by Jack Ogston

Creatomatic is delighted to announce it has joined the Good Business Charter (GBC), an accreditation that seeks to raise the bar on business practices for employees, tax, the environment, customers and suppliers.   We’re really proud to be amongst the first businesses in Scotland to join the GBC – there has never been a more […]

by Jack Ogston

Creatomatic 2019 festive opening hours.

by Jack Ogston

Creatomatic are attending the 2019 Association of Scotland’s Self Caterers (ASSC) conference next week (Tuesday 29th October) at the Hilton Glasgow Hotel.

by James Miodonski

New website launched for Argyll based luxury B&B, Kilmartin Castle – a 16th century tower house built by the Rector of Kilmartin.

by James Miodonski

Around 10% of the Internet just went down.

by Jack Ogston

Working with the University of Glasgow on their pioneering cancer treatment laboratory website.

by James Miodonski

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

by Jack Ogston

New design and site for Hetland Garden Centre as they enter 2019 peak season.

by Kit Allen

The new Gutenberg editor is now live in WordPress. Here’s what you need to know if you’re thinking of upgrading.

by Kit Allen

Heart Internet are having a bit of a nightmare today – they’ve had intermittent service since the small hours of this morning, and don’t appear to be any closer to fixing it.

by James Miodonski

Wednesday 3rd October, 12pm to 5pm at the Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries.

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 James Miodonski

Google have moved the goalpost with Google Maps – here’s everything you need to know and do to get it sorted.

by Kit Allen

Here at Creatomatic, we’re having a wonderful time dealing with the final week in the run-up to the GDPR deadline. Here’s a few final things you should know before the deadline.

by James Miodonski

Quick sneak preview of the beautiful new brochure we recently designed, prepped and printed for Knockinaam Lodge. 

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 James Miodonski

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

by Chris McWhinnie

We’ve been working closely with Events in the Sky this past few months, transforming their online presence and specifically working on branding their public event; London in the Sky. 

by Kit Allen

I love my team. And they love me too (We also made a donation to the Motor Neuron Disease Association; you can too, if you want to help a very good cause.) Kit

by Chris McWhinnie

We’re delighted to announce that Creatomatic will be working with Natural Power to redevelop their corporate and internal websites over 2014-2015.

by James Hall

People don’t like waiting, especially when it comes to loading websites. James, our lead developer has a solution.

by Kit Allen

Our opening hours and support details for the Christmas 2013 period.

by Kit Allen

A question we get asked a lot lately is: ‘Will my site work on my phone?’ It will indeed. Here’s how.

by Kit Allen

Looking back over our first year in business – with bonus video content. You’re welcome.

by Kit Allen

Welcome to Bridge House; our new home as of March 2013.

by Chris McWhinnie

Here is Creatomatic’s pre-launch checklist, which we carry out on every web project before it goes live. It’s basically a cross-browser checklist, covering everything from Internet Explorer 7 (no more IE6!) to whatever is currently Flavour Of The Month (currently: iPhone 5 with its wacky longer screen).

by James Miodonski

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 […]

by James Miodonski

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 Kit Allen

This week, we launched a slightly refreshed WordPress retrofit for the local legends at The Bookshop in Wigtown. (For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of visiting this establishment, it’s like a real-life Black Books, but bigger. And with more wine. The Bookshop Facebook page gives an excellent flavour of the place). We […]

by Chris McWhinnie

Creatomatic would like to wish all our customers past and present a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

by James Miodonski

It’s probably not a topic of huge debate around most dinner tables, but in the cut-throat world of eCommerce every little helps. Even the smallest advantage over your online competition can make the difference between bagging a sale and your user wandering off to buy elsewhere, and personally I’m very much of the opinion that […]