News & Articles Archive
Wishing You a Merry Christmas
12th Dec 2006
At Duo we've had a busy year completing over 26 new websites from small 20 page sites through to giant corporate sites with thousands of pages for large associations. I am sure like us you are looking forward to the time away with your families. We...more
Duo Clients Benefit from RSS - 2000+ Unique visits a day
8th Dec 2006
8th December 2006 RSS or Really Simple Syndication is one of those emerging technologies which is going to emerge even quicker due to its integration into Internet Explorer 7.0. Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE7) is Microsoft's first major upgrade to...more
Rent Your Place In The Sun
7th Dec 2006
7th December 2006 The holiday home market it a booming one. We all love being in the sun and having an extra pad in an exotic part of the world can be a real bonus. So you've been to Florida, Spain or wherever and you've bought the home of...more
Bully Beating During Anti-Bullying Week
29th Nov 2006
29th November 2006 Anti bullying week went off with a bang between the 21st and 25th November thanks to www.bullybusters.org.uk the local solutions backed project to help prevent bullying in the Merseyside area. Also Backed by the the Liverpool Echo ...more
Marketing on a Shoestring - Free Seminar
21st Sep 2006
Thursday 28th September 5.30pm - 8.00pm The New East Manchester Business Club based here at One Central Park is offering a couple of seminars you may be interested in. These seminars will form part of the usual business networking which allows you to...more
Duo Design Gives you £1,000
18th Sep 2006
As with many web design companies we get much of our work from our happy clients. They're usually so pleased with the work we have done they often pass our name on to other companies who seek a similar professional service. The speed of referral...more
New Employee Expands Duo Capabilities
15th Sep 2006
Just a quick note to welcome Paul to our team. Paul has worked many years in the web development industry. He's a top notch PHP. Javascript Html and CSS developer and knows his way around flash too. His wealth of web experience is proving to be very...more
Standards Revolutionising Information Sharing
7th Sep 2006
The web has evolved much over the past 10 years. Todays web is made up of much more 'rich content' than ever before. The presentation of information has evolved to make many websites as sophisticated as Magazines and TV. With the evolution of easy edit...more
Webaspx Site Goes Live
21st Jul 2006
Webaspx Limited is a privately owned company which has been providing specialist decision support solutions to a range of sectors since it was formed in 1999. With the highest calibre decision support professionals, an innovative modelling capability and in depth...more
Google for Website Owners
30th May 2006
As a website owner getting visitors to your site is a high priority. You could have the best products and services in the world, but if no one can find them you may as well not bother. Getting visitors is simple if you are a large company with an ample...more
Duo CMS Demos Underway
16th May 2006
We have started putting together a series of on-line demos to show off various features of the Duo CMS system . The demos are of use both to potential purchasers and existing clients who want to watch some tutorial videos on how to update their sites with...more
Shortlisted For Big Chip Awards 2006
12th Apr 2006
Duo Design, one of Manchester’s latest new media design consultancies, has been short-listed for the freelancer/micro enterprise category in the 2006 Big Chip Awards. Duo Design delivers a range of creative design solutions encompassing editable website...more
New Web Service Descriptions
4th Apr 2006
We have just added a load of new service descriptions to shout about our latest easy edit plugins. All of these plug ins are tried and tested on current sites so we know they're reliable. They have all been developed to be customisable to your needs so...more
1000 visits a day
30th Mar 2006
For the first time this week one of our sites has gained more than one thousand unique visits in one day. Our sites in general receive many hundreds of visits a day but we have always struggled to get past that magical figure of over 1000 visits. The site in...more
£300 Off Easy Edit
29th Mar 2006
Over the past three years our easy edit system has become more and more popular. We believe now more than ever that an easy edit site is a successful one. Our sites which are edited regularly have shown to be many times more successful than those which are static...more
Should My Site Be In Flash?
14th Mar 2006
Summary: If you are a large company that everyone knows, and you don't need search engines to get thousands of visits a day flash is fine. For everyone else read on. Through experience we've known for a long time now that flash websites rarely...more
Big Site Launches
19th Feb 2006
The newly developed Nafems (international association for the engineering analysis community) website went live last week. With over 1700 pages this site is our largest CMS site yet. The site also utilises many of the plug-ins our CMS system offers...more
Stopping Spam
18th Feb 2006
At Duo we get very little spam. I know what you're thinking, eveyone gets spam, you must get loads. We don't, and we don't for many reasons. These reasons we share with all our clients, however it is up to them if they take our advice. Reasons...more
Death By Google
5th Feb 2006
Website design has always been about getting people to find you. Over the past 10 or so years search engines and tricks to fool search engines have got more and more sophisticated. From the beginning we have always believed that playing the tricks on search...more
M & S Upgrade to Duo CMS
3rd Feb 2006
We produced the Mackinnon and Saunders website back in 2003 before Duo CMS was fully developed. After 3 years of us successfully creating easy edit sites, M&S realised it would be worth investing in Duo CMS site to help make updating their site more...more
Canto's Site Launched
1st Feb 2006
We have just launched a new Duo CMS site for Canto IT an Altrincham based IT support company. The Site features lots of information on Canto's services and a continually updating news section. Canto have been a valuable supplier and...more
We've Moved!
9th Jan 2006
Duo Design have moved to new facilities based at One Central Park, just off Oldham Rd in Manchester. After three years of business growth it has become necessary for us to increase our office space to enable us to meet the needs of our growing portfolio of...more
Duo CMS Looking for Partners
11th Nov 2005
Duo is currently looking for strategic partners in developing easy edit content managed web sites. We developed our own CMS ( Content Management System ) back in 2003. Since that time interest has grown in the use of CMS for both large and small businesses....more
Duo Help Raise Over of £40,000 for Cystic Fibrosis
1st May 2005
CFWristbands.co.uk is a website set up for 'warrencare' as part of the cystic fibrosis wristband appeal. The site was designed and programmed by Duo Internet after Warren Care approached us with a proposal to develop the site. The site is a simple...more
Chamber Website Goes Right to the Top
10th Apr 2005
Cris Ward and Andy Rose had only been members of Greater Altrincham Chamber of Commerce for a few days before they started to change it. With a shared background in web and product design - ranging from fountain pens to a 3-D baggage X-ray imaging machine -...more
Duo are Keeping it Real
1st Feb 2004
Duo have recently invested in a new high level rendering system. Purchased directly from the US this system has been used in the production of well known films like 20th Century Fox's Star Wars Episode III and Pixar's The Incredibles. With this...more
Virtual Products Cut the Mustard for Card Company
28th Jul 2003
When design and visuals team Duo Design brought cutting-edge technology to fledgling greeting card company Mustard Cards, the result was an impressive portfolio of products that don't actually exist yet! Tracey Ince knew that her own designs for her...more