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Hammer Design specialise in the following areas:

Find out how working with hammer design can develop your business...

Hammer specialises in website design, development and hosting. We design, build and host websites, systems and marketing systems - websites and marketing material that communicates, clearly and effectively. Having developed our own software for many years now we are in a position to offer some powerful and cost effective solutions to really help your business grow such as our Chameleon and Osprey content management systems.

Print specialists: Based in Hathersage in the Peak District just outside Sheffield, Hammer Design can deliver a remarkable array of creative design, print and marketing services to support your online activity.

Our third arm is our exhibition and heritage work, founding members of the heritage interpretation partnership Hammer Design has been working with our environmental guardians and national bodies to produce powerful and engaging work designed to promote a more caring understanding of our natural world.

So if you are looking for innovative creative graphic and website design ideas, a strong corporate identity, a simple brochure website or a state of the art 'a million hits a minute' e-commerce website, hammer design has original and exciting, award winning work that hits the nail on the head: 


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WEBSITE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT WORK:

Specialists in turning the visual into a practical reality. We style your website designs into the code that makes it all happen. Inhouse website technical coding includes expertise in html, xhtml, php, javascript, actionscript and ajax. Development code is written to browser standards agreements and to defined validation standards. In other words by the book, compliant and excellent.

2009 and beyond

WEBSITE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT & SYSTEMS:

Helping you run your website, Content management systems (CMS), back offices and website management. Hammer builds bespoke solutions around Chameleon, our content management system that can do everything ( a big claim for a big system ) these systems put you absolutely in control. There are also off the shelf solutions such as our own mini CMS Osprey.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN HERITAGE DESIGN & PRINTING:

Designers to the core, Hammer offer a comprehensive design service... everything from brand evaluation, development and design through to delivery and installation. Services include corporate id creation, graphic design for print, corporate brochures, reports and literature design, flyers and promotional literature, in fact just about everything.
 


 

Creating great websites that work

We offer a full range of website design, graphic design and internet services, professional practices and disciplines: Planning, Website design and development work, Website management, Website promotion and marketing and website hosting and support.

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A wide range of expert hats...

A comprehensive range of services and disciplines:

Online professional services include: Website planning and strategy, website design, website management, website coding and development, website hosting, website promotion and marketing, search engine optimisation.

Our offline studio and professional services include graphic design, design for print, printing services, logotype design, corporate logotype and id design, brand development and management, heritage interpretation, creative marketing, ideas and development, exhibition design and photography.

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Creative design, print and marketing

Where the new creative challenges really are...

We can use our wide range of experience and expertise in producing creative design, print and marketing, to work with you, to drive the many different aspects of more traditional offline marketing processes and material - tying all these different aspects together in ever new and exciting ways...

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Latest news entries

The start of 2009 has been a significant period of foundation building and organic growth for Hammer Design, developing our software and systems - taking our technologies to new levels. Several exciting new projects have been commissioned and our ever-increasing client base, taking the company’s portfolio to an impressive list of clients, is guaranteed to keep us on our toes.


Heason Events

Organising the fit and famous

Hammer Design are proud to announce the launch of the all new Heason Events website. The 'orginal adventure speaker portfolio', Heason Events are the UKs leading supplier of prestigious speakers... more >

Campaign Viewpoint

New look for National Parks Campaign 

Hammer Design and the team are proud to show off the new look to the Campaign for National Parks newsletter 'viewpoint'. Park Crusaders and all round excellent folk. More about their work and activity... more >


 

Morrland Discovery Centre

Eee! Engaging Eco education

The joint National Trust and Peak District National Park Centre - the Moorland Discovery Centre unveils the Hammer Design educational resources at this award winning Eco-build centre on the Longshaw Estate... more >

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Latest blog entries

The hammer design blog is the area of our website where we can offer helpful advice, get a few interesting notes online, occasionally exercise our healthy sarcasm or take an irreverent look at our own work and the online world community.

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Cascading Style Sheets

30th Jun What is CSS? CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is a language used to... more

The Golden Rule of Web Marketing

7th Jun I thought the best place to start our new website design and marketing blog... more

Happy sailing, a dignified launch...

3rd Jun Gently, unannounced and quietly the new hammer design website was turned on as... more

Where we work

Our offices are based 8 miles just outside Sheffield in the beautiful Derbyshire Peak District and you are more than welcome to visit us to discuss how we can help you to grow develop your business.

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website design & build

Hammer Design creates well-designed functional websites that are compliant, accessible and search engine friendly. Solutions that really deliver and hit the nail on the head.

  • website design and build
  • website management and support
  • osprey cms
  • chameleon cms
  • e-commerce
  • website hosting and support

design & printing

Hammer Design prides itself on many years of hard working experience in the field of print. We can even boast experience of early scalpel work and rub down letraset!

  • developing great creative ideas
  • brand building
  • graphic design for print
  • printing services
  • heritage interpretation & design
  • print promotion and marketing

hammer help & support

To make working together more productive; friends, clients and colleagues can access our online library of practical short cuts, quick guides, distilled wisdom and information we are building:

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