Domain management, website set-up, social media accounts, Google Ads, email setup, email marketing, etc. etc. – there is a lot you have to build and maintain in order to have an effective online presence. As an SME (whether business or charity) you can rely on Refined Practice to design, develop, host and maintain as little […]
Here at Refined Practice we’ve been busy working away on a little project involving the D3.js javascript library. D3.js provides a large set of tools to help visualise data online in the form of interactive visualisation, charts and diagrams. We love D3.js, it’s great – in fact founding partner Roland Dunn loves it so much […]
About the project Student Investor Challenge was the UK’s premier investment game for students attracting over 30,000 entrants a year. Refined Practice’s partners ran the online phase of the challenge from 2003 until it was closed in 2020. The website demonstrated deep integration with third party information providers and involves the management of vast amounts of […]
About the project Refined Practice’s consultants have been working with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in the UK for a number of years to help promote and run the Roots & Shoots educational programme for young people. We worked with JGI to develop an online strategy for the programme based around a website where subscribed […]
A discussion of some of the techniques we used and the technical bits’n’pieces behind the visualisation of over 6,000 meetings between 100 UK government ministers and over 3,500 organisations.
Do you feel that your website is not performing as well as it should, but can’t put your finger on why? Refined Practice can help! We’ve devised the Digital Checkup package as simple, low-cost introduction to the services we provide. Think of it as a handy review of your brand’s online presence as it stands. […]
About the project Over a period of two years Refined Practice’s Roland Dunn assisted Astley Clarke in restructuring and re-launching their website. During this time we improved visibility to search engines such as google, launched a US-focused section of the site and ran workshops for internal staff. What the client has to say… “Roland was […]
No matter how beautiful your web site design is, it will eventually be judged on its content. The content writing guide sets out how to write engaging, relevant content for your website. The relevance analysis provides a detailed examination of what potential customers are looking for on your web site, and as such directly informs […]
Having laid the ground with our strategy work, relevance analysis, IA and UX design and graphics, it is time to begin the technical work of creating HTML pages for your new web site. At this stage in the web site design process we create a set of HTML/CSS code templates, which are tested on an array […]
Even companies with an in-house web team need a little help from time to time. Refined Practice specialise in solving those knotty online issues that you don’t have the time or experience to be able to easily fix yourself. We can provide strategic guidance on pretty much any online issue you can think of, helping […]
