We are pleased to announce that TDR Construction’s new website is live! TDR are a Road and surface repairs company based in Witham, Essex that we have been working with lately.

They required a new website and although we couldn’t persuade them to take on our new logo (running joke). Due to elevating costs of changing the logo e.g. vans, equipment and clothing had already been branded with the existing logo. Despite this, both us and the client are really happy with the new website.

We’re looking for a seasoned freelance web designer, preferably locally based, but if your good enough we’ll certainly consider changing our mind on locality. Strong typography skills are a must, along with a dab hand for beautiful designs. If your interested at all or would like to find out a little more information then contact us bytewire [at] bytewire.co.uk or feel free to give our office a call on 01621 856 628.

Last week our latest bespoke website project Marble Solar went live. In collobaration with our friends over at Fubra we built a tool for the Marble Construction Group to measure and advise UK residence of the potential of an un-used roof space for solar energy. Solar Panels have long since been available and the government offers financial incentives for those who choose to go green, and partake in creating renewable energy. Up until recently solar panels have remained expensive and thus despite the governments incentive tariffs not managed to gain much traction as an attractive residential prospect. However with the growth of the industry picking up and technological advances, manufacturing costs of the panels have dropped and are lowering consumer [...]

As we as web developers evolve new tools emerge, some good, some very good and some you wonder how you ever managed without (of course we’re kind of overlooking a vast majority of bad one’s here). Its the tools of which have changed the way we work, that we be focusing on, in our Top Mac website design tools and applications post below. Coda : Text Editor, from Panic.inc A large part of any web developers armour is their text editor which they spend hours looking at everyday. None of them are “pretty” but its the capabilities which are important, this is why we have chosen Coda. Coda is so much more than a text editor as with it comes [...]

I thought about not jumping on the bandwagon and writing another RIP Steve Jobs blog post, but, then I thought, isn’t it great that we all feel this compelled to write, this many amazing things, about this man? Few of us knew him in person, and even fewer of us knew what he was like away from his working life. Yet, his work, passion, and innovation has touched so many people in so many ways that you feel a sense of duty to give him an almighty send off. So we thought you know what, he definitely deserves a blog post from us too. The funny thing about our story is, not so long ago, we weren’t Mac users, we’d [...]

As the “need” for a website continues to grow, the question of “how much does a website cost?”

Bytewire’s 10 reasons we think you should come to us for your next website design or development project. At Bytewire we take pride in our honest and transparent approach, and we put hardwork and expertise into every website we build. Below we’re going to try and condense down into 10 pinpoint reasons, stating why, you should come to us for your next web development or design project. Our expertise in web development our second to none and range from brilliant design right through to complex development projects such as web games and e-commerce systems. We can cater for very little customisation and server side programming or utterly loads of it (whatever you need to throw at us). We’re friendly and [...]

For every person you refer to us that ends up becoming a client of ours, no matter how big or small. We are offering a straight up £75 cash reward.

We’ve recently been racking our brains over possible ways to keep a PHP Framework we’ve been developing, agile within individual projects. The Framework is still quite young development wise, but it is mature enough to develop sites on. So ideally what we wanted to do was create a Git repository for our Framework under a organization account on the lovely Github. Once done, the tricky part was trying to separate the framework code from the individual sites code. This was quite interesting because what it would enable us to do is continuously develop and push changes to our framework from each and every individual site we make separate from the core Controllers, Models and Views of the individual sites / [...]