Our new site for Chartered Surveyors Griffiths Eccles replaces a site we built for them 6 years ago. The old had held up well but some of the Flash eye candy was no longer compatible with new tech like iPad’s and iPhones and the client was after a more modern look and feel. The new site uses Google maps API to show the use body of work GE have been involved in over…… Continue reading
From Thursday, 26 May 2011, any company that tracks information about online users has to get consent from visitors to their website in order to do so. Businesses in the UK were given a year’s grace to become compliant, but time is almost up. Although we believe that the law will only be used to bring to task any sites found mis-using cookies we do feel there are some steps you…… Continue reading
Way back in the very early days we had an office in Hollywood and Jordan came to work for us, managing projects and doing some development. Since then Jordan’s been focussing on his music career with a couple of albums under his belt and appearances on the David Letterman show. Jordan gave us a buzz a couple of weeks ago telling us he’d secured some advertising space for his upcoming new…… Continue reading
At the end of March Facebook will change all current Brand pages to their new format, in keeping with their changes made to personal accounts a few months ago. The changes will be fairly large, sometimes simple to implement but not so simple to understand their impact. Will your brand page come out better for your changes or worse? Lets look at the them, starting with the current look. Below is…… Continue reading
A fine song indeed from Landscape but not reason for us to send out a posting. We have just completed some very intense Mathematics in our JQuery to provide Plum Baby with a new ‘create your own little Einstein’ widget. Plum Baby have a new campaign letting all the parents of the country know that their foods help build bones AND brains. After receiving some wonderful imagery from their design agency…… Continue reading
New Social Phenomenons are simple to stumble upon but hard to get to the bottom of. The latest global superstar is Pintrest, a small company started by Ben Silbermann, an Iowa based ex-Google employee. The site was launched in March 2010 and today has record breaking pageviews, mainly down to the addictive nature of ‘pinning’ images from any page in the web. We at Devstars are not shy to get involved…… Continue reading
We’ve been building sites with Food and Drink specialist design agency Mystery for 7 years now and this beautiful one page site for G’nosh is the latest fruit of our labours. Don’t be put off by just the one page though, there’s lots of cool stuff to scroll or slide through. We’ve pulled in latest feeds from their twitter account and embedded a moderated message board that you can use your Facebook account to…… Continue reading
Following on from stores for Bob Dylan, Rufus Wainwright, Sister Act the Musical and Bryan Mays’ Anthems tour we’ve just launched this new store for Chris Cooke Management. As well as the store we also took the opportunity to update Chris’s web site to feature some of their new projects including Barclays Tennis Finals. … Continue reading
Once in a while you feel like putting on your best gear to show off and feel good about yourself. When we were asked by a client to help deliver a smart new bit of bib’n'tucker for the lovely people at Sunday Best we jumped! Sunday Best needed a simple stylish way to merge their label’s news and releases with a new store built on Sandbag’s fine platform. The two platforms…… Continue reading
We’ve been working with designers Salad Creative for over 6 years now and Skidpasset for Salomon is the latest fruit of our labours. The observant of you will notice it is in Swedish and the purpose of the site is for a one off Cross country skiing event. With this in mind a one page site was built with a bespoke content management system that allows the client to update videos…… Continue reading
We’d all like to offer our congratulations to our superstar team member Paul Davis on winning his first award of many last night. Paul’s passion and excitement for what he does is key to his success and an inspiration to us all. On a day that the UK government announce 1 billion in support of youth employment he sets a shinning example of how you can go out (or stay in)…… Continue reading
We were asked to produce a web presence and brand style for a new tech company as quickly as possible. Budgets were tight so, by keeping all the work in house, we managed to deliver the job on time and on budget. Please take a look http://www.coworthtechnologies.com/ … Continue reading
We’ve been working with Appetite for a little over a year now and have worked with them on client sites for Trapoil and The Legacy List. After completing a small holding site a few months back we’re launching their brand new site today. The site showcases Appetite’s work for Adgistics, Unilever, Trapoil and the University of Leeds using some cool slidy viewers. Almost every aspect of the site is content managed from…… Continue reading
There doesn’t seem to be a week goes by without Maloney’s Budgens winning another award. With 3 stores in Ascot, Shepperton and Virginia Water they have just followed up their Business in the Community , Small business of the year being awarded with the Food and Drink awards Community Partnership Awards. On top of that we’re very pleased to announce the launch of a their brand new site and social…… Continue reading
After a short break one of the UK’s premier dance labels and clubs returns. We built the previous Renaissance web site over 6 years ago so were over the moon when they came back and asked us to help on their new site. The label is coming up to it’s 20th anniversary and launches with The Masters Series Dave Seaman and a worldwide tour featuring dates in London, Moscow and Sydney. The…… Continue reading
As everyone else had good excuses Greta kindly agreed to be interviewed about Devstars for the Lightbox web site. We’re hoping we don’t lose her to a career on the silver screen now. … Continue reading
We use Google Analytics on almost every website we built, manage or host. It’s a great tool and records so much data we can use to help move your website forward. The downside it, is records your browsing of your own site too, ending up on skewed date. There are things we can do to stop your own browsing of your website from affecting the recorded stats like exclude your IP address,…… Continue reading
Once again we’ve been working with the lovely peeps over at Mystery Brand Design Studios and this time for London based bar chain Adventure bar. The site uses WordPress as a base but we’ve built in custom plug-ins so the client can manage a venue specific cocktail gallery. The features html5 video, animated sprite images, and plugs directly into there booking system through API’s. Click here to visit the site … Continue reading
Devstars are very proud, (and more than a little excited), to announce that Paul Davis, our WordPress genius developer has been nominated for .net’s Young Developer of the Year award. We’re crossing our fingers and toes for him, help him win by giving him a vote here: http://www.thenetawards.com/ Voting is open until the 30th of September, so vote now! The winner will be announced on November the 17th, Good Luck Paul …… Continue reading
12 midday: request comes in to create a store… 4pm: site complete and online. We created a bespoke solution for Chris Cook Management that allows the client to add new stores with an absolute minimum turnaround time. So far we’ve built sites for Bob Dylan, Rufus Wainwright, Hairspray and last month turned around Brian May’s Anthems store in equally quick time. The latest store for Black Crowes is here … Continue reading