FACT’s commercial services arm has launched its new website at www.mites.org.uk. Despite their excellent brand rep and formidable track record of FACT, we’re all left slightly underwhelmed by the lack of content.

Those Mando chaps keep churning out top notch work. I had a good poke around Mando’s latest delivery, the Penketh website,. I was encouraged to read that the client – a Liverpool based office products suppliers worked with the agency over an 18 month design and development process.  This serves as a good reminder to all those client-side, that these sort of large scale sites cannot be ‘knocked up’ quickly. Presumably with a client such …

Liverpool agency Smiling Wolf has produced the latest version of the Philharmonic Hall’s website. It follows the last major re-design of the site in 2007 by Mando Group. Just how well does the new version stand-up to the benchmark set by Mando for one of the city’s leading cultural institutions?

Liverpool’s 2009 AND Festival commissions four bloggers to respond to the life and death of a blog site. The piece’s title ‘From Now On This Blog Is Going To Be…” runs from 20-27 September.

Article by Enda Carey is Head of Games & Digital Content at Northwest Vision and Media. Liverpool has a long history of video game development and for a long time has produced some of the leading games in the industry. From its bedroom developer days through to the multi million pound budgets of today the industry and Liverpool’s role within it has come a long way.Everyone knows the exciting cutting edge work that Sony and Bizarre Creations have been …

What business club websites are the best to profile on? Who gets the most visitors, which is the best site, Google ranking and so on. Purely based on design then Downtown Liverpool in Business for me is the best. Second place, Liverpool Chambers of Commerce and a long way back is Professional Liverpool; the name becomes an oxymoron when you land on the website.

Liverpool’s business clubs play an important role in helping to promote our businesses. They act as a …

North West property company Maghull Group has launched a major new website, says Mark Jones of city design and marketing agency Creative Liverpool.

Where would you look to find out what’s going on in Liverpool’s Digital Sector? ACME and the Design Initiative represent the creative sector as a whole. ICDC law upon to itself and does little to float my boat. When you start have a proper look there’s not a public sector site that I think is well designed, current and helps showcase Liverpool’s digital sector.

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Rising stars Ph Creative have launched the Eco Environments website, July 2009. Eco Environments is a renewable energy specialist in Liverpool and the UK, seen an innovator in the energy field. The design is fresh, great use of flash and HTML. It feels easy and efficient so a perfect fit to its client brand. Some cool use of icons.

Well done Mando Group on winning this year’s big chip design award for the ‘Liverpool Biennial 08’ website. It’s a great achievement by the Liverpool agency beating off a lot of heavy weight contenders. For me it confirms Mando Group’s position as one of the region’s best agencies.

Rippleffect redesigned Formby Hall Golf Website back in February 2009. This site is one of the best in sector for golf and hospitality. Its simple, clean, great use of imagery and I can get around it easy enough. That couldn’t be said about most of the golf websites out there which are shocking. Surprised Rippleffect haven’t mopped up all the UK Golf courses with this as an example.