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Call Centre Connect - Site Launch

POSTED 30th June 09, by Callum Reckless.

We launched a new website last week, Call Centre Connect and it boasts some excellent bits of functionality, more on that later!

We started working with Rob, Will and the team at Call Centre Connect around 6 months ago when the idea of launching this new start up was being muted around. We were asked to work with CCC due to our 'dynamism, creativity and core technical skills' (their words not o...

TAGS: CALL CENTRE CONNECT, CCC, CLIENT, CREATIVE SERVICES, ILLUSTRATION, SITE LAUNCH, WEB DESIGN, WEB DEVELOPMENT

The Pirate Bay - The Video Bay

POSTED 30th June 09, by Mike Griffiths.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) is the world's most high-profile file-sharing web site. Recently its owners have been in the news a lot due to them being caught and prosecuted under copyright law by the music industry.

The web site's owners were taken to court, found guilty and sentenced to one year in jail in April. However, they are currently still free men.

As well as the one year jail sentence, they were also made to pay $4.5million in damages...

TAGS: COPYRIGHT, HTML 5, PIRATE BAY

Google's BigTable

POSTED 29th June 09, by Mike Griffiths.

Google is a search engine that many of us take for granted. Launched ten years ago with a simple idea - to save a copy of the Internet. The search engine works by 'crawling' web sites. Crawling simply means that it will visit a web site and then go to every link it finds on that web site. Using this method, most web sites on the Internet can be discovered. They obviously have a substantially sized initial list of sites to visit.

There are...

TAGS: BIGTABLE, GOOGLE

The Long and Winding Road...

POSTED 26th June 09, by Callum Reckless.

...to launching our own new website is over! :-)

Many thanks to the team for getting the new Reckless site finished, and more importantly putting up with my ever changing design and specification! Designing this has been more long winded than painting the Sistene Chapel...

Anyway, it's live now and I must say that I rather like it; we were looking for an easy to use site that could comfortably communicate our vast service and product list. ...

TAGS: RECKLESS NEW MEDIA SITE, SITE LAUNCH, WEB DESIGN

What colour is your hat

POSTED 26th June 09, by Dan Williams.

White Hat or Black Hat

Search Engine Optimization techniques can be put into two areas for classification:

White Hat - these use techniques that search engines do approve of
Black Hat - these use techniques that search engines do not approve of

White Hat techniques

These tend to produce long term results, creating a site over time which conforms to the search engine'...

TAGS: BLACK HAT, SEO, WHITE HAT

SEO

POSTED 26th June 09, by Dan Williams.

"Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results." Wikipedia, 2009

I have recently been looking into SEO and trying to learn...

TAGS: ADWORDS, GOOGLE, OPTIMIZATION, SEARCH ENGINES, SEO

Internal Job Queue

POSTED 26th June 09, by Mike Griffiths.

Recently, I created a system for the office that allows us to manage our work more easily. The current system in place is called Keeno, and works quite well. Keeno is an online system that allows us to mark time against jobs, which in turn are linked to clients; this makes billing and logging of tasks really easy. The only problem with Keeno is keeping track of new jobs and what each person in the office is currently working on.

The new sys...

TAGS: KEENO, MYSQL, PHP