Why We Don’t Outsource
Outsourcing has become a contentious issue in the web design, development and application markets within which we operate – we are inundated on a daily with basis with emails and phone calls from companies in India, all offering to take on our work at ridiculously low prices. Quality Assurance The underlying problem with outsourcing design [...]
ISPs vs. An Internet Connection
It’s interesting how ISPs have changed over the last few years – Internet Access is quickly becoming a commodity, much like water and electricity are, and ISPs are struggling to come to terms with the fact that nobody is interested in their so-called value added services because for years they have been trying to pimp [...]
Scarletmotion LED Billboards
Over the last 6 months or so we’ve been working on a video content distribution application for a company called Scarletmotion. Scarletmotion own LED Billboards of various sizes and our brief was to create a web application that managed scheduling, transcoding, distribution and display of adverts. Our responsibilities went further than just writing a web [...]
Flash is Dead
A large part of the last few months in techie land (where we live – it’s quite sunny over here!) has been dedicated to discussing the goings-on regarding online video. What sparked this off? Apple, as per usual, with the announcement that the iPad won’t have any flash support. For years now, Flash has been a [...]
We’re Moving!
A few weeks ago we applied to the Phoenix Centre at York St. John University. The Phoenix Centre is a business incubation programme for new digital and creative businesses. We’re glad to announce that our application was successful and that we were chosen over a lot of other candidates for the programme to participate in [...]
Video for The Yorkshire Mafia
Snapshot Media are a part of the 3000-strong Linkedin-based networking group, The Yorkshire Mafia. We’re currently working on the new website for the group and as part of this process we shot a short film at a recent networking event in York. Gathering short testimonials and comments from members allowed us to portray the group [...]
Hotel 53
After hearing good things about Snapshot, we immediately gave them a call. They came to visit us at the hotel and within the hour we’d sorted out how the website would work. Everything was so easy and a few weeks later our new site went live, they made everything so simple. Hotel53 asked us to [...]
New Day New Life Ghana
New Day Life Ghana are a charity who operate in Kokrobite, Ghana. Poverty is a huge problem there and we shot a film for them highlighting the things they do for children below the hunger line. New Day Life Ghana run an orphanage as well as two schools – education and accommodation are rare things [...]
Projex Event Services
Projex Event Services LLC are an exhibition design company based in Dubai, U.A.E. We were asked to create a website that showcased their work and corporate identity to enable them to show prospective clients what they do. They needed comprehensive photo management built into the site as well as a dynamic back-end, furniture ordering and [...]
Deliverance Recruitment
Deliverance Recruitment (Cardiff, Wales) came to us with a logo and asked us to do the rest. They were blown away by the high quality of our designs and wanted us to create a full front-end/back-end combined website and web application. The website tracks applicants, jobs etc. and automates a large part of Deliverance Recruitment’s [...]