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Southwold Chamber Gets A Brand New Website

We've recently launched a new website for Southwold Chamber. The site which was designed by Spring and built into Wordpress by us features a directory of local businesses and an interactive map detailing the location of each business. 

Visit the My Southwold website

New Website Launched For Preowned Cycles

Over the past few weeks we have designed and built a new website for Ipswich based, Jeremy Hammersely. He is an avid cyclist who was fed up of visiting lots of different websites if he wanted to sell an item, swap an item or chat with other cyclists in a forum. So he decided he wanted his own website! Along came PreownedCycles.co.uk

There are 3 main sections on the website. A classified ads section where users can view items for sale and place their own adverts. There's a swaps section where users can place adverts for things they want …

New Website Launched For Marriage Sofa Design

Over the past few weeks we have been working hard on a brand new website for Woodbridge based, Marriage Sofa Design. The website has been built on the Wordpress platform and gives Steve the ability to edit the content on each page.

Steve is very happy with the new website, which showcases their fantastic work in a simple and elegant manner.

Visit the Marriage website.

New Website Launched For Garden Designer, Sue Townsend

Over the past few weeks we have been working hard on a brand new website for garden designer, Sue Townsend. The website has been built using the content managed system, Wordpress, and allows Sue to easily update each page and add new portfolio items quickly.

The result is a very simple website that draws your attention to the fantastic images of Sue's work. Sue, along with us is very happy with the outcome.

You can view the website at www.suetownsendgardendesign.co.uk

Business Cards 2.0

As we continue to grow our team of creatives, we thought it about time to give our own business cards a redesign. We've let Andrew Emms, our in-house brand designer, work his magic on our mini calling cards and the results have been a knock-out. Whilst we await delivery of our "Luxe" quality cards, why not take a sneak peak below.

We've recently added logo and brand design to our ever expanding list of services which we offer from our in-house team based in Southwold. Why not treat your business' branding to a spring-clean, ready …

Greetings From Southwold

Spring is fast approaching, and as each week goes by we're noticing more and more excited peeps flocking to the sunny Southwold beach. We wouldn't want anybody to miss out on the beautiful surroundings of our creative studio and to entice you, we're sending out a campaign of bespoke postcards, featuring a "Ci" branded beach hut along our seafront!

Many thanks to Richard Wells of Southwold who kindly provided the photography. Image manipulation, design and copywriting was undertaken in-house by the Creative Intent team.

Caffeinecommerce: Latest Update Adds A Rich Mapping User Interface

We love a good API mash-up and so for the latest update to our CaffeineCommerce online shopping platform, we've integrated with OpenStreetMaps to provide a visual representation of address related data.

What does this mean for users of CaffeineCommerce?

By "geocoding" each and every address, it allows us to present users with vibrant graphical interfaces ranging from maps with markers, to heatmaps of sales across the UK, Europe and beyond. Customers and administrators alike to achieve a much richer experience when using the site, leading to lower bounce rates and higher conversions.

If you're looking to increase …

Developing The Creative Intent Brand: A Tale Of Our Online Evolution

It's been an exciting year at Creative Intent as we've established our credentials as a creative agency, producing great websites and mobile apps for happy customers all over the UK (and beyond)! From the very beginnings, we made a promise that we'd work hard to develop our own brand and to show the world what our brilliantly creative team were capable of, and it's paid-off with great feedback and new client enquiries dropping into the inbox on a daily basis.

From its very first concept, the Creative Intent logo has featured the "Ci" which …

Doodle Endorsed By Norf The Dog

We were delighted to receive a light-hearted "hello" from Twitter account @norfthedog on Saturday who honoured us with a custom doodle.

UPDATE: Norf the Dog has also doodled our Technical Director, Matt Oakley from his pixelated wedding graphic. Follow @norfthdog and maybe he'll doodle you too!

Win A Content Managed Website

We are currently running a competition that allows 1 lucky person the chance to win a bespoke content managed website. Here is a full list of features:

All you have to do to win this is enter your details below and we will pick a winner at random on the 30th of March.

