Complex Creative

Elevate is a luxury wellness retreat company that wal offering high-end experiences, but didn’t have a website or branding to reflect that.

We immersed ourselves into the brand by attending one of their retreats and captured their essence in their rebrand.

We love how Elevate looks and feels now and we feel they’ve even elevated their services (pun intended) as a result!

They were just featured in The Times for their stunning retreats in Ibiza, so get in touch quickly if you want to join a future one as they’re selling out fast!

We highly recommend them!

We’ve been making websites for over 15 years, so we’ve seen every mistake under the sun.

But these 5 come up every single day!

They can be SO costly for your business, so please do check that you don’t fall into these traps!

Today is CO₂ Reduction Day.

Most people don’t realise websites produce carbon emissions.

At N0BS, we build low-carbon websites as standard - through lighter code, optimised images, minimal plugins, and smarter hosting.

Better for the planet. Better for performance.

Your website should support your mission, not contradict it.

WordPress just had another update and we’re now at 6.4!

So, what’s new for the WordPress community? We’ve picked some of our fave updates:

- New 2024 theme
- Background images
- Block hooks available
- Redesigned command palette
- Improved pattern management

We still build our WordPress websites from scratch so a lot of these changes don’t affect us, but many of our clients still get us to help with their themed sites.

Which of these is your fave changes and what other new features are you hoping to see in WordPress?

Today’s Tip: DON’T FORGET TO PLAN!

Most people just love to get stuck in right away when it comes to doing digital marketing, or even creating a website.

There’s no brief, no strategy… nothing.

They just start putting out content.

But this is exactly how you will fail.

If you don’t know who you’re talking to and what they want, how are you going to deliver the right content?

This is why we love this quote by Benjamin Franklin and encourage everyone to prepare marketing strategies BEFORE implementing anything.

The world has been in a bit of turmoil lately and it’s made many of us feel quite hopeless and down about life.

There are clearly super pressing issues happening, but are marketing/PR teams supposed to address these issues in their content?

Whilst on the one hand it feels ignorant to just start shouting about your promotions and the great work you’re doing while people are losing their lives, if brands are not directly connected to these issues, what do they say about them?

It’s so tricky and such a difficult time for any marketing/PR team at the moment.

We wrote a blog post on our thoughts on whether brands should discuss social issues or not.

We’d love to hear whether you’re a brand who has been avoid/discussing them, or you’re a marketing team who has also been struggling with this.

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We always work from home on Fridays, which makes us feel we’re having a bit more of a head start on the weekend.

However, we still have work to do!

But who says we can’t be cosy while working?!

Whose setup do you prefer?

Share your WFH setups on this cold Friday afternoon!

Want 3 ways to instantly lower the carbon footprint of your website? None of them require any coding knowledge or advance skills.

Doing just these three things can actually have a huge impact on your carbon score!

Try them and let us know how you get on.

We’re on Threads!! Well… who isn’t eh?!

What a launch they had!

What are your predictions for how it will do? Here to stay, or just another fad?

Come find us 😆

Did you know that your website is slowly but surely destroying the environment?

The average amount of carbon that websites which land on our desk emit is what 10 trees absorb per year!

It’s as much as boiling over 25,000 cups of tea a year!

Check out what your website is emitting using websitecarbon.com

We’ve made it our mission to build websites that emit as little carbon as possible. We’ve been using sustainable web design techniques to ensure that our websites are as clean as possible.

In fact, we just spent the last year rebuilding our own website so it’s really clean… even though it’s still animated with custom graphics.

So, how do you lower the carbon of your website?

Here are our top 6 tips for doing so:

- Only use images and video where necessary
- Use formats such as webp and AVIF for your images
- Host your videos externally (e.g. YouTube) and do NOT autoplay them
- Use system fonts or at least upload your font locally
- Delete anything you don’t need
- Use a green website hosting company

If you want any advice on how to do these easily, especially on a WordPress site, give us a shout.

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Want to up your social media game?

Here are some key dates for July 2023!

Some of them will be relevant for your niche and some will not.

But it’s gonna be a busy month if you’re a drinks brand!