last project - Magic of the Orient | finished - 14/09/2006last project - Magic of the Orient | finished - 14/09/2006
seventy6
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Providence Hill
Narberth
Pembrokeshire
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Well after a grueling month of trimming, and no loving from the good but non tache loving wife, the facial hairs have finally been trimmed to a reasonable stubble. well over 200 was raised for the everyman charity.
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We have finally moved the family and seventy6 back to Bristol (minus actually selling our house). So please note the new studio address and contact details on this page.
All in the name of "charity!". I'm in the process of growing the most amazing tache known to man kind all to generate some cash for the everyman charity. Check out the pic here.
Sharing a car and a rather small travel lodge room (ahem) with the pieman while visiting the d.construct 2006 conference in sunny Brighton was a good laugh last week. I think the MicroPicnic was my favorite part. Food and code yumm yumm.
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seventy6 has just uploaded a stack of new features to Mallory Jewellers website. Although we only finished the new site back in August, Mallorys are keen to keep the site looking as fresh and up to date as possible. Hence, in January the new catalogue will be uploaded too... view now //
a very merry christmas, and may you have a special time with family and friends. lets raise a glass for a happy new year. If you missed our xmas card view it again here.
seventy6 is very honored to be given the chance to redesign Trips Worldwide's new website. Julie from Trips has requested that we deliver another Guardian award winning site for them to show off. Nick was responsible for the original design while working at Real in Bristol back in 2002 so Julie felt we had the best man for the job... ahem the site will be launching in mid November.
Climate Change Now (CCN) is an international cross-sector educational campaign designed to engage and provide society with climate change solutions. Through the media, consumer brands, sporting events, celebrity endorsements and popular culture CCN communicates and motivates the public to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. This apolitical campaign is aiming for a change in cultural attitude and hopes to convert 1,000,000 European households to renewable energy by September 2006.
Omni are currently in production, documenting the campaign which starts with a European tour of 16 capitals in just 20 days, here CCN will stop in each capital to hold a press launch and introduce Europe to their plans. The team will be using Honda Civic Hybrids (IMA) which will reduce their CO2 emissions for the trip by almost 1 ton and drop their fuel consumption by 300 litres. Climate Change Now will visit:
28-Sep London, UK
29-Sep Dublin, IRELAND
3-Oct Copenhagen, DENMARK
4-Oct Stockholm, SWEDEN
5-Oct Helsinki, FINLAND
7-Oct Warsaw, POLAND
8-Oct Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
10-Oct Berlin, GERMANY
11-Oct Vienna, AUSTRIA
12-Oct Rome, ITALY
14-Oct Madrid, SPAIN
17-Oct Paris, FRANCE
18-Oct Luxembourg
19-Oct Amsterdam, HOLLAND
20-Oct Brussels, BELGIUM
seventy6 has designed, developed and supports their web site which is the portal for all the information related to the project.
The last site design was live for a record breaking 4 months. After much deliverance and head banging we decided version 3 was needed. The last design was just too plain and unfocused for our liking. So we stripped it apart, got the colour palette out and came up with some catchy strap-lines that explain what each page is about. It just shows that being your own client makes you loose all sense of objectivity and common sense...
While finishing up the flag & castle house website, small checks like validation of the XHTML kept calling up errors in our nice clean code. Purely because we have a link to an external website site which has a long URL (Uniform Resource Locator) littered with '&' used to add variables together for dynamic content calling. Which isn't pure XHTML. Now does that mean that our new site is not valid? If we convert the offending '&'s to the correct format '&' we have a broken link on the external server...
Mike Industries has an interesting article if you want to keep reading about this kind of problem.
East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston. The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do. Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, it won't take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
"cuke skywalker" and the death melon. The organic rebellion will win the dark battle... (great videeeoooo)
In the world of the css designer your repeated background is probably the single most important aspect of your design ;D PPP ("Pixel perfect precision") so we thought we'd waste some valuable snack time to keep changing the background on seventy6 to find the ultimate pattern. We are on the path to PPP...
Sorted the problem - plus cut the feed down to make some sense of the content (!) '3 things', 1 x lastest portfolio and 5 latest links. [
seventy6 has just been accepted as a member of the "UK WEB DESIGN ASSOCIATION" which has a strict code of conduct which the members have to keep to ensure quality of service for both the client and the internet itself.
Only 11 days late with some actual content for the new site. But there's loads of new content still to add which is good news. We decided the site was more about the client and giving them a push into the brave new www hence the different seventy6 logo for each project. To view the old ones follow the portfolio link and look at the 'previous projects'.
after working all bank holiday we just about managed to get this front page up for the css reboot. (The rest of the site will follow at some point v.soon.) Worth the effort though?
"I just want to say that I think this database system is great! Now I have got the hang of it its really easy to use and its great the way we can include pages and change from BORN to BORN in Water etc. Thanks Joop and Nick" BORN
The May 1st Reboot is a community project that brings together web professionals from all over and encourages them to collectively launch redesigns of their sites on May 1st. The only problem is the entries are all extremely Flash heavy. Sure, Flash has its place -- but where's the CSS and web standards representation? So seventy6 is going to join the mad panic and go for a complete restyle - hold tight for May 1st...
