We're delighted to announce that Robin Hodges has joined Electric Putty.Robin has been creating/designing and generally being a geek since 1996. Before joining the team he worked as a freelance web developer for wide range of companies and business start-ups so comes with a raft of experience.We feel very lucky to ...
We've moved office. We're still based in that hub of activity known as The Werks but we've upgraded ourselves to a new home and it comes with it's very own chandelier.Apparently our new place was once a bank manager's office, hence the fancy lighting. I don't think bank managers get perks like that these days. ...
Yep, we're six weeks late in our felicitations but it's been busy in Putty Towers.We've launched a couple of new sites; the CFS portal for the Money Advice Trust and a wee microsite for Fair Train which was launched in record time (about four days). We're busy on the final push on two other sites which we're hoping ...
It's been an interesting year with a number of exciting new projects as well as plenty of ongoing work with some of our longest standing clients. We'd like to say a big thank you for choosing to work with us throughout 2009 and we look forward to more of the same in 2010. Office hours over the festive period Our ...
Let's face it, monitoring your website's uptime isn't a particularly interesting job but it is an important one. You should be in the know if your site goes down and for how long but you can bet your hosting company isn't going to make it their business to tell you. Luckily there are website monitoring services ...
User testing has got a bad reputation in some circles as being expensive and time consuming. After all, don’t you need a lab, moderators and fancy equipment? Fortunately, times have changed and it is possible to carry out simple user testing on a budget. Follow the advice in this article and you can do it in ...
How would you like a blog in five minutes? I recently created one using Tumblr. Even better, it's a free service.Tumblr is like shorthand blogging, you can easily share all the interesting images, videos, links and quotes you find around the web, creating a varied tapestry of content without needing to write time ...
One of the great things about using the interweb a lot means we come across all sorts of useful tools which help us get things done and manage our projects effectively. Some of these tools we use pretty much every day and most of them we'd have a hard time doing without. Here's a list of just some of them.Project ...
Wordle is a word cloud generator. You add some text, a URL or an RSS feed and it will create a beautiful cloud of words. The cloud is like a word picture, giving a visual representation of the information. Once you've created your cloud you can choose different colours, fonts and shapes for your words. It's a fun ...
It seems that Twitter has finally reached the tipping point and everyone is talking about it, if not actually using it themselves. But what exactly is it and what business benefits can it bring?What is TwitterTwitter is a 'micro-blogging' platform where you can publish what you are doing or thinking in 140 ...
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