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Sep13Join the E.ON 100 Day Challenge.

Ellen has been helping E.ON with the launch of their 100 day challenge, a scheme for businesses to spend 100days working at reducing the amount of energy they use.
We’ve started with the little things - do we need to have the lights on all day (we have a lot of windows!) and the printer on all night when we aren’t here? You’d be surprised how these small changes can save a lot of energy!

We’re hoping that the people who learn about these small differences at work will also take the ideas home.

You can find out more on Ellen’s personal blog http://blog.ellenmacarthur.com, or at the E.ON site http://www.eonenergy.com/ellen

Here’s some of the things Ellen has been doing herself…

“So many times, I have heard people saying ‘we know we have to do something, but what can actually be done!’ Well this project is about actually telling people that, and helping them to understand the changes that they can make, usually simple, and which often don’t have to cost a penny. I’ve started doing simple things like printing 2 pages on 1 sheet of A4, always printing on the back…. Some people say that the text is too small, but I rarely hear people complaining about the size of text in a newspaper. It not only saves paper, but you carry less around with you, you use less printer ink, it prints more quickly – just seems sensible to me!”

Aug24Content Server working with Google Analytics

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

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.

Aug06Importance of producing semantically valid Markup…

Producing markup is common practice for any who develop initially for the web. Most could probably quite happily say that it is a straight forward process so long as it all looks good on screen. But is it? Fully understanding the reasoning for implementing HTML and using the right tag for its Job (cue the term semantic markup) is highly crucial and beneficial but appears to still be a common misunderstanding around the web. Planning ahead is actually a much harder process than one might expect and requires an initial degree of thought before delving straight in. However, putting effort in in the early stages not only saves on development time and future costs but overtime with practice, just makes plain common sense.

Jul26Browser Size != Resolution Size

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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