Duo is an Award Winning Manchester web design agency, focusing on delivering dynamic web & digital solutions.

Combining design, creativity, & user interface design with the latest web and mobile technology we give our clients the power to easily update and maintain their online facilities without the need for an IT degree.   

Duo is a digital agency, focusing on delivering dynamic editable web / digital solutions.

Combining design, creativity, user interface design with the latest web and mobile technology we give our clients the power to easily update and maintain their online facilities without the need for a degree in IT.

Duo believes passionately in good design and the innovative use of technology to deliver professional and sustainable web solutions.

As an agency Duo has always maintained an even balance of design, creative and technical capability (Creating editable, robust database driven solutions for our clients, advancing their companies online capabilities).?

As a digital agency that for over 12 years has been creating online solutions for companies in Manchester the Northwest and further afield we have many successful projects to our credit.

Since 2002 we've helped over 300 companies with various projects in a wide range of markets and disciplines.

One Set of Content, Many Screen Sizes Typical websites now get over 20% of their traffic from mobile phones, some much more.

Having your content work well on a range of devices is now a real necessity of the modern web.

When starting a new website we encourage all of our clients to have their site developed in a way which works well on all devices.

Allowing text and images to reformat themselves in a way which makes the content readable on many screen sizes. Responsive Images Auto Resized on. 

Having a professional e-commerce website, that users engage with, find easy to use and most importantly trust, can prove to be a key to a successful online retail experience.

At Duo our in house developers thrive on building bespoke e-commerce solutions to help sell a wide variety of products, with an equally wide variety of integrations.

Read on for more information on existing deployments and how they integrate with billing, dispatch and analytics systems to complement our clients existing.

Duo CMS (Content Management System) is in it's eighth incarnation as Duo CMS 8, In active development since 2004, the system has undergone a recent rewrite to make it more flexible and performant for the modern web. We utilise our CMS system for most of our websites and web applications as it provides us a high level of customisation to achieve the best balance between performance and ease of use for our clients. Below are just some of the ways our CMS system can help you manage your website content.

Images are easy to upload, resize, rotate and layout within the site. We use image optimisation technology when uploading your images to compress them as much as possible without loosing quality. We also utilise a number of techniques to auto scale the images when used on smaller screen devices. These techniques combined mean you rarely need to worry about the loading speed and performance of your site.

Through our simple file management interface it is possible to create folders, rename files and copy and paste images as you would on your computer. Deleted images can also be 'undeleted', incase of mistakes.

Stock images are also just a click away, with a number of integrated free stock image services. The built in image editor allows you to crop, rotate and tweak the colour balance of your images.

Pages can easily be added, deleted, cut, copy and pasted around the site via the pages settings panel. Changes to the pages settings are immediately reflected in page content so you see and respond to any issues created in page layout.

Any deleted pages can also be recovered and mistakes can be reverted back to a previous version to allow you to recover from any mistakes.

While creating a new page it can remain unpublished. The red line at the top of the page is a reminder that the page is currently only visible to site editors. Once complete your page can be quickly changed to published so the rest of the world can see your new creation.

Built upon node.js, a modern server side javascript runtime backed by Google's V8 engine. The content management system is the backbone of most of our websites and web applications. All the front end interfaces are built using the svelte javascript framework.

Many of our in-site components have been recently redeveloped to use the latest web-component technology, using that to wrap svelte giving us easy to re-use custom elements we can drop in a page.