Giving 20%
The world of the internet moves pretty quickly. New ideas and ways of approaching problems on the web are cropping up all the time. We keep a close eye on the things that go on in the world of the web, learn new processes and techniques which can help our clients’ sites work better.
Information and applications, a brand opportunity
We are moving ever more to a world dominated by pure information and the traditional role of brands is having to evolve, whilst I’m not suggesting that the world of information packs, leaflets and brochures is dead what we are starting to find is that they play a lesser role in the minds of consumers. [...]
1:1 Marketing – The future is getting personal
We laugh now but in the mid 90′s, there was this crazy notion that if you put up a web-site, any old web-site, then the money came rolling in. Even more crazy is that it worked…by the bucket load. Then along came “big” marketing and dragged us down some odd “brand-orientated, synergy-busting and paradigm-shifting alley”. [...]
VITES 3.0 Features & benefits
Due for restricted launch at the end of Summer, VITES 3.0 brings a whole new set of features for market-leading organisations to rip into and turn into huge competitive advantage Here is a brief outline of what you can expect in the next release of the worlds first, commercially available, personalisation and customer journey platform [...]
First FREE space for creative minds in Yorkshire
From September 1st, Connected are throwing their doors open to any creative types What? Yup, we’re opening 1,500 sq ft of cool office space to anyone who wants to use it We already have quite a few friends and clients who use our office space and we thought, “to hell with, invite everyone In” Great [...]
Size is everything!
In recent years we’ve seen the size of digital displays increase, whether you’re talking about 32″ iMacs or 50″ widescreen TVs. However, it seems that this trend is now in full reverse with the explosion of micro-screen devices, including the market-dominating iPhone/iPod. 2010 is then set to see the growth of much smaller devices, 9″ [...]
Taking time to secure our code bases
Often we’re asked “can’t you change it quickly whilst I’m on the phone?” or “It’s only a quick tweak, can you do it straight away?”. To project manage, we use Basecamp and like most of the big boys in the internet/software development world (including Google Android), our development environments use a host of version control, [...]
Wanted : Bright Interns
We’re getting pretty busy as 2010 kicks off and we’re looking to find a couple of interns to help us out with front-end CSS/XHTML programming. I’d expect the internship to last 6 months or so and there is most definitely the opportunity for a job at the end of it for the brightest and best! [...]
Web development services
Connected specialise in the turnkey build, delivery and management of market-leading web-sites to organisations in the £5m -> £500m turnover range. These services include…
334,112 lines of code
Version 2.4 of VITES™ is now available on full release and comprises over 1/3rd of million lines of code for the core plus the plugins (OBS, GeoTrack, CMS, JVIT, Search, VI.TALS, Forms, LP). There are another few thousand lines of Javascript used alongside the main application. It’s got big, now it’s going on a serious [...]
