BinaryFold4 were recently awarded a contract to design and develop a new website to promote Fife, Scotland.

The new website aims to bring more businesses, investment and tourism into the region in order to improve Fife’s economy. www.welcometofife.com also includes a custom built interactive map to allow users to explore Fife and its many attractions, aswell as an interactive timeline of developments in Fife over the years.

Visit the new website at www.welcometofife.com

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Last month BinaryFold4 took a trip down to London to visit GF Smith‘s ‘Beauty in the Making’ event, exposing and exploring the art in the creative processes in collaboration with It’s Nice That, Monotype and the British Council’s Architecture, Design and Fashion department. The exhibition gave a behind the scenes insight into the various processes that are involved in producing the products and services that today we often take for granted.

After being greeted by some pretty impressive signage, the event went on to educate its guests through live demonstrations and workshops on the subjects of paper-making, letterpress printing and envelope-making to name a few. The exhibition also showcased a display of artwork from the Gill Sans archive, with original drawings by Eric Gill himself.

We left the event feeling inspired, and with a goody bag full of lovely GF Smith paper samples.

As you may be aware, from May 2011 a new privacy law came into effect across the EU which requires that websites ask visitors for consent to use most web cookies. Web cookies are commonly used to allow personalisation of content, enable things like shopping baskets or to enhance visitor analytics information in the form of Google Analytics.

The deadline for implementing a method of consent is fast approaching on 26th May 2012. Like many other people we had hoped that the decision to enforce this rule would be overturned but as that is not looking likely we have been looking into possible solutions.

Our friends at Silktide have created a plugin for this purpose which we have chosen to use. You can see this in action on our own website.

Next Steps

Read more about the Cookie Law and what it means for your website
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Mount Stuart is Britain’s most astounding Victorian gothic mansion. Home to the Stuarts of Bute, descendants of the Royal House of Stuart, this magnificent house sits proudly on the Isle of Bute – ancient stronghold of Scottish Kings. 

In 2011 BinaryFold4 were approached by Mount Stuart to develop a new website in order to increase visitor numbers through a more effective online presence. The website is now live and we’re very pleased with the result. You can visit the website at www.mountstuart.com

BinaryFold4 also produce a range of marketing materials for Mount Stuart, take a look at our portfolio to see some of the work that we have produced.

BinaryFold4 were pleased to see the Chatsworth website reach its highest ever number of simultaneous users last night after the first episode of the three part series aired on BBC 1, simply entitled ‘Chatsworth’.

Filmed throughout the whole of 2011, the series is a ‘behind the scenes’ look into the estate, following the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, and various members of their 700 staff.

The next in the series will be aired on Monday 21, BBC 1, at 9pm. For more information click here

Last month I was lucky enough to take a day out of the office to attend a screen printing workshop run by Print Club London. The workshops focus on how to screenprint your own design starting with creating your digital image through to applying the ink to canvas.

Having not screenprinted for many years I found the workshop a really enjoyable and inspirational experience. The technicians began the session by giving a history on screenprinting and the various techniques that can be used. I had long forgotten about the difference between threadcounts on alternative screens, and what a squeegee was, and I must say the guys were really informative and helpful in explaining the whole process.

Having had an educational day, I left the session with a rekindled passion for screen-printing and some lovely prints of my own design. I’d highly recommend this course, although I am now on a quest to find a studio a little bit closer to home…

Rebecca