Latest News

CWCS new website goes live!
Distinction have just finished the re-design of Nottingham's premier managed hosting supplier CWCS . The design has been well received by all involved and the feedback from the clients has been v...

Firefox 3 - Over 11 million downloads in 48 hours!
If you ever thought that your bandwidth bill was high, spare a thought for the owners of Firefox... As I write this, over 11 million people worldwide have download the latest release of Firefox ...

Can your business afford to use black hat seo?
We all want quick results... it's human nature. But when search engine optimisation is concerned we always have to warn our clients to be patient. Good, long lasting results take time to achieve...

Top 10 Search Engine Optimisation Tips
Search Engine Optimisation is not rocket science... it's harder than that! But if you follow the rules below you will give yourself every opportunity of achieving the rankings that you are after. ...

New Advert for Sky Sports HD - 'Golf and Cricket'
A cracking advert for Sky Sports ...

Online marketing for HR Industries
HR Industries has just chosen Distinction as their online marketing partner! HR Industries is a leading developer of Time and Attendance , access control and human resource systems. They manu...

Spence Associates choose Distinction for SEO
Spence Associates has just become Distinction's latest SEO client. Spence Associates are providers of management training, leadership skills, and sales expertise to some of the world's biggest...

Brains dancing on Drench water advert
When I first saw this advert it made me laugh out loud. It must have been a great creative meeting when they dreamt up this idea for the advert. Pure brilliance! ...

Lollipop Property gets fresh website
Lollipop Property is the new name of long standing Distinction client Nottingham Property Direct. If you're looking for an agent that puts your needs first, keeps you informed and has a pro-ac...

New brochure for Inside Out Recruitment
Inside Out Recruitment now have a nice revised brochure to send out to prospective clients. The new design is fresh and compact and less 'wordy' then their previous brochure. ...

Apple Mac with a difference
An interesting background for your Mac. Check out the gallery here ...

Golf tuition from Learn Golf UK is LIVE!
Improve your golf game right now! Learn Golf UK is a revolutionary way to learn golf with its Fault Finder you will be only a few clicks away from a personalised answer to your golfing problems. ...

New website for Clegg Group
The Clegg Group is a privately owned construction, property and engineering group established since 1930 and based in Nottingham. Distinction are extremely proud to have been chosen by Cl...

Re-design for national cabling installer
FMS Data Cabling is a leading installer of commercial data cabling. They have commissioned Distinction to re-design their dated site and bring it up to modern standards - as well as optimising it ...

Adverts for Wedding Tiara Specialist
Laura Elizabeth is a Nottingham Tiara specialist who came to Distinction to help promote her business through print advertising. The following adverts delivered a 400% return on investment for...

Over £700 raised for Sport Relief
Better late then never... I thought I'd post a few pictures of James' run for Sport Relief. James managed to raise over £700 for Sport Relief so a big "thank you" to everyone who donated. Inc...

Junior Account Manager
Account Manager ~ Job Description No agencies - we are listed under the Telephone Preference Service. You will: Manage and develop existing accounts Understand clients' requiremen...

Web Developer
ASP.NET / ASP / PHP Web Developer ~ Job Description No agencies - we are listed under the Telephone Preference Service. We are looking for someone with a real passion for the job, and a desir...

Creative Web Designer
Creative Web Designer ~ Job Description No agencies - we are listed under the Telephone Preference Service. You will be responsible for the layout, visual appearance and usability of a website...

Distinction Car Stickers
Get yourself a Distinction car sticker. Simply contact us and we'll send one straight out. ...

Exhibition Stand Experts gets New Website
2BP came to distinction looking to keep there existing look and feel to their flash website but to get better indexing on Google. Their new website looks extremely close to their old website but...

Running for Sport Relief
On Sunday, 16 March at 12.30 I'll be running the Sport Relief Mile here in Nottingham, UK. I'd really like to raise as much money as possible to help people living unimaginably tough lives in the ...

New Ecommerce website for Lau's Beads
The New website for Lau's Beads went live last week!! http://www.lausbeads.com Built using Photoshop, CSS, ASP.NET and fully integrated into Pay Pal with a custom checkout facility offering disc...

Why do people shop online?
Why do people shop online? Last month, the Pew Foundation released the findings from a new survey (conducted late 2007), where they asked American Internet users why they shop online. Yo...

