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We’ve recently took the plunge into the unchartered world (sort of) of HTML5. We’ve used our own site as the ‘test subject’ and taken the progression from Strict XHTML to HTML5.
Giving our clients the best solutions possible for their online presence is paramount, so keeping in touch with the latest internet technologies gives The Energy Cell the tools and knowledge to do this. We felt the emergence of HTML5 and the platform it gives for delivering such things as richer multi-media, rendering graphics on the fly, geo-location and the ability to access web applications off-line were features we wanted to be able to deliver for our clients. We shall be developing some of these techniques in our ‘testing’ area and we will share our findings once we are happy with them.
So a small reward is for our hardwork to be recognised and featured on the HTML5 Gallery
So we just need the browsers to catch up…sound familiar?
We are pleased to announce the launch of the brand new Mars Drinks UK corporate website.
The new site sees the introduction of a new content management and web application platform delivering a range of dynamic content and services to Mars Drinks customers.
Thanks to everyone involved at The Energy Cell and the team at Mars for helping to make this happen.
New Online Shop coming soon in Phase 2!
Fellow designers will know what I mean when you find you’ve been working on a project for such a long time that you begin to question some of you own design decisions you made at the early stages.
It can be hard to see the ‘wood for the trees’ once your latest site has gone live or brochure has gone to print, and appreciate how good (or not so good) your work has turned out. So it can be reassuring when your work is recognised by your peers, and it’s the turn of our website to receive some attention this week.
So well done energycell.co.uk
I’ve recently changed my mobile phone to the ‘snazzy’ HTC Hero.
As the phone’s OS is built on the Google Android platform, many Google doors have opened up and I have duly stepped into them. One of these doors is Google mail, or Gmail depending on how early you have signed up to this excellent FREE service from the guys at Google.
What attracted me intially was the ability for me to store all my phone contacts as Google contacts. This means that they are stored in ‘the clouds’ as oppose to on my SIM card. This contacts list is also my address book in Google Mail. So when I make any edits to my contacts list via the web in Google Mail, my phone’s contact list will update itself. I know, amazing!
The same goes for Goole Calendar. Any event added to the calendar via my phone, will appear within Google Calendar on the web within seconds.
I am now completely ‘cloud based’, although I still have my POP3 account also collecting mails as a backup. I’m sure it won’t be long until I’ve completely fazed this out however.
It seems I’m not alone in embracing cloud based personal organisation. In a recent poll published on CSS Tricks. 53% of people asked, used cloud based email systems compared to 18% local machine based.
Go to CSS Tricks to read more about this poll.
Great North Run 2009
On the 20th September 2009 I travelled up to Newcastle to complete my first Great North Run. It was a very sunny September day and the amount of people running was absolutely unbelieveable – never have so many lycra clad Paula Radcliffe wanabes converged in one space! (Well if they have I certainly wasn’t there!)
The atmosphere was amazing, the crowds were brilliant (a big thank you to the young girl at 11 miles handing out ice pops!) and 13.1 miles of pavement pounding later I crossed the finish line in a time of 1 hour 40 minutes and 47 seconds – finishing a respectable 190th in the ladies section (and beating Gordon Ramsey!) I must say a special thank you to the rest of the Energy Cell team for their support esepcially to Dave for recording it for me – next year maybe we can have a few more Energy Cell team members on the start line with me??
Watch this space!