We’ve just started work on a new eCommerce solution for a brand new client Elite Teaching. Elite Teaching provide primary school physical education classes before and after normal school hours to help them believe and achieve.
The new site will allow parents to book places for their children onto a variety of courses at the school their child attends. We’ll keep you posted with our progress.
We’ve had a great time the last 2 days doing the photo shoot for Cupcakes By Gemma. We teamed up with Fiona Alexander for this shoot and it was a great experience. Trying not to eat the subject of each photo was by far the toughest challenge. We can’t wait to see the end results!
Well, probably not. But still, every one tends to agree, cupcakes are great.
That’s why we’re delighted to announce our latest client: Cupcakes By Gemma, coming to an internet browser near you… on PC, Mac, Android and iPhone.
We’ve just launched a new site for a Norwich based photographer: www.fionaalexanderphotography.co.uk.
Check it out now, or see more work in our portfolio.
We’ve recently been working on a couple of web applications that will be used on a huge variety of devices. We’re talking 60inch TV screens, 30inch PCs, laptops, notebooks, tablets and mobile phones. The challenges faced for building a website under such circumstances are significant.
Building a website to work just on a PC is relatively straightforward, building a website to just work on a mobile phone is, again, relatively straight forward. Things get more complicated when you need a site to look great in a multitude of scenarios. With web applications, things get even more complicated. With these current projects, we are providing a secure login area, data capture, diary scheduling, reports and dashboards. Looking great in any given requirement is important, but working correctly is essential.
Embracing modern technologies, such as HTML5 and CSS3, makes life much easier. But what about when the requirements include working with older browsers? Progressive enhancement versus graceful degradation is a question that must be solved in this scenario.
Graceful degradation means designing for the more modern browsers and then making sure older browsers (IE8 anyone?) still have some sort of usable experience. Essentially each modern feature has a “backup plan” of some description.
Progressive enhancement is the opposite: here we begin with old style markup (HTML 4 etc) that older browsers can make sense of, and then extra features are added at run time if the browser can support them.
The truth is, there is no “one size fits all” solution here, but here at Head Energy, we can work with our client to figure out the best approach for each feature, and a combination of these two methods is what we end up with across the whole app.
What makes the perfect Content Management System (CMS). Here at Head Energy, we’ve worked with several leading open source and off-the-shelf CMS offerings and built a few of our own bespoke ones. What features really make them great though? The answer depends on what you need of course. Not all CMS tools are made equal, and not all of them are perfect for everyone. The answer then is not to invest too heavily in any one system. Sometimes off the shelf is just want is needed, sometimes it needs tweaking and sometimes it needs so much tweaking that you no longer recognise the original offering.
We fully understand that there is no such thing as “The Perfect CMS” and there is no problem with this. In fact, recognising that each site we create has unique requirements, whether great or small, allows us to choose the best tool for the job to cater for those requirements. Be weary of anyone who says that a particular CMS is right for everyone. The only perfect CMS is the one that best fits YOUR requirements, the one that allows YOUR to update and manage YOUR content the way YOU want to, and work in the way that YOU want to. In other words, the question you need to ask yourself, is what is the perfect CMS for YOU. Here at Head Energy, we will help you answer that question openly and honestly and then get to work putting the CMS to work for YOU.
Currently we are putting the finishing touches on our new small business management tool. We have been in need of a better tool for some time, but couldn’t find one that suited our needs. So, essentially we created our own during the quite midnight hours and any other time we could spare.
We are really pleased with the system and will soon be logging all our contact with you lovely people directly into it.
We have been working on the new site for a couple of months now, and we’re very pleased with the progress we have made.
The all too familiar “New Site” posting in a blog. Yes, we thought that we’d conform to this ritual and make the first post in our new blog about that fact that we can now post things in a blog in our new site. Still with us?
So, what exactly are we going to be adding to our blog. Well, that’s for us to know, and you to ..dot.. dot.. dot..
