Web Design • 8 min read 8 minute read

Don’t Miss These 17 Must-Have WordPress Plugins

One of the key features that makes WordPress such a widely popular content management system is the wide range of…

Digital Marketing • 3 min read 3 minute read

Meta Tagging Masterclass Part 2: Social Networking

Like search, social media has become a gargantuan chunk of the internet. Social media sites have become some of the…

Ecommerce • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

This week see’s the launch of our very first streaming video series: the OpenCart Masterclass. OpenCart is a fantastic open-source…

Web Design • 5 min read 5 minute read

Meta Tagging Masterclass Part 1: The Basics

Search has become instrumental to the internet, with many search engines being considered the ‘homepage’ that many users navigate to…

Branding • 4 min read 4 minute read

Rebrands: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Rebranding an identity can be a revitalising experience for a company. Stagnating sales, falling market shares or a plain old…

Web Design • 2 min read 2 minute read

Time To Put Dreamweaver Away?

Adobe’s Dreamweaver is the most popular WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML and CSS editor in the…

Web Design • 3 min read 3 minute read

What Does Virtual Reality Mean For The Web?

1991 should have been the year of Virtual Reality. The Lawnmower Man told a semi-true story about the father of…

Web Design • 2 min read 2 minute read

Web Design Case Study: 180 Training

Our client 180 Training offer flexible learning solutions for young adults. They offer a range of high quality training courses…

Web Design • 4 min read 4 minute read

These 6 websites aren’t afraid to have fun, are you?

How many websites have you visited today? how about this week? this year? The answer is probably, ‘a heck of…

Branding • 4 min read 4 minute read

The When, Why & How of Stock Photography

As humans, we use a vast range of methods to express ourselves: images, symbols, words and sound. In business, we…

Web Design • 5 min read 5 minute read

Give your site the ‘wow’-factor with these 7 rockstar examples

When a visitor lands on your website, you have a brief window of time to grab their attention. If you…

Web Design • 3 min read 3 minute read

Designing To Fit

We get a variety of clients through the doors here at Sleeky Towers. Some are just starting up – they…

Web Design • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

Free Money Anyone?

Things just got easier for North East businesses looking to get online – with the NBSL funding body offering up…

Ecommerce • 2 min read 2 minute read

Internet 101: Refreshing Your Browser Cache

There’s a common recurring email here at Sleeky Towers and that is when one of our clients writes to us to say that…

Branding • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

The New Google+ Logo

In case you missed it, Google changed it’s logo yesterday. Here’s a cute little GIF showing how they actually designed…

Ecommerce • 2 min read 2 minute read

What on earth is your web designer talking about?

Getting your business online is a must, but it can be quite daunting when choosing a web designer who uses…

Web Design • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

Being mobile friendly – does it really matter?

Early this year Google announced it would be ranking mobile friendly websites higher in their search results. Four months on,…

Digital Marketing • 2 min read 2 minute read

5 Adwords Tips TO ROCK YOUR WORLD!

Google Adwords is generally recognised as the best pound for pound online advertising known to man. Chances are you’ve at…

Digital Marketing • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

Should your business be more like Rita Ora?

Rita Ora is undoubtedly one of the stars of Instagram, the photo and video sharing website, with her 5.5 million…

Web Design • 2 min read 2 minute read

Is web design…dead?

With 180,000,000 active websites currently online, is it now futile trying to stand out in an overpopulated world? First things…

Ecommerce • 2 min read 2 minute read

Keeping Your Online Files Safe From Hackers

Chances are you’re not a world famous celebrity. But the fact remains hackers can and do target any and everybody,…

Branding • 2 min read 2 minute read

Brand Identity Case Study: Advance Flow Pack

The client approached us to assist with their new corporate brand. Previously known as GSP (UK) Ltd, they required a…

Ecommerce • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

Google just bumped non-mobile friendly sites

As of yesterday, if your website doesn’t work on mobiles you’ve been bumped down the search rankings by Google. The…

Branding • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

Photography in Design

Acquiring photos for your website can be a mixed experience. Do you search the stock photos on offer through the…

Web Design • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

Web Design Case Study: ITC Service

ITC Service Ltd, a Newcastle IT Support provider, needed to refresh their old website to reflect the new technologies and…

Web Design • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

Web Design Case Study: Prestwick Care

An easy-to-use website detailing the range of care homes offered by North East Care Home operator Prestwick Care. Combining concise,…

Ecommerce • 2 min read 2 minute read

SEO vs Google Adwords

Search engines are the lifeblood to a website. Even with the rise of social media, search is usually still the…

Ecommerce • 2 min read 2 minute read

Help, my domain has expired!

Some of our clients choose to buy and manage their own domains. Usually this is without incident, but every now…

Web Design • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

The impact of sleek & minimal website design

Sometimes in web design, less is more. Volume 11, an umbrella company offering services to self-employed contractors, required an easy…

Web Design • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

10 Years & Counting! (and some celebrity best wishes)

We have now been trading for 10 years, well how time flies! Like many a design company, Sleeky (or Grape…

Web Design • < 1 min read < 1 minute read

Swishing.co.uk: new website coming soon!

One of the many projects we are working on at the moment is a revamp of www.swishing.co.uk. As well as…

Web Design • 4 min read 4 minute read

Top Ten Tips for Creating Good Website Content

How many times have you visited a beautifully designed website only to struggle to locate the information you need? A…

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