Nottingham Eye in Old Market Square
If you have been to Nottingham city centre recently you will have no doubt seen the giant big wheel positions smack bang in the middle of the Old Market Square. The Nottingham Eye stands at 60 m...

Attack of the Crane!!
It turns out everyone wants to see what's going on in the Distinction office. But hiring a crane to peak through the windows is a bit to extreme! Keep checking our blog or sign up to our mont...

Midlands based Plastic Surgeon picks Distinction
Distinction successfully won the pitch for the complete branding and web presence of this extremely well know plastic surgeon. The project consits of full branding for Mr Mark Henley (MB ChB FRCS ...

How does Google work?
Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you use Google? Thought so... Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz explains in this light-hearted video blog. Visit SEOMoz here: http://www.seomoz.o...

Learn Golf UK takes shape
Learn Golf UK is a revolutionary way to learn and progress your golf game. If your golf is going through turmoil then you need to watch this space and get your game back on track. Distinction h...

Distinction win pitch for national charity website
We're a little slow in adding this to our news, but back in December, Distinction successfully won the pitch against some tough local and national competition to design and develop the new National B...

Website revamp for leading job board
Those of you familiar with the print, packaging or design industries will already be aware of oZZle.co.uk - they are the UK's leading job board specific to the industry. With over 1,500 jobs liv...

Happy New Year...
..from all the team at Distinction. We hope all our clients and friends have another successful year. If you have made any new years resolutions for your business it is probably something a...

Christmas Office Times
Our office will be closed between Monday 24th December 2007 and Wednesday 2nd January 2008. During this period, telephones will be re-directed to voice mail which will be monitored throughout th...

Estate Agent Website Re-Design
We're delighted to launch the new website for Nottingham Property Direct - a long-time Distinction client. The site has undergone a complete re-design, incorporating the Dezrez Estate Agency sof...

Central Helicopters takes off with new website
Central Helicopters have just received a full re-design of their dated site after the successful re-brand a few weeks ago. You can visit the website at http://www.centralhelicopters.com . Be...

New identity for CWCS!
Distinction have just given CWCS a modernisation, giving there dated logo a make-over. Below is the before and after of the logo. We are pleased with the final result and it still retains the br...

Get £50 towards Google Adwords
For the next five new Search Enigne Optimisation clients Distinction receives we shall help you suceed with Google Adwords by providing a £50 voucher towards the cost of your advertising. ...

Number 1 host turns to Distinction
CompuWeb Communications Services Limited, trading as CWCS Managed Hosting. They describe themselves as ‘the internet host with the most to offer you’, and they work round the clock, 24/...

ASP.NET Web Developer Vacancies
Please note - these vacancies are now filled. Due to recent project wins, we are seeking a couple of ASP.NET developers to join our team. Distinction is a growing web agency based in the ...

50% off your website development!!
East Midlands Development Agency (emda) is providing a grant programme to help businesses introduce change that will transform their business performance. The Business Transformation Grant (BTG)...

Reliance Press for new website
Distinction welcomes Reliance Press. Reliance Press have come to Distinction for a complete re-design of their website. The current website is old and dated and has not been maintained as the ...

New Website for Todd Doors Ltd
Todd Doors needed a simple website that went straight to showing their brochure. Distinction designed the site, written using XHTML and CSS 2.0. This site is fully accessible and yet also includes ...

New Search Engine Optimisation Client
SportSeats4U become Distinction's latest SEO client. SportSeats4U is struggling to get a good solid listing in Google. Distinction intend to change that for the client with strategic website ch...

Film crew attacks Distinction office!
Well not quite - they are currently filming at bluu bar accross the road. Rumor has it they are filming GOAL! 3 . I might pop down after lunch and show them my silky acting skills! ...

EMCC wins award for 'flexibility' campaign
The EMCC won a MIMA gold award for the category of Best Integrated Marketing Campaign and a MIMA gold award for Best Use of Budget at the national Meetings Industry Marketing Awards (MIMA) for the 'F...

Why update your website?
Failing to keep your website up-to-date can have dramatic results on the way it will work for you as a business. Is your web site under-performing? Are you losing ground on your competitor...

Update your website editorial for SOTR
We'd love to know if you've seen our half page editorial in this months issue of South Of The River . If you have what do you think? Did you read it? Did it make you think about updating...

Travel website gets re-design
Traval Africa suffered from extremely slow page loads and was built mainly using flash. Distinction re-designed their website to give it the edge it required. The website has a complete Conten...

