We’ve just launched another site this week. Premier Sports Group provide sports coaching, sports holiday courses, kit and tours for schools and parents. Their new site has a fresh design and they’ve got full control over the content they put in thanks to Contented.
Time for a traditional post launch pint.
I was thinking about getting a couple of last minute tickets to Glastonbury this weekend. See tickets are selling them (this link will probably die soon, I guess).
They’re not cheap. There’s a booking fee and a transaction fee. What’s this though:
Brilliant! Only one transaction fee for the two tickets. So generous. But hang on:
Hmm. Nice.
I [...]
Apple have a service which (amongst other things) allows web-based access to emails, calendar and contacts. Yesterday, they announced that the service (previously called .mac) is being relaunched as mobile me.
37signals reports on something interesting about the relauch. Apple have stated that they won’t be supporting IE6. There’s speculation that a major player like Apple [...]
We’ve not used Flash image replacement in a big way yet, but I’m sure we will need to for some of the more design led sites that we will implement in the near future. I was alerted to the importance of using the right technique this morning when I visited this article about an unrelated [...]
We’re always interested in views on and approaches to customer service such as this piece by tech management guru Joel Spolsky.
So how about the idea of bringing new employees in, giving them a four week training course to immerse them in the customer focussed culture but after a week, offer them a pile of cash [...]
More timelapse goodness. This time, a chap who spent 40 hours creating some vector art in Illustrator timelapsed a screen capture of it.
http://www.vimeo.com/927062
Very cool. If we timelapsed a day of web development would it be at all interesting? Probably not.
You can buy a print of the work.
UPDATED: Here is a day of web development timelapsed [...]
Sometimes when something on a website or app is apparently hard to use, clients, developers and designers will suggest that we need to provide instructions or help. I would almost always argue that this is wrong. If you have to supply instructions, then the design is wrong.
A few months ago, I came across this situation [...]