At Mixd we’ve been designing and building websites with ‘one-web’ principles in mind for over two years now so we were delighted when Adobe recently announced ‘Edge Reflow’. It’s a new piece of software that should make our creative design process more fluid. Why? Because it means we can design on screen then see what happens [...]
Mixd are looking for a talented and creative designer to work with our internal team on an exciting new project.
The Brugge Museum identity is wonderful and we wanted to share it with everyone. Please read on…
Mixd are looking for an additional front end developer who loves working with Responsive Design. At Mixd, we are dedicated to One Web principles – so much so, we choose to implement our constantly evolving Responsive Design approach on all of our projects. Working here, you will embrace the web’s fluidity and never build a fixed-width site again!
As many of you will already know, we at Mixd are no strangers to working with the ski industry. In fact, this year alone has seen us launch three new websites for ski chalet companies (see Chalet Morzine, and The Tasty Ski Company). Last week Mixd launched a new fully responsive site for Freedom [...]
It was great to receive this really positive feedback on the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust website today. We are particularly happy as it perfectly reflects all the recommendations we made to the client at the beginning of the project. I just wanted to say what a fantastic website you have! My mother has AMD [...]
Every Friday afternoon we are giving all members of the Mixd team a half day of free time to think, explore, mock up, prototype, whatever.
Your website doesn’t just sit on a desk anymore. And we believe you would be absolutely mad to commission a website today which doesn’t consider optimisation for a range of devices from the very beginning.
Many of our clients will already know Aaron – well they think they do. At least they have heard us speak about him, some even claim to have spoken to him personally. But he is, well, a little camera shy.
Mixd has recently launched a new website for South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust implementing a truly mobile first approach to the build. Matt and the the team really got their teeth into this one – implementing latest responsive best practice techniques wherever possible.
Whenever we create a website for somebody it is important they understand how their site will look to their users. The short answer is: it will look great! Now let’s break that down a little, starting with what ‘support’ actually means.
Apple yesterday launched their 3rd generation iPad, oddly named “the new iPad”. The buzz on twitter seems to be a feeling of disappointment with the product not being the step-forward that some people were expecting. However it does feature the much-expected Retina Display. And this leaves us web designers in a bit of a pickle. [...]
Epic typographic #FAIL – since when would the same Character form depict both an ‘o’ and an ‘e’?
What is all the fuss about? Ok, so everyone has gone Pinterest mad and if, like me, you are left wondering what is this new social network and why should I be interested in it then read on. I’m guessing that I am not the only one who is not quite sure what all the [...]
Facebook timeline now available for brands Earlier this week, Facebook announced it was making the new Timeline feature available (and, by the end of March, mandatory) for brands. Some of the prominent changes include a new layout with cover photo, highlighting features and the ability to edit and update without navigating to a separate page. [...]
If company had asked you to paint their new offices with a bunch of murals and offered to pay you a few thousand dollars or the equivalent in company shares, you would probably have gone for the cash, right? Well that’s what I thought until I found out that the company behind this was Facebook! [...]
Earlier this month Phil and I headed off to Nottingham for round 2 of the New Adventures Conference. Last year was a massive success and a great way to open a new conference, which is aimed at being more affordable than most. This year Colly (now working with 2011 speaker Greg Wood on board) tried [...]
We’ve been working a lot on building responsive sites lately. Sites which are flexible to the device they may be viewed upon, and change accordingly. For many reasons, it’s good to start small and work up to a full “desktop” version and this means it is vital we consider the site on smaller devices early [...]
This Saturday, Christmas Eve, two of the major car parks in Harrogate will be offering FREE parking! Power-cut The usual income generated by the car parks will be covered by Northern Powergrid, following the untimely power-cut last Saturday afternoon that made it nigh-on impossible for retailers to trade for the majority of what is arguably [...]
Just so you know, we are closed for the Christmas recess from Friday 23 December 2011 til’ Tuesday 3 January 2012. We have gifts to give, food to be eaten and beer to consume. Thank you folks! 2011 has been a great year for Mixd and we have had the opportunity to work on some [...]
When Santa hit the streets of Harrogate last Christmas to collect charity donations, he took 3 ‘stooges’ with him to help conceal his true identity. But which one is the real Santa? Win champagne! To enter and be in with a chance of winning a magnum of champagne, just visit the Mixd Facebook page and [...]