Branding for Helicopter business
The Central Helicopters branding has been finalised. Central Helicopters are a helicopter training school based in the midlands and offer helicopter flying training from two locations. If you...

Google Adwords Qualified
You'll all be pleased to know that Greg Bloor passed the Google Adwords Professional exam late on Friday afternoon making himself Distinction's newest Google Adwords Professioanl. Congra...

2BP website re-design
Distinction win pitch to re-design 2BP website. 2BP are a design consultancy specialising in the design and delivery of exhibitions. They provide a consistent, reliable and efficient service throu...

Distinction's professional photography service
Do you need product, architectural or portrait photographs for your web site , brochure , or other marketing materials ? Distinction is able to provide quality product photography for your cat...

A beginners guide to SEO
How do I get my website to the top of Google ? Your website appears in a top spot on Google for your chosen keyphrase. Next thing you know, orders start coming in faster than you could have hoped...

Distinction portfolio updated
Just a quick message to let you know that the Distinction portfolio has been updated with more of our current and finished projects. You can view the new work in the our work section. ...

SEO editorial for SOTR
We'd love to know if you've seen our editorial in this months issue of South Of The River . If you have what do you think? Did you read it? Did it make you think about search engine opti...

Survey results are out!
We're delighted to announce that the 2007 Distinction Customer Survey produced some fantastic results. We're very pleased that our clients are so happy with the work we create, and the mannor in whic...

RSS Blog feed has moved!
For those that subscribe to our RSS feed, please amend your bookmarks to our new url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/distinction ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/distinction ). Thank you! ...

How do I get incoming links - a beginners guide...
Incoming links (inbound links) are hard word to get. Getting quality incoming links is even harder. That’s why they are so important in getting you better search engine results positions (SERPS). ...

Branding for James Horler
Distinction do branding for top player in the UK hospitality industry - James Horler James Horler is the former chief executive of La Tasca Group , which currently operates 58 authentic Spanish...

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Email Stationery
Yesterday, one of our clients asked us for help installing their custom HTML email stationery, which we had designed for them. "No problem" we thought, until we realised that Microsoft Office O...

Nottingham search engine coming soon
Local search engine coming to Nottingham... Distinction will shortly be launching a brand new search engine just for Nottingham called "Search Nottingham" You'll be able to find it hear - www....

Could you use this toilet?
This is a picture of a public toilet in Houston. The picture below is of the outside Now take a look at the inside view below... It's made entirely of one-way glass! No one can s...

Nottingham Magazine gets web presence
Nottingham Magazine gets web presence. South of the River Magazine - Nottinghams fastest growing FREE magazine chose Distinction to help give it a well deserved fresh web presence. SOTR is d...

Distinction changes domain name
Distinction has today changed it's domain name to www.distinctionhq.com . Please amend your bookmarks accordingly. ...

MIDAS EU website launched...
We're delighted to announce the launch of the new MIDAS website. MIDAS stands for 'Measures to Influence Transport Demand to Achieve Sustainability' and we think it is a truly vital project to be par...

Have you seen our August advert?
We'd love to know if you've seen our advert in this months issue of South Of The River . If you have what do you think? Did it make you look twice and stop on the page. Please contact us w...

Event managment website gets a re-design
Cirlce Events have been a Distinction client for several years now, and it was time for their website to get an update. We've given their branding a full make-over, and created some funky corpor...

We've been sooooo busy....
... that we've not had the time to keep our own website up-to-date! All that should change shortly as we expand the team and take a well-earned week off. We'll give more details later but t...

Annual Holidays...
... are great - and we're all about to take one at the same time! From Monday 13 August to Friday 17 August inclusive, the Distinction office will be closed for some minor renovations to both ou...

Marketing agency website re-design
Kamili Safaris came to Distinction looking to spread awareness of the southern African lodges that they promote throughout the UK. We started off with a couple of very successful email campaigns...

Distinction win pitch for 'green' website...
After the success of the TTR website , we are delighted that they put us forward for the MIDAS EU project. As we've recently found out, MIDAS is part of the Intelligent Energy for Europe's (IEE's...

Thermal Energy marketing materials
TEC contacted Distinction to help them with promoting there services at an exhibition. We had a 3 week deadline to get exhibition stand graphics and a leaflet explaining their services ready for this...

Why bother with Web Analytics?
I couldn't have written this article better myself... so I'm just going to help you find it by giving a link: Why bother with Web Analytics? Distinction are partnered with DeepMetrix to p...

