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Recent site work & BCG projects

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

So the first BCG project is finished and can now be seen over on the Flash portfolio page or here: http://www.beakable.com/portfolio/flash_apps/bcg_interactive_case. It’s a pretty well designed Flash AS3 interactive quiz and is used for testing your market expansion skills. By selecting the most relevant questions and storing the answers at the cost of days to formulate the answer you have to use your day allowance wisely. Once you have formulated your opinion and chosen the next step for the toy company in question, the app gives you feedback on how well you did and whether or not you chose your questions well. More BCG projects coming soon as well as a pretty epic scaled one almost finished.

Also some layout updates to the blog have been underway with increases in paragraph width and fixing the colour coding of the  Wordpress code module. The banner has also been updated and has had its colours increased to a more vibrant appearance. Comparisons can be seen bellow. The Beakable logo has also been separated from the background now as well as size increased, which annoyingly makes it easier for the sneaky Russians to steal as they can just remove it no bother when they take my code. For anyone who has missed the whole Russia stealth steal thing check out: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=for24+beakable&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a. Pretty awesome knowing your site has been pirated and can be downloaded from multiple sites!

Another update is the include of “Facebook likes” which is now above every project and portfolio piece. Need to see what  I can do though as a work around for making the code validated. I haven’t integrated it with my Blog posts yet  but not sure if I will… See how I feel next time I’m bored.

I Love SEO.

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

There is nothing more rewarding in SEO than taking a company that is not listed on Google apart from an “Untitled Page” result when specifically searching the company name and moving to the front of Google. The feeling is great to see them rise above competition. What gives you an even better kick is when after 8 months they go from nowhere to #1 for their main key term “Storage Glasgow”. The Glasgow storage company is now top beating local competition as well as multinational. Now onwards with Spectrum Properties.

Spectrum Properties Website

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Similar to the new Projects blog category as I finish sites and so on I will post and record them here.

Spectrum Properties Logo

A few days ago I finished and went Live with the Spectrum Properties website. It uses the cakePHP framework (which I’m really starting to love) as the sites backend, which made it a doddle to generate the large database driven content. Also uses a touch of jQuery with a relatively good use of the Google Maps API to produce the office, workshops and other property locations. The sites content is still in need of some touching up and perhaps a few site tweaks as well as finishing touches to the custom CMS I made (incorporates TinyMCE and jQuery). The site can be seen at http://www.spectrumproperties.co.uk. I went for a spacious clean and professional look and as usual its XHTML & CSS valid. As always feel free to leave any feedback – positive or negative.