Run Berlin 2008

Back in December I had a little gem of an idea. That little gem was to run a marathon, in particular the Berlin marathon, with my sister-in-law.

Now as I sit here with burning thighs, sore nips and chaffing in places I'd rather not mention that idea is looking less like a gem and more like a piece of dirty gravel. Nevertheless, my name is down, sponsorship has started coming in and there's no going back now.

Being a web designer what am I to do with all these new challenges. Well I've done what any self respecting web designer would do - i've create a blog. Not just any old blog but a tumblelog at Tumblr. Where Tumblr places itself is somewhere between full on blogging tools such as blogger/wordpress which lean towards lenghty articles and microblogs like twitter/jaiku. Tumblr allows the user to quickly add a particular media type from choose of 7 basic forms of media. It rocks.


If you're a generous soul who's just looking to sponsor me you can do so at my bmy charity page. Thanks.

You can also keep a track of how the blog is fairing on Command Shift 3 too. It doesn't seem to get into too many battles but when it does it seems to do alright.

Int' it great. Yorkshire. Aye lad

eeee them there folk int' digital bit ant arf dun a reet job be grabbin' a champion project frum Yorshire Forward...

Ahem...

Well an off shoot of Yorkshire Foward to be exact Seth. Yes, hours of toiling over a tender document and proposal paid off as we beat the competition to a rather nice piece of work for Integreat Yorkshire.

IY are tasked with "making places" in Yorkshire, and encouraging architects and construction agencies to redevelop and regenerate areas of Yorkshire to new heights. And thats exactly what we intend to do with the website. It wont be as big as Bridgewater Place, but we hope it will help spread the word about the regeneration available in Yorkshire with the aid of IY.

Watch this space for further updates. Project team includes Joe McGrath, Michael Wood, Chris Ball and Steve Baker. The site will use a mix of SiteKit CMS and bespoke development.

Eeee grand. Where's me whippet?

Our Father who art in Wakefield...

There are moments in history when man has achieved the unthinkable. However, the building of the Pyramids, conquering Everest and flying to the moon simply pale in comparison when you consider that today Poulters Digital put 3 sites live IN ONE DAY.

Yes Sirree. Take a moment, sit back and marvel at the multi-tasking skills of the Digital department.


Website Number 1
http://www.beziergroup.com
The Mothership of all sites (within the bezier group). This puppy takes a novel and currently hip approach of delivering all the content on one page, using clever Javascript to navigate between sections. Basically, we tried our best at making a straightforward corporate site look 'down with the kids'. Rather than looking down on the kids as you'd expect it to.

Design, concept and mark-up/css by Chris Ball, smart coding skills courtesy of Joe Bragg. Steve Baker steered the ship.


Website Number 2
http://www.bezier.co.uk"
New year has hit the old bezier site hard. Atkins guide in hand, off it trudged to the gym focusing mainly on its love handles and rather unsightly paunch. The new stripped-back bezier site is here and its ready to rumble. Try not to mention the Halitosis mind.

Design by Edd Newson, mark-up/css by Poulters and admin coding by Joe Bragg. Project managed by Steve Baker.


Website Number 3
http://www.bluetouchdesign.co.uk
A swanky new website to match their swanky new offices. The bluetouch site is like your dapper brother-in-law who you know is way out of your sister's league but haven't the heart to tell him.

Slick design by Edd Newson, mark-up/css by Chris Ball with a helping hand from Joe McGrath. Pam Manku was at the controls.

The digital department is celebrating this great feat the only way it knows how. By rejoicing in the Kevin Keegan Quote Machine.

Dorjes Wine

How can we possibly pay back our Mums? They spend 9 months lugging us about in their tummies before squeezing us out like a watermelon through a smarties tube. Then after we've inflicted the most excruciating pain they're ever likely to experience how do we repay them? By coming into the world crying and screaming and pooing everywhere.

Well I've taken a tiny step in paying mine back. I've only gone and created a brand spanking new website for my Mum's company, the wondeful wine merchants Dorjé's. (www.dorjes.co.uk).


My Mum's partner Ali is the genius behind it all and together they have painstakingly compiled an exclusive and extremely comprehensive wine list for all to enjoy. The website currently provides a detailed catalogue of beverages available from their warehouse in Warwick.

If you're looking for tips try the sparkling and fruity Fragolino.

Chin chin.

By Far The Greatest Team Building Website The World Has Ever Seen...

Love them or hate them, you have to admit Manchester United have a great team. They may not win every match. They may have had a slightly unsteady start to the season. But they are coming good right now as last nights 4-2 victory over in Kiev showed. And as with any great team, once they get into their stride there is no limit to what they can achieve.

I'd bet that if you offered offices up and down the country a glimpse into the Old Trafford changing rooms (not like that girls!) to see the tactical master that is Sir Alex at work and to see how great teams organise themselves, they'd bite your hand off.

Well now you can.
http://unitedinbusiness.manutd.com/teambuildingsolutions/index.htm



Manchester United have developed a team building and training programme designed to bring out the best in individuals and teams. The site has much more detail about it including a video of Sir Alex and testimonials. Now with newly up-to-date kit.


Shame it didn't help them in the 2-0 drubbing the mighty Sky Blues gave them the other day, eh?

Digital Facelift

As you can probably tell Call Of Digital has had a facelift. Yay!

It was bit drab in the standard-blogger noir look. With the winter nights fast approaching I've lifted the naked black and replaced it with a... err... lovely midnight blue. What a difference a bit of slap makes eh?

The photoshopped collage in the background calls inspiration from a few sites. Firstly, the lovely webdesignerwall.com and this fantasic tutorial in particular from the talented Neil Duerden.

Secondly, I took thin slice of grime from urbandirty.com to provide some texture in the background.

Thirdly, kuler came in handy for some cute colour scheme guidance. 1944mustang was what I plumped for in the end.

Finally, the four photos across the top are taken from the Stock Exchange. A great site that allows you to download free stock imagery once you have signed up. I highly recommend you get on there and start sharing your photos for the good of the web. It just happens that the photos used we're all taken by yours truly from a long time ago and forgotten about until yesterday.

Hope you like it ;)

'I must have some booze. I demand to have some booze.'

That's what you should be saying to your boss now that the Corporate Thresher Gift Voucher website has been incorporated into the main Thresher Group website. We did the Thresher group website back in March time. Unfortunately, I was tied over Ross's desk at the time so I couldn't actually get away to post on it.

So anyway, the site is seemlessly integrated into the main site and it now allows you to order your Corporate gift vouchers online.

If you fancy a quick peek visit http://www.threshergiftvouchers.co.uk/.

The Thresher website was developed by Joe Bragg & Joe McGrath, managed by Ross Hewitt & Anna MaWhinney and designed and scripted by Chris Ball.