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Posted by Kate

Developing the British Credit Trust Website

Webexpectations were asked to create a new, easy-to-use car loans website for British Credit Trust where both existing and new customers could apply for car loans online; these can be made towards a wide range of cars available on the website itself.

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Kate
Posted by Kate

Webexpectations works on clever virtual decorating desktop application

Working again with AkzoNobel, Webexpectations were asked to design a new desktop application for My Mousepainter, AkzoNobel’s virtual room decorating tool.

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Kate
Posted by Kate

Imagine Imagebank gets a new splash of colour

Webexpectations recently designed an online image portal for AkzoNobel (formally ICI Paints), aimed at their internal and external marketing teams.

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Kate
Posted by Sheetal

Design Showcase

Hello lovely web folk. We hope you’ve enjoyed looking over the new website. If you fancy having a nosey at some our past work, look no further. We’re passionate about the websites we create; so here is a taster of work from our 150+ client base to ogle over.

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Sheetal
Posted by Amie

Understand the experiences you’ve never had

A one-day workshop proved to be an eye-opener to the potential of addressing the user experience first, rather than the look and feel, when designing a website from the ground up.

Nowadays, you cannot justify unnecessary spending. Therefore, when it comes to your website, a comprehensive approach to its design is essential; and a clear idea [...]

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Amie
Posted by Sheetal

To change or not to change

Ch-ch-ch-changes

So it’s finally happened. Matt our resident technical wizard guru man has moved me onto Zimbra, our new e-mail server. It isn’t really shiny and new anymore; I’ve just been trying to avoid the move for so long. A designer scared of change… surely not!

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Sheetal
Posted by karen

E-mail marketing - beware broken e-mails!

E-mail marketing is a powerful tool which is set to grow over the next few years. So why is it that more than 40% of these do not work in all e-mail clients?
The answer is simple. Building HTML e-mails is an art where the normal rules of HTML go out the window! [...]

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karen
Posted by Jack

The impact of CAPTCHAs on website accessibility and conversion rates

I am going to begin this blog post with a bit of background knowledge just to introduce you to the concept of the term ‘CAPTCHA’.
Have you ever been trying to fill out a registration form on a website when halfway through you’ve been asked to decipher a weird looking graphic of some squashed, distorted text [...]

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Jack
Posted by Russell

Who should design your website?

The problem with web design, is that everyone uses websites and as such everyone has an opinion. This can sometimes be more of a hindrance than a help when redesigning your site as everyone’s opinion is valid but whose opinion is right?
This does raise an interesting question - who should have the final say on [...]

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Russell
Posted by Russell

What’s best? Making the best decisions for your web project

Any sizeable web project will require the client to make crucial decisions at key stages. Time and time again we see successful sites working because the right decisions are made for the right reasons.
Here’s our 20 second run down on making sure you’re making the right decisions:

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Russell