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19 August 2021

Recover & Rise with free workshops

By Maroon Balloon | Digital marketing, News, Online security

This September, West Sussex businesses can maximise the impact and accessibility of digital technologies through a series of free workshops: Getting online Customers and marketing Systems and productivity Growth expansion…

9 April 2021

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Planning a new website for a business start-up

Part-funding for website projects now available from Chichester District Council

By Maroon Balloon | Digital marketing, News, Web design

Chichester District Council’s Economic Development Team has announced that its Enabling Grant Scheme is open for applications from 12th April to 2nd May 2021. This funding can be used towards…

17 February 2021

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A good website is a fast website

By Maroon Balloon | Coding hints and tips, SEO, Usability, Web design, Web hosting

It’s always been the case that a fast loading homepage is important – nobody likes to wait an age for content to load. First impressions count too. If you’re waiting…

31 December 2020

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Tin foil hats and the black sheep of Europe

By Maroon Balloon | HQ, News, Project management

So here we are at the end of 2020. Wasn’t that an unusual year? Despite what felt like a bizarre distopian social experiment, from the Maroon Balloon perspective we’ve had…

9 December 2020

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Adobe Typekit font not displaying?

By Maroon Balloon | Coding hints and tips, Web design

Adobe Typekit fonts offer many more fonts than the commonly used Google Fonts range of typography, helping your web project stand out from the crowd. But it’s not always straightforward…

7 February 2020

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Website site mapping session | Maroon Balloon

How to create a sitemap

By Maroon Balloon | Coding hints and tips, Project management, SEO, Usability, Web design

Today we ran a five hour sitemapping and website project planning session for the Weald & Downland Living Museum, a local outdoor museum that has commissioned us for a large…

29 December 2019

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Minimalist web design desk: laptop, smartphone and glasses | Maroon Balloon web design

2020 vision: our 8 predictions for next year’s web design trends

By Maroon Balloon | Graphic design, News, Usability, Web design, Web hosting

Here at Maroon Balloon we naturally keep a close eye on web technology developments so that we can continue to provide a high quality and future-proofed website design service. At…

23 December 2019

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Santa Claus wishes you a happy Christmas | Maroon Balloon

Giving back this Xmas

By Maroon Balloon | News

Maroon Balloon wishes all its customers, suppliers, colleagues and friends a peaceful and relaxing winter break, and a prosperous New Year. It’s been another fantastic year for us with many…

12 November 2019

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Hilton Avisford Charity Ball | Maroon Balloon

Giving back: Hilton Charity Ball 2019

By Maroon Balloon | HQ, News

Last weekend we joined together with our office buddies StudioMoo and Fandango Digital to attend the annual fundraising charity ball at Hilton Arundel, West Sussex. A great time was had...

5 November 2019

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Woman searching on mobile phone in LED lighting

Who is BERT?

By Maroon Balloon | SEO, Usability

BERT is Google’s acronym for its new natural processing language (NLP) model. It stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and in short this is what helps Google improve its…

19 August 2019

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High shutter speed photograph of hummingbird in flight, Antigua

World Photo Day 2019

By Maroon Balloon | HQ, Photography

For this year’s World Photo Day we’ve chosen a hummingbird in flight, taken during a recent trip to Antigua in the West Indies. Hummingbirds are not just the only birds…

15 August 2019

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