Category: Development
Case Study – London Fitness Classes
OrbitCarrot led an end-to-end rebrand of London Fitness Classes Ltd, a gym and fitness class provider around London. Digital played the biggest role in contributing to the overall rebrand. Goals: To provide a modern an live design of the website To appeal predominately to young female people Make it easy to book above the fold Encourage people to get involved…
Best WordPress Plugin For Social Marketeers
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…
Web Development: How to create a blur effect like iOS on the web?
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…
Having a non-mobile website gives your competitors the edge.
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,…
WordCamp London 2015 (2 Days of Awesomeness)
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…
Case Study – ClearTel Ltd Rebrand
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…
6 Important WordPress ‘Go Live’ checklist items
Intro Ok, so you’ve spent months and months slaving over this beautiful new WordPress and now you’re ready to put it live. The following blog post shows the 6 most important ‘Go Live’ checklist items. 1. Cross-browser checking Never put a site live without checking it on all browsers, at OrbitCarrot we support…
6 Overlooked Magento ‘Go Live’ checklist items
Intro There is a lot to think about when putting a Magneto site live – so we thought we’d produce a small list of the 6 most overlooked “Go Live” checklist items. Switch payment gateway settings from test mode to live. Problems with payment processing makes customers abandon their shopping cart quicker then you…