We moved offices this weekend and over an awesome post-move burger in Atomic Burger on Saturday we started talking about what we were going to do with all the space we’ve now got.
One option that we’re actively looking into is renting out desk space, but a few people have suggested that we provide more flexible [...]
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Possible co-working space in Oxford
February 21, 2010 – 3:30 pm
We’ve moved!
February 21, 2010 – 2:46 pm
The White October web design team has moved to a new and shiny Oxford office on Marston Street:
View Unit 3, The Gallery in a larger map
Our new address is:
Unit 3, The Gallery
54 Marston Street
Oxford
OX4 1LF
Our telephone numbers have stayed the same.
The new office is a much bigger space than we had before, and we’re [...]
Bloated contact form – some of the fields = more conversions
October 8, 2009 – 10:06 am
We often explain to our clients that keeping the barriers on a website low is important to keep users on board and increase conversions.
One way is to keep contact forms short and snappy with a small number of fields. Usually that’s how things start off but often after a while we see more fields creeping [...]
Startup incubator
August 14, 2009 – 5:49 pm
I’ve just spotted this. Red Gate software in Cambridge (UK) have launched an incubator project (called Springboard), giving workspace, accommodation and support to tech startups (with no financial buy in). It’s an interesting, altruistic idea.
http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/08/the-accidental-incubator.html
(via http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/08/13.html)
On development flex (not the Adobe thing)
July 21, 2009 – 9:44 am
My wife is due to have a baby. In fact, she’s now majorly overdue to have a baby. As an organisation, we’ve had 9 month heads up on this.
For a small(ish) dev team like ours, even with all that advance notice, it’s somewhat difficult to plan around a developer disappearing for 2 weeks at an [...]
Customer service: a bit of thought always helps
March 4, 2009 – 10:42 am
I’m in two minds about posting a customer service rant here, it tends to feel as if someone is venting their spleen. Ah well, maybe that’s what I’m doing. But there’s a point relevant to working in web development here somewhere. Probably.
My phone stopped sending texts last week, giving a fairly terse error. My phone [...]
Thanks Steven
February 10, 2009 – 10:17 am
I love this quote from Steven Kessel who is Amazon’s “Senior Vice President of Digital Media” about non-US availablility of the Kindle (which I am almost entirely disinterested in):
“We have lots of inbound requests from customers around the world.
“We have no announcements for them today, but we continue to get those requests.”
Brilliant. To paraphrase: Yep, [...]
On developer office space
January 2, 2009 – 3:42 pm
Surely most people have seen the somewhat hyped pics from that Google office in Zurich.
Well slides, cable cars and baths full foam cubes are all well and good but I think Joel Spolsky does things better over at Fog Creek. There, the cash is spent (rather than Google-splurged) on private offices for programmers, the best [...]