A different beat

Bounty for your ideas

I’ve been doing some research into places online where people that have creative skills can come together, and do a skills swap.  I stumbled upon this neat site http://www.ideabounty.com/ that brings clients and people with ideas together, with the best ideas getting a bounty for their owner.   If clients are brave enough and have a tight brief this could be a great way to get a huge amount of ideas before selecting the best one.

Ideas Exchange

CMS Uncovered

Content Management Systems are a useful product that we offer our clients. They are attractive because they allow a client direct control of their site content without any specialist web development knowledge. As an agency, they free up our time so we can spend the client’s time and money more productively than doing text amends!

However, choosing the wrong Content Management System can introduce inefficiencies, unnecessarily restricted designs and ultimately lead to a poor user experience and disappointment.

Here are our top tips for helping clients choose a CMS.

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Self-help tips by The Hoggster

It’s another dreadful Monday morning where you creep into the office trying to get away with the fact that you are in fact a teeny bit hungover because you accidentally slipped into a Sunday night pub session which didn’t end until 1am. Oops. It’s going to be a long week…

Oh no… you’ve just seen your Outlook calendar pop up with a meeting reminder. It gets worse. This morning you’re going to be talking about…. DIGITAL?!

Think fast, you haven’t done any research and although you’re quite good at blagging, you know you won’t be able to get away with it with a know-it-all boss in the room. What do I know about the infinite world of digital? I have a computer and a laptop at home. Does that help?

Ok, you’ve got half an hour max and you need some help. Fast.

Hoggster’s quick fixes:

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Jamie draws on his HTML Canvas experiences

How to Draw with HTML 5 Canvas

WARNING – techies only!

Among the set of goodies in the HTML 5 specification is Canvas which is a way to programmatically draw using JavaScript.

We’ll explore the ins and outs of Canvas in this article, demonstrating what is possible with examples and links.

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Who needs Max Clifford when you’ve got the Bear?

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This month, we’ve set ourselves a challenge – which member of the team can generate the most publicity and unnique visitors on the WB website? Everyone’s been busy putting their plans into action… Rumours of Jen hanging out with PR drama king, Peter Andre, are, she says, “totally unfounded.” And behind the fun, there’s a serious social experiment going – what’s the best way to turn free publicity into healthy profit?