Honest website design

By Tim Baker published on Wednesday 19 June 2013 @ 15:43

At Eight Twenty Design our believe is that by producing intuitive websites we can offer the very best for your business.

Based in High Wycombe and in Bath we offer website design and tech support locally while our hosting, Eight Twenty Hosting, is used nationally. With 6 years experience, we offer cost effective design right through to completion, to make sure all of our clients get the very best service.

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Changes to Our Web Hosting
Tim Baker Saturday 11 May 2013 @ 12:22
We have had a fantastic start to the year, completing some great new sites. We are also pleased that we are able to offer a in-house hosting for all of our clients, however we are due to make some changes; these changes shouldn't affect most sites, any which will be affected will already know...

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Adobe CC: Changing of an Era
Tim Baker Tuesday 7 May 2013 @ 20:49
Yesterday Adobe announced they are soon scraping Creative Suite (CS), in favor of a new solution named Creative Cloud (CC), and as the name suggests cloud computing is very much an integral part of this update. While this really doesn't mean totally new software, as it will be the same Photoshop,...

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WebOS Applications End-of-life
Tim Baker Sunday 24 March 2013 @ 01:05
As we have previously announced, our WebOS app support has come to an end already. However during this next week these apps will cease to work any longer, this is so we can focus on what we are currently doing as to keep these apps working requires too much attention. We had a great few years...

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The Best (Free) Tools to Maintain your Website
Tim Baker Sunday 24 March 2013 @ 00:07
The web is a crowded place, and standing out is hard. What's even harder is knowing what is of any use to help you grow; here are the best free tools to help you make sure your getting the attention you deserve. Nibbler From the folks over at @silktide the best overall website assessment tool,...

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Our Mission: To be the most reliable website design company possible
Tim Baker Saturday 2 February 2013 @ 20:39
If you didn't know already, UK's banks have once again been hit by technical problems, over the past 2 years there have been more and more high profile attacks on websites. But it's not just high profile sites that are been hit, it's the smaller sites like our's and your's that are also becoming...

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Which is right for me a mobile app or a mobile website?
Tim Baker Tuesday 22 January 2013 @ 22:09
We all know mobile phone usage is on the up, fast. With 4G on the door step and a explosion in the number of smartphones being sold it is clear to everyone a mobile presence is not just recommended, it is fast becoming required. Find out what a mobile app or a mobile website is So jumping past the givens...

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Concept: The Next Windows
Tim Baker Sunday 20 January 2013 @ 16:03
Spotted by the likes of Mashable, The Verge, and Business Insider this design concept by Andrew Kim for the next Windows really does say a lot about the state Microsoft is currently in. I'm a Microsoft fan, I was one of the early adopters of Windows 8 - and I love it. Simpler, cleaner and much...

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My Allergy Translator: The New App for people with allergies
Tim Baker Saturday 19 January 2013 @ 00:33
Dealing with allergies is not easy at the best of times, eating abroad is especially difficult. There's many of tools out there to help people with allergies, but we noticed there was a severe lack of translations for allergies. There are Allergy Cards which you can get printed, but you often need to...

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Creating Our Own Web Hosting
Tim Baker Sunday 30 December 2012 @ 23:03
After a very successful latter half of 2012, we are pleased to announce the formation of our own web hosting offering - Eight Twenty Hosting. We hope we can offer something very few other cans, affordable web hosting with quality support. We've all seen it too often, cheap web hosting is great -...

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Web highlights: Olympic Camera's
Tim Baker Sunday 30 December 2012 @ 19:27
In the spirit of the Olympics, did you notice those balloons which took off at the start of the opening ceremony? Well I did, and I was left intrigued when we saw the closing image of "2012" over the world; were those balloons sent up into the stratosphere, and was that photo "live". Well I can't...

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EU Cookie Complience
Tim Baker Thursday 25 October 2012 @ 00:26

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WebOS has found its new use - Controlling MRI equipment
Tim Baker Monday 12 December 2011 @ 21:55
Just a few days ago it was announced that WebOS would be going open source after it failed to take off in HP's hands. I was a great fan of WebOS but I honestly failed to see who would pick up the need for one of those TouchPads running WebOS.Well now there is a use for them, and a very good one....

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Introducing CaPNotifier
Tim Baker Thursday 10 November 2011 @ 22:51
That's right, our first Windows based software since having moved away from WebOS. As announced on our Twitter account a few days ago, this new Windows Utility Software is now available for download.Simple but clever We started work on this application after we found all that was out there at the...

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What the end of WebOS means for us and your applications
Tim Baker Friday 19 August 2011 @ 20:50
Updated: (24/09/2011)Since HP has now had a management reshuffle, our application development has been halted and awaits news on the future of WebOS. Once we know in more detail the future of WebOS we will make the decision of if to carry on supporting the platform or not. Should we decide to...

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Why has my WebOS app stopped working?
Tim Baker Thursday 11 August 2011 @ 22:01
On the 24/09/2011 we announced that our WebOs applications would be discontinued. This was a direct result of HP ending their hardware support for the platform, effectively putting to bed the WebOS Mobile Operating System.What does this all mean?Some of our apps, particularly Weather Pro will stop...

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