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More Site Launches

Sunday, June 26, 2005

We should be launching 3 new sites this week.

Phill Page and Sons - Block Paving Manchester
Phill Page and Sons are block paving experts based in the Tameside area of Manchester.

J C Business Services
J C Business Services look after Bookkeeping , payroll , VAT , and tax. They look after ours and we think they're good.

Heaven spa Didsbury
Heaven spa is a fantastic hair and beauty salon in Didsbury Manchester.

Google Site Maps

Those lovely people at Google are trialing a new system for web developers to inform them of new sites and updates to those sites called Google Site Maps (beta). The idea being that everytime us web site maker type people update a piece of web real estate under our control we inform Google by re-submitting an XML site map that Google has on record.

We're trialing the process with our Free ISP, UK Internet Access, Free UK ISP and the Fastest dialup ISP in the UK to see how it goes.

Google Blogs Too

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Check it out everybody, Google is blogging too. The good people over at Google are using their own Blogger software to Blog.

They've got more than one Blog on the go as well, there's,

A general Google Blog - http://googleblog.blogspot.com
Adwords API Blog - http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com
Blogger Buzz - http://buzz.blogger.com
Google Code - http://code.google.com
Inside Adwords - http://adwords.blogspot.com

So plenty for you hungry bloggers to read and maybe pick up some helpful inside info into Googles next moves.

Website Accessibility Working Group

Monday, June 20, 2005

I'm starting to "do my bit" for Manchester Digital. We start with the first in what I hope will be a series of events to drive Greater Manchester forwards as a centre of excellence for standards based intelligent website delivery. We're great believers in inclusivity and website accessibility is so very key to how we drive the web as whole forward. Consequently, in conjunction with Manchester Digital and with the very valuable assistance of the Manchester Digital Development agency, we are launching the Accessibility Working Group. The press release is as follows:

Manchester Digital is very pleased to announce the first in a new series of events designed to establish Greater Manchester and the North West as a centre of Excellence for the Digital sector.
Understanding Website Accessibility requirements and legislation is increasingly a critical skill for any design professional. Any business within the UK has a legal obligation to ensure that their website is reasonably accessible to persons of varying disability. As around 1 in 10 persons in the UK has some form of disability, so ensuring a website is accessible has direct financial benefit.
Manchester Digital will launch the Accessibility Working Group (AWG) on the Wednesday 13th July at the Manchester Digital Development Agency premises. The aims of the AWG are to establish a forum where knowledge, experience and excellence in accessible website design, build, testing and marketing will be shared. The core premise is that the AWG will equip its members with the means to improve what they do and drive direct financial benefit for themselves.
The inaugural meeting will aim to establish a loose structure and identify an initial organising panel. The panel currently has 3 members:
Simon Wharton, Director of Manchester Digital (www.manchesterdigital.com), Manager Director of VirtuAffinity Ltd. (www.virtuaffinity.com)
Dr David Kreps, Manager Director of Fourquarters IS ltd www.fourquarters.biz
Alan Holding, Manchester Digital Development Agency (www.manchesterdda.com)
The Manchester Digital AWG is particularly interested in identifying members who have personal use for assistive technologies.
Anyone requiring further information or who wishes to register to attend she make contact with Simon Wharton via:
Telephone: 0870 757 4888

Artisan Marketing Communications

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Artisan Marketing Communications

We're rather chuffed that Rob Baker at Artisan Marketing Communications is looking after our PR now. The trouble is that we're going to have to do something interesting for him to talk about.

Let's see, new website up and operating soon and the Manchester Digital Accessibility Working Group and then we're about to launch the Heaven Spa website, which is really quite lovely and then there's French Trading and....

plenty I suppose

'Teleporting' over the internet

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Spanish Water Dogs

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

We've recently completed a new web site for a friend of ours who breeds Spanish Water Dogs (Perro de Agua Espanol). The site is packed with in depth information about the Spanish Water Dog breed and promotes a Spanish Water Dog breeding program. The site will soon have a online gallery to back it up where there will be loads of great photos of Spanish Water Dogs for you to enjoy.

Microsoft warns on security fixes

Friday, June 10, 2005

Virtuaffinity Director announced as new Manchester Digital board Director

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Managing Director of Virtuaffinity has been appointed as a new Director to the board at Manchester Digital.