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
Last month Cutler & Gross asked us to help them with their new e-commerce site. They had chosen Prestashop for their platform and we were bought into to fix a rough installation. Initially we focused on tightening up the front end design to fit with their main site and adapting the site to look as good on a mobile as it does on the desktop. This was a our first major…… Continue reading
We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new e-commerce site providing the best football nutrition products to football players of all levels. We’ve worked with Footballnutra from the start helping them find branding and packaging design, through to web design and build. The innovative new product range consists of a drinks and vitamins fine tuned to deliver optimum performance before, during and after the game. The site uses our bespoke CMS…… Continue reading
New socially orientated website for organic baby food producer We are extremely proud to announce the birth of Plum Baby’s new website. Plum are pioneers in providing new parents with the best start possible for their children. At the start of the year Plum began the process of re-branding their products and felt the old website needed to reflect this. Devstars were tasked with managing the process through planning, design and building…… Continue reading
Sharing is for scale, not virality As new studies from share this show, sharing is now accounting for 10% of all internet traffic. It is big but then there is no surprise there. The graphic shows that the vast majority of sharing is done via Facebook, again, no surprises here either. BUT with only 4.9 clicks per shared link, it is not a viral as you thought.…… Continue reading
NokNok is our latest site for Republic Publishing, designed and built on a WordPress core we’ve implemented Lazy loading pages so more content is delivered the more you scroll. This reduces the amount of clicks and only requests more content when the user needs it. The site servers as a central hub for your Nokia allowing you to find apps, tips and tutorials specific to your phone. See more of NokNok.tv here … Continue reading
Gorilla produce over 300 events a year for brands like Monster, TalkTalk, DG and Xbox. Our new site for them showcases these events via a WordPress based site that works alongside Facebook and Twitter feeds. For more info visit the site here … Continue reading
This e-comm site was briefed into us on Tuesday and and live and taking orders by Friday! A while back merchandise company Chris Cooke Management asked us to create a system that allowed them to centrally manage and produce multiple e-commerce sites. So far we’ve built sites for Bob Dylan, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Clark, Hairspray and now Anthems. The client has a central control panel where they can add new sites,…… Continue reading
We built Grima’s first site a fair few years ago and while it got great feedback building the site in Flash meant it was always a problem to update. The new site has been built with a bespoke CMS that allows the client to update almost every area of the site and showcase their amazing work. Andrew Grima started the business back in the 50′s and was one of the leading British…… Continue reading