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Blue Baboon exhibiting at The Business Show at ExCel, London on 6th & 7th June

Come along and say hello for advice, tips and the chance to win a years free website hosting.

Blue Baboon are very excited to be exhibiting at The Business Show at ExCel, London on 6th & 7th June, 2013. This is a great opportunity for us to meet new and current clients face to face and answer any questions they may have about websites and how we could help their business. The Business Show is the largest event of its kind in the UK and is a hive of activity for entrepreneurs and small businesses, spanning sectors far and wide. There will be over 250 seminars delivered by business Read more [...]
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How Blue Baboon get it right on time, every time!

When managing hundreds of digital campaigns for hundreds of different companies, how does Blue Baboon keep track of it all? Find out here!

Having completed over 300 websites and marketing campaigns for over 100 different companies in and around London & Surrey, our customers often ask “how do you keep track of everything?”. When we take on any digital project of any size there are a number of stages we go through. These stages insure we consistently keep files, communication and version control tight:   These stages are as follows: • Document a digital brief • Setup internal folder structure • Assign Read more [...]
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Looking for a special recipe? Just add Blue Baboon.

Our clients range from small start-ups to large corporates. Our latest work for Square Meal is causing a stir.

Blue Baboon have just completed the latest banners for Square Meal, the UK’s leading guide to find & book restaurants, bars, venues & events. We were tasked with showcasing a new and exciting rewards campaign and delivered some fantastic Flash powered banners. We worked closely with Square Meal from the outset by offering a variety of concepts, ideas and industry specific information. Once we had produced unique creations that were both exciting yet consistent with the Square Meal brand, Read more [...]
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Blue Baboon chosen to attend The Digital Leaders Winter Banquet 2012

Our Creative Director, Joseph Conlon, will be attending The Digital Leaders Winter Banquet on November 29th, 2012.

Blue Baboon's Creative Director, Joseph Conlon, will be attending The Digital Leaders Winter Banquet on November 29th, 2012. This bi-annual event is invite only and will be attended by senior marketing decision makers from client, agency and supply side. This is an amazing networking opportunity and a chance to meet senior people from a wide variety or organisations including Nokia, Microsoft, HSBC and John Lewis. We are smitten to have been selected to attend alongside such well known Read more [...]
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Is there such a thing as the ‘Perfect Website’?

Creating the perfect website is always going to be tricky. They are the middle of the universe when it comes to your marketing strategy because everything hinges on how good your website looks and what it can do. If for example, you were going to send out 10,000 leaflets, where do you think your customers would go once they have read that leaflet? Your website of course. In this era of fast paced global marketing, it is vital you try as best as possible for perfection when it comes to your website.   What Read more [...]
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Why are our websites like a Gherkin?

The world of web is a baffling one. CSS, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, PHP, ActionScript, XML, AJAX, JAVA, ASP.Net, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL and all sorts of other variables of weird and wonderful coding standards make up our websites. We are often asked, “What coding language do you guys specialise in?” People want to know what we are experts in and what our niche is. It seems that our industry is so bogged down with jack of all trade developers that we get quite a bad name and obviously can’t use Read more [...]
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Developers can’t design, but why can’t graphic designers be website designers either?

At Blue Baboon Design, we are constantly asked to produce visuals for other web developers. In fact we have a number of developers who even white label our services because they simply can’t design. This is because front end website design is a hard art to master for graphic designers let alone a developer who has probably never even used a paintbrush rather Photoshop or Fireworks - the web designers tools of choice. It is therefore common and understood for developers to say ‘Woah I don’t Read more [...]
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Code Control

At Blue Baboon, we believe code quality is integral to developing a brand which can be relied upon to deliver. Therefore, all our developers are required to build all pages of any site we build with the following coding standards: All pages MUST: - Be W3C valid: http://validator.w3.org/ - Be CSS Valid - Be (X)HTML Valid - Use a Character Set - Perform well in speed tests - Use CSS for all presentation aspects (fonts, colour, padding, borders etc) - Use absolute units (rather than relative units) Read more [...]
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How do you integrate your offline and online media?

  There are lots of decisions to make with your online marketing to the benefit of your customers. For example, what message to present? How much should you communicate (and how often)? And how do you get the most out of your marketing budget in these difficult times? There seems to be one issue, however, that is boggling the minds of most of our clients. This is how to get the balance right with your offline and online media. This confusion is due to the uncertainty surrounding the difference Read more [...]