A web design consultancy has been diving the depths to help an adventure company reach new heights.
Brighton-based Wild Dog Design has launched a site for Deep Ocean Expeditions, an Australian company that uses submersibles to take passengers on tours to explore beneath the oceans.
The site includes details of the company's excursions and Quicktime video footage of dives to the Titanic and the Bismark.
Wild Dog managing director Michael Hughes said: "The brief was to create a site that provides content to inform and educate visitors about the rich natural and human history beneath the sea.
"Accessibility was the keyword.
First, for the client to maintain the site with ease. Second, for site navigation to come naturally to bring this incredible undersea world to people's screens."
Wild Dog Design was founded in London in 1996 but has relocated to Brighton in May. Mr Hughes has lived in Ditchling for about five years and had been commuting but for the rest of the team it marked a fresh start.
Studio manager John-Paul Rowe said: "It started with an offhand comment about moving down here but things have worked out well.
"The rent and rates in London are at least two or three times more than anywhere else and smaller companies like us face the choice of staying in London and paying more money or moving out and risk losing business.
"We found it worked the other way round and we keep winning business. We've also formed new relationships, such as one with Lewes-based bn2web."
Although the company does a variety of work, much of its design is holiday and adventure-related.
Mr Rowe said: "It stems from Michael's love of exploring. He set up www.wild-dog.com when he returned from a trip to the North Pole and found it very difficult to find information on this kind of travelling.
"When the dot.com bubble burst we decided to concentrate more on design. But we still get a lot of design work off the back of the travel site."
Mr Rowe was previously a glider pilot and parachutist.
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