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Port80 Conference in Newport welcome the Ducks

Port80 Conference in Newport welcome the Ducks

Three members of the Cyber-Duck team attended the Port80 Conference in Newport, Wales on Friday 10th of May. The team learnt, shared and networked along side other leading British web designers and front-end developers. Find out what they got up to.

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Prepare for Google’s “summer of fun” with the Penguin 2.0 update

Prepare for Google’s “summer of fun” with the Penguin 2.0 update

Google’s head of Web Spam, Matt Cutts, announced this week that the world’s most widely used search engine is set to roll out the Penguin 2.0 algorithm update. Due “within the next few weeks”, the change is to penalise websites with poor quality back links. Cyber-Duck’s Marketing Manager, Harry Clark, explains how to best prepare your website to avoid the penalties.

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Cyber-Duck prevail at Google Campus Spring Hackathon

Cyber-Duck prevail at Google Campus Spring Hackathon

Two teams devised of Cyber-Duck’s elite designers and developers attended the Spring Hackathon, hosted at the Google Campus in London. In just 30 hours of solid programming and UI work, the teams managed to produce 2 fully functional prototypes and even picked up an award for their great work!

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The CrimeLine App

The CrimeLine App

The CrimeLine App was created by the Cyber-Duck team as part of the Spring Hackathon, hosted on Google Campus in London. Within just 30 hours of programming, “Team Awesome” managed to plan, design and build a fully functional application which displayed crime levels throughout the UK, using an interactive heat map.

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GP Surgery Finder App

GP Surgery Finder App

The GP Finder App was created by one half of the Cyber-Duck team as part of the Spring Hackathon, hosted on Google Campus in London. “Team WCL” (wireless connection lost!) designed and created a responsive web application which helps users locate their most convenient GP Surgeries to them based on travel time and selected preferred transport methods

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Cyber-Duck ready for Digital Shoreditch

Cyber-Duck ready for Digital Shoreditch

The sun is finally out and we are in May, for many top digital professionals that can only mean one thing, Digital Shoreditch is just around the corner. For the second year running Cyber-Duck will be well represented at the event.  Matt Gibson and Ramon Lapenta will each be running workshops, sharing their knowledge, experience and tips for approaching responsive web design (RWD).

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BrightonSEO welcomes Cyber-Duck’s Harry Clark

BrightonSEO welcomes Cyber-Duck’s Harry Clark

I took a trip down to the south coast 2 weeks ago to mingle with fellow leading SEOs at the highly revered BrightonSEO conference. In this post I have highlighted what I believe are the most important search marketing tactics learnt from the conference.

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The Responsive Mindset

The Responsive Mindset

This is an overview of my talk on ‘The Responsive Mindset’ I gave at last week’s Digital Pond on the topic of Approaching Responsive Web Design. Thanks everybody for coming along and especially my fellow speakers Paul Adam Davis and Rachel Andrew. It was a fantastic evening and we are really looking forward to the next event.

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Designing better experiences

Designing better experiences

A couple of weeks ago, Danny Bluestone (Cyber-Duck’s founder and MD) and I ran a workshop at UX London, one of the biggest events in any user experience professional’s calendar. The event took place at the Trinity Laban Art & Dance Centre in East London, a fitting venue for the 3 days of creativity and learning which followed.

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Top 20 digital agency

Top 20 digital agency

Deloitte Fast500 Company

Deloitte Fast500 company

ISO

ISO accredited agency

Official honouree

Official honouree