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Girl Band Website

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Recently Didgeroo was approached by 84 Management to design and build a new website for upcoming British girl band - Fanfair.

An existing website designed by another web agency was already in place, however 84 Management were not happy with it's look and feel. They also required to some additional functionality such as a new slideshow image gallery and Twitter integration.

With the bands upcoming summer tour announcement imminent, 84 Management required the entire design and build to be completed in under two weeks.

Didgeroo was able to easily meet this deadline and delivered a clean, fresh and modern website all built on Wordpress 3.0.

Check out the finished product here - http://www.fanfairmusic.com

 

Digital Shoreditch

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Last night Didgeroo attended the launch of The Source - a brand new business directory covering all the wonderful creative and technical small businesses in the Shoreditch area.

Our neighbourhood here in Shoreditch is really starting to devlope a village-like sense of community amongst local buisnesses. This publication goes some way to solidify relationship by by listing all of us in one beautifully produced book.

Didgeroo goes to Buckingham Palace!

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On 10 October, Didgeroo was asked to attend a round-table discussion with HRH Prince Andrew, The Duke of York. (more photos here).

The discussion was part of the TechCity UK initiative.

Prince Andrew wanted to know what he could personally do to assist companies like Didgeroo. I made the suggestion that it would be helpful if tech starts-ups could somehow tap into the wealth of knowledge that The City Of London, just a 1/4 mile down the road, has to offer.  His Royal Highness told us that he had many friends in The City so he would ask them and us over to his place for a get-together.

 

So on 20 October, Didgeroo went to Buckingham Palace!

It was a wonderful evening, and an excellent opportunity to meet some very important people. It was also great to see some many friends and colleagues from the Silicon Roundabout area in attendance.

Read more about the event here:

• Silicon Roundabout comes to Buckingham Palace (Financial Times)
• London's Zucker babies (The Evening Standard)
• The Prince and the Entrepreneurs (Wall Street Journal)

Lord Sassoon visits Didgeroo

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On 9 September 2011, our office was visited by Lord Sassoon in his role as Commercial Secretary of UK Trade and Investment (UKTI).

UKTI have been busy setting up the TecCity UK initiative which hopes to encourage the growth of tech companies in Silicon Roundabout.

Lord Sasson was very interested in Didgeroo and the other tech startups we share our office with. There is obviously a growing number of companies like Didgeroo in the Old St / Shoreditch areas. The question is, what can the government do help and support us?

Our New Office

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Didgeroo has moved office - just around the corner.

After a fantastic 18-months sharing office space with a bunch of tech start-ups on Hoxton St, it was time for Didgeroo to say goodbye.  Our landlord, Songkick.com,  required more space (well done guys!) so we had to move.

Shoreditch is booming with tech start-ups at the moment. The Silicon Roundabout and East London Tech City initiatives make for an exciting and vibrant place for our company to base itself. With this in mind we didn't want to move far, in fact our new office is just around the corner at:

Didgeroo Ltd

The Hoxton Mix
86 - 90 Paul Street (third floor)
London, EC2A 4NE

 

• Find us on Google Maps

 

Shared Office Space

Once again we are sharing the space with a great bunch of tech start-ups. Sharing not only allows us to keep our costs down and our quotes competitive, but we also find it provides excellent networking opportunities.

Some of the companies we are now sharing our new office space with are :-

• 33seconds
• 9flats.com
• [bracket] design
• Paper Bag
• Halcyon Strategic
• The Project Factory
• Joe Smalley Web Designer
• Square Circle Media
• We Are Apps

How to find us

Old Street Tube Station
3 minute walk
Take Exit 3: "Old Street east (south side)"

Shoreditch High Street Station
5-8 minute walk

Liverpool Street Station.
7-10 minute walk
Take Sun Passage Exit

 

 

Didgeroo wins award

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The Lightening Productions website, designed and developed by Didgeroo, has been selected as a Site of the Month by SlideShow Pro! There's no prize, but at least it's some recognition.

We built the Lightening Productions website about 6 months ago. It utilises three technologies developed by SlideShow pro:

• SSP Player - an Adobe Flash based image/video plugin
• SSP Thumbgird - an image navigation plugin, also built with Adobe Flash
• SSP Director - a web-based image/video management system built on PHP/MYSQL

The site also features automatic non-flash device detection (iPhone and iPad) with automatic redirection to a beautiful HTML 5 rendering of the site designed specifically for touch interfaces.

Check the website out here : http://www.lighteningproductions.com/

 

 

 

Holiday Architects

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Holiday Architects is a new venture creating bespoke holidays for niche regions of the world. Didgeroo was approached to create the following:

• A website built on a Content Management System (CMS) to allow Holiday Architects to update and maintain the website without any need for special web development skills.
• An online database to maintain their extensive catalogue of holidays, hotels, restaurants and excursions
• An interative map built using non-flash technology to enable compatibility with iPads and iphones.
• A shopping basket that enables adding items, filling in a form, sending and confirmation - all without refreshing the web page.

Didgeroo was able to deliver all this using Joomla, Javscipt, AJAX, PHP and MYSQL.

 

• Click here to visit the the first of many Holiday Architects websites.

Loungin

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Bespoke furniture manufacturer, Loungin', required a complete redesign of their old web site, so they came to Blossom and Didgeroo for help. As you can see, Blossom produced some slick looking designs, however the site required some complex functionailty as well, and that's where Didgeroo was able to help.

A Content Management System (CMS) was essential for this website to work. Lougnin needed the ability update and maintan the content  themselves. So we decied to build the new website on Wordpress.

Loungin' also needed the ability to maintain their online product catalogue. Stand Wordpress functionailty is farily limited, so Didgeroo implemented the Flutter plugin for Wordpress. This allowed us to create this easy to use back-end interface:

• Check out the finished product here.

 

Greenleaf Global

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Blossom Branding and Didgeroo have teamed up to create this simple yet graphically rich website for Greenleaf Global.

The website does not use any CMS, but instead consists of eight lightweight XHTML/CSS pages. The site also includes a custom built investment return calculator that was developed using PHP.

 

• View the Greenleaf Global website here.

 

Blossom Branding

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Didgeroo is pleased to launch another fantastic website today - Blossom Branding.

Blossom are a new design and branding agency and just so happen to share the same office space as us here in Shoreditch! So we look forward to teaming up with them in the near furure to work on some exciting projects togehter.

To kick things off, Didgeroo has built Blossom's brand new website. Check it out here -