Big Eye Deers Blog

So you’ve probably heard that Nike have a new ad out…

Cat — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:30:04 +0000

And yes, it’s pretty awesome.

109,063,363 views in 3 hours level of awesome.

You can watch the interactive version here

For those of you whose videos don’t have the same impact, take a lesson from Dr Steve Brule. Internet videos aren’t that hard ya dingus!

For your Technology

It’s lesson time with Trade School Cardiff

Cat — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:13:46 +0000

Sling your backpack over one shoulder like the cool kids and head on down to Trade School Cardiff this week. I went and it was like being back in year 11 art class sniffing glue and getting covered in glitter – I thoroughly recommend it! (not the glue sniffing of course, that would be bad).

For those of you that haven’t heard of it, Trade School Cardiff is a week long project by community group thinkARK where people can ‘barter’ for knowledge and skills. Our teacher, and one of Trade School organiser’s Laura Howe received a wonderful bounty of badges, treasure maps and home-made soap in exchange for her teachings on ‘How to Combat Boredom with a Piece of Paper’ – an essential skill to have.

We learnt how to make windmills (my personal favourite) paper hats, fortune tellers, and played a few rounds of consequences and exquisite corpses – the Margaret Thatcher/Sexy Deer abomination was one of the many ‘creative’ results these games produced. Other classes on offer include: brain training, learning code, and how to use free online research and learning tools, and may require you to bring old shoes, vegetables and your imagination.

There’s 2 days left so do pop along, you can view the classes on offer at: http://tradeschool.coop/cardiff/class/

1st Claims Goes Live!

Cat — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:05:59 +0000

Big Eye Deers has been working on a new site for specialist solicitors 1^st Claims. Managing Director Nicholas Jervis wanted a re-design of their current site so that it was more up to date and accurately reflected the services 1^st Claims has to offer.

1^st claims are delighted with the work and we think the site is fab – we especially love the bright colour scheme! We added dynamic areas using PHP and jQuery techniques and embedded video testimonials from Nicholas himself on the homepage to express the friendly nature of 1^st Claims and give visitors to the site confidence that they were dealing with an approachable, professional company. The unique animated counter displays the number of people 1^st Claims have helped which we felt was one of their biggest selling points so made sure it featured prominently on the homepage. Take a look at the site by visiting www.1stclaims.co.uk now!

How the innernet has changed

Cat — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:32:10 +0000

Did you know that in 1996 a web page took 30 seconds to load? That’s enough time to get a subway sandwich with all the salad bits (not that anyone ever wants salad, it’s all about the MEAT amiright?) Just think, millions of people sat at their computers waiting HALF A MINUTE for a web page to load, it’s madness! All that wasted time… Mind you, I guess you could get in a good game of Solitaire while you waited.

The reason for this post is that I found this infographic (via here). I felt nostalgic for some reason, even though the only things I remember about the wurld wide web in the 1990′s were neopets and aol chat (only the teen chat rooms were permitted, which ironically were just full of creepy old men).

It was such a wondrous, new thing. Having to ask permission to go online because it meant your house landline couldn’t receive phonecalls and if you did happen to ring someone who was using the internet, your eardrum was blasted with what can only be described as the sound of a thousand robots dying. Good times. Also, remember Lycos? Ask Jeeves? That website where you could type in questions and get automatic robot answers? Yep, the internet was awesome back in the day:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Anyways check this out and reminisce with me.

Venn Diagram to show Bono’s Residency

Cat — Sat, 05 May 2012 16:24:51 +0000

Happy Star Wars Day!

Cat — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:08:29 +0000

Things Overheard in the Office Today #2

Cat — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:19:34 +0000

“I don’t really want to look in his back-end”

Sorry, what was that?

Oooh right. Computer talk. Gotcha, I thought you meant, well, you know…

*phew*

For a happier, healthier, more successful you…visit Red Dandelion!

Cat — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:15:48 +0000

We’ve just finished a wonderful little site for one of our clients Red Dandelion! Red Dandelion is a coaching and teaching business set up by Life Coach Jennie Bayliss. Working closely with Jennie we created something on her brand of emotional and empathetic healing.

To introduce Jennie and her business we’ve put a nice flash intro on the homepage so visitors to the site can find out more about Red Dandelion and have a chance to contact her underneath. The site is built using new HTML5 spec which incorporates minimal code and clear semantics.

The headings are colour coded for easy navigation and show each aspect of coaching Jennie specialises in: business, personal and overeating. We’ve also included elements such as: videos, sign up form and a wordpress blog for Jennie’s articles and published work with a custom skin to suit the site and SEO capabilities. The site is easy to browse and the social media links at the bottom of the page make it easy for people to connect with Jenni.

Go check it out at http://www.reddandelion.co.uk/

My Deer How You’ve Grown!

Cat — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:04:08 +0000

Big Eye Deer, meet your Big Wire Deer Cousin.

Why can’t all pylons be like this?

Watch Porn

Cat — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:16:44 +0000

Damn that’s sexy.