Latest Duo News & Articles


  • Duo Get Early Ipad

    Duo Get Early Ipad

    1st Apr 2010

    To our amazement today we receive an Apple iPad ! After hearing that developers in the US were going to get their hands on iPads early, giving them an unfair advantage on the app-store we wrote to apple pleading our case. We included all the ideas we had for...more


  • Snowed Out

    Snowed Out

    5th Jan 2010

    Just to let you all know that today we'll all be away from the office. The amount of snow fall over night has made it difficult to travel, and in the conditions it is just not worth the risk to our staff to ask them to travel in. Most of our staff are...more


  • Return of the Browser War

    Return of the Browser War

    24th Oct 2008

    War, what is it good for? Well despite my title sounding like the title to a new episode of Flash Gordon, browser wars are a little less dramatic. I have been developing websites for over ten years now. Back in the mid nineties Netscape was king of the web. Then...more


  • Manufacturers Can Get 50% Off.

    Manufacturers Can Get 50% Off.

    5th Mar 2008

    East Manchester-based website designer and developer, Duo Design, has secured European funding from The Manufacturing Institute to help a Manchester manufacturer grow its business using e-commerce. The funding forms part of a new initiative to help...more


  • Duo shortlisted for £10k Enterprize

    Duo shortlisted for £10k Enterprize

    15th Nov 2007

    Duo Design have made the shortlist in a major competition called EnterPrize aimed at new businesses in east Manchester. Organised by urban regeneration company New East Manchester, Duo along with five other companies beat of stiff competition from 40 other...more


  • Copyright on the Web

    Copyright on the Web

    6th Sep 2007

    The Problem Copyright on the web has always been an area for much debate. The likes of Napster and You Tube are well known for being involved in large legal battles over the alleged breach of copyright of materials they supply. The average businesses...more


  • Our New Website!

    Our New Website!

    2nd Aug 2007

    Here it is, the launch of our new website. It's not completely finished; there is still a bit of work to do in our branding section and additional video testimonials are still to go online. Yet here at Duo,we are so excited by our new site that we couldn't...more


  • Get Your Organic Babyfood Here!

    Get Your Organic Babyfood Here!

    11th May 2007

    We're all going organic mad! Everything is organic and why not, it's better for you and keeps all those nasty pesticides out of your diet. So what has this got to do with web design you ask? Well here at Duo we recently finished a website for a...more


  • GHA : Livingston Gunn Merger

    GHA : Livingston Gunn Merger

    20th Apr 2007

    Formed following the recent amalgamation of GHA (George Hutchison Associates Ltd - the well-established Civil and Structural Engineering design consultancy) with Livingston Gunn Projects Ltd. (the multi-disciplined Process, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering...more


  • Is Your Company Number on Your Website?

    Is Your Company Number on Your Website?

    27th Feb 2007

    As of 2007 if you're a company or LLP you need to show your business contact details, name and trading names along with you company number on your website. This is a change to business stationary rules as updated as part of 'The Companies Regulations...more