Archive for November, 2011

Paul wins .net Young Developer of the Year 2011

We’d all like to offer our congratulations to our superstar team member Paul Davis on winning his first award of many last night.

Paul’s passion and excitement for what he does is key to his success and an inspiration to us all. On a day that the UK government announce 1 billion in support of youth employment he sets a shinning example of how you can go out (or stay in) and learn a trade.

Paul didn’t need to spend 3 years at Uni, he absorbs information wherever he is, his alma mater write books and lecture on technology and they are usually only a tweet away (almost 12,000 tweets!!!).

Paul, it’s an honour and a privilege to have you on the team, we all hope your head doesn’t hurt too much this morning!

Simple, clean and effective

We were asked to produce a web presence and brand style for a new tech company as quickly as possible. Budgets were tight so, by keeping all the work in house, we managed to deliver the job on time and on budget.

Please take a look http://www.coworthtechnologies.com/

An Appetite for Design

We’ve been working with Appetite for a little over a year now and have worked with them on client sites for Trapoil and The Legacy List.

After completing a small holding site a few months back we’re launching their brand new site today. The site showcases Appetite’s work for Adgistics, Unilever, Trapoil and the University of Leeds using some cool slidy viewers.

 

Almost every aspect of the site is content managed from a WordPress back end that allows for smart navigation pulling in related content into pages where required. To simplify the content management process we created bespoke plug-ins so the client could manage portfolio items and gallery.

As the site features a lot of large graphics and background images attention has been paid to optimising the pages and the server platform to ensure fast loading pages giving the site an A ranking on GT-Metrix

Check out the site here