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We are pleased to announce we have won the contract to design and develop a new website for @workwales, a recruitment agency based in Swansea. Featuring a job database, with live search and registration facilities, we are confident that we can deliver something that will help continue the company’s rapid expansion.

We have launched the Church Discounts Website at www.churchdiscounts.co.uk

The site offers discounts to members of church communities throughout the UK, and we look forward to contributing to its success!

MPM Associates has asked us to replicate the model for Forces Discount, a site that we have managed for over 10 years, for their new venture – Church Discounts.

Church Discounts is a partnership between MPM Associates and St Andrew’s Bookshops to offer a unique advertising platform to reach the Church Communities across the United Kingdom.

We will be designing and building the website, and adding the advertisers as they come on board. Watch this space!

It was a busy week last week, as we launched two websites – www.whisperconnect.co.uk and www.remoteitsolutions.biz

Both companies have been clients for a while, and we look forward to continuing the relationship in the future.

In 2008 we completed a site for Warrington-based Remote IT Solutions (www.clickmanageware.com). This focussed on a specific product and service offering. This time around, they’ve asked us to tackle their mother site at www.remoteitsolutions.biz.

Watch this space for updates!

Not long ago, I extolled the virtues of the BlackBerry over the iPhone. I realised this may have been a bit hasty when I started playing with my friend’s iPhone back in May of last year.

My phone contract was due up, so, although I found it difficult at first, I was drawn inexorably into the desirable, hopeless-to-resist, financial black hole that is Apple’s product line-up. Although my initial decision was probably based more on the “shiny factor”, rather than any serious investigation into its capabilities, I’m happy to report that after 9 months I know I made the right decision in going for the iPhone.

The fact is, notwithstanding it’s aesthetic appeal, the iPhone has won all manner of smartphone awards since its launch in June 07, and the latest incarnation which I have, the 3GS, merely adds to the misery of the competition.

Its appeal seems to affect ones’ thought processes, given that I went out and bought a MacBook Pro not long after, just to give it something to plug into: some company, maybe.

As I said to my Mac-stalwart friend, it seems that everything Apple produce just “works”, and I suppose that’s the best thing about their stuff. But they also seem to offer that something extra, which makes you wonder, when you fall under the spell, how you resisted it for so long.

In the next few months we will be on the move to our new office. I say “move”, but it’s more of a sideways shift: it’s about 50 yards from where we are now.

We saw an opportunity too good to pass up, so we’re upping sticks and should be in around May (ish).

We’ll keep you posted!

New day, new announcement about a new product development/cash-generator from those leviathans of Silicon Valley. This time, however, it is something they can slip under the door onto the mat without any effort on their or our part. As a way to launch a new product, they have it pretty easy, given that Buzz is an add-on for GMail, their web-based email service.

Apparently, in the coming days, users of GMail will see the link to Buzz appear under their Inbox link, and they are automatically connected to their contacts in a way similar to followers in Twitter, and Friends in Facebook. It all sounds good, but I haven’t seen my link yet in the Apps version, so it makes me wonder what I have to do.

Given that they search everything that comes in and out of my email account, maybe I should write a lovely email about them and see if that does the trick?

http://www.google.com/buzz

After much procrastinating, our new site is finally ready for launch.

As is always the case, getting in-house things done always seems to take a back seat, hence the delay. But we think the wait is worth it, as it gives us more room to shout about what we do, and all in a nice shiny interface!

We’d love to know what you think, so please feel free to drop us a line…

Apple have announced a new OS for their ubiquitous iPhone. Amongst the amazing new features is “copy and paste”, which apparently allows you to copy one piece of text from one place, and then move it all the way to somewhere else.

Who knows – it might just catch on.

http://bit.ly/123Q26