Dick Makin Imaging - digital photography, web imaging, video

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is what we have been doing for our web clients. Much research into the current trends and requirements of the major search engines has resulted in a rethink of the strategy and how it may be incorporated into a web design. We try and retain the style and aesthetics of a web layout by bespoke coding workarounds with minimal compromise, to meet the needs of the search engine robots, by ensuring all code is optimised and W3 validated - html, sitemaps, robots, CSS and javacripts.

We are now a major supplier of images to Alamy -a leading portal for both general and specialist images. Click on the link below to view, download and purchase on-line a wide range of images for all applications 24/7

Manvers Studios are exclusively digital, as are our sister video studio. The digital originals are routinely sent out as a CDROM or DVD in any format or platform.

New hardware and software enable us to produce total wrap around panoramas. These can be almost any size - really huge if needed, or small for web use. They can be viewed as 'flat' images for output as long prints or in a variety of animated formats with navigation keys to provide 360 degree coverage if required.

The panoramas can be combined and linked to produce automated or manually controlled virtual tours. We can even add stills, sound and video into these and wrap this in a bespoke interface(skin) with logo to echo a corporate style.

What was produced chiefly for print is now repurposed for online distribution as an interactive pdf. This allows full content navigation as well as access to external links, for ease of citation referencing. So no longer do you need to go and look up a mentioned archive, paper, report, book, article - just click to view instantly.

We produce printed matter for brochures, folders, annual reports - designing and printing the material. This enables our clients to single source all their communication needs leaving them to do what they do best - get on and run their business.

Complex montages with text have become routine with output as posters and screen versions for intranet and web use. A novel application has been imaging for Business Motivation posters: prints with text caption overlays. With new developments in inks we are now offering prints as finished artwork from our work, or our clients' - generically termed 'Giclee Prints' on high qualty archive papers. Take a look here<<<<

There has been major growth in web design, creation and maintenance and much research has been done on web issues such as image optimization and search engine optimization. This together with improved authoring software has enabled us to broaden our web services. Most of our solutions involve bespoke coding to create a unique customised interface. Very little is routine.

We have recently been involved with production of marketing videos, software training, consultancy as well as CDROM and web video applications. Multimedia CDROMs and DVD's for marketing purposes have provided companies with a useful extra tool: a free cover CDROM on the front of a trade journal, a virtual tour with a guide book, a mixed media DVD for a school archive.

Do contact us with any queries you may have regarding our services - photography, digital imaging, interactive e-documents, conference reporting, web, video, design and print - or with how we might customize our services to meet your requirements.

Moving away from print?

Do you need interactive documents, conference reporting facilities?