Intro Every social marketeer has the dilemma between manual and automated social media, automated posts allows for a constant flow of content being provided to users however it is usually often obviously automated and therefore not engaging. Manual tweets on the other hand take up a large part of time each day but are engaging and…
Intro John Lewis has been warming our hearts every Christmas, with arguably the best Christmas adverts in the country, if not the world?! The John Lewis Christmas advert is greatly anticipated every year, and it is pioneering earlier and earlier christmas advertising. It’s only just turned November! Last year John Lewis spent a whopping…
Intro Before I start this post, I have to say there is no way for a cross platform blur effect like iOS, but there are ways with WebKit/Blink. Earlier in the year we created the website high-wycombe-web-design.com to demo the approach. In the next section we will explain how it works and go through the short…
What is Apple Pay? Apple Pay is a mobile payment system which has been going for almost a year in the US, and is new to the UK, it is a payment system that replaces the need for a physical card when making in-store transactions. You simply just put your phone up to the payment…
Starting in July, Twitter users will be able to send 10,000 character messages On Thursday Twitter announced that in July it will remove the 140 character cap on direct messages. Regular tweets will still be limited to 140 characters, direct messages will now have a maximum count of 10,000 characters. Twitter’s Sachin Agarwal informed developers of the news…
How a non-mobile website gives my competitors the edge? In this article we’ll explain why it’s important to have a mobile friendly, and what your options are with creating one. Mobile device usage has exploded in recent years with over 60% of the web’s traffic coming from mobile devices. Smart phones are essentially glued to people’s hands,…
Google penalising for domain names? Today Google announced that as from May 1st 2015 websites will get penalised for using web addresses, so what are people to use instead? Google says that people should start utilising IP addresses instead – for example Google.com will be replaced with 216.58.208.78. If you enter 216.58.208.78 into your address…
Intro We’ve just returned back from WordCamp London 2015 (official hashtag #WCLDN), this is the first time we have attended WordCamp as a company. It’s been such a brilliant 2 days, with well over 500 attendees and 48 amazing talks to choose from. Day 1 Day one was certainly a jam-packed, we started the morning with a talk…
OrbitCarrot led a complete end-to-end rebrand of ClearTel Ltd, a leading voice solutions company in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. With the website, data sheets & instruction manuals branding, digital played a huge role in contributing to the overall rebrand. Goals:  To mature and modernise the business’ brand  To act as a lead generator  Improved website UX…
