Blog Archive May 2010

Web Typography – Fonts, Browsers & the Web

Submitted by Billy Bamford on 26 May 2010

A Typekit Example of Web Font use

In the world of web design, using typefaces other than the very limited list of cross platform system fonts has meant using images, flash or some other piece of webtrickery, often resulting in content being difficult to update, format or index in search engines. This has meant that most web designers have simply stuck to the usual stack of well known and safe options – Arial, Georgia, Comic Sans [gasp -not really] etc and avoided alternative fonts in body of their designs, unless absolutely necessary. However, at a time when the web is moving forward rapidly in so many other ways, is avoidance your only option? I personally think we may have just quietly turned a rather lovely and fruitful corner…

Task Manager – Drupal 6 and Case Tracker made better

Submitted by Paul Gregory on 18 May 2010

I’ve already written about our requirement for a web-based task management system for the digital department. Here you can download our Task Manager code that we ended up using so you can try it out for yourself!

Screen shot of the main task list (currently displaying one open task)

Our Story: The hunt for a task management solution

Submitted by Paul Gregory on 18 May 2010

Over the past 3 years, the Digital team at Access has grown dramatically in number and in work load.  With the steep increase in number and complexity of projects, our Monday morning work-in-progress notes were becoming unworkable. Within hours the sheets were out of date and scribbled on, things were getting forgotten about and there was far too much pinging of emails back and forth. It was becoming evident that we needed a better way of managing tasks within the department.

The difference between connected marketing and viral marketing

Submitted by Mark Hope on 14 May 2010

Connected: The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How they Shape Our Lives

I’ve had a book on my desk for some time now, called “Connected (The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How they Shape our Lives)”. It was sent to me by the ‘nice and bespectacled people at Rubber Republic‘. (It conjures up images of them filing away books in a quiet library somewhere). I don’t know if they are bespectacled, but I do think they’re nice – they sent me a free book :-)

Why your online marketing should aim to be pants

Submitted by Mark Hope on 6 May 2010

Why your online marketing should aim to be pants

Recently (OK not that recently), I was lucky enough to hear Sienne Veit speak at the How Do Mobile Marketing Conference in Manchester. Sienne is Social and Mobile Commerce Development Manager at Marks and Spencer and had plenty of interesting insights to share about the challenges for brands like M&S working across new online channels, such as mobile. She was a pleasure to listen to and was clearly very passionate about weaving Mobile and Social into everything M&S do.

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