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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

To Infinity & Beyond!

This is a nice little interactive flash application that attempts to demonstrate just how big

our universe is, and just how insignificantly small we really are…..

http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/index.php

Most playing – Glitch

Signed up last week and i’ve been hooked since.

What is Glitch? We’ll it’s a massive multi-player social game built by the guys behind Flickr – and it’s all for free.

It’s one big connected world, and your smallest actions can have the most unimaginable consequences apparently. It’s fun and funny. It’s fresh and fantastic.

Sign up today and start exploring this mad new world…

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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

DJ Shadow @ Cardiff Uni Hall 03/0911

I’ve been a massive fan of Josh Davis’ work for many a year, from his early Unkle days, right through to his solo projects – DJ Shadow has produced amazing ground-breaking albums and is a true pioneer in electronic music. The highlights for me being Private Press and Endtroducing.

When hearing he was playing in Cardiff, I jumped at the chance to go see him and was not disappointed, the audio and visuals was master-class in presentation – DJ Shadow rocked the Cardiff Uni Hall for over an hour with a an awesome mix of old classics and new material.

I’m really looking forward to new DJ Shadow album ‘The Less You Know, The Better’ to be released late September.

Until then, check out the visuals from the night.

DJ Shadow@Cardiff Halls

Why Has Firefox Become SO Rubbish?

Having been an avid user of Firefox for many years, I was particularly sceptical when Google stuck their oar into the world of web browsers, however after downloading a beta version it became quite clear that Google (as they often do) had created something truly giant killing. Continue reading

Google Page Speed

Google have been helping make the web a better place to be for a while now, even though their market dominance is quite scary, we all admire their input to the web community by helping smaller businesses and people with their sites by using Google’s web tools and apps.

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27 Steps To Becoming A PHP God

Every now and then when trawling the interweb something genuinely useful pops up, like this presentation given at the PHPBenelux 2011 convention.

None of the content is particularly ground breaking or revolutionary, just some great common sense advise that all developers should consider to improve their skills…

 

jQuery ‘out muscles’ Flash

According to jQuery support the popular open source library has now ‘overtaken’ Flash, in terms of how many websites have deployed each technology, at least when it comes to the world’s ‘top’ websites.

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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?

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