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  • Graphic illustration indicating a young person moving up in a career trajectory

    We’re looking for students to join our team this year

    Applications are open for for the 2021–2022 placement year

  • His master’s voice search

    Voice search is here to stay. What does that mean for SEO and content strategy?

  • Flags blowing in the wind

    Multi-language websites

    Targeting an international audience can be tricky. We’re here to help.

  • Graphic illustration of ping pong bats

    9 things to look for in a digital agency

    Experience, talent, teamwork, communication and culture all play a part. And don’t forget the fees.

  • Monopoly car counter on the Pass Go square of the Monopoly board

    Pass Go: our modular codebase for financial transactions on the web

    We needed a reusable transaction system that could handle extreme flexibility. So we built one.

  • A user interface isn’t just one part of your website — it’s the most important part

    When a user interface works, you barely notice it’s there. That doesn’t mean getting it right is easy.

  • Graphical illustration of a web page unfurling like paper with a pencil hovering above it

    A copywriter might not be what you need right now

    Juliette Mitchell on why your new website is a great opportunity to rediscover your driving force

  • Craft CMS control panel showing a website entry

    Why we love Craft CMS — and why you will, too

    A CMS is a lot more than just "how you update the website." Craft CMS lets you tell your story, the best way you can.

  • Why should you pick a small digital agency to build your big website?

    More staff and larger studios don’t necessarily do better work. And there’s data to prove it.

  • Graphic Illustration showing graphs, diagrams, an iPhone and a social network post

    Why we’re using Google Tag Manager

    Google Analytics is great, but Tag Manager can help supercharge your insight

  • Modern office building with grey sky in background

    Architects’ websites: who has the best in the AJ100?

    We ran 100 websites through Google Lighthouse — here are the results

  • A teacher helps a secondary school pupil in the classroom

    How we produced an award-winning charity website

    We’re chuffed to bits, but it was a lot of hard work.

  • Five people taking part in a website discovery session. Multiple post-it notes are stuck to the wall ready for assessment.

    Why Discovery could be the most crucial stage of your project

    If research has taught us one thing, it’s that it pays to do it

  • Using basic statistics to make your website better

    You probably nodded off at school when the teacher started talking about statistics. Now that you're in charge of your company's digital presence, you might wish you hadn't.

  • Photograph of the main hall at the Natural History Museum

    How cultural attractions are preparing their websites for reopening

    Preparing to welcome back visitors is about more than plexiglass screens and one-way systems. Your online presence also needs an overhaul.

  • The best online donation and fundraising platforms for charities in 2020

    A comparison of features, benefits, fees and more

  • How to predict your e-commerce traffic for the next year with just 7 numbers

    Using statistics lets us learn from the past, feel better about the present, and plan for the future.

  • Why you don’t need a large development team to produce a high volume of quality work

    It’s all about making the right decisions

  • Citizen Science on the web is about more than just collecting data

    What we learned doing the Big Compost Experiment

  • How to get more donations through your website

    Many organisations are turning to online donations to help them through the coronavirus pandemics. Here are some ways to make your donation page more effective.

  • Keep on keeping on

    A big thank you to everyone doing their bit

  • Why remote working is just the beginning

    Probably the last thing anybody wants right now is yet another article about how to work from home. But here's a new one: how to attend a property viewing from home.

  • A team of web designers discuss wireframe designs by pinning them to the wall

    How much should a website cost?

    When people call to ask us about a new website, one of the first things they want to know is: how much will it cost? That's rarely the right question to start with.

  • How we produced the British Council for Offices Guide to Specification

    We helped deliver the new digital BCO Guide to Specification in 2019 — here’s some of the challenges we faced and what we learned along the way.

  • What theatres can learn from the 2019 Digital Culture Report

    New research shows theatres are excelling at using digital technology in some areas — but have a long way still to go in others

  • The Best Things About the 2019 Spektrix Conference

    The huge, day-long gathering of arts professionals was as wild and inspiring as ever

  • Big Compost Experiment on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science

    Dr Adam Rutherford speaks to Professor Mark Miodownik and architect Danielle Purkiss about their citizen science project

  • Why arts organisations should invest in a bespoke website

    Out-of-the-box ticketing solutions might seem like an economical choice, but long-term, they may not save you as much as you think.

  • What can you gain from selling your own tickets?

    The benefits of getting to know your audience

  • Digital consultancy workshop showing a digital team prioritising various aspects of a website redesign

    The ultimate guide to attracting and retaining members through digital transformation

    Learn how to assess key platforms, plan for integration, set goals, develop your content strategy and track your ROI.

  • How Inbound Marketing helps our clients explain why they exist

    All businesses know what they do, some even know how, but very few know why

  • How we improved the Spektrix experience for Safari users

    When Apple introduced more privacy tools in the latest version of their Safari browser, it created headaches for websites that sell tickets using Spektrix. Here's how we worked around the problem and increased sales as a result.

  • Donate your old computers to the Turing Trust

    The Turing Trust is a registered charity that reuses computers to help bring digital education opportunities to African schools.

  • Integrating your website with Spektrix

    There are lots of options for selling tickets online via Spektrix. Here are the most common, plus the pros and cons of each.

  • Ten4’s voting and competition platform

    We have developed a reusable, flexible and secure online voting/polling platform. And we'd like to tell you about it.

  • A digital consultant assesses ideas for a website redesign

    Content strategy for web design

    Content is the thread that runs through your project from the very beginning and keeps running after launch. It’s vital, therefore, to consider content from the outset.

  • Student placements - what you could get out of a year at Ten4

    Here’s what our previous placement students have said about their year at Ten4, and a little on what they’re up to now…

  • Craft CMS screenshot taken at an angle showing the rich text editor

    Why Craft CMS is the best content management system we (and you) have ever used

    A content management system (CMS) allows you and your team to organise and edit website content through a simple …

  • Designing for ultra niche audiences — a look at our behind-the-scenes projects

    Most of the time it’s easy to publicise our work — we just send out a link and say “we did this”.

  • What we learned at Dot All — the Craft CMS conference in Berlin, September 2018

    We’re a Craft CMS Partner, and have been implementing our favourite CMS for over five years. There’s still plenty to learn, though ...

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