Roscom Limited Wesite Re-design
Distinction are delighted to have won the re-design of the Roscom website. Roscom is an established, independent, family–run business based in UK (With offices in Europe and South Africa and Aus...

International Confex 2007
Last Thursday, I went down to see the 12 foot slinky that Distinction's creative team, with the expert craftmanship of our friends over at Wheat , have been planning and building for the last couple...

Lack of news...
Sorry for the lack of news recently - we've been so busy working that we haven't had chance to keep our own website up-to-date. Anyway, over the next few weeks you'll see some new case studies...

TERIA branding
The TERIA branding has been finalised. Roscom TERIA offers a flexible, fully scaleable and network-specific TETRA test solution for short or long term projects, large or small. TERIA provid...

Osprey Branding
The Osprey branding has been finalised for the Osprey test call solution offered by Roscom Limited. The Osprey branding had to meet with the current thoughts given by the client but take it to t...

What hands can do commercial
Its amazing what hands can do. A great advert for the VW Phaeton. ...

Distinction now on Technorati
Just a very quick block to let everyone know that you can now find the Distinction Blog - proper:gander - on Technorati See the link below: Technorati Profile ...

GolfingLady.net contract won!
Distinction is delighted to welcome on board our latest client - GolfingLady.net , based in Nottingham. GolfingLady.net is a new business specialising in selling ladies golf apparel over the In...

Google's Most Common Penalty?
Why does your site have poor rankings? Easy... it's rubbish! Check out this article: http://www.threadwatch.org/node/11502 ...

Google.de forgets to renew domain name
Even Google can mess things up every now and again. Yesterday they lost control of the google.de domain name after forgetting to renew it! Read the article below: http://searchengineland.co...

New TTR website goes live!
We're pleased to announce the launch of the new Transport & Travel Research Limited website! See the new site here: www.ttr-ltd.com . The team have been very busy since the start of 20...

Internet sales reach new high...
Internet sales have reached a new high, but is your website making the most of it? According to the BBC, consumers spent £7.7bn online in the run-up to Christmas . That is an increase of 5...

ID theft from an unlikely source
In the digital age, ID theft has become rampant, simply because it doesn't take that much work to obtain somebody's details. A web form for a large site that has popped up from no where, an email req...

Beware who gives out your number!
The poor Chinese man had his number given out on a TV show completely by accident, and received over 3000 texts from viewers. Luckily he managed to get some compensation for the hassle (measly $250)....

Government to close 551 websites
According to the BBC , the Government are to close 551 websites "to make access to information easier" for people. Of the current 951 sites, only 26 will definitely stay, 551 will close and hun...

One in three UK companies flout spam laws
According to e-Consultancy, one in three UK companies flout spam laws. A study by CDMS claims 31% of the UK's top companies are failing to comply with current EU directives on Privacy and Electr...

UK online pre-Christmas sales up 50%
According to e-consultancy and IMRG, pre-Christmas online sales in the UK rose 50% compared to the same period in 2005. Full statistics are not available until 15 Jan, but early indications show...

University of Nottingham wins prestigious award
The University of Nottingham is Britain's 'University of the Year' 2006/07. In an eagerly anticipated awards ceremony in London's Park Lane, judges of the prestigious 'Times Higher Awards 2006'...

Changes to UK web and email regulation
As from 1 January 2007, companies in the UK must include additional regulatory information on their websites and email footers, or they will breach the Companies Act and risk a fine. Virtually e...

Full contact details page added
To bring the Distinction website in-line with imminent changes in UK Regulation, we have added a new page to our site with full contact and company information. You can find this page here - Co...

Flexibility Billboard
The 'flexibility' billboards are now on full display. Distinction were involved in the initial concept with the flexible conferencing at the EMCC and UNCC and this billboard advert was a smal...

Nottingham University Brochure Design
The University of Nottingham's Special Occasions Brochure has had a facelift. Distinction main role in this project was to modernise this dated brochure. The University wanted the brochure to re...

ChildLine racenight a huge success!!
The ChildLine racenight, organised by the East Midlands Conference Centre, was held last night, and Distinction went along to show our support. The night proved to be a huge success with lots of m...

Nottingham University Internal Magazine
The University of Nottingham's Internal Magazine has taken on a new look! The Universities internal magazine used to be printed in house and lacked the punch the staff required. Now it takes the...

NPD redesign contract won!
We're at it again! Expanding estate agent, Nottingham Property Direct , have just chosen Distinction (again!) to carry out a complete re-design of their website. We designed the original websi...

