Yesterday I took a day out and decided to go on a road trip to Stonehenge and see what all the fuss was about. The myth and legend surrounding Stonehenge has always fascinated me somewhat and given they say the original Stonehenge site is dated 3100BC with the iconic stone monument erected around 2500BC, it [...]
Visiting Stonehenge
London Marathon Sponsorship
No, i’m not silly enough to dig out my running shoes and take on 26 1/2 gruelling miles of London’s streets along with a whole bunch of other like minded crazy people. That said, one of our own Miss Kelly Frew has decided that this is the year she will be taking on the challenge [...]
There Was No Snow In Newquay
About a week ago I was under the impression that everywhere in the UK had suffered dramatic snow falls, or at least that’s what the news was telling me. So as you do when trains are at their worst I decided to pack up my stuff for the week and head down to Newquay to [...]
Grandma We Love You…
Or not in the case of this searcher who found their way onto our Gifts UK website with a cracker of a search term (click for larger image):
It’s not been a bad year for the GGUK site. We built the site in late November 2008 and have left it virtually untouched until October 2009 when [...]
Can You Really Get Away With Falling Javascript Snow?
So with 22 sleeps until Christmas we finally stopped twiddling our thumbs and got around to making our Gifts UK website feel more “Christmasy”. The designers came up with a range of suggestions from falling snow, wacky logos, bursting Christmas lights, flying reindeer’s, dancing snowmen, animated elves… all the tacky Christmas stuff you’d expect.
In the [...]
All This Fuss Over Hannah Waterman
If you had asked me an hour ago who Hannah Waterman was, I may have suggested she was related to Pete Waterman (you know, the music producer guy), but I wouldn’t have really knew. That was until I saw this thread on the A4U forum where msg2004 swore that the new Hannah Waterman DVD was [...]
Knowing Where Your Users Click
So recently we’ve been looking at optimising the usability of one of our sites and I thought I’d share some of our findings with you. Essentially we installed a script that would track every click our users made on our Gifts UK site in the form of a heatmap, allowing us to see where the [...]
This Is Worth Reading
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, [...]
How Long To Implement Your Ideas?
One of the thing’s I have always enjoyed about working for myself is the speed of which we are able to implement new ideas and developments without having to consult 8 different departments, have director’s sign off and then wait for tech to implement it.
Let me take you back to Friday afternoon, 3 days ago, [...]
Giving Up Alcohol, 12 Days In
So here we are 12 days after my decision to cut out the alcohol and I thought I’d deliver a progress report. To think it’s only been 12 days is kinda scary, as it’s felt like a lifetime, but, you’ll be pleased to know I haven’t touched a drop!
The actual not drinking of alcohol has [...]