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Mental Health Awareness Week at HappyKite

As a small but growing digital agency we’re always learning and doing our best to make sure we’ve got a happy team and happy clients. Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK and we took the opportunity to do a few fun things, chat more openly and bust some of the myths …

Internal linking, chatting to John Mueller and angry seagulls: BrightonSEO 2019

TeamMarketing at HappyKite took a trip to the seaside last week for BrightonSEO and we’ve come back with some great ideas to implement for our clients. The line up of speakers was great and we found it really difficult to choose which talks to attend but we’re happy with our choices. Each member of the …

HappyKite at WordCamp London 2019 – Our Highlights

We’re just back from a great weekend at WordCamp London 2019, we’re itching to get going with some great new ideas and ways to develop our skills. We’ve been attending WordCamp London each year since it began in 2013 but this year was a first trip for both Jenny and Ronan since they have joined …

Jenny & Ronan Join the Team!

It’s been a busy month at HappyKite HQ with building work in preparation for our latest team expansion. We’ve welcomed two wonderful new members to the team which would have really had our office bursting at the seams so we took on the unit next door and spent a messy week having the wall ripped …

Rebecca Joins the Team

The team at HappyKite are excited to welcome our newest team member, Rebecca, who joins us as our Content and Social Marketer to work with our ongoing clients. Our new office at Basepoint Business Centre on the outskirts of Luton is looking nice and full now and we’re excited to be able to take on …

Our highlights of WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna

We weren’t off to a brilliant start for our first WordCamp Europe with our flight to Vienna cancelled due to…faulty toilets! Nevertheless, after an unexpected visit to Munich we did eventually make it to Vienna and arrived at our charming AirBnB apartment pretty quickly.

We’ve joined The Web Guild

We’re really excited and thrilled to be able to say that we have now been approved as a fully-fledged member of The Web Guild, an organisation dedicated to raising coding standards, general practices and professional development in the design and development community.

Our favourite bits from WordCamp London 2016

We’re all in the office this morning buzzing with enthusiasm after a great weekend at WordCamp London 2016. The conference was, as usual, amazing and full of inspirational speakers on such a diverse range of topics. On the train back last night we started thinking about our favourite speakers and we’ve already got a big list of things we want to either try or change or find out more about over the next few weeks.

Why we ask for a website budget

If you contact us about a project you’ll see that we ask for a budget and timescale right off the bat. No one has ever questioned the request for timescale but a lot of people are uncomfortable giving a budget so early on. This can be because you have no idea how much it should cost, you genuinely don’t have a budget or, more often, you do have a rough budget in mind but you’re worried that you’d perhaps be putting more money on the table than needed.