by Kit Allen

You might be prompted to install Gutenberg on your Creatomatic WordPress website. We recommend that you don’t…yet. Here’s why.

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 James Miodonski

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

by James Miodonski

We’re taking precautionary steps over the next few days to ensure all Creatomatic managed systems and servers are patched and secure against flaws recently discovered with Intel processor chips.

by James Miodonski

You’d think it would be (much) simpler than this.

by James Miodonski

We do. However, it may surprise you to hear that this year alone we’ve handled over 250,000 printed items so far. Not bad.

by Kit Allen

This vital, local service is struggling and could really benefit from a little help.

by James Miodonski

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.

by James Miodonski

Chris McW’s getting married in the summer and is jetting off to sunny Spain this weekend for his stag do.

by Kit Allen

Creatomatic are looking for a junior web designer/developer to join the busy team here at our Annan office

by James Miodonski

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.

by James Miodonski

Paul’s just finished putting the final touches to a new logo & branding for Aerial Outlook, a local drone-pilot business.

by Kit Allen

Creatomatic are in the list of finalists for the ‘Best Employer’ and ‘Most Innovative Business’ awards

by James Miodonski

Another eCommerce site live Yesterday saw the much anticipated launch of a whopping big e-commerce site we’ve been busy working away on for the last few months.

by James Hall

We’ve made WordPress our platform of choice, so much so it now powers 99%+ of our public-facing websites.

by James Miodonski

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

by James Miodonski

This morning we – like many other businesses locally – received a letter from Dumfries & Galloway Council urging us to consider joining them as an official Living Wage Employer.

by James Miodonski

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

by James Miodonski

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

by Kit Allen

Quite often when we’re putting sites together, we’ll need to put content into columns. There’s a few ways to skin this particular cat – we can split content into separate boxes in WordPress, or use the ‘more’ tag as a flag to split content into two columns – but if the site requires something more […]

by Kit Allen

We’re pleased to announce that as of Monday 2nd March 2015, Sigma Internet has become a part of Creatomatic

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 […]