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Ablaze Graphics is a web site design & graphic design firm based in Farnham, Surrey, England, UK.
Below is information on us, including services offered, the team, our brief history
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Services Offered by Ablaze Graphics:
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Ablaze Graphics offer services in the following graphic design, website design, signage and printing areas: |
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Website Design Services |
Obviously every website is specifily designed for your companies needs.
But for ease of use we have divided the types of websites we produce into three rough catergories:
- Single holding page website
- Brochure Website
- Portfolio Website with updatable pages
- Online Shop / Ecommerce Website
Please click the below link to find out more about our website design services.
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Websites Info |
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Services Related to Website Design |
We offer many services for websites. Our skills stretch from the vital search
engine optimisation through to designing and setting up websites and banners. The main catergories are listed below:
- Webname and Hosting Registration
- Search Engine Optimisation
- Flash Animation
- Advertising Banner Design
Please click the below link to find out more about our website promotion services.
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Website Services |
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Graphic Design & Print Design Services |
At Ablaze Graphics we can produce high quality design documents for a
variety of print formats. Below are some of the design services we are often asked to provide:
- Logo Design & Corporate Identity
- Brochures, Leaflets, Posters
- Business Cards
- Stickers
- T-Shirts and Clothing
- Signs and Signage
- Letterheads, Compliments Slips
Please click the below link to find out more about our graphic design and print design services.
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Graphic Design Info |
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Printing Services Offered |
If you need Print Services, we print high quality documents for a
variety of print usages. Below are some of the print services we are often asked to provide:
- Letterheads, Compliments Slips
- Brochures, Leaflets, Posters
- Business Cards
- Stickers
- T-Shirts and Clothing
- Signs and Signage
- Vinyl Banners
Please click the below link to find out more about our printing services and price lists.
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Printing Price List |
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The Ablaze Graphics Team:
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If you make the decision to use Ablaze Graphics as your website and graphic design consultants, you will be lucky enough to be
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Richard Hughes - Website Designer |
In essence Richard Hughes is Ablaze Graphics. A highly experienced and
qualified graphic designer, website designer, Search Engine Optimisation Guru (SEO), web developer,
animator and artist. Richard is the proprietor and main designer of Ablaze Graphics. He has worked
for many prestigious clients in the past such as the BBC, Thames Water, English Heritage, Scottish
Forestry Commission as well as for various large music festivals, amongst many others.
Richard has over 10years experience in the design field. Should alternative skills and expertise be
required, he contracts out to the acclaimed experts listed below:
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Dan German - Website Developer |
Dan is the grand master of all things technical. A wide range of programming talents and
a seemingly infinite ability to learn new technologies very quickly. He is the man responsible for our website content
management software as well as back end related to credit card transactions, email processing, and customer databases.
He truly is our web developer extraordinaire! Dan has a life time experience in the computer technology field. Starting off fixing
and building computers, networks and other more complicated hardware from scratch to programming incredibly complex software
for Police Surveillance as well as British Telecom.
Dan German and Richard Hughes have an established working relationship dating back to childhood.
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Alexandra Hughes - Photographer |
Alexandra Hughes is a highly qualified photographer. She now works freelance after working
for several commercial photography studios. She is outsourced for all our photography work when our clients
require that striking professional image.
Alexandra is Richard's sister and has been involved in art and photography from a very young age.
She has worked for prestigious clients such as the National Portrait Gallery and The New Scientist Magazine.
Exceptionally talented with all forms of SLR,
large and medium format as well as digital photography and all forms of photographic developing, she makes the perfect
choice for the Ablaze Graphics photographer.
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A Brief History of Ablaze Graphics:
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Ablaze Graphics started life as a figment of Richard's imagination while he was at college in the mid 90's.
After several jobs working for other design studios and the BBC as their resident intranet designer. Private commissions started mounting up.
Richard immediately saw the chance to be free, run his own business (and line his own pocket
rather than his bosses) so Ablaze Graphics was officially born, in Bristol in December 2001.
Early funding came from a combination of savings and a Princes Trust loan. Ablaze Graphics blossomed from its immaculate conception
into a promising (yet not without troubles) puberty. The skills for exceptional graphic design and website creation were there and
work was coming in. The paperwork side was proving more troublesome as neither Dan nor Richard had run a business before. Stumbling through
the minefield of red tape, accounts and tax returns, valiantly led by our Princes Trust mentor, stream lining occurred and it was amicably decided that
Dan should be employed on a contractual basis.
Ablaze Graphics grew healthily in Bristol for several years, when it was decided that we would swap the hectic city life for the sunny, sandy, laidback
shores of Falmouth, Cornwall. Replanted in the Sub tropical climate of Cornwall and fanned by the gulf stream, Ablaze Graphics matured into a solid
and confident future. After a few years, we sadly had to say farewell to Cornwall to move closer to the demands from the London area for our services.
So Ablaze Graphics moved to Farnham, Surrey. About an hour from London and two from Bristol, its was the perfect situation to continue the laid back
country life whilst still maintaining bigger clients in the cities.
We still are based there today, still contracting out the trickier back end website development jobs to Dan and the photography jobs to Alexandra. Our clients
are happy, we are happy and life is good.
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