The dpivision.com Ltd Weblog

By Greg Kirk, gregkirk.com

About Greg Kirk

Greg Kirk is 27 and lives just outside of Leeds in the North of England. Greg is a web designer and has been working in web design since 2005. Greg graduated from The University of Huddersfield with a BSc in Multimedia Techonology. Greg got his first break in the industry at Moving Media Marketing. In 2006 he joined WPA Pinfold, and currently heads up all their digital media work.

The recent Tradingeye.com redesign was picked up by the guys over at Unmatched Style who thought the simple, straightforward style of the site to be worth a video review.

It’s always nice to receive recognition for hard work, and we’re so happy that out of all the web design galleries out there, Tradingeye.com has been picked out by one of the most respected.

We’d like the thank Gene and the guys at Unmatched Style for taking the time out to review our site. In their own words, “Unmatched Style is not just another CSS design gallery. We want to foster constructive design criticism as well as provide inspiration to our readers”.

Head over to Unmatched Style to read the review, and watch the short video of the Gene’s thoughts on the redesign. And don’t forget to rate us!!!

By Rob Mason, robmason.org

About Rob Mason

By day Rob is a top eCommerce professional for the largest banking group in the UK. By night he builds standards compliant websites.

Sponge Project is a trading name for Rob Mason and is all about web design and email design with web standards and accessibility for Tewkesbury. Rob a firm believer that a quality website starts with the bits the user cannot see, which means he looks after the mechanics of the websites as well as the aesthetics.

Mar 26 2009 by Andrew Mernin, The Journal

It may sound like the name of a friendly Tyneside neighbour or an affable local shopkeeper, but CannyBill is a new piece of software which is expected to help a fledgling technology firm take on the world.

And such is the global appeal of the product – which is aimed at any company looking to handle online payments – it has already been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian and even Geordie by its Newcastle-based creators.

Digital company dpivision.com Ltd has already gained 600 clients from around the world in the five weeks since its launch and is now in talks with investors in the US over the possibility of setting up an office in North America to grow the business.

Dpivision flew to Texas last week to attend the South by South West Interactive festival – one of the biggest events on the planet for technology businesses which gives firms exposure to more than 29,000 key industry players in the US.

The company was chosen from hundreds of entries in a UK Trade and Investment competition to attend the event and its founder, Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, says he has met “hundreds” of potential clients and investors during the trip.

He said the company now plans to roll out other products under the Canny label in the hope of growing it into a global brand and is currently in talks to secure investment to fund expansion in the States.

He also said the firm had developed a special Geordie version of the software to highlight its commitment to the region and raise the profile of the North East.

Should any clients sign up to the Geordie language package, buttons which are usually labelled ‘return to the home page’ will read ‘gan hyem’ and rather than clicking ‘continue’, users will select the ‘howay’ option.

Mr Baranoff-Rossine said: “We’re proud to be based in the North East, and we called this product CannyBill because it does what it says on the tin, it’s a great piece of kit to sort out your billing process.

“The uptake so far has been incredible – and that’s even before its official launch.

“We put out a request for beta testers to businesses who were using our ecommerce system Tradingeye, and the response was terrific.”

“Our turnover has doubled year-on-year and we are looking into the possibility of setting up an office in Texas.”

Meanwhile dpivision recently won a place on the Crossover 4iP Lab initiative – an international scheme supported by broadcaster Channel 4 which gives digital entrepreneurs the chance to land financial backing for their innovative ideas.

The company has also been chosen to battle it out against 19 other businesses to be crowned European start-up of 2009 at the internet-focused Plugg conference in Brussels later this year.

The business fought off fierce competition from 126 businesses from across Europe to get through to the finals, where they will be giving a short presentation of CannyBill.com.

It’s official – our creative talents are beautiful and inspiring.

Our carefully crafted website has caught the eyes of top designers once again.

Our website, www.dpivision.com, has been listed in the top 22 most inspiring website navigation ideas.

http://www.wbdesignideas.com/2008/12/10/22-most-inspiring-website-navigation-ideas/

After searching the internet, Wbdesignideas, stumbled across ours and has listed it as one of its favourites.

Described as breath-taking, unique and artistic.

Commenting on their quest, Wbdesignideas said: “Ahh, the beautiful navigation…

“Apart from being one of the most important technical elements of a website, website navigation can also be beautiful, pleasant to look at, sometimes even breathtaking.

“I dug through a lot of websites and picked out these 22 navigation designs that I find to be the most inspiring, whether is will be for the artistic expression, uniqueness or just a good idea.

“There are more brewing for later but here are the 22 that I have ready to drool over.”

Our logo also made it onto a recommended list of logos to inspire designers before getting stuck into a project.

http://completephotoshop.blogspot.com/2009/01/32-beautiful-website-logos.html

Commenting on the project, Completephotoshop said: “After staring at the computer for hours and going through close to two hundred websites I picked out these awesome looking logos.

“This is a good list of logos to look through when you need to get inspired before working on a website logo project.”