Gmail web interface – we want bigger fonts!

October 28, 2016

I’ve only recently switched to using Gmail for my main email account, and am benefitting on a few fronts e.g. spam reduction, the handy “promotions” tab, better/easier filtering and so on. One thing that really annoyed my though were the font-sizes when viewing emails and typing replies. The “settings” for the Gmail web interface leaves …more

New website for ‘The Dire Straits Experience’

September 5, 2016

tallhatDesign was approached to create a new website for ‘The Dire Straits Experience’ – a band containing several original members of Dire Straits and recreating the sound and live experience of this hugely popular group. A key aim was to make use of tour photography to get across the energy and scale of the live …more

New website for Garden Affairs

August 15, 2016

We’ve worked with Garden Affairs over a number of years and have just launched a brand new responsive ModX website for them, updating their overall look-and-feel, implementing new functionality and content, and improving the back-end/CMS experience from the previous site. www.gardenaffairs.co.uk “We are already seeing improved enquiries coming from the site and have had excellent …more

Google font review – typefaces with a primary-school-style lowercase ‘a’

April 13, 2016

On a recent project i was looking at web font options for a particular style consistent with primary school typeface usage – i.e. where the lowercase ‘a’ has no top arch (also called “single-story”). There are several usual suspects here, such as Sassoon Primary, FSAlbert, Futura, even (shudder) Comic Sans! I thought I’d also check …more

Simon Lees Photography – new website

November 12, 2014

We were asked to design and produce a new website for Bath-based photographer Simon Lees. Using the WordPress framework allowed us to provide him with a full CMS for the site, giving him control of the content and galleries to manage himself in the future. A key consideration with the site design was to really …more

Telly Voices – A New London Voice Artist Agency

November 12, 2014

tallhatDesign was commissioned to design and produce a website for this new Voice Artist Agency. A database driven site with a CMS and data collection for artists’ submissions was required, and we also provided consultancy and CMS training to the in-house team to manage their listed artists. The site provides various search and filtering options …more

A few new launches

March 31, 2014

This is long overdue, and I still need to update the portfolio, but recent site launches for tallhatDesign include: 1) A portfolio and showcase website for Director of Photography Roger Chapman – www.rogerchapman.co.uk – this WordPress site makes extensive use of video content. 2) Artbiz – www.art-biz.co.uk is a responsive WordPress site for business consultant Keith …more

New year, New office

January 7, 2014

Happy New Year for 2014! The new year is a fresh start with a change of office. tallhatDesign is now located in the new Coworking Bath ‘Hub’ also called ‘The Guild‘ (appropriately next door to the Guildhall in the centre of Bath [Google map], next to the weir). The main tallhatDesign phone number 01225 445505 remains …more

Beware of 123-reg and their auto-renewal tactics

November 15, 2012

Many years ago I registered 3 domains for a client with 123-reg.co.uk. About 18 months ago the client ceased to exist and the domains because surplus to requirement. I believe I then set the domains to ‘expire’ via the 123-reg control panel because otherwise I knew they would be auto-renewed and I’d be charged.

Fast forward to today (15 November). I received an email saying 123 had renewed the domains and had taken the money…

Twitter feeds suddenly empty?

October 18, 2012

Or showing something like ‘No public twitter messages’? It’s probably because Twitter have recently changed the method used for third party sites and plugins to display tweets inline and your site code is using the old method which has now been discontinued. The solution is to…