EMCC Promotional Items
The EMCC required promotional items to give out at exhibitions and Distinction delivered Tyhe package Distinction created included mugs, coasters and USB flash drives. The promotional items...

Cartwheel contract won!
Wow! Our Account Managers have been busy the last few weeks, lining up plenty of work to see us into the New Year... This week we welcome Cartwheel Recruitment - a start-up company who will specia...

Roscom contract won!
Distinction are delighted to welcome on board our latest new client - Roscom Limited, based in Derby. Roscom is an established, independent, family–run business based in UK (With offices in Europe...

MC2 contract won!
We've known Hugh McCormach from MC2 Market Research for a little over two years, and now we've finally got the chance to work for him! MC2 Market Research provide a full range of both quantitive...

TTR contact won!
After a successful pitch to the Principle Consultant at Transport and Travel Research Ltd, Distinction have been awarded the contract for the complete re-design of the TTR website. Formed in 1991,...

20th Anniversary Project
The Brief The East Midlands Conference Centre and Childline hired us to deliver the complete campaign for their fundrasing event set to take place in December 06. Racenight 2006, a fundraising nig...

Free website audit
That's right - something for nothing at last! An Audit is an independent analysis of your website to determine the quality of your website. By 'quality', we are referring to these factors: U...

ChildLine Race Night
ChildLine Race Night Website Now Live! The website we've designed for the EMCC / ChildLine is now live at http://www.childlineracenight.co.uk . Please register and come along to the event whic...

American Idiot ...
...

Internet Explorer 7 has landed!
After much buzz and discussion amongst the web fraternity, IE7 has finally arrived. Microsoft have taken all our comments about poor security and difficulty of use (compared to other browsers) and...

Photo shoot for ChildLine
ChildLine Shoot a Success! After winning the contract to promote ChildLine’s 20th Birthday, Distinction’s creative team got straight into planning all aspects of marketing this prestigious event....

New site for local artist
The website for Kris Hardy went live today - check it out at http://www.krishardy.com/ Built using Photoshop, CSS, ASP.NET and fully integrated into Pay Pal. The website ties in with the overall...

Amazon.com being sued for 'selling online'?
Meanwhile in the good'ol US of A... IBM has just filed two patent infringement lawsuits against ecommerce giant Amazon.com . The lawsuits reportedly accuse Amazon of "willfully" violating IBM...

ChildLine 20th Birthday
Distinction has today won the contract to promote the upcoming event celebrating the 20th Anniversary of ChildLine. Distinction will drive the concept from start to finish, developing all creative...

Distinction website goes live!
The new website for Nottingham-based design agency Distinction has now gone live. The website reflects the new Distinction corporate image, after re-branding from Creo:Media at the start of the ...

oZZle.co.uk job board website
oZZle is the leading job board for jobs in print , jobs in design , and jobs in packaging . The Brief oZZle came to Distinction in November 2004, with the idea of setting up a ‘job board’ fo...

UNCC 'Flexibility' Leaflet
The Brief Set in 330 acres of landscaped parkland, the University of Nottingham is one of the most beautiful campuses in Europe, close to Nottingham city centre and all major road, rail and air li...

Bespoke e-Commerce website for top wine importer
The Brief The Aussie Wine Company came to Distinction requiring the design and production of an online presence to serve as a central point of information for their business, in terms of the compa...

e-Commerce solution for leading retailer
The Brief In early 2005, One For Health decided to upgrade their aging e-commerce sites to offer a more competitive edge. Originally, they had to administer a number of HTML based sites, each w...

New website for leading bollard manufacturer
The Brief Distinction approached ATG Access following a referral from a mutual client back in 2005. Their existing website was out-of-date, poorly designed, and didn't reflect the size and profess...

Company Launch (branding, website, advertising)
The Brief City Living Services - a brand new start-up company aimed at supporting and enriching the lives of busy city-based professionals, commissioned Distinction to take responsibility of launc...

Christmas leaflets for top venue
The Brief Set in 330 acres of landscaped parkland, the University of Nottingham is one of the most beautiful campuses in Europe, close to Nottingham city centre and all major road, rail and air li...

Linsco & Linsco Works websites
...

Website for top-UK artist
The Brief Respected artist, Kris Hardy came to Distinction requiring an online portfolio to showcase his artwork. He needed the the ability to reach an international market through an integrate...</