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Our creative website impressed top designer Patrick O’Neil so much it now features in his latest book.

Patrick has spent the last few years scouring the internet’s abundance of websites in a bid to hunt out some of the best and inspiring designs out there.

After cataloguing more than 5,000 sites on his website Design Meltdown, he decided to showcase the cream of the crop in a book for other designers to take inspiration from.

And our workplace theme and carefully crafted design to make www.dpivision.com replicate a notice board scooped us a space in The Web Designer’s Idea Book.

Patrick said: “I like to think of this book as a snap shot in time. It captures the web as it exists in 2008, showcasing the very best we have to offer at this time.”

You can get your hands on a copy of The Web Designer’s Idea Book by visiting amazon.co.uk for £11.99.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Designers-Idea-Book-Ultimate/dp/1600610641

It’s official – we’re sexy, innovative and know exactly what we’re doing.

Dpivision.com has caught the eye of industry professionals who have listed us in a string of top websites.

Phil Renaud reckons we’re one of the top 35 sexiest designed websites ever and has listed us on his blog (www.philrenaud.com).

He claims Dpivision.com is “everything I like about minimalistic design. Has a messy/grungy feel to it, too, which is all the better. Dig the scribbled mouseovers!”

Squared Productions recommends us as one of 187 websites you have to see before you die and our seamless designs feature on the Web 2.0 how-to design guide (www.webdesignfromscratch.com)

And if you’re looking for another reason to choose our products and services, then we’ve also been listed as one of 23 innovative design firms (www.cssjuice.com) and also on TechFlaps under 25 inspiring web designs (www.techflaps.com).

Self-confessed cyber geeks, John Oxton and Jon Hicks, have praised Tradingeye in their pioneering podcast. The duo who are famed for The Rissington Podcast, recommended our award-winning shopping cart on their weekly show.

On their popular podcast, which they describe as the geeks version of Gardner’s Question Time, one listener asked them to recommend a simple ecommerce solution that uses Paypal. And it seemed that Tradingeye fitted the bill perfectly.

Jon Hicks, the brains behind the Firefox, Thunderbird and Miro logos, said: “Tradingeye is a good XHTML and CSS solution. It’s really got a lot of options and a lot of merchant possibilities. It’s a one off cost and you’ve got it on your server.”

John Oxton is a published author and expert in web standards. Him and Jon are also both speakers on the industry and have featured at conferences like The Future of Web Design.

We would like to thank our client Andrew Armitage for tipping us off about our mention on the show.

Why not check out the podcast by logging onto http://www.therissingtonpodcast.co.uk and clicking on episode 11.

The team at dpivision.com Ltd has gone and done it again. Our hard work, forward thinking and strive to push the boundaries in the online world has grabbed us a gong at the North East Digital Awards.

Our award-winning Tradingeye software caught the eye of the judges, winning top spot in the best example of accessibility category. They praised the project for raising the bar with online shopping and helping to make it accessible to all.

Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, project manager, said: “We’re delighted to have won this award and to have had our hard work recognised. “Dpivision.com prides itself on being inclusive and we strive to ensure that the online world is accessible to everyone.”

Tradingeye was released after dpivision.com Ltd noticed a gap in the global market. “There was a huge demand for an accessible XHTML/CSS compliant shopping cart, which complied with Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) so we took the lead and launched Tradingeye as one of the world’s first applications to achieve this high standard.”

Since then Tradinge has sold thousands of licenses world wide, has received international acclaim and has been praised by some of the industry’s leading experts.

Mr Baranoff-Rossine said: “We wanted to design software that appealed to everyone and was easy to use. “Tradingeye is also open source meaning it can be totally customised.”

And the good news doesn’t stop with us securing yet another award; the next major release of Tradingeye is due out later this year with exiting features like language packs, products attributes and a link to Ebay on the agenda. We also have the launch of Cannybill on the horizon. Keep checking out our blog for updates.

http://www.northeastdigitalawards07.co.uk/view/342/

http://www.onenortheast.co.uk/page/news/article.cfm?articleId=3081

By Andy Clarke, Stuff and Nonsense.

About Andy Clarke

Malarkey is Andy Clarke, a UK based designer, author and speaker who has a passion for design, CSS and web accessibility. Andy has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer and author and he founded Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. Andy regularly writes about creating beautiful, accessible web sites and he speaks at events worldwide. Andy is the author of Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, published by New Riders in 2006.