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Not just another web developer!
Have your cake and eat it! Find out how our approach gets you the quality and experience of working with a large agency without the overhead.

Why the lack of industry standards makes us angry!
We all too often speak to potential clients who have been 'scarred' by their experience with other providers in our industry.

6 ways to manage the biggest cost factors of a website project
Understandably it's a very common question. However, here's why there's no simple answer, and how you can influence the bottom line.

ROI Focused Websites Part 4: What you should know before hiring a web agency
The fourth article in our Return on Investment (ROI) series is about asking the right questions, taking your time, and choosing the right team for your needs.

ROI Focused Websites Part 3: The Trouble with Web Developers - 5 Pain Points and how to solve them
The third article in our Return on Investment (ROI) series is about those who have invested significant time and money on projects but ended up dissatisfied.

ROI Focused Websites Part 2: 5 Top Tips To Pick a Winning Web Team
The second article in our Return on Investment (ROI) series explores why it's crucial that you pick the right team.

ROI Focused Websites Part 1: 8 questions you should ask before engaging a web design agency
The first article in our Return on Investment (ROI) series asks 8 important questions that will determine your success.

What is Pattern Lab and why should I care about it?
Our front-end developer discusses why you and your business should be considering Pattern Lab for your next Drupal project.

10 lessons from using Drupal 8 + Pattern Lab + Emulsify
The musings of our front end developer after the launch of our first Pattern Lab + Drupal 8 project via the Emulsify base theme.

Real Life Digital: the story so far
Our story so far; how we got started and evolved to where we are now.

What is a discovery workshop and do I need one?
Discovery workshops are paid-for deep-dives in to content strategy and architecture.

5 steps for security and disaster planning
Do you need to protect your brand, prevent data leaks and avoid PR disasters?

Content strategy in depth
Content strategy is one of our key offerings, and we wanted to discuss in more detail our thoughts on the matter.

BASE Bordon: a new space to create and innovate
We are excited to announce that we are the first business to move in to the brand new BASE Bordon innovation centre.

We went to DrupalCon 2017 in Vienna
This year's European Drupal conference took place in Vienna, Austria ahead of the news that there will be no DrupalCon Europe 2018.

Using Sass and CSS3 Flex as a grid system
We used to be big fans of using singularity to create responsive grids on which to craft our web layouts but we've been converted to CSS3 flex and here's why!

We went to DrupalCamp London 2017
DrupalCamp London celebrated its fifth birthday this year, and for the first time Real Life Digital were official sponsors of the CxO day.

SEO in Drupal: an introduction
Drupal is absolutely the best CMS platform when it comes to SEO, but our clients don't seem to be aware of this so we finally decided to break it down.