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How to achieve a great website design for your business
I’m often asked how to design a website. Invariably and quite often is the case, that this question actually means ‘how do you produce a bespoke website?'
Effective Website Testing with Robot Framework and Selenium
This article will guide you through how to setup the open-source Robot Framework, together with Selenium, to enable you to apply rigour, security and effectiveness into your development, deployment and release processes, particularly for web projects.
We won Silver: Surrey Digital Awards 2018 – Best Lifestyle and Culture website
We’re looking forward to our night out at the Surrey Digital Awards. Fingers crossed for The Spot website, nominated in the ‘BEST WEBSITE: LIFESTYLE & CULTURE’ category.
How much does a logo design cost?
That depends on whether you see it as a cost or an investment.
The cost of a logo design isn’t cheap. Well, it shouldn’t be anyway. If you pay less than £1000 for someone to design your logo then you have to consider or explore the possibility that they may not be as good as you’ve been led to believe.
Facebook glitch: Redirecting personal pages and business accounts
Early this-morning many Facebook pages have been redirected to the co-founder of Facebook Chris Hughes. Many personal and business profiles and pages containing digits are not able to be accessed.
‘Stand out from…’ Zzzzzz, boring.
If there’s one thing that bothers me it’s when a graphic designer says “stand out from the crowd” or “stand out from your competitors.”
Supercon.
Beat the fraudsters. Barclays’ message for online security
An interesting and worthwhile tv commercial and video from Barclays regarding online security and the importance of HTTPS on websites.
Designing a t-shirt for Monzo Bank, Behind the process
Shea's process of creating a competition-winning design for Monzo Bank’s Community.
What is great Logo Design?
Typography is fundamental in creating a great logo
What is Link Juice Or Link Equity?
Link juice simply is a way to describe how website links (internal and external) pass and share equity around the world wide web.
Full time Graphic Designer wanted (Position now filled)
This position has now been filled by a kick-ass digital designer named 'David.'
Increase business turnover and profitability by 500%
How? By improving business processes and implementing structured data
Are you awesome? Ambitious web developers required [Position now filled]
Junior to Mid weight – Position now filled
Triple award-winners
Sussex digital awards 2017
Gold and two bronze awards – bespoke responsive website design and development Sussex Digital Awards April 2017. And now Silver award in the Surrey Digital Awards :)
How to improve Google ranking without being penalised
Knowing how to improve your website's Google ranking isn't easy, is it?
HTTP Vs HTTPS:
Important changes & SEO Benefits
Is your website secured by HTTPS with SSL/TLS and certificates yet?
How do you restore a WordPress website after it has been hacked?
Addressing WordPress' vulnerability and security issues. A wordpress website becomes the vicitm of hackers, and on more than one occasion. Find out how we resolved the problem…
Are your saved Adobe Photoshop files missing their extension names?
Are you a frustrated Adobe software user, in particular with Photoshop, who is continually having to go to your finder and add file extensions manually?
12 ways to make your website faster
(A 5and3 case study)
If you've learnt anything from the story of tortoise and the hare then forget it! Your site needs to make that hare look like a weight lifter in a running race.
Frustration is poison to your websites traffic and the biggest frustration to any user is speed, or lack thereof.
What is HTML and how has it changed?
I've been playing around with HTML for around 10 years now and have been blown away by how much has changed in that time.
East Grinstead Foodbank
– A good (local) cause
We decided back in December that rather than spending money on our usual cards and gifts for our clients, we would look for a local good cause to donate to instead.
Calculating road travel distances using Google's distance matrix API and PHP
A taxi and courier client contacted us to develop an online calculator that would reliably calculate the distance between two locations (pickup and drop-off points). It would allow the user a choice of vehicle types ie. bike, van, car for the parcel(s) and provide an estimated delivery cost based upon the locations and vehicle types chosen through their bespoke website.