So it’s the end of the year and as many have been proclaiming, 2011 was the year of mobile. Well it’s certainly booming, as outlined by Bob a few months back. The proof Having been made temporarily flatless a week ago (long story!) and ending up sleeping on my mate’s sofa for a while, the [...]
Christmas Eve 2008 There I was, traipsing around a bland town centre, with arms full of bags blowing in the wind, a light shower to add to my woes and a bag of roasted chestnuts that resembled charcoal… all whilst a Peruvian pan pipe band played ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’… repeatedly. Mid-December 2011 [...]
Design flourishes within constraints The more a design team knows about the users of a site, the better they can meet their needs and design something that appeals to those users beyond the aesthetic appearance of a site. Something that looks lovely but doesn’t work for the user is pointless online. The fundamental principles of user centred [...]
Gordon had Ming but Adobe’s Flash has had to contend with a more powerful adversary in the Late Steve Jobs and he was equally merciless in his pursuit of wiping out his enemy. And after years of bitter fighting it seems Jobs has succeeded where Ming failed, bringing Flash to its knees – if we [...]
I know many of you will be disappointed having read Phil’s post about commuting, not to see him in Lycra… so here you go!
Happy 1st November everyone! Whilst driving to work this morning I was thinking how lucky I am to have the commute that I have to Harrogate. I am sure that I am not alone to say that I have had my fair share of long, dull and tedious commutes. Perhaps the longest of which was [...]
Not that Oasis! We have created new branding and launched an online presence for Oasis, an ethical, not-for-profit human relations consultancy. The branding and website are designed to help Oasis to clearly articulate its unique approach and skills, with much of the web content focusing on real-life case studies and testimonials. Some might say… Cathy [...]
It is fair to say that scoping is the most important stage of any design and development project. “None of us plan to fail, but some of us fail to plan.” Anon. (I saw this quote as graffiti on a dressing room door!) Without scoping, a design and development project is like trying to build [...]
We all hate Mondays. But then again we all love the Internet. So imagine how I felt when these two opposites collided yesterday morning after discovering not one, but two sites which impressed me more than a little. Magnum Pleasure Hunt http://pleasurehunt.mymagnum.com/ Have to say this one’s been out for a while but it was [...]
You’ll have to pardon the pun, but I was blown-away when I was shown this the other day. Flabbergasted even! Take a peek: Now I’ve done some pretty silly things on the bike in the past but this is next-level silliness. I didn’t even know a sport like this existed! But there you have it, [...]
Why mobile? The way we use the web is changing. Gone are the days of a fixed PC where you went to ‘surf’ the web for an hour or so after you’d popped the kids to bed. Instead, we are now able to view the web almost whenever and wherever we want utilising a whole [...]
This has nothing to do with web design but if you are a web designer, training to become a web designer, would like to be a web designer or just like to keep abreast of the latest technologies and apps us web geeks are using then you might find this interesting. Then again you might [...]
If you’re in the market for a great deal on a used car in the Yorkshire area, you may have come across our recently launched website for Andrews Auto Parcs in Harrogate. Website scoping The website is the result of many hours of hard graft, with a great deal of time spent planning, investigating, scoping [...]
I just wanted to say a huge thanks for all the support and the money raised from the 100 mile South Downs Way ‘bike ride’ that I took part in last Saturday for the British Heart Foundation. It is the 3rd year I’ve taken part in this event so in fairness I knew what I [...]
BlackBerry losing mobile smartphone market share With the introduction of the iPhone and Android phones, BlackBerry’s share of the worldwide mobile smartphone market started to reduce dramatically… some might say plummet. In fact, it was only a couple of days ago that a San Francisco Chronicle article reported that Research in Motion Ltd (RIM), the [...]
HRH Prince Charles turned up in Harrogate yesterday with Camilla in tow to visit the Great Yorkshire Show. We believe the couple arrived around lunchtime, landing on the stray in their private chopper. The welcome party included many local dignitaries including the Mayor of Harrogate, the Chief Executive of Harrogate Borough Council and North Yorkshire [...]
There’s an awful lot of discussion and criticism regarding education and training in the Web Design community lately, and subsequently the University of Leeds’ BA (Hons) degree in New Media has recieved a lot of attention. The criticism mostly regards the relevence of the more broad modules such as Communication Research Methods and Communication Sciences [...]
