Blog posts written by Mike
What is an apprenticeship?
Tired of being stuck in a classroom? What is an apprenticeship you ask? Not sure if university is the right option for you? Not to worry! If you are age 16 or over there is the fantastic opportunity of gaining quality, practical and on the job experience in the working sector of your choice WHILE […]
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Long, Lost Logo Lookalikes
As more and more companies are becoming popular, more logos are being designed in the process. This has lead to some strangely-similar logo designs. Similar looking logos have been spotted from the book “The Alphabet in Design: Trademarks and Symbols of the World” (published in the late 1980s) and gained popularity through social media such […]
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What’s it like to work within a web design team
Webdezign is more than just a company that makes fancy webpages or complex systems.
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New responsive website launched… finally!
Building your own website when you are a web design company is like the mechanic who drives about in an old and battered car that is for ever being scheduled to be fixed up, but never does.
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Magento E-commerce For Fashion Retailers
Industry experts are in agreement that Magento has the ability to save time, allow you to offer a more engaging service to your client and it can help your firm to save money, due to the open source nature of the platform.
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Web designers in London
Our team of web designers in London who founded Active Webdezign fifteen years ago have all been able to evolve and grow with the company thanks somewhat to its location.
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Ed The Intern doing work experience
What happens when you have a London lad and three web designers in the office while the boss is away? We had Edward visit for work experience a few weeks ago and we tasked him with creating a promo video for webdezign.
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How to Create an impressive WordPress Gallery on your site
Nowadays, there are countless websites out there ! Some websites clearly stand out and attract more and more visitors every day.
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Benefits of building your website in London
It has been fifteen years since Active Webdezign opened its doors and modem connection to the world of the Internet. Being a web design company based in London, we were fortunate enough to have clients come to us for our services right from the word go.
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The stupid EU cookie law in 2½ minutes
We have spoken about the new Cookie law in the past but today I stumbled upon a video by Oliver at Silktide explaining this problem in more detail.
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Steve Jobs RIP
It has been a difficult year for all of us as it is, and to top it all up Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple Macintosh computers and our hero of tech has this week passed away.
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New cookie laws un-realistic within grace period
The 25th of May marks what could be a major turning point of the internet's privacy laws. This may change the way websites are developed forever.
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YouTube is down – OMG
It was a big shock, but somewhat of a sobering revelation to see that YouTube website was down this morning.
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Launch of the all new Back2 ecommerce website
We are proud to announce the most recent launch of the long established central London based ergonomic furniture company Back2.
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Pro bono work for local charity
Our London based web design and development team at Active Webdezign ltd. have been working hard on a charity website that we have donated to theWingate and Finchley football club as part of an ongoing commitment to help out local charities in need.
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Team building day at the Go-Kart track
The summer has once again finaly arrived without any sign of a heatwave, but that can be expected in the UK, it's not unusual. Following a stronger 3rd quarter of trading we decided to treat ourselves with a day at the race track in Brewtwood.
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Cameron calls Twitts Twats, but what exactly was he implying?
What a fiasco..>!! David Cameron made a remark, which backfired on him.... Twat! (can i say that?)
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Broadband speeds not up to the mark?
It has finally emerged publicly that the speed at which our broadband connections actually operate at, compared with what we are actually paying for, is almost 50% slower on average.
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Reading Glasses Direct Launched
We recently embarked on an e-commerce project of our own, setting out to prove to ourselves that you can create a successful online retail website from just an idea, hard work and dedication.
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Website hosting in London
The Webdezign policy on hosting for our clients websites has always been to achieve the highest standard available in the market. Offering safe, reliable and up to date hosting co-located inside the most up do date facilities.
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Spam spam spam and more spam, where does it come from?
Spam Spam Spam and Spam... the only encounter I had of that phrase in past years was the famous Monty Python sketch (I have added the video below for fun and for those of you who have never seen it).
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Arbras Gallery new ecommerce development project
Webdezign are proud to have been chosen to take on the new ecommerce and web design project for one of our oldest returning clients.
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Domain Privacy Protection
Some people who own a domain name may already be aware that their personal details are openly available via the who-is database of domain registrants (e.g. www.whois-search.com). This is quite a worrying thought...
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Webdezign launches website 2.0.1
The team at Webdezign have been very busy building new websites for our clients during 2008. It was only down to the determination of the guys to use their own scarce moments of spare time, that we finally managed to go live on Thursday the 9th of January at around midnight.
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Anoushka G e-commerce site launched
As one of our most established clients, Anoushka G knew from experience that they could rely on Active Webdezign to revamp their website. After all, they instructed us to develop everything from their logo design to their brochures when they were starting out.
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