Welcome to the first Lift newsletter. Here you will find our latest news, recent projects and items of interest.

We have moved

Lift have moved to a new studio, so please update your address books! Our new address is: 48 Queens Road, Reading RG1 4AU. Telephone number and email are the same as before.

Jo Lankester

In August Jo Lankester joined the team as a designer. Jo recently graduated from the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. As part of her studies she worked on the University signage and wayfinding project. Welcome to the team Jo!

Recent project: John Morgan studio website

We have been working with John and Michael at John Morgan studio, on their new website which launched in July. We built a simple content management system (using Movabletype) to allow them to update the site and add work through a web-based interface. The website features an 'index' of all content within the site. The index is auto-generated by tags assigned to each piece of work, and provides an alternative navigation structure.

Client extranet

We have a new facility available to all clients – our client extranet. This is a useful online resource available to you for free. Track a project and keep all key dates, files and information in one place without lots of emails! If you would like to use the extranet on a project with us, or would like a tour of how it can help you, please contact us.

Coming up...

We have some exciting new projects in the studio at the moment, including; websites for an artist and a fashion label, a redesigned Univeristy of Reading magazine and possibly a new Lift website! More information on these in the next issue. We will also be talking about our new secure client download area, and our free web stats system.

We want your feedback

We want to hear from you; if you want to know more about what we do, want to know less, or have suggestions about how we can improve our service to you.