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
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Google+ has been around for about month now and users can now sign up and get involved with the new social media craze. Besides the cool new features that could give it the competitive edge over its neighbouring rivals, other features coming from Google could help rankings of websites through its new social media feature, ‘Circles’ and give sites more credibility through its ‘+1′ buttons. Continue reading
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.
Facebook has become well known for rolling out updates that seem to detract from the user experience and doing so without any user consultation. The latest batch of updates includes widely discussed and globally despised chat (I’ve yet to hear anyone say anything positive about it). Not since Microsoft’s awful Internet explorer 6 have I seen such a massive company disregard so many industry standards and principles.
Thankfully though some lovely people have whipped up a nice little add on for Chrome and Firefox that runs a bit of javascript every time your Browser hits Facebook and changes the chat window back to the old style. The script install in seconds on Chrome, however in Firefox you need to install the Greasemonkey add on first.
Currently there isn’t support for IE or Safari browser, but quite frankly if you use either of those browsers you don’t deserve to have the old Facebook chat back! 
The team at WordPress have recently released their *NEW* in-house theme, ‘twentyeleven’ which now comes as standard with the latest WordPress install (version 3.2.1). The new theme has taken all the features from their older theme, ‘twentyten’ and given it a good ol’ update! Continue reading
Just discovered TweeterStreet thanks to the great 6 music. It’s a project set up by a photographer with the aim of capturing Twitter users where they tweeted and with what they tweeted. Ranging from everyday insights to the slightly more bizarre and quirky, there are already some really good images.
Once there are 140 portraits (quite fitting for twitter’s 140 character limit!) they will then be published in a book, if you want to get involved go to their about page!
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).
Sugar at No.10 is a Cardiff start-up business which needed an online presence. We were approached to design and build a landing page in advance of the venue opening in mid May 2011.
Clothing brand APN (A Public Nuisance) required an e-commerce site that showcased their debut retail line, in addition to a stunning photography campaign and an SWL feature (or “Stuff We Like”) where visitors submit a range of interests to be included on the site.
We built the APN online store using FoxyCart, which offers a range of benefits, including:
- The ability to use your existing templates
- A format that is easy to implement
- Automatic shipping rates calculated
- XML Datafeeds
The overall site design is simple, yet striking, featuring red, white and black as the dominant colours. The Flash banner on the homepage features the campaign photography in an image carousel doused in a rich cherry red overlay.
See the site for yourself here.
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