Yearly Archives: 2016

The Peter Baxter Jewellery website has successfully launched!

This new website we developed has search and filter capabilities — where you can categorise the products, which are the key focus.

Peter Baxter Jewellers are a family business with deep roots in traditional craftsmanship. The Baxter father and son team combine experience and traditions with fresh, contemporary design to create stunning pieces of jewellery.

It’s great to see this project come to fruition, please check out their new website here — peterbaxter.co.uk

Website design credit to Metric London.

It’s important to be secure online and these days there are plugins that can help you achieve this.

One plugin that we have found useful is called, “Password Alert” and it will help to protect your account against phishing attacks. It does this by alerting you when you have entered your Google Account login information into a sign in that’s not Google’s. If there’s an issue, you will receive an alert so you can quickly change your password.

As you’re browsing, Password Alert also checks the page you are visiting and alerts you if they are an impersonator.

Simply download this free plugin from the Google Chrome web store and it will activate immediately.

For more information regarding productivity plugins and online security, please be in touch at — [email protected]

We are excited to now be a partner of UKFast — one of the UK’s leading managed hosting and colocation providers, that supplies dedicated server hosting, critical application hosting, and cloud hosting solutions.

A partnership with UK Fast will benefit custom applications and large companies; and us at DirectionForward to provide the best service possible, allowing ultimate flexibility to provide solutions beyond our own hosting.

If you are interested in learning more or discussing further, please contact us at [email protected]

We are excited to announce the new iteration of the website for the Just Living Foundation.

The website has full Content Management System (CMS) and is also fully retina ready — which ensures to utilise the most of today’s high resolution screens at 4K and 5K.

The homepage consists of HTML5 video content and has a fluid layout — this compliments the video and the content it represents.

We also utilised CSS only animations for a very lightweight site, which will have fast loading times across all different connections and devices

In conjunction with Metric London, who designed the website, we are happy to see this project come to fruition.

Please check out the website here — justlivingfoundation.com

There are great offers we can provide for UK registered charities through tt-exchange for the Adobe Creative Cloud Apps. We can give a 60 percent discount on 1 year individual memberships of Creative Cloud All Apps plan as well as a 20 percent discount on 1 year individual membership for Creative Cloud Photography plan.

Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of up to date design applications that can be used to create images, documents, videos, and more to showcase your charities cause.

You have the option to choose either £185.90 for the entire year or £15.50 per month for the first year. This membership comes with a one-year contract obligation regardless of the payment schedule you choose.

All following years are offered at the discounted rate of 40 percent, and can choose to pay £329.27 per annum or £27.44 per calendar month for every year after.

If you were to deal directly through Adobe, the Creative Cloud Apps would cost £45.73 per calendar month for an individual contract. Compared to that of just £15.50 pcm for the first year with tt-exchange and then £27.44 every year after.

This offer is a great opportunity for UK registered charities to update their current system with the latest in Creative Cloud Apps.

Please contact DirectionForward at [email protected] to learn more about this offer.

To see the full shortlist of this year’s Creative Circle awards you can now download their brand new App from the Apple App Store or get it on Google play.

The App offers all the inside information on the awards event in real time keeping people connected — all in one handy place.

To download the Creative Circle Awards 2016 App go to either itunes.apple.com or play.google.com.

The annual British Advertising Awards take place this Thursday 28 April 2016 at the Roundhouse.

Recently we launched the website for the brand new company Eden Smith who specialise in data and analytics recruitment.

It was a pleasure working with them to bring to fruition the website — edensmith.co.uk.

Their site is fully responsive and load-balanced by adapting to network speed connections. Custom animation and CMS are also main features with this site.

Please visit our website at directionforward.com or email us at — [email protected] to learn more about our website builds.

You have most likely heard something in the news recently regarding WhatsApp that WhatsApp has expanded their security to complete end-to-end encryption. This means that your messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents, and calls are secured from everyone other than who you intend to share them with.

This expanded security is available in the latest version of the app and comes into practice when you and the people you message use this latest version of the app. Both parties must have the updated version to guarantee complete security protection.

The end-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you are communicating with can read what is sent, and nobody between, not even WhatsApp! Every message that you send is secured with its own unique lock and key that only you and the recipient have access to read.

If you have the latest version of the WhatsApp app, that is all you need to activate this security change. The encryption is activated automatically once the app is updated.

If you have any questions or would like more information regarding online security get in touch with our team here at DirectionForward — [email protected].

Cr@te, the creative office workplace’s new website has launched this week. A web development project of ours we are pleased to see launch and come to fruition.

Located in Loughton near the Central line and the M11, Cr@te is an accessible office space for modern businesses looking for spaces outside of Central London.

Cr@te is home to 36 creative workspaces made from up-cycled shipping containers — not your usual sterile office space!

Pleas check out their new website and any information regarding their cool office spaces here at crateloughton.co.uk

Mobile backup is available when you have a cloud storage Livedrive account with us.

Our cloud storage service can set up your Livedrive account to automatically upload photos and videos from your iPhone, Android and tablet to your Livedrive briefcase folder. Briefcase is a Livedrive product which enables you to automatically backup photos and videos from your phone or tablet and access them securely from any device — including your computer.

If you do not currently have a cloud storage account, please contact us at [email protected] to sign up!