What Can We Do For You?

Here at Super­pos­i­tion Kitty we want to make things look good.

We’re a Dun­dee based mul­tidiscip­lin­ary team with a focus on web design and devel­op­ment, graphic design, copy­writ­ing and typo­graphy.

We offer a pro­fes­sional, ded­ic­ated ser­vice and believe that good design should be the stand­ard — not the exception.

Web Design & Devel­op­ment
Super­pos­i­tion Kitty are involved in all levels of the web design and devel­op­ment pro­cess, from the ori­ginal sketch to the final code. This means no out­sourcing of files to India for cheap — yet messy and often invalid — coding.

Web devel­op­ment is con­sti­tuted of both front-end — HTML, JavaS­cript, and CSS amongst oth­ers — and back-end cod­ing — PHP, and Ruby on Rails etc.

We are highly pro­fi­cient in all of the tech­no­lo­gies men­tioned here, as well as many of the pop­u­lar Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tems (CMS’s) in use today — such as Word­Press (the CMS on which this site is built). If what you’re look­ing for isn’t men­tioned here then feel free to con­tact us — Super­pos­i­tion Kitty posses a wide range of cod­ing skills and are always happy to help.

Our designs meet all stand­ards neces­sary and where the inclu­sion of such tech­no­lo­gies as JavaS­cript (or even Flash) are required– which all users may not have installed or activ­ated — we make sure that the design degrades grace­fully so every cus­tomer will get the neces­sary inform­a­tion, beau­ti­ful formatted.

This also includes upcom­ing tech­no­lo­gies such as HTML5 and CSS3. Many older browsers do not (and will not) sup­port such stand­ards, but we make sure that their users can still have as enjoy­able an exper­i­ence as pos­sible. This means that we still design for Inter­net Explorer 6, and are one of the (increas­ingly) few design agen­cies doing this.

We recog­nise that many people are simply unable to upgrade from IE6, whether it is due to tech­no­lo­gical or company-imposed restric­tions. We do, how­ever, recom­mend that people use a more mod­ern — and stand­ards com­pli­ant — browser such as Google Chrome, Fire­fox and Opera.

Speak­ing of web stand­ards, we exert every effort to make sure that every­one with access to the inter­net, whether they’re using a screen reader or the latest browser, can enjoy the ease of access and con­sist­ency we seek to provide. We have worked with vis­ion impaired users in the past, and have exper­i­ence in deal­ing with the many issues for such users that arise from poorly designed websites.

We also provide Search Engine Optim­isa­tion (SEO). This does not mean the spam­ming of blogs and for­ums with links to web­sites as you so often see, but rather it involves mak­ing it as easy as pos­sible for Google and other search engines to ‘see’ your site by provid­ing them with dir­ec­tions, keywords, site maps, etc.

Web Host­ing
We also offer host­ing pack­ages. As men­tioned pre­vi­ously, we are hos­ted with Linode — a ded­ic­ated VPS pro­vider with rack­space in Amer­ica and the UK.

For a small monthly fee (with an addi­tional ini­tial set-up fee) we will host your web­site. Your site will be hos­ted with only a small num­ber of other sites, thus ensur­ing that you are provided with the resources you need. This fee does not include unlim­ited band­width — but we will notify you long in advance of you hit­ting the 100GB limit we impose at the base level so that we can dis­cuss upgrad­ing your host­ing pack­age. It does, how­ever, include unlim­ited email addresses and reg­u­lar main­ten­ance and upgrades.

Any addi­tional changes to design or cod­ing are of course billed at an hourly fee or accord­ing to contract.

Typo­graphy
We cur­rently have two typefaces as part of our port­fo­lio, with more to be added in the com­ing months. Pixl is avail­able to buy now in three dif­fer­ent ver­sions: Sans-serif, serif, and monospace.

Seg­ment is a 16 seg­ment dis­play font, designed ori­gin­ally for a pro­ject and now made avail­able to the pub­lic. You can down­load it for free from Dafont for per­sonal use only.

These (and future) typefaces are fully licensed for the latest tech­no­lo­gies — such as @font-face — if you choose to pur­chase them for non-personal use.

In this instance a smal­ler and more nimble stu­dio like ours is out ahead of the lar­ger, more tra­di­tional, stu­dios and foundries.

We have a love for good typo­graphy, and as such can design a cus­tom font for your logo or even an entire typeface for your com­pany brand­ing. We work with the Open­Type format, which allows for vari­ous advanced typo­graphic fea­tures such as small caps, old­style numer­als, and lig­at­ures.

Print
Design­ing for print is dif­fer­ent to design­ing for the web. It requires that the designer handle bleeds and mar­gins and col­our pro­cesses, and although you can’t touch a web­site, you can hold a beau­ti­ful design prin­ted on a thick piece of card­stock in your hands. Good print design should be tact­ile, sump­tu­ous and of course, beautiful.

This is why we offer screen print­ing in house.

Screen print­ing has an entirely dif­fer­ent feel to some­thing that has come out of a printer — as the ink is slightly raised off the card — and it even allows for glow-in-the-dark inks or metal­lic col­ours. We design, build, burn, and print the screens here at Super­pos­i­tion Kitty, and we spe­cial­ise in small-run, few-colour designs. We can screen print any­thing from busi­ness cards to A2 sized posters, and are always will­ing to take on print­ing jobs from other design­ers upon request.

Con­tracts
Here at Super­pos­i­tion Kitty we believe in the power of the writ­ten word, and thus a signed con­tract is com­puls­ory for all work we under­take, whether it is for £1 or £100,000.

Should you choose to work with us we will send you a sample con­tract for your con­sid­er­a­tion before any work is begun. If you wish to make some changes to this con­tract then this is some­thing that we will wel­come and work with you on. All modi­fic­a­tions will be con­sid­er­a­tion provided they fall within the bounds of reason.

Although we have never had a case taken to court, we believe that a con­tract is neces­sary to pro­tect both parties, and we feel that a con­tract offers more than simple legal pro­tec­tion: the act of writ­ing down, read­ing, and sign­ing all the rel­ev­ant details to the pro­ject ensures that no mis­un­der­stand­ings crop up later, whether they are related to fees, schedul­ing, the work to be under­taken, or any­thing else.

Thank You
We hope this doc­u­ment has been help­ful to you. Should you have any ques­tions relat­ing to this — or any­thing else — then please email me at ryan@superpositionkitty.com.