NRSB Website - Take a Look!

(This was posted 8 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 8 hours, 20 minutes's ago.)

Earlier this year we sent the NRSB website live. The project was split between the design talents of Baseline Creative and the development skills of Thinking Virtually.

The brief from NRSB was that they wanted a website that they could administer, that was eye catching but that was something their people they support could use.

They gave us the BBC website as an example... they wanted different colour options, a zoom facility and a text only version of the site. It also had to be as compliant as it could be with W3C web standards and WCAG/DDA standards for accessibility.

The result is a website that in the main is fully compliant with web standards, that has great technical benefits such as the zoom, different colour options and the text only site – but more than this it is also eye catching, it draws the browser into the site to find out more and more and more.

We would like to thank Baseline Creative for giving us the opportunity to work on this project and NRSB for setting the standard for a really engaging website.

A Great Weekend

(This was posted 8 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 31 minutes's ago.)

In spite of the ridiculous cold weather the weekend was great fun.

Sunday dinner at the mother in laws saw an all out Nerf battle between the forces of good and evil (me and my son Jamie and my brother in law and his girlfriend).

Saturday was a little calmer, helping Jamie to beat me at chess (not going to live that down for a time...).

And knowing that I am just about ready for Christmas.

This week is going to be interesting as we are about to rebuild a long standing clients website using our CMS (ExpressionEngine) as well as play with another clients site. We have a business networking website to build and a storage solutions website to build – so going to be busy, busy, busy!

Thinking Virtually on the iPhone

(This was posted 8 months, 4 weeks, 2 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes's ago.)

Just because we had some time and I’m a geek we have developed a limited version of our site that is optimised for the iPhone. 

Thinking Virtually iPhone means that you will soon be able to see our lovely site on your iPhone without having to zoom in and out! 

Is it a gimic.... yes. Was it universally accepted/wanted in the office.... no. Most importantly though is what does your website look like to mobile browsers?

Automatic Twitter and Facebook Updates

(This was posted 8 months, 4 weeks, 2 days, 9 hours, 8 minutes's ago.)

Automatic Twitter and Facebook updates are here!

We have been working on a way of getting our blog to update the entries on the social networking sites that we are members of without having to do x, y, z and a combination of other things.

Well thanks to a combination of a new module for ExpressionEngine, Ping.fm and our bloody minded approach to development we are there!

This is a technical thing so I won’t bore you with it but the long and short is that we can now send anything entered into our preferred CMS to an email recipient or a social networking site.

If you can’t do this or if you have to go through x, y, z, and so on give us a call so we can show you a simpler approach.

Google Sidewiki - good or baaaaaab?

(This was posted 9 months, 1 day, 14 hours, 2 minutes's ago.)

Clearly I’m not one to moan about the wonderful Google but I have to say that I find the latest Google gadget to be a little annoying...

Google Sidewiki...

In Googles words ‘Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page’.

I think that in reality is another way of adding a popup to my screen when I load a new website or page.

I have to think about the idea that this will at some point be used for advertising, something along the lines of associated website adds being shown based on comments or content!

Then there is people abusing the system, what if I was to go onto my #1 competitors site and comment that they are not worth a light – will that comment be shown when browsers to their site visit? Now I’m not a nasty man but what if my competitors are? Could they leave messages for my visitors to see? 

At the heart of it I think the idea is a good one, my problem is thinking about how it is going to be abused by Google and other web users.