October 23rd, 2008 by Michael Austin
The newly revamped ConSol Partners website has been launched. A fresh write up will be added soon to the Circa82 portfolio.
http://www.consolpartners.com/
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August 11th, 2008 by Michael Austin
Circa82’s latest joint project with web dev guru Greg Gigon has been released. The aim of GigReflex is to act as a quick reference guide for both the hardcore and casual gig goer. The heart of GigReflex is about exploring live music and finding the smaller gigs. We’re looking to cover the whole of the UK from the pubs and clubs to the 50,000 capacity arenas. GigReflex is in it’s infancy and most features have yet to be initialised, so we are working hard towards the next release.
You can keep up to date with the latest releases & news over at the GigReflex blog or just head over to GigReflex and find yourself some music!
Tags: arenas, blog, clubs, Gig Reflex, GigReflex, gigs, Greg Gigon, pubs
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August 11th, 2008 by Michael Austin
Here’s the design of the MiniCards.
Here’s the MiniCard in a real world situation.
Tags: Globe, MiniCards, Moo
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August 11th, 2008 by Michael Austin
Sorry for the shortcomings of the blog over the last few months (says he to himself).
Here’s a recap of the last few months (well most of it). This is quite long and uninteresting, but should waste a few minutes.
Tags: @media, Accouting, AS3, Blue Jay Designs, BPM Logic, CMS, CSS, Dr Nuke, Gig Reflex, GigReflex, National Lottery, SBK Healthcare, Silverstripe, Vector
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July 11th, 2008 by Michael Austin
Here’s a (very) quick review of the @media 2008 conference.
I enjoyed the @media conference immensely. There were a good range of speakers and a lot of knowledgeable people to mingle with. The venue (SouthBank Centre - Queen Elizabeth Hall) was in an excellent area and was just about the right size. There were two stages; the main stage was where we spent most of our time with the second stage for the more intimate discussions/presentations. The subject matter of some presentations was very simple, but still contained nuggets of goodness. The conference is very accessible for the inexperienced and experienced developers/designers. Just go there with an open mind, and you will take away some vital knowledge.
Overall the quality of speakers was very good, a couple of individuals didn’t get their point across too well though (probably partially due to my mindset).
The questionables: Indi Young’s presentation on Mental Models I didn’t think hit the right spot, I was really interested in the subject matter but too much of the time seemed to be spent on case studies without covering the actual processes of handling and creating. Browyn Jones presentation The Book Was Better was a good subject matter for the conference (copywriting), but she seemed to struggle at first as the presentation used a lot of videos, she didn’t have enough content, she lost some of her notes and it was her first presentation (only a few things then ;)). It was enjoyable and covered some good areas of website content writing and it’ll be interesting to see how her presentation skills improve.
The mentionables: Nate Koechley (Yahoo) presentation on Professional Front-End Engineering was the best of the conference. He has a great presentational manner and covered a lot of content in a small amount of time. The last presentation of the conference seen was James Adam & Simon Willison’s Exploring the Server Side: Rails & Django. This deserves a special mention for being the most memorable for sheer entertainment value. James and Simon were “battling it out” with the two technologies Rails and Django. Both were excellent in knowledge and presentation. They didn’t go to deep into the languages but showed the simplicity and scalability of both. Django I have little knowledge of but this helped wet my appetite.
Tags: @media 2008, Browyn Jones, Copywriting, Django, Indi Youngs, James Adam, Mental Models, Nate Koechley, Rails, Simon Willison, Southbank Centre
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April 16th, 2008 by Michael Austin
I’ve produced two sets of Moo cards which will replace my old business cards that utilised the old site design. I may again produce some fully blown business cards, but the Moos will do the job for the time being. The print quality isn’t the best but it’s good enough (some minor pixelation).
The two designs are “Planet Circa82″ and “Web”. “Web” was produced as a tester really for the quality of the Moo cards and pretty much is just a angled screenshot of circa82.co.uk. “Planet Circa82″ is more complex, as it’s a vector illustration of a grass covered planet (Planet Circa82). The word on the front of the card is a secret at the moment but all will be revealed.
The boxes (THE made the right choice)
I’ll post up photos of the cards themselves shortly (once I learn how to use this camera probably).
Tags: Moo, Planet Circa82, Screens, Vector
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March 4th, 2008 by Michael Austin
A website called The Big Word Project has been setup by two Northern Irish lads, which allows you to”purchase” a word from the English dictionary. This word is then pointed towards your website. Buying a word for a few dollars ($1 per letter in each word) is worth a punt, as any web traffic is good traffic (well nearly always). The project should do ok, as they have a good architecture in place along with a nice simple design. They’ve made everything straight forward, but I can see them adding a couple of minor additions to help the “word” functionality.
Currently I own the words multimedia, gig and gigs.
I’ve also added circa82 to some online databases.
Tags: gig, gigs, multimedia, The Big Word Project
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February 26th, 2008 by Michael Austin
I will be taking in the sites and sounds of the @media 2008 conference on the 29th and 30th of May.
I’ve also made a few minor fixes to the Circa82 site in IE5.
Tags: 2008, @media, circa82, conference, ie5
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February 21st, 2008 by Michael Austin
Three new projects have been added to the site:
Tags: DPR, Icon Illustrations, Logo Design, Primhe, Web Design & Development
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January 25th, 2008 by Michael Austin
The John Wiley & Sons project has been added to the site. The project involved the conversion of a large number of HTML Journal Extracts into compliant W3C HTML 4.0 Transitional.
Tags: HTML, John Wiley & Sons, new project, Transitional, W3C
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