The Power Of Social Networking

We love using social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook, they are a fantastic tool for engaging with family, friends, colleagues and other professionals quickly and easily.

When we talk to clients about using Twitter and Facebook we often hear that they are too busy to use them or are not 100% sure how they work, some are even a little reluctant to use them. My advice on that is to make time.Twitter especially has been very successful for us and a number of our clients. We have won numerous projects through Twitter, we talk to some …

Logo And Web Design For New Start-Up Businesses

We are offering a promotion to small businesses and start-up companies that is available until the end of April.

The other day we had a gentlemen come into our office after seeing the sign on our door and he asked us roughly what it would cost to have a website designed and built. Normally, we would like to understand exactly what the business does and get a good understanding of what the client is hoping to achieve before putting together a detailed proposal. This was overkill for what this client wanted, so I …

We're Proud To Be A Part Of An Exciting Future

As the Government announce plans to ditch "boring IT lessons" in favour of practical coding sessions, we thought it time that we shared one of our up and coming projects with you all.

Creative Intent are very proud to have been approached by a Suffolk based high school to provide mentorship and assistance to a group of budding young app designers and developers over the coming months.

We're currently in discussion with teachers to help develop a lesson plan and look forward to passing on our knowledge and enthusiasm for app development to the next generation of …

Happy Birthday To Us! New Websites, New Friends And A Toast To 2012

Today marks our first year as Creative Intent. What a year it has been!

If you would like to take a look at what we've achieved over the past year then take a look at our portfolio.

Thank you to everyone who has helped and supported us along the way.

Lunchtime Electronics Club - My Arduino

Being the nerd that I am, I was ecstatic to unwrap my Starter Kit for Arduino (available from Sparkfun) this Christmas. Many of you will know that I spent the end of 2011 building a Nanode which is essentially an Arduino with lots of added goodies onboard. Up until now I've had very little knowledge of electronics and how to program a microcontroller (it's C by the way) but having spent this lunchtime building and programming a mini circuit that blinks LEDs alternately, I'm feeling very confident and excited.

I have lots of ideas for neat gadgets to build that …

2011 - The Best Year Of My Life So Far

Wow. 2011 was a fantastic year.

Ever since I was at school I've always had the ambition to be my own boss and start a company, at the time I didn't know what the company would do, or how it would make money, but I just knew I wanted to do it.

It was in November 2010 when myself and Matt started discussing the possibility of starting a creative web agency. We had some fantastic ideas that we could only put into practice if we went at it ourselves, this realisation pretty much made our minds up …

Caffienecommerce Provides A Refreshing Facelift For Healthy Snack Pioneers, Munchy Seeds

Munchy Seeds are a brand that we’ve known for a number of years and have been lucky enough to work with on a number of occasions. Crispin and Lucinda have invested their lives into creating a fantastic selection of healthy snacks that they sell to huge number of customers through their website and also in supermarkets across the UK. Their current Magento website had served them well over the past few years, but as their business continued to grow and their branding evolved it became clear that they were ready to take the next step with their online shop.

How To Preview Your New Facebook Profile Announced At F8 Conference

If you’ve been wondering how to get the new Facebook layout then follow this step by step guide. The new layout will only be viewable by other developers for now, but it gives you a sneak peak into how Facebook will look in the near future.

1. Go to your Facebook homepage and add the Developer app by typing “Developer” into the search bar. Click on the first result.

2. Click on “Create new app.”

3. After typing in your app’s name and namespace (don’t worry about it, no one will ever …

The Magic Of Strtotime() In Php

After discovering an amazing little trick using strtotime() in PHP yesterday, I thought I’d share it with you all.

The Scenario

Whilst adding some new analytical graphs to the dashboard of our CaffeineCommerce software, I needed to ask Google’s API for the total monthly visits between month X and month Y (e.g. 2010-11-01 and 2011-04-30, the last 6 months). So, essentially I need to generate a timestamp for the last day of last month and for the first day of 6 months ago.

How to begin?

At first, it seemed that mktime() might …