Guest post by Chris Solloway, Wordbird Communications; great web copy, Yorkshire Hurrah! Someone has arrived at your shiny new website. Now you’ve got them, you want to keep them as long as possible. Clearly content, design and functionality are crucial – but the fourth pillar of any good web platform is words. Is your copy [...]
We’ve seen a huge growth in how social media is being used in the hotel industry. So much so that the vast majority of luxury, boutique hotels across the world now have a blog, a Facebook fan page, a YouTube Channel, thousands of Twitter followers and a Flickr photostream! Hotels are increasingly embracing social media [...]
Showering with the Wurzels I often have strange thoughts when in the shower. This morning was no exception. I found myself singing The Wurzels’ classic hit ‘Combine Harvester (brand new key)’. I sing a lot in the shower, but have no idea why the Wurzels entered my tired morning mind. Anyhow, this got me thinking [...]
The appearance of a bit of sunshine in England brings about many changes. Those early mornings seem easier, everyone’s in a happier mood, beers taste better and the ladies don their bikinis. After having a decent bit of decent weather of late, I decided sitting in front of a computer all day needed to be [...]
I’m sure we’ve all heard the dreaded line before. As a long-standing joke in the design industry; when a client says about your design – “it just doesn’t…pop!” What exactly is “pop” anyway? How can it be quantified? Surely it means different things to different people? To me, it simply means grabs your attention. And [...]
Over the last few months the Mixd team has steadily been growing and as a result we have been encouraging web designers and web developers of the future to get in touch. Those of you that regularly read the Mixd blog will know that we work closely with York College and the University of Leeds [...]
Time flies… As I was preparing the content for the May 2011 edition of MixdMessages, it occurred to me that we had completed our first year of our monthly eNewsletter of ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ according to the team here at Mixd towers. Crikey… that’s flown by! Any good? Over the last year, we [...]
In case you didn’t know… Earlier this year, East Coast announced a direct train service returning from London to Harrogate of an evening (leaving King’s Cross at 5.33pm) to complement the direct service from Harrogate to London on weekday mornings (leaving Harrogate at 7.28am); prior to this, you would have to return with a change [...]
Are you one of the people desperately looking for an alternative to the Royal wedding on Friday? Well, we’ve had a good search around the font of all knowledge that is the internet and are pleased to bring you a Mixd [sic] assortment of alternative things to do. Alternative things to do on Friday 29 [...]
Harrogate web design company Mixd is proud to have recently launched the new website for the Obesity Surgeons Group based in Leeds. The Obesity Surgeons Group (OSG) is a surgeon-led organisation that offers leading surgery solutions to patients revolving around four core principles: Highly skilled professionals with vast experience in weight loss surgery; State of [...]
Agile Adjective Able to move quickly and easily. Concise Oxford English Dictionary Agile development Agile methods generally promote a disciplined project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation, a leadership philosophy that encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability, a set of engineering best practices intended to allow for rapid delivery of high-quality software, and a [...]
I was just sat here this Friday afternoon (wasting time) thinking about those halcyon days of being a ‘youth’. When lengthy school holidays meant everyday was a Saturday. Your normal ‘working’ day finished at 3.15pm. And your biggest worry was if that new girl you fancied thought your trainers were cool. “Those days are gone [...]
GET IN! I’m shouting. I’m on a roof top. One of our sites has won the ABTOF MAFTA for Best Website! What’s an ABTOF MAFTA? You may be wondering… Well, ABTOF is a travel industry association and stands for the ‘Association of British Travel Organisers to France’. MAFTA, not to be confused with BAFTA, is the [...]
March has been a big month for browser makers, with each of the big three unveiling a major new release. Here is a brief summary of events (I won’t bore you with the technicalities – I’m sure you can find those elsewhere on the internet if you’re interested!) First up was Google Chrome 10 coming [...]
A recent new business win for Boston Spa based Oasis School of Human Relations gave Mixd an opportunity to work with a great new client and to work in some exciting and different ways… The project brief was to supply a brand update and to apply that new logo to a completely redeveloped website. However, [...]
A bit like buses – two jobs come along at once! We are looking for a mid-senior Ruby on Rails developer to come and work with us in a freelance capacity on a number of existing client projects. You must demonstrate excellent Ruby development skills, technical wizardry, flexibility, a sense of humour, motivation and an [...]
