One of our favourite aspects of providing professional web design to such as wide range of clients is that we literally never know what we’ll be working on next. One day we’re putting together a serious site about financial advice, the next we’re helping an online retailer boost sales. We enjoyed putting together the great ecommerce website that we’ve just completed for Chris from Lilley’s Catering Leisure Ltd, even if looking at all those Somerset ciders did make our mouths water! Lilley’s sell some of the world’s finest ciders, ales and wines from their base in Somerset and asked us to build an

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Upcoming operating system logo just revealed by Microsoft. Microsoft officially confirmed their new Windows 8 branding. It's very different than pattern of previous logos, Microsoft states:  We wanted the new logo to be both modern and classic by echoing the International Typographic Style (or Swiss design) that has been a great influence on our Metro style design philosophy. Using bold flat colors and clean lines and shapes, the new logo has the characteristics of way-finding design systems seen in airports and subways. While we think it's a good thing for Microsoft to review their brand of Windows we are not convinced. Not everybody likes