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Tim Gaunt

Ethical Christmas Presents/Cards

Last year was the first year we sent out presents to clients and it went down a storm though choosing the presents is somewhat awkward -especially when it comes to wine, what if they're a red wine drinker or a white wine drinker etc? Anyway I digress, as

Gerald Ratner: The Rise... And Fall... And Rise Again -yet another autobiography

I don't know whether it's just I've had my head in the sand for the past few years or whether there really is an influx of autobiographies hitting the book stores, either way after finding time to read Duncan Bannatyne's book I

February 8th - a date for your diary!

Well it's been a hectic few days what with breaking the news to everyone and getting things in place but we've finally got Stacey's management to give her a leaving date -February 8th. It's still a fair way off but a lot

Mobile content developers Mobile Pie wins the New Mobile Game Developer Award

This has taken me a while to post but kudos to our mobile content development partners Mobile Pie who have managed to win the New Mobile Game Developer awards sponsored by Channel 4 and EA Mobile. Read more about it here: Mobile Pie Wins 4Talent Mobile Game Award

Changeable headers using the media picker

A project we’re currently working on needs to have interchangeable header images. The theory is to set the header image on the parent page and then unless a template is specified for the page, it should use one of it’s ancestor’s. Umbraco as a nice control called

Naming conventions for Umbraco

Having only recently started to use Umbraco I've taken a couple of days to familiarise myself with the way it works and try and get a few best practices in place, I expect these will be updated over time but you've got to start somewhere ;) As

Let us entertain you! Our new cinema room

Stacey's been wanting to decorate the house, when we did we swapped the two rooms around which seemed logical at the time, but when we did, even though it was only a 32" the TV took up most of the room and seeing as we didn'

Florame organic aromatherapy hits the press

Having one of the business owners work in PR can't be a too much of a bad thing for a company, especially not when you manage to