Oct13Web App ‘n’ Widget Frenzy

• By Carl Crawley in News, Technology, Web,
• tagged sailing, Volvo Ocean Race and Web Design

It has most definately been a busy ole month in the development department here at OC Vision.

We’re currently working on an Equine Insurance Web-App which is due to launch in November, just finished an OS X widget for Mike Golding Yacht Racing, another 2 widgets in the pipeline and a Web App for Puma Ocean Racing just launched!

We’re very pleased with http://media.pumaoceanracing.com - our latest web-app to hit the interweb! It is simply bursting with exciting technologies such as ‘Distributed Storage’ (from the great guys at Amazon S3), Video Streaming and Live Conversion technologies from the guys over at SesameVault (http://www.sesamevault.com) and all built on a Ruby on Rails Platform.

The site is a media portal for the Puma Sponsored ‘Il Mostro’ Volvo 70 currently taking part in the Volvo Ocean Race which started last weekend. It allows registered users to log in and retrieve hi-res images as well as video in multiple formats during the race.

All processing is done behind the scenes, with the media team simply uploading single image and the system takes the image, extracts IPTC/EXIF data, creates mid-res and thumbnail images and uploads it to S3 for distributed storage.

As for video, Quicktime files are uploaded using FTP and then using the secure admin panel, videos are processed and converted into MP4, Flash, 3GP and Ogg Vorbis.

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Aug24Content Server working with Google Analytics

• By Dan Griffey in Technology, Web,
• tagged content server and google

OC Vision’s content management platform, Content Server, has excellent support to integrate with Google Analytics, a brilliant and free web traffic analyzation tool.
Google Analytics is Google Analytics is a great free tool from the home of search that allows you to analyse all of the key performance indicators that a modern website editor / manager needs. There are great tools that will also work with your AdWords campaigns (we can help you set these up too), and some excellent reports that you can access on demand, or receive on a schedule by email.

If you are not using this with your website, get in touch and we can help with understanding your site better!

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Aug23Video Communication from the Oceans

• By Dan Griffey in Technology, Web,
• tagged Barcelona World Race, content server and podcast

The latest website for the Barcelona World Race, powered by our Content Server product, features daily video interviews with the skippers sailing in the Fastnet prologue event.

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Jul26Browser Size != Resolution Size

• By Carl Crawley in Technology, Web,
• tagged Browser and Web Design

It is a common misconception that to build a website in 1024px x 768px, thats the size to set your workspace in Photoshop or Fireworks.

However, there are a number of misconceptions that this has - including:

Browsers maximised on a screen of 1024px x 768px aren’t actually that size.

Screen sizes take into account the size from ‘edge’ to ‘edge’ of the screen. That includes your taskbar and any other bars you may have running. When you maximise a browser window at 1024px x 768px - the ‘viewable area’ maybe be considerably less depending on how many toolbars you have (address bar, google bar, yahoo! bar, links etc), whether you have any scrollbars and also how large your taskbar is.

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