It’s been a little while since I was involved in the launch of a website, let alone the creation of one. The addition of a new company to our group, du Pré Marine, has provided the excuse to dust off skills and catch up with the current state of various content management platforms.
At first I was considering using WordPress for the site; it seems to be much greater than a mere blogging tool now and I really enjoy working with it on here when I have the time. But in the end I selected Joomla. It took a few hours and a couple of headache pills to get to grips with it. However the end result is good and it gives us a basis for getting going with the first of our product lines in the new company, FLIR thermal imaging
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Busy few days moving the whole company from its previous brand identity of 21 years, Hebron UK Ltd, to Double First Ltd.
Intensive sales efforts in the Middle East over the past few weeks are adding to the list of schools that are using our management information system Engage. But sharing our company identity with the name of the largest city in the West Bank has created some concerns that we might be misunderstood in some way, a reaction that was never foreseen when Hebron was founded.
So we’re moving the corporate brand to Double First, a name that originally featured on a successful suite of software written by the company a decade or more back.
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We’re beginning to reap the benefits of an awful lot of prep work in the team earlier in the year, and there’s no better illustration than IPC Connect’s recent launch of the new Good To Know portal which uses the IPC CMS2 project as a platform.
Following an extensive period of research the site maps
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Have just launched a series of websites covering our shooting and field sports brands – Shooting Times, Sporting Gun, The Field and The Shooting Gazette, all of them clustered under a new portal, Shooting UK.
This particular set of web builds burned a lot of midnight oil in order to get them ready for the CLA
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Good news – Strand Lighting has done something to sort its website and it looks a lot better. Bad news – it hasn’t bothered to redirect any of its old links – try to access them and you get a page with some old navigation and a brace of javascript errors.
It’s not nice work, it’s
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Have been a bit buried of late getting a new website launched.
House To Home is the second website we have launched on our new Symphony-based in-house developed CMS platform and the third major launch for my team this year, following Country Life in February and InStyle in May.
House To Home’s key feature is its broad
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Paul Lomax’s latest blog, 10 tactics for Web 2.0 success, reminds me of many a late night spent conversing with him over some of the key issues surrounding internet development in the current age.
Of all of the points he makes his second, which points out the ideal of sites with a “strong, simple and compelling
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After a lot of transatlantic effort we launched InStyle’s UK website last night.
On the surface it looks like a close cousin of the parent InStyle.com site in the US but there have been many changes to make it more suitable for a predominantly UK audience. The site editor is Maria Milano, who flew out to
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We moved into IPC Media’s new HQ today, in the Blue Fin building (part of the Bankside development immediately behind the Tate Modern on London’s Southbank. One immediate bonus; we now have our rapidly expanding web development team all sat in one rather large area for the first time since the headcount broke 35
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