Peacock Carter Ltd — all blog posts
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Peacock Carter is 10 years old
My web design agency, Peacock Carter, is ten years old this November. Here’s a quick look at a few of the company’s past achievements.
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Everything Magento
We’ve worked with Magento for years at Peacock Carter. It’s a fantastic ecommerce platform – and that’s not just me saying that, it’s clients as well! We have a deserved, but hard-earned, reputation in the North East and the UK as expert Magento consultants, and this has shown in how we’ve developed our Magento offering at Peacock… Read more »
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Peacock Carter is 8!
Wahey! Peacock Carter is 8 years old this November. 8 years in the same business: quite a daunting thought! As I’m sure many other SME owners and staff can attest, there is a lot of room for change in 8 years: We’re now a limited company, having started as a partnership Almost like the Sugababes,… Read more »
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Creative Sorbet: design briefs to cleanse your palate
When you’re busy, it’s really easy to move from one design project to another quickly, and after a while I find that designer’s block sets in and I struggle to think creatively for client projects. One remedy I have found to this is to expose myself (not like that!) to other designers’ work: read a… Read more »
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Newcastle Uni Students
The last few weeks have been an eye in a storm of client work, so we took the break to build an internal project: Newcastle Uni Students, a directory website for students at Newcastle and Northumbria universities, with content for freshers at Newcastle university. We already run a directory website for Durham Students, so this was… Read more »
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jQuery training course by Richard Powell
I had the chance to go on a jQuery training course recently, led by Richard Powell. jQuery is was one of my weaker areas, and after Shaun had gone on the course the other month and come back happier than he left, I figured it was about turn I went! I was impressed with Richard’s knowledge… Read more »
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Peacock Carter York, Yorkshire’s new web design agency
Amongst client work, we’ve been working on the refresh for Peacock Carter York, which represents our web design/digital agency services in York and Yorkshire. This refresh has been one of both content and design; the old site was a few years old (quite how old, I forget), and had been pretty neglected until recently. We’ve… Read more »
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Guide to writing website design tenders
At Peacock Carter, a reasonable percentage of our work in any given year is from website design tenders and requests for proposal, and I see the same few issues year after year. As such, I’ve taken the time to write a guide to writing website design tenders, with a few pointers – and, hopefully, ample… Read more »