by James Miodonski

A reflective post about the positives and negatives of working through and around a pandemic, and a smattering of things we’ve learned along the way.

by James Miodonski

Where things are at one week in.

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It’s official – we’re flittin.

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A few tips for selling online while the pandemic continues to bite.

by James Miodonski

Herein lies the long answer to a short but frequently asked question.

by James Miodonski

Following government guidelines and for the safety of our team and clients Creatomatic HQ is now closed during lockdown.

by James Miodonski

Team Creatomatic are powered by 100% renewable electricity. We thought you might like to know that.

by James Miodonski

Creatomatic are proud sponsors of the ‘Best Bike’ category at this year’s motor show, taking place at Park Farm show ground on Sunday 15th September.

by James Miodonski

Creatomatic officially named as one of SuperControl’s featured web developers.

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We’re upgrading our domain registration services to make sure that we can minimise downtime should the worst happen.

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A guide to how GDPR can affect the services Creatomatic provide, and what you need to know if you use them.

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Clean new design, fully client-managed content, stockists directory and more.

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We’re shutting up shop shortly after lunchtime this coming Friday, 22nd December and back in the office again on Monday 8th January.

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The front of the building has been given a well needed tidy up with a lick of fresh paint, the windows fixed up and fresh signage is now in place.

by James Miodonski

Creatomatic have enjoyed a fair amount of coverage over the last few weeks, ranging from the front page of this morning’s local paper to national coverage in the Daily Record.

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Spring 2012 – a little over 5 years ago. Kit & I met up with a cocky, spotty young oik in Kings Coffee Shop, Dumfries, for a cuppa.

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This year, we decided to break with tradition in Creatomatic HQ In lieu of our usual frivolous Secret Santa, we each selected a charity and made a donation to it. Here’s our list for 2016: Kit – Red Cross in Aleppo. If you’ve been keeping in touch with current events you’ll know that the situation […]

by James Miodonski

This morning I’m busy migrating another of our client’s email from the old, shonky and unreliable mail host we inherited them on across to Gmail.

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Google have a fairly long history of building amazing systems, not telling people about them and not making a huge amount of technical support information public either.  Instead, they rely on – superbly manned, I hasten to add – support forums on a Q&A type basis, with an ever growing knowledge base resource to sift through. […]

by James Miodonski

We’re very proud to announce that a new website for Hiddleston Joiners of Terregles has just gone live after many weeks of hard work on all sides.   A thoroughly lovely job to work on from start to finish.  Proper, top quality craftsmanship, a final end product that was a joy to photograph and a […]

by James Miodonski

So we made the local paper again this morning, complete with fresh mug-shots and everything.

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One of the first things we check when troubleshooting a new client’s website – where are you currently hosted. Here’s why.

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Kit & James H are on-site throughout to oversee this process though, so it should be back online and running before they leave tonight.

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That’s everyone at Creatomatic back at our desks again this morning after a long-needed and much welcomed couple of weeks off.

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While I fear this may have a ring of ‘you had to be there…’ about it, frankly I’m short on blog-worthy material this week and I’m afraid it’ll just have to do.

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We’ve decided to run a series of short Q&A type posts around web design, search engine optimisation and all such things.  If you have a question you’d like to ask, please drop us a note either via the quick contact form or to [email protected] So, to kick things off – we’ll go with… If i […]

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According to Silktide, who we’ve linked to before on the subject, it appears that the ridiculous EU Cookie Law is dead. Got to love their take on it: http://blog.silktide.com/2013/01/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/

by James Miodonski

Dear Triumph Motorcycles, Your Twitter account (@TriumphOfficial) has so far amassed just short of 11,000 followers – despite the fact you’ve not put out a single tweet.  We couldn’t help but think that you’re missing an enormous trick by not engaging with all of these people who voluntarily registered their interest in your products.

by James Miodonski

In a former life, I was responsible for the day-to-day running of a group of large forestry websites.  As such, I had a fairly active presence on various online forums around the web relating to trees, timber and all things forestry.  One of these hangouts is a place called ArbTalk, where I still occasionally drop […]

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Is duplicate content ruining your life? Probably not, however duplicate content is a huge problem on the web, not least of which because it causes no end of confusion among website owners.