 2011. We’ll be taking the Monday and Tuesday off but come the 5th of January we’ll be back up and running.

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Google releases updated SEO starter guide

Google have updated their SEO starter guide. We always recommend that clients familiarise themselves with this document as it provides a comprehensive and perhaps more importantly free overview of how best to approach search engine optimisation (SEO) from Google itself.

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What’s getting tacked on to your web development brief?

I’ve started to notice a recurring trend in the briefs and request for proposals we receive. Every one we’ve reviewed of late has one line in it that is totally out of sync with the rest of the document’s content.

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Alpha, beta & official releases: What’s the difference?

We do our best not to use jargon when communicating with clients. That said, we do use the terms alpha, beta and official release. These terms are useful because they help everyone understand where we are with a technical development project.

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