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Front-end Web Developer to join our development team based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The perfect candidate will be an expert in advanced web interface development, browsers, accessibility and modern techniques using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). They must demonstrate experience hand-coding web standards based solutions with a critical [...]
It was like something out of a home economic lesson… To celebrate Shrove Tuesday we thought we would do something a little different this lunch time. Armed with camping stoves (supplied by our very own Mr Outdoor Shackleton), mixing bowls, egg, milk and flour we got together for a pancake extravaganza. Mike won Best Pancake [...]
Last week Phil and I attended the New Adventures In Web Design Conference (#naconf) at the Albert Hall in Nottingham. A new conference for 2011 it was billed as being “carefully curated; chock-full of integrity, opinion, and fresh content, with an emphasis on shaking things up and challenging convention” by curator and organiser Simon Collison, [...]
Simply having a wonderful #mixdmas time Harrogate Digital Agency Mixd threw caution to the wind this year and let the good people of Twitter run the Christmas party, titled #mixdmas. Our apprehension that no one would get involved and that we would be sat in the Holiday Inn all night didn’t last long… local charity [...]
Christmas bash with a 21st Century twist? Mixd to stage social networking event in lieu of the traditional office Christmas party Harrogate digital agency Mixd will dump the traditional office party this year and instead opt for a seasonal celebration shaped entirely via the social networking channels Twitter and Facebook. Dubbed ‘#Mixdmas’, the event will [...]
Mixd Towers is apparently pretty deserted this afternoon… in fact, it is reported that the majority of folk who work in Harrogate are making a sharp get-away as the UK snow well and truly comes down across Yorkshire and the North East. UK snow day I, for one, didn’t venture into the office today owing to the [...]
During a conversation in the pub this weekend with my mate who runs a record label, he asked me about Twitter and Facebook and which one I’d use if I could only use one. I’d never really thought of it like this before, as I’d always just assumed they’d both be there for me, come [...]
Monday’s ‘Project Titan’ announcement by Facebook founder and gaffer Mark Zuckerberg was essentially decreeing the end for conventional email, with him saying that for the next web generation, email is too slow and formal. Of course, this announcement was made as Facebook launched its latest offering, a next generation online messaging service; new Facebook Messages! How will [...]
A little while ago you may have heard me rambling on about the ‘Twitter Joke Trial’ on BBC Look North. Well the latest news on this ongoing story is that Paul Chambers has lost his appeal for threatening to blow up an airport in a Twitter joke. Twitter has been alive with tweets about the [...]
The area we are talking about here is website typography – any type elements on a website, including the body text For a long time, everyone has talked of ‘web safe’ fonts and a large part of website design and copy styling was often limited to the basic font libraries on a Mac or PC (Arial, [...]
A staggering 40,000 people rushed to ‘like’ the Queen’s new Facebook page in the first hour after it was launched, which goes some way to show the popularity of the social network Facebook and how social media has become part of our everyday lives. I really think it’s great the Monarchy has embraced social media [...]
To mark the occasion of Mixd’s sixth birthday, the team headed out into a dark, misty and chilly night in York on Tuesday for a stroll around town… with a difference. After a couple of light ales and a chin-wag in the Maltings, we headed off to meet our hosts from the Original Ghost Walk of [...]
Picture the scene if you will… I’m on my way out to meet my mates. Looking rather dapper if I do say so myself. We are off to see a club DJ, but I need an extra tenner for my ticket. I’m running well late. The taxi’s waiting. Now on with the story… I dashed [...]
One of the social media experts here at Mixd in Harrogate, Phil Shackleton, was asked to go on BBC Radio York’s Breakfast News again a couple of weeks ago to comment on how social media is affecting the way in which we communicate. As part of the recent BBC First Click campaign, BBC Radio York [...]
Earlier this month, we welcomed Surprise to the team; a female Border terrier pup with a penchant for front-end web design. Primarily working alongside Boon utilising HTML, CSS and jQuery, Surprise has also been put in charge of the office exercise regime and ensuring regular meals and comfort breaks are taken. Hi, I’m Surprise! Hello! [...]
It’s official, Foursquare has gone mainstream During a late summer trip to sunny Devon I experienced a number of firsts. Surfing, sampling the local cider and reading my girlfriend’s celebrity magazines. I can assure you I only read them to relieve the boredom of lounging! However, amongst the ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ articles was [...]