Drupa Exhibition stand design for our client River Graphics
The event was a resounding success…
Implementing a related projects area to a website's portfolio
We have created an interesting way for users to navigate around our project/work portfolio page…
We love it when our clients' are happy with our work
Our client cellXica are over the moon with their stand and meeting room at Mobile World Congress 2016
It's all about caring this Christmas
…please share a thought over the festive period for those people who may not have the luxuries that we all take for granted…
What is a responsive website?
Effectively, it is a website that adapts itself to the device you're viewing on, whether it be desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile.
So this is our first news article of 2015!
It's almost spring and we're all wondering were the time has gone as you probably are too. Both branding, digital and technical sides of 5and3 have been flat out since Christmas. We look forward to sharing with you, over the next few months, a number of projects:
Yes, we are still here
…and no, we haven't disappeared in an attempt to compete with the John Lewis and Sainsbury's ad agencies!
Remembering old brochure designs
The Woodland Grange identity and brochure was designed by our Creative Director, Chris, back in 2008. A prestigious collection of traditional-style homes in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, for property developer 'Milestone'.
Pay in a snap with Cash on Tap
Refreshing revolution in mobile payments from EE
More ways of saying hello
There are 100s of ways to say hello. A unique business card is just one of them…
What it takes to be the best graphic & website (UX / UI) designer
5and3 tick many of the boxes!
The Truth. Who causes free pitching?
Agencies and designers are often asked to pitch creative ideas for free. Is it right or wrong?
Buckmore Park 45min enduro event: The Go Karting results are in…
5and3 win 1st and 2nd place in the 45min endurance solo event, with cellXIon in 3rd place and Concise Controls in 4th.
Who will be Karting champion…
The build up and office banter has began before next weeks Go Karting challenge
3 day deadline to design, artwork and print a corporate brochure.
We delivered a bespoke brochure design and printed solution within 3 days and in time for our client, Arnold & Baldwin Chartered Surveyors, who was attending a corporate exhibition.
Old brochure designs remembered
Chris Heighton, Creative Director at 5and3, shares visuals and his thoughts on this creative project for Lucent Technologies, who later became Avaya. He also discusses the technologies and processes used at the time, reminiscing and going off on a few tangents, as he usually does when he's enthused!
Make your website work harder for your business.
How well does your website perform in these key areas…
Remembering an old brochure design from 1999
Marconi Communications (1999) brochure design
Bespoke brochure design for Expo World Travel
Our creative team designed and produced a unique brochure that encapsulated our client's brand and services.
How do you win at digital marketing?
An insightful article into digital marketing, Red Bull are clever!
Typographic recruitment advertising
Our Creative Director, Chris Heighton, has recently designed a typographic recruitment advertisement for Arnold & Baldwin Chartered Surveyors.
A Website solution fit for any touch screen device
It's been over a month since we posted our last website project. In this time our branding and digital team have created an awesome new brand identity, designed a fantastic brochure and produced an extremely user-friendly and multilingual website for our new client Controllis.
What makes a great brochure design for business?
Designed and printed right a brochure can be a lead generator and deal-clincher for your sales team. Here's how to design a great brochure.
SagePAY form integration
A test page to illustrate how to implement a PHP solution and effectively test a SagePAY Form Integration. Read on…
iOS6 or iOS7
Once you switch you can't go back! Despite over 200 million downloads, many are unhappy with the changes to the operating system
Three SEO tips to drive more traffic to your website
Follow these three SEO tips to drive more traffic to your website. They could even land you on Google's front page!
Colour selection can have a huge impact on a brand
Design trends and cultural associations can influence our colour choices
Creating a successful cross-platform brand for your business
When it comes to branding, client demands are increasing – the majority of the extra work placed on to the designer revolves around digital, whether that’s for a website, app or another digital touchpoint.
Clients' want the latest digital technologies as well as the all singing and dancing branding solution, but are they prepared for the cost associated with such a feat?