by Jack Ogston

Helping The Orchard show off their three brilliant lodges and improve usability for bookers.

by Jack Ogston

Helping Armstrong Group, one of Dumfries & Galloway’s longest running companies, bring consistency to their brand.

by Kit Allen

How Creatomatic reacted to a recent server issue to keep our client websites online.

by Kit Allen

The Christmas break is fast approaching and Creatomatic HQ will be closing at midday tomorrow (Friday 7th December) for our annual Christmas bash. 

by Kit Allen

Creatomatic are looking for a part-time junior web/graphic designer to join the busy team here at our Annan office.

by James Miodonski

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

by Kit Allen

A bit of background into our hosting services at Creatomatic Ltd.

by Kit Allen

We stepped in to transform Ipso Books into its new brand, turning a project around in under a fortnight.

by James Miodonski

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

by Kit Allen

We’ve been practicing what we preach this week and updating our own website with some of our recent work, some of which we’ll be sharing here.

by Kit Allen

The weather’s hit Annan (and beyond) with a vengeance this morning.

by James Miodonski

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

by James Miodonski

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.

by James Miodonski

We’re dealing with the latest Google update before it hits – free of charge.

by Kit Allen

We’re not altogether certain that we can count this as part of our ‘award-winning’ blurb, mind…

by Kit Allen

How to stop your thoroughbred horse from turning into a camel.

by Kit Allen

We’ve levelled up to a new office – come see us soon.

by James Miodonski

Welcome to the new side of the Easterbrook Hall

by Kit Allen

We’ve designed, developed launched a new website, with an online catalogue of rail maintenance equipment, case studies, team biographies and careers information, for SB Rail.

by Kit Allen

This week we were both humbled and gratified to be the recipients of two CX Projects Business Awards at their annual prize-giving ceremony.

by James Miodonski

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

A complete digital for Glasgow based SCENEgineering

by Kit Allen

Making it easy to drop columns into WordPress, with a single click.

by Kit Allen

It’s becoming an informal tradition that we mark company birthdays with a) a full-on night on the town, and b) a quick round-up of what we’ve been up to over the last 12 months. While we managed Part A quite effectively – with the collective team taken to the uber friendly Electric Fields festival, at […]

by James Miodonski

We’re saying bye to our favourite designery person ever today.

by James Miodonski

We’ve been hard at work to make the new DnG24 website an outstanding resource for the latest news in Dumfries and Galloway. Full case study will be coming soon, but in the mean time, check out the brand new site at www.dng24.co.uk – it’s a cracker.

by Kit Allen

Just one of a series of screencasts we’ll be producing over the following months to help with common WordPress issues.

by James Miodonski

A collection of tools, plugins and widgets to make running your website that little bit easier.

by Kit Allen

Creatomatic will be closed from Friday 19th December 2014 and will re-open on Monday 5th January 2015.

by Chris McWhinnie

Some really nice improvements in the new version, including a really smooth embed system for embeddable content (videos, tweets, etc). Such as this one here:

by Kit Allen

While there’s no ukeleles in this years birthday blog post, it’s a good time to have a wee recap of where we are in 2014.

by Kit Allen

Our own, home-grown solution to better search within WordPress.

by Kit Allen

Last month we thought we’d go above and beyond sending out cards, and properly spoil some of our favourite clients.

by Kit Allen

It’s all good, until the musical fascism kicks in.

by James Miodonski

Well, 50% of us did at least.

by James Hall

Introducing Tweetomatic – the easy way to get your Tweets to display on your WordPress website again

by James Miodonski

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.

by James Miodonski

Another post from our Q&A series – if you have a question for us, please drop us a note to [email protected] or by filling in the contact form.

by James Miodonski

I get asked a lot of similar questions about SEO, so to help I put together this very brief and basic guide to search engines, websites and generally helping the two to get along nicely.

by James Miodonski

Most sites will have pages that their owners would rather were kept out of the public domain, e.g. expired or seasonal offers, obsolete products, pages under construction etc. So, what do you do if you discover just such a page showing up in Google, that you’d really rather wasn’t there?

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 Kit Allen

It’s the first question we ask all our potential clients at the very first meeting, and one that’s often met with a look of confusion and the odd raised eyebrow.

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 […]

by James Miodonski

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.  

by Kit Allen

Personally speaking: I hate the phrase ‘mission statement’. Personally speaking. It’s excessively corporate, impersonal, utterly devoid of meaning, and somewhat ugly. Not something I’d want to apply to my business, and indeed not something I intend to if we can get away with it. However. It’s just as important as all those other startup essentials […]

by James Miodonski

24th April 2012 saw the release of the latest algorithmic update from Google, this time code-named the ‘Google Penguin Update‘. Thousands of website owners across the world witnessed a huge shift in their rankings since the update, indicating that this was in fact another large-scale movement by Google, and not one of their smaller ‘Google […]