The web design and corporate branding teams at Pixel8 in Manchester have launched a new brand and a new website for a UK business locations portal.

locations4business provides comprehensive and comparable information on all potential business locations in the UK. It’s a one-stop-shop for companies within and outside the UK looking to establish new business operations.

The website helps existing companies, start ups and investors to find the best locations for their organisation and provides detailed information required to make an initial evaluation.

Pixel8 created the brand identity, a new logo design, the website design and web development of a CMS system and an integrated database.

The new website be found at www.locations4business.com

Several graphic design agencies in Manchester have very good web design skills, but few have in-house expertise in web development and web server technical support.

This was the case with the website for the Expert Patients Programme. Our web design and web development teams took the existing web design and developed it into a fully functional website with an easy to use content management system (CMS), which allows the client to update the website themselves.

The new web design is now hosted on a Linux server and we provide routine maintenance including installing patches to the CMS system, Linux server software updates and patches and website traffic reporting.

For more information about Pixel8’s web development and web server support services, please call us in Manchester on 0161 228 6489, 0845 230 1336 or contact us by e-mail

As a full service graphic design agency, we relish packaging design projects! From initial concept through to creating the print ready artwork and product mock ups, we manage the entire process.

We’ve worked on many large packaging design projects with well known brands including Manchester United and Dorma and the development of sub brands for Virginware. Exciting new package design projects include a range of Halloween products using a character we designed for BJ Toys and a new sports drinks range which is currently under wraps!

Pixel8, the Manchester based design and marketing agency continues to win website design and web development projects which have become an important part of being a full service agency.

Recently completed web design projects include Livewire in April, a flash animation website, and a new website design for Lorimer Foster Services in May, which includes advanced website search facilities.

Currently being developed are new web designs for Boxfresh Organics, including a complex postcode search facility; a new website for BJ Toys, which is a fully automated e-commerce website and a new web design project for Leighmann’s, another e-commerce website design that includes 1000’s of products. Both of these new e-commerce websites will be live in July 2008.

We are also proud to announce the development and progression of a number of add on services such as sophisticated and yet simple content management (CMS) software through to new web hosting services.  These include both shared and dedicated servers, both fully managed with excellent track records.

The Pixel8 brand development process has been in full swing in 2008, rebrands in May are well underway for companies including Vodat International and Boxfresh Organics.

As an agency that has design at the heart of everything that we do, brand exercises thrill us! Not only do we get to realise the entrepreneurial vision of business founders, we also get to create marketing collateral that best reflects the brand and indeed the company values.

Corporate rebranding projects starting in June include the UK Fitness Network and Leighmann’s, both very exciting projects.

Pixel8, the design and marketing agency in Manchester were very pleased to win the web design and web development contract for Microsoft CRM specialists Gap Consulting.

Always wanting to give our clients a service above and beyond the brief, we also approached them with a new corporate identity and brand development which would form the basis of the new look and feel for the new website.

The new logo design was welcomed warmly by Gap Consulting and as a result Pixel8’s design team also carried out their stationery design and produced design templates for them to produce newsletters using their new logo design and corporate branding.