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BBC Digital services: user-interface article…

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Superb article about the evolving face of the BBC’s digital services
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Getting serious about Social Media

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Marketing professionals should know by now how important it is to have a social media strategy in place - ensuring that you make proper use of custom designed blogs, micro-sites, Twitter, Facebook and so forth in addition to your main company website.
At Cite we’ve been specialising in this field for some time and have therefore [...]

a topical update for Anorak

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

We’re pleased to announce a home page update for the topical news site, Anorak. This site is built using a custom designed theme for Wordpress, the popular blogging software. This latest incarnation has seen us develop a format that further streamlines the design so that new stories are automatically summarised as headlines and excerpts in [...]

Designing the details

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Noticed any big changes to Google recently? Are you sure? The biggest change might just be the smallest. As this article on the BBC website explains, Google have update their favicon. As these articles explains, a favicon, is the tiny logo that appears next to the address of a website (in your browser’s address toolbar). [...]

With a rush and a push…

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Ho, Ho, Ho!
Web design in Leiceter has never been busier in our books!
With just a few days left until Christmas, we’re beavering away against the clock to get some great new sites ready to launched in the new year. Projects due for launch in January include new sites for  Attenda Managed Hosting, London International Music [...]

Move over laptop, iPhone’s in town

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Six months ago, while killing time at the airport I was seduced by the Asus Eee PC. It was small, sleek, came in five different colours and was the solution to my husband’s need for extortionately priced daily newspapers while on holiday.  With built-in Wifi, and small enough to chuck in my bag it was [...]

Cite are selected to market London International Music Show 2009

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Cite are delighted to announce their selection to design and market the 2009 London International Music Show.

Leicester Highcross launch, a success

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

We were lucky enough to go to the official launch of the Highcross in Leicester, the new super shopping centre.  It’s great to see Leicester leading the way in design, innovation and shopping.
The development of an area of Leicester which was beginning to become a bit run down is an inspiration.  At a time when [...]

And the winner is….

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

We’re pleased to announce that Frank Booth, a member of the Cite design team has won a competition to design a set of banner ads for Lyon Equipment Ltd, importers of some of leading climbing and mountaineering equipment for brands including Petzl, Beal and La Sportiva.
The competition was run on the UKs leading forum for [...]

New website launch for WMRO

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Our latest web site launch is for WMRO (The West Midlands Cultural Observatory). This Birmingham based organisation offer public agencies, private firms and voluntary and community organisations in the West Midlands improved access to well-organised information, thereby improving the quality of strategy formulation, policy making and service provision.
Our involvement was creative, working in partnership with [...]