About Giant Peach

At Giant Peach we like to help, we like to impress, we like to talk and we love to listen.

We always view our clients as part of our team. We are a company that takes great pride in building long lasting relationships with our clients. We blend strong communication skills with creativity, stunning design and technical know-how.

Together we form a team devoted to creating the best website possible. With Giant Peach you can expect that we will enjoy working together for the benefit of your business and in a partnership that functions through delivering success on your terms.

We love what we do and we love who we work with. We are a very friendly, down to earth team who are easy and fun to work with.

So, welcome to Giant Peach. Have a look at our work, meet the team, download some helpful information or read the blog to find out more about what's happening at Peach HQ.

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James Read

What I do:

As the founder of Giant Peach, I provide leadership and design oversight to the Giant Peach team. I oversee all projects while ensuring the highest levels of design, usability, attention to detail (I am a perfectionist) and website optimisation. I maintain communication with all clients to ensure their needs are met on time and within budget.

Great design, fantastic ideas and technical genius are what drives me, and the team we have built here at Giant Peach reflects this.

If I'm not doing this I am:

Hacking around a golf course, playing a bit of football, doing this, flying around in the 'Peachmobile' or scribbling on one of our various white boards.

Favourite website:

I love the new JiffyMail website view the site here.

Check this out:

The new way to enjoy music www.spotify.com

Steve Baker

What I do:

In a nutshell I design & build websites. In industry lingo – XHTML/CSS/Photoshop. Whether it's a brand new site which needs creating and rebranding from scratch or updating an existing site and making it look good. We move with the times and utilise new techniques of website design to give the best user experience possible. Bad websites annoy me, so when I'm responsible for a site, I make sure it's built well and works well. Did I mention I make things look good?

If I'm not doing this I am:

Doing lots of charity work, exercise, poetry and working with the UN to solve the world's problems ;0). Drinking, clubbing, socialising and pretending i'm still able to do all that and not feel shattered. Watching/quoting all sorts of comedy genius - The Office, Will Ferrell films etc.

Favourite websites:

www.bbc.co.uk - I've got to hand it to these guys, the BBC is an absolutely huge site and they still manage to do an excellent job. I'd go so far as to say it's one of the best complete websites in the world. It looks good, it's user-friendly and it's accessible.

CSS Line - Design Inspiration

Google - I've got a feeling this little company are gonna do big things.

Check this out:

Random dancing/social experiment/advert in London. Youtube

Joey Hoskins

What I do:

All though I consider myself as an interactive designer, I’m a designer that likes to give every piece of work a strong identity on whatever platform I am working on, from presentation and graphics to usability. Photoshop is where my skills lie, but I also know my way around web standards being XHTML and CSS compliant.

If I'm not doing this I am:

You can find me outside chasing the last drop of sunshine. Or with a pen and any piece of paper at arm's reach doodling away.

Favourite website:

I don't know what my favourite site is, as they're always changing so much! But one I’m always on is wemakeitgood.com. It has everything from music and latest events to obscure goings on.

Check this out:

I'm a big twitter fan, and there's a lot of apps out there but 'tweet Deck' is the best I've come across yet. http://tweetdeck.com/beta/ So give it a go and tweet me! http://twitter.com/Joey_GP

Dan Chadwick

What I do:

Convert our designers designs and ideas into fully fledged dynamic websites.
Write code: (PHP Using the Kohana Framework mainly).
Play with javascript (jQuery) and css to make interesting UIs.
"Look after" our Ubuntu server.

If I'm not doing this I am:

Playing sport, playing music (drums and guitar), watching TV (sport)

Favourite websites:

www.bbc.co.uk - Well written journalism on a well designed, developed and maintained site.

www.wired.com - Appeals to most of my interests excluding sport - Tech news/ Gadgets/Science/Cars/Space/Sci Fi/.

Check this out:

www.reactionengines.co.uk/ - I want to see this thing become a reality..

David Harland

What I do:

I help clients focus what they want to achieve from a site, and work towards getting their sites seen and ranking well in the search engines. I get to work with a lot of established and new exciting businesses looking at how they are seen online and targeting their business to the appropriate audience. Working closely with the designers and developers at the Peach we make sure that our sites work in the way that people need them to.Having such a creative team to work with makes my job a lot easier as I am able to implement changes on and off site using the combined talent of the Peach.

If I'm not doing this I am:

Blacksmithing (Arty rather than Horsie), Ecological building courses and projects, Keeping up to date with the latest Search engine happenings and most importantly being a good dad to my 3 children.

Favourite websites:

Google – No brainer really, every time I use the internet I use Google and I expect you do to.

Facebook – Trying to break the habit at home at least, still a bit of a time sponge but I keep on getting drawn back.

You Tube – Whether you want to find out how to use something or see the latest film reviews or music video it’s hard to beat.

Check this out:

For all you social book markers out there stumbleupon is a great site for throwing up sites of interest click a button and see where it takes you http://www.stumbleupon.com/