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  • Is Your Company Number on Your Website?

    Is Your Company Number on Your Website?

    27 February 2007

    Is Your Company Number on Your Website? As of 2007 if you're a company or LLP you need to show your business contact details, name and trading names along with you company more


  • Duo Check Out Winning Business Academy

    Duo Check Out Winning Business Academy

    19 February 2007

    Duo Check Out Winning Business Academy Duo are a creative business with boundless ideas and energy, However, our growth over the past four years seemed to lack something. As in the case more


  • New Sites For 2007

    New Sites For 2007

    8 February 2007

    New Sites For 2007 Last year was a great year for getting companies online. We worked with around 26 businesses; providing them with professional websites that they can personally update - more


  • What the Flip's a Favicon

    What the Flip's a Favicon

    6 February 2007

    What the Flip's a Favicon Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE7) and Firefox are changing the way we view websites. Tabbed browsing is the hot new function in web site viewing, and it's more


  • Wishing You a Merry Christmas

    Wishing You a Merry Christmas

    12 December 2006

    Wishing You a Merry Christmas 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 more


  • Duo Clients Benefit from RSS - 2000+ Unique visits a day

    Duo Clients Benefit from RSS - 2000+ Unique visits a day

    8 December 2006

    Duo Clients Benefit from RSS - 2000+ Unique visits a day 8th December 2006 RSS or Really Simple Syndication is one of those emerging technologies which is going to emerge even more


  • Rent Your Place In The Sun

    Rent Your Place In The Sun

    7 December 2006

    Rent Your Place in the Sun 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 more


  • Bully Beating During Anti-Bullying Week

    29 November 2006

    Duo Helps With Anti-Bullying Week 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 more


  • Marketing on a Shoestring - Free Seminar

    Marketing on a Shoestring - Free Seminar

    21 September 2006

    Marketing on a Shoestring 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 more


  • Duo Design Gives you £1,000

    Duo Design Gives you £1,000

    18 September 2006

    Duo Design Gives you £1,000 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 more


  • New Employee Expands Duo Capabilities

    New Employee Expands Duo Capabilities

    15 September 2006

    New Employee Expands Duo Capabilities 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 more


  • Standards Revolutionising Information Sharing

    Standards Revolutionising Information Sharing

    7 September 2006

    Standards Revolutionising Information Sharing 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 more


  • Webaspx Site Goes Live

    Webaspx Site Goes Live

    21 July 2006

    Webaspx New Website Goes Live 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 more


  • Google for Website Owners

    Google for Website Owners

    30 May 2006

    Google for Website Owners 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 more


  • Duo CMS Demos Underway

    16 May 2006

    Duo CMS Demos Underway 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 more


  • Shortlisted For Big Chip Awards 2006

    Shortlisted For Big Chip Awards 2006

    12 April 2006

    Shortlisted For Big Chip Awards 2006 Duo Design, one of Manchester’s latest new media design consultancies, has been short-listed for the freelancer/micro enterprise category in the more


  • New Web Service Descriptions

    New Web Service Descriptions

    4 April 2006

    New Services Descriptions Added 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 more


  • 1000 visits a day

    1000 visits a day

    30 March 2006

    We've Broken Personal Records - 1000+ visits a day 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 more


  • £300 Off Easy Edit

    £300 Off Easy Edit

    29 March 2006

    Special Offer To Existing Customers 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 more


  • Should My Site Be In Flash?

    Should My Site Be In Flash?

    14 March 2006

    Should My Site Be In Flash? 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 more


  • Big Site Launches

    Big Site Launches

    19 February 2006

    Biggest Site Yet Goes Live The newly developed Nafems (international association for the engineering analysis community) website went live last week. With over 1700 pages this site is our more


  • Stopping Spam

    Stopping Spam

    18 February 2006

    Stopping Spam 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 more


  • Death By Google

    Death By Google

    5 February 2006

    Death By Google 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 more


  • M & S Upgrade to Duo CMS

    M & S Upgrade to Duo CMS

    3 February 2006

    Mackinnon and Saunders Upgrade to Duo CMS We produced the Mackinnon and Saunders website back in 2003 before Duo CMS was fully developed. After 3 years of us successfully creating more


  • Canto's Site Launched

    Canto's Site Launched

    1 February 2006

    Canto's Site Launched 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 more


  • We've Moved!

    We've Moved!

    9 January 2006

    We've Moved! 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 more


  • Duo CMS Looking for Partners

    Duo CMS Looking for Partners

    11 November 2005

    Duo CMS Looking for Partners Duo is currently looking for strategic partners in developing easy edit content managed web sites. We developed our own CMS ( Content Management System ) more


  • Duo Help Raise Over of £40,000 for Cystic Fibrosis

    Duo Help Raise Over of £40,000 for Cystic Fibrosis

    1 May 2005

    Duo Help Raise Over of £40,000 for Cystic Fibrosis CFWristbands.co.uk is a website set up for 'warrencare' as part of the cystic fibrosis wristband appeal. The site was more


  • Chamber Website Goes Right to the Top

    Chamber Website Goes Right to the Top

    10 April 2005

    Chamber Website Goes Right to the Top 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 more


  • Duo are Keeping it Real

    Duo are Keeping it Real

    1 February 2004

    Duo Are Keeping It Real 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 more


  • Virtual Products Cut the Mustard for Card Company

    Virtual Products Cut the Mustard for Card Company

    28 July 2003

    Virtual Products Cut the Mustard for Card Company When design and visuals team Duo Design brought cutting-edge technology to fledgling greeting card company Mustard Cards, the more