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Jenni

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jenni@bigeyedeers.co.uk

New CMS site for Cyfle.co.uk: LIVE

Cyfle is a dynamic and progressive training company which provides an invaluable and inspiring service to Creative Media Industries in Wales.

Cyfle required a website with functionality to enable them to publish up-to-the-minute multi-medium news, quickly and with ease. Our client’s main objective was to be able to present Course Information and News Stories in a clear and concise way, and for user to be able to find what they are looking for, fast.

We saw that Cyfle needed a website that properly reflect what it has to offer, as well as a platform that the client wouldn’t outgrow, a website to supports its future growth.

The Big Eye Deers Approach

After in-depth content analysis and diagnosing exactly what issues the client was faced with, we designed a website that would focus mainly on providing visitors to the site with up-to-the-minute information on Cyfle’s courses on offer as well as News on a bespoke CMS platform with WordPress Integration and live Twitter & Facebook feeds.

The site was further enhanced by implementing full multilingual capabilities as well as Solr search. We also created a branded newsletter template on a system which would allow our client to speedily send out news and course information to its database – the delivery results and social reach measurable by easy-to-use reporting and analytics.

Please do visit the site for yourself and have a gander at Cyfle’s fantastic courses by clicking here

Think Digital – New Cardiff Business Event

Being a web company means your clients can be all over, from London to New Zealand, New York to South Africa. Sounds glam, but I think it’s easy to forget what’s on your doorstep – and there’s a great saying: ‘Don’t forget your roots, for they’ll always support you‘, which I think is a nice approach to working with local companies. When I started at Big Eye Deers, I was keen to meet up with local business people… Continue reading

The Life and Career of Steve Jobs

What better way to be remembered than in a 3D rendered video. But where are the tea and biscuit breaks?

5 Reasons Why Facebook Is Life Changing

1. Pointless Birthday Cards
If you forget Moonpig by 4pm the day before you can always be THE FIRST to post a very special bespoke and exclusive facebook message on their wall  – and a picture of your dog for extra sentiment. If you don’t have a dog, put this youtube link up instead. They’ll think you’re hilarious and mental. Honestly. Oh dear. Stop it, you’re making me laugh, even now.


2. Mates’ Nights Out

Why bother walking all the way to a pub, urgh, why bother walking to any building… when you can show off your wit and one-liners on a thread which started with the status “I’m never going out with a short man again”. Unleash your comedy-bronze SATC inspired banter for all to see, you’ve got an audience to entertain so let the dog see the rabbit. Oh, and you can smoke inside. Enough said.

3. Stupid Real Dating
Who needs multiple sessions of costly Carbonara, Coke and small-talk when you can instead go through facebook photos of the person you think is hot, commenting ‘hot’ and pressing ‘like’ to test the waters. If they get a bit clingy on the old instant chat you can just go offline. If you reach the stage where they are desperate and boring, there is functionality to block them out of your life forever more. No yawn phone calls or restraining orders required.

4. Boring Real Cinema
No need to walk down to the boring brick building that is Cineworld, get a bus to Blockbusters (are they still alive, btw?) or mess about with Lovefilm sticky envelopes – now you can ‘rent’ films on facebook, a la The Dark Night, Jack Ass and more recently Big Lebowski.  Unlike boring real-world movie watching, you can now “like” the movie and even comment as you watch (like yay, it’ll be totes amaze), along with thousands of other people – without someone with a phlegm-face viral infection breathing on your neck as they crunch through a jumbo tray of cheesy Nachos.

5. Family Visits
No longer necessary. Uh Uh. Track ‘alive & well’ statuses through, erm, their statuses. I wonder when facebook will introduce automated messages? Then you can set up: ‘Hello, sorry I haven’t been to see you for ages, are you in my area soon? Let me know xxx’. Oh, and another: “Hey you…”, to be sent intermittently to all the boring people with nothing to say other than “Hey you”. Revenge. I shall enquire.

Coming up next week… 5 Ways To Take a Picture Of Your Face.

 

This Just Popped Up… I Think My PC Has A Virus?

And what is that lovely lady going to do with those fish? So many questions, so few answers.

 

 

Facebook Instant Mobile Messaging: HEY YOU, GO AWAY!

Facebook – the world’s biggest addiction next to tobacco, alcohol, porn and McDonalds; the place you can visit when in real life your friends are non-existent; your face isn’t tagged and commented on by hundreds of people; your dog doesn’t have a fan page and people don’t ‘like’ what you say.

Facebook, the employer’s nemesis, parents’ worst nightmare, relationship history archive and most often, the only reason why you’re in touch with about 400 hundred people you wouldn’t speak to on the street, let alone have a real time unwanted instant chat which by law begins with ‘hey you’.

Well fear not, facebook self-harmers, now you can get harassed on the move! Just make sure you’re available to chat as you catch the bus, make the tea, go to the hairdresser, stack up on some sweat-shop goodies @ Primani – wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, do it with a chorus of ‘hey you’ in your pocket.

WHY the doubt/dread/fear/animosity, I ask myself? Perhaps it’s because anyone I actually want to talk to knows where I live, will have my mobile number, email address, work email and skype info and (God forbid…) will actually spend time with me in real life, whereas facebook is for all the people who quite simply don’t.

So yes, this is a blog to express how I simply cannot wait for facebook to further distort the line between real life and electronic life by bringing fake profiles even closer. And for the record, if you haven’t met someone in real life, they are not your best friend or lover, and if they try and forge that relationship electronically, particularly if through continued ‘hey you’ pings, then beware! You’ve been warned.

Cardiff Back Alley 1-Man Riot

Riot inspired Advertising with Google Adwords

We’re a website agency, and know you have to (eurgh, excuse the term…) *strike whilst the iron’s hot* with online campaigns and suchlike, but surely whoever dreamt up this Google Ads campaign “HOLIDAY PRICES WORTH RIOTING ABOUT” is either:

A) The type who rings a bell when he/she makes a sale

B) Someone who frequently uses the term “Think outside the box”

C) Is a bit ‘rad’, overdid it on the narcotics as a teen and has an alter ego named Daz

or

D) Is an absolutely desperate stereotypical advertising c*nt

You decide…

 

 

Magento – I’m Mad Frrit, Me! #ecommerce

Since starting to work for Big Eye Deers I’ve been introduced to something called Magento and it’s started to take over my life. ‘What is Magento?’ you may ask. Well, apart from being a stupid-sounding word, and all techi stuff aside, it’s basically a type of online shop (boutique or superstore) that ANYONE can have. Tiesto’s got one http://www.shoptiestoglobal.com/ (yup, we did this) and non-global superstar DJs can have one too. I think they’d be good for anyone with something to sell. A florist maybe, furniture retailer, sunglasses seller, hairdresser (get your tigi products and hairbrushes selling online), you could be selling anything.

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Google+ Log In Or Jog Off?

As a self-confessed social media junkie (luckily in work I get to do loads with social media so my addiction is fed nicely), I must admit I’m starting to feel the effects of LOS (login overload syndrome). It’s taking me back to the days where we had to actually remember phone numbers (pre Nokia Pay as You Go mobile release in Argos for £69.99 back in 1994).

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