New release for the BAApp: Walking Architecture
It’s been just over a year since we launched the Walking Architecture Birmingham mobile application in partnership with the RIBA and BAA (Birmingham Architecture Association). The app and accompanying...
View ArticleUpdating our logomark
The more eagle-eyed among you may have noticed our logo has had the benefit of an update. Whilst this may have happened without some great announcement, we don’t make such changes lightly. A little...
View ArticleSaffron Hall
We recently worked to produce a website for the new venue Saffron Hall. Located in the historic market town of Saffron Walden, Essex, Saffron Hall is a state of the art performance space which will...
View ArticleIkon Gallery website
We’re very proud to announce the recent launch of a new website for Ikon Gallery. It has been a real pleasure working with the team at Ikon, and we’re all delighted with the results of the project....
View ArticleDozens & Trails v2.0
Introduction A collaboration between the Library of Birmingham and Substrakt, Dozens & Trails aims to showcase some of the visual treasures of the new Library. Supported by Creative England and the...
View ArticleFoyer 21
Following our work on the re-design and development of the Foyer website earlier last year, the team at Foyer asked for our help with their 21st anniversary celebrations. The project team included...
View ArticleDeploying web apps at Substrakt
Deploying highly-available, redundant and responsive full-stack web-based applications is not easy. But we’re pretty good at it. First off: Hi, I’m Max. The new Senior Developer at Substrakt. My...
View ArticleWhat Shellshock means for you
You might read online or in the papers about a new vulnerability (or bug) nicknamed “shellshock”. This is the second major vulnerability to enter the news stream this year, after “heartbleed”, and it...
View ArticleGlenn Howells Architects
Glenn Howells Architects is an internationally renowned architectural practice. With over 80 staff operating across two self-designed spaces in Birmingham and London, GHA are a sizeable organisation....
View ArticleDjango developers please
Substrakt are looking for a talented Django developer to work full-time on two key projects for the education and creative sectors. There’s scope to work on new projects too. You’ll join a tight-knit...
View ArticleTime Tracking with Slack
Tracking time is boring. But knowing how much time we spend on a particular project is invaluable to us as a business. We recently moved to Slack as our internal communication tool and we wanted to...
View ArticleScaling WordPress with HHVM on Heroku
tl;dr; Unless you’re Facebook, infinitely scaleable and WordPress don’t often go hand-in-hand, except when we’re involved. Birmingham Hippodrome uses Heroku to serve tens of thousands of requests daily...
View ArticleColour Variables in Sass
We work with sass everyday so I thought I’d share a little snippet of framework that I tend to use with each project. It sits in a base sass file and, with a few minutes tweaking at the start of a...
View ArticleKicking-off with Project Art Works
We’ve recently started work on a new website for Project Art Works (PAW), an organisation based in Hastings who do some exceptional work. “Project Art Works is an artist-led organisation. We work with...
View ArticleAre you a lead PHP developer? Come join us!
£34 – £40k (depending on experience) Based in Birmingham ideally (but will consider London) Monday to Friday, 9 – 5 Substrakt are looking for a talented PHP developer to join the team full-time....
View ArticleLiving style guides with Stylio
Stylio allows designers to manage visual components in a standalone application that integrates with Ruby on Rails applications. This allows design changes to be developed, reviewed and released with...
View ArticleSeparate your nginx web & puma application servers
Generally speaking, if you don’t have the luxury of using a PaaS such as Heroku and you’re trying to deploy a Rails app, there’s a certain amount of manual configuration with nginx using reverse...
View ArticleSubstrakt Health
We have always been interested in working with the Health sector, and have delivered several projects over the years which whet our appetite. Earlier this year came our big opportunity to give the...
View ArticleOKRs at Substrakt
Having run a digital agency for over 10 years, the one thing I do know about is the importance of a good team (especially when you can’t design or develop a website yourself!). It is essential that we...
View ArticleThe design process (is not a flow diagram)
Everyone likes diagrams, and everyone likes lists. Lists are easy. The process of designing websites at Substrakt, however, is not a neat production-line-style flow diagram; it doesn’t follow a linear...
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