Blog posts by Harry Metcalfe

It’s an exciting and very busy time for dxw, and we’re looking for more people to join the team. Over the last few months, we’ve become busier than ever before, delivering digital projects to the public sector (mostly central government). In the last year or so, we’ve also started diversifying our work: building our own […]

Since January we’ve been excitedly working on a new intranet for the Department of Communities and Local Government: a wholesale replacement for the previous collection of out-of-date and restrictive systems that DCLG had been using. We’re very happy to announce that the site went live to all staff members last week, and has been met […]

We’re very excited to be able to announce that the Department of Health’s WordPress sites are now being hosted by dxw. This was a complex migration and has been in the works for a while, so we’re delighted (and relieved!) that it’s all come off well. DH came to us in the summer of 2012 […]

We’re really pleased to be supporting the inaugural CommsCamp! We’ve posted more on their blog, at commscamp.com.

We’ve just started rolling out a change across all of the sites we host, to improve the security of user passwords. WordPress is very widely used. Because of this, WordPress’s development team often make decisions that keep WordPress compatible with a wide range of hosting environments. Sometimes, this comes at the cost of potential security […]

Yesterday, we did some quick tests on a robot that’s part of a design for an upcoming site. (More on that later). I tweeted about about it and got 168 responses, which was surprisingly high. Since it got so much input, I thought I’d write up the results, which, happily, aligned pretty well with our […]