One second please caller… Just a quick note to let you know that we are having an updated telephone system installed here at Mixd towers today. Your communications are important to us and we want to ensure we have a system that keeps up with the expanding Mixd team and makes it as easy as [...]
I have been involved with design and the creative industries for a little over twelve years now and one thing that hasn’t changed in this time is the expectation that people in our industry are available to do work day or night! Like so many designers and web developers out there I have worked through [...]
At Mixd, we’re not just a creative digital agency! Our vast experience of back-end systems and complex environments means that we have the technical expertise to turn your bespoke requirements into reality. Here at Mixd, our technology of choice for application development is Ruby on Rails (aka Rails); our development team have been using Rails [...]
Okay folks. Let me tell you why Google Analytics should be used by you! In general, Google products are good. Google Search, GMail, Google Chrome, Google Wave… okay, scratch Google Wave… Google Maps, Google Earth (my Mum now uses this, which says something!), Google Webmasters and its latest offering Google Goggles (more on this in [...]
Right. A big bug bear of mine! It has been a growing and annoying trend that links to external sites from one website to another open in a new browser window and it has been something that we advise our clients against… time and time again. Some common misconceptions are listed below with several facts, [...]
The Mixd team spent an afternoon going back to our evolutionary roots at Go Ape’s Dalby Forest operation. Hanging around in trees, beating our chests, singing ‘The Funky Gibbon’ and scratching our… noses. As part of the Mixd mantra ‘play well together, work hard together’ we like to get out and about in this beautiful [...]
I just wanted to say a huge thanks for all the support and the money raised from the British Heart Foundation’s South Downs Way Randonnée that I took part in a few weeks ago. I think I’ve just about recovered now! 100 miles in 11 hours I’m pleased to say I completed all 100 miles [...]
So here I am, gutted by the result of my first ever mountain bike race that I took part in this weekend. Whilst I managed to complete three laps of a very tough course, I never completed the official four laps required for my “Master” category. On crossing the finish line after my third lap [...]
One of the social media experts here at Mixd in Harrogate, Phil Shackleton, was asked to go on BBC Radio York’s Breakfast News to comment on York Flash Mob and the controversy the organisers of a mass pillow fight have caused with the announcement of their next event using the social network, Facebook. The group [...]
It has arrived! After much speculation social media giant Facebook announced a new, optional location based service for its 500 million members called ‘Places’. Places allows you to check in to the various places you go to, and share that information with your Facebook friends, complete with maps and comments and the Facebook thumbs-up ‘like’ [...]
Rumour has it that social media giant Facebook is due to release the geolocation “check-in” feature at an event in Palo Alto late tonight. Location Based Services are certainly one of the hottest topics in social media right now and this highly anticipated release might allow Facebook users to tell friends exactly where they are [...]
Rumoured to be the next big thing in Social Media, Google Wave launched just over a year ago following an extensive “invite only” testing period. It is with shock and disbelief to hear that Google have announced they have halted development of its Wave project. In recent years, Google have become very good at launching [...]
Producer at Mixd by day… Cosmic rock n’ roller by night… Many of you will know Beardy Bob as the Producer here at Mixd, dedicated to your project. However, he does have a life away from Mixd and one of his major passions is music… and in particular his band, The Bobby Sunshine Revival Band. [...]
As this Summer’s sporting festival of football, the World Cup, draws to a close, the British Heart Foundation stands to win £50 if Spain are crowned World Champions. Before the World Cup started, Mixd undertook a sweepstake, donating 6 places to the British Heart Foundation (BHF). The draw was conducted under unprecedented security in the Mixd [...]
Once again this year, our very own endurance athlete (think Lance Armstrong… and then some!) will be taking part in what is known to many as the toughest off-road mountain bike endurance event in the UK – the British Heart Foundation’s South Downs Way Randonnée – on Saturday, 31 July 2010. The 100 mile (161km) [...]
New statistics just out have revealed that UK social media traffic has overtaken search engine traffic in the UK. According to Experian Hitwise; “Social networks now receive more UK Internet visits than search engines. During May, social networks accounted for 11.88% of UK Internet visits and search engines accounted for 11.33%. May was the first [...]
Some of you will already know Dave – ‘the international master of rave’ as he is affectionately known here at Mixd owing to his mobile DJ career – from his involvement in the technical aspects of your digital project. He’s one of those guys that never sees the light of day, survives totally on crisps, coffee and red bull, and is [...]
