Giant Peach Blog

While clearing out their attic, my mum and dad asked me to come over and grab any bits I wanted to keep. What a trip down memory lane! read more…

Building a website is more than just getting a few pictures to show up and making sure your links work. The underlying framework that gives your visitors a consistent and fulfilling experience is more important now than ever. Today, visitors to your site are coming to it using many different browsers and hardware devices. To capture their interest – and earn their business – you have to be prepared.

At Giant Peach we only build sites using web standards compliant code (this means XHTML and style sheets CSS). There are several reasons for this, including: readability, accessibility, and speed. But why should you care if your website is built to web standards? read more…

We’ve collected some great examples of creative outdoor advertising which show how advertisers are using different approaches to reach their audience. There has been a radical change in the outdoor advertising scenario both in terms of technology and innovation as well as the diversification of media spaces. We particularly appreciate the ‘creative’ use of 24,000 peaches! (a special thanks to advertt.com) read more…

To be honest, when I first heard of Twitter, my thoughts were that it was for people far too much time on their hands who narcissistically wanted to broadcast every random thought that crossed their minds. read more…

Being in a profession where making things look beautiful is everything, it’s nice once in a while to get recognition. And we have recently been showcased across the web for our work.

Our (fairly) new Giant Peach Portfolio is something we’re very proud of, not only because of the work but some of the features of it that sometimes go un-noticed. And more recently we launched JiffyMail an email marketing product, which is also built using web standards and a great use of technology.

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