For the majority of websites that we work on, clients tend to request that external links open in a new browser window so visitors are not lost to other sites. On first inspection, this may appear to be a reasonable request and that the client’s wishes may hold water. However, and this may sound controversial, we don’t develop [...]
When the BBC wanted an expert in Social Media to comment on Paul Chambers’ recent conviction for ‘sending a menacing electronic communication’ for his Tweeted bomb threat to Robin Hood Airport they contacted Mixd, asking us to appear on Look North with Harry Gration and Tanya Arnold. Of course we duly obliged and just 2 [...]
You wouldn’t dare say the word “bomb” out loud whilst stood at an airport check-in desk… but would you dare Tweet the very same word? It turns out the answer should be “no” after today’s ruling against a South Yorkshire man who has been charged after joking on Twitter that he would blow an airport [...]
Mixd are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Web Developer to join and lead the development team in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Candidate should have a minimum of 4 years experience in Ruby on Rails and PHP development. The perfect candidate will be an expert in advanced web development using PHP and MySQL, Ruby on Rails [...]
Extract taken from the Harrogate Chamber of Trade and Commerce’s monthly ‘Review’ magazine: A record attendance of members and guests packed into the Old Swan Hotel on Monday 8th February to hear from North Yorkshire’s social media experts… Tweet your way to success Bob Tait, from Harrogate-based, full service creative agency Mixd, was next up, to help [...]
News released from Google this morning will bring a smile to many developers! The firm said from 1 March some of its services, such as Google Docs, would not work “properly” with the browser. It recommended individuals and firms upgrade “as soon as possible”. Quote from the Official Google Blog; “The web has evolved in [...]
And no, I’m not referring to the great thaw in Harrogate, but the loss of internet for a few hours yesterday afternoon. We work in the digital world, so probably notice it a bit more than most, but what did we all do before internet access, broadband and Wi-Fi? We almost felt naked. In the [...]
As the nation almost comes to a stand still with the ‘big freeze’, the Mixd crew can’t wait until the weekend to get out in to the glorious white powder that is snow for a good old play about! On Tuesday, Harrogate was one of the worst hit places in the UK for snow, frost, ice [...]
Mark Graham, whose company Original Ghost Walks of York says he found things going bump in the night at the former Mixd offices in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
Contrary to a popular belief created by nineties boy-band FIVE!, no it won’t… five is most certainly making us get up; happy and celebrating. Yesterday was the fifth birthday of Mixd, the full service creative agency based in Harrogate and five of us celebrated in our own individual ways: Matt jumped down five sets of [...]
Today’s lesson is fundamental Economics… the basics: Supply and Demand. We have high demand for our top-end services and a desire to supply on time, to brief and within budget. In order to achieve this, we like to work with the best in the business. We are currently looking for a top quality PHP developer [...]
When Bob asked for a day off, we thought he just wanted to enjoy a long Bank Holiday weekend. He did mention that his band was playing a gig, but did we expect to see him on the front page of the BBC site, being touted as a headline act at the Leeds/Reading Music Festival? [...]
It was my niece’s birthday recently. My brother and I were gigging with our band in Wales the day before… of course, we had both forgotten to arrange a present and it was fast approaching 6pm on a Saturday! Rattling our male brains, we concluded that the perfect present (achievable within 24 hours via an [...]
Twitter is a free social network and micro-blogging service which has been everywhere recently. Companies big and small are using it across the world to get their message out there to thousands within seconds. Twitter does not need to be a one-dimensional method of communication however and if used properly it can be extremely beneficial [...]
I just wanted to say a huge thanks for all the support and the money raised from the 100 mile South Downs Way bike ride that I took part in last Saturday for the British Heart Foundation. Despite the miserable weather leading up to the day, Saturday was just amazing. With a bright blue sky [...]
Are you looking for a challenge this year with the benefit of the knowledge you’re raising money for a worthwhile charity? The British Heart Foundation is holding its long-running South Downs Way (SDW) Challenge on 25 July 2009 and Mixd is pleased to announce that Phil will be stretching his legs and representing Mixd at [...]
Full service creative agency Mixd welcomes new recruit Matt to the web design and development team at the studio in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Matt spent his first days at Mixd at the beginning of 2009, working with the team for a couple of days a week… he has already settled in well and served his [...]
Following on from last year the Mixd team will be venturing out into the great outdoors once again this summer to tackle a new Via Ferrata (Italian for “iron road”) adventure course at Howstean Gorge in Nidderdale. Without wanting to scare all those taking part a Via Ferrata is a “mountain route” which is equipped [...]
New plans to brighten up Mixd HQ with the introduction of a ‘work wall’ that would allow the design team to display creative concepts was scuppered this afternoon. The plan was simple: “Let’s get a sheet of stainless steel and use magnets to hold the work up”. One quick call to a local steel fabricator [...]
The above picture has found its way into our hands. It arrived under plain cover after we paid a small fortune to an anonymous contact… in a mask, out the back, after dark. Although this looks suspiciously like our very own Producer, Bob, dressed as a lady and mingling with Jim Bowen and a Teenage [...]
Academy Award-nominated actor, comedian, writer and film producer John Cleese comes to town next week as the keynote speaker at the Yorkshire International Business Convention to be held at the Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate on Friday 5 June 2009. He will be there on business and probably far more serious than you might expect. The [...]
Many people are familiar with the newspaper practice of maximising reader interest by placing premium content ‘above the fold’. The design of a newspaper broadsheet requires the paper to be folded leaving the lower half out of site and therefore unreadable at a glance. The notion of the fold has carried over to web design [...]
Gosh… back at work following a week’s annual leave. May I say, it’s truly magnificent to be back. I love being shackled to the desk by the real-time interegation of emails. It certainly beats the relaxing art and cafe culture of Amsterdam; that’s just far too chilled out. Anyway, last Wednesday me and three pals [...]
Right. I am looking into getting a new phone… owing to my current contract coming to an abrupt end (through no fault of my own I hasten to add) and me being moved to pay as you go / pay as you talk. Pay as you talk! Seems really awkward… having to ring up and [...]
Twitter is still taking the world by storm; one tweet at a time. And if you haven’t heard of it yet, it’s time to head to twitter.com and sign up. Twitter is for more than techno geeks. Twitter is for your ski chalet, your car hire company, your clients and your 10-year old cousin. Twitter [...]
The latest update from Skype, the highly anticipated application, Skype™ for iPhone, will be available on the Apple App Store from the beginning of today. With the Skype iPhone application, users will be able to make free calls using Wi-Fi to other Skype users as well as use their Skype accounts to make reduced price [...]
Mixd specialises in website development utilising the open-source WordPress™ publishing platform. Having worked with the WordPress platform for a number of years, we have extended our digital services to include enterprise-level WordPress custom solutions. We can tailor the WordPress system to your specific needs. Here is our five point guide as to why you should [...]
When you think about sitting down and reading a story you imagine leafing through the dusty pages of a nice hardback. Or maybe feeding your obsession for sleazy pulp fiction with something you picked up in the departure lounge on your way to Magaluf on holiday. More recently there has been the advent of digital [...]
A key feature of the BA(Hons) Graphic Design Programme at York College is its involvement with Design experts from industry. Phil Shackleton and Mike Danford from creative group Mixd have worked with the students as creative consultants on projects including Brand Creation, Promotion and Interactive Design. “The experience has been of immense value for the [...]
Now spring has finally sprung I’ve started how I mean to go on and rode my bike to work this morning. It’s a fair trek from Otley to Harrogate, especially if, like me you’ve not been riding your bike for some time, but hey ho! Things I learnt riding my bike to work: 06:30 am [...]
Twitter is everywhere. Stephen Fry, Chris Moyles, Jonathan Ross, Phillip Schofield and many other celebrities are talking about it, it’s on the Ten O’Clock news and even the new Number 10 Downing Street website features a Twitter feed! But despite the world-wide media frenzy, some people (in fact, most non ‘techy’ people) still need a [...]
Mixd would like to give a warm welcome to the new guy, beardy Bob (his name’s Bob Tait and he has a beard). We think a group hug is in order; mind you, Bob’s girlfriend Vic knows that when it comes to the hugging stakes, no one is quite like Bob! Bob’s role in the [...]
As an organisation, Mixd is always keen to help others… and today is no exception. Based on the results of important scientific research (Bob closely watching Phil this morning and chuckling), this could save you from days of stress and sleepless nights of worry. So here it is, the simple process of merging 2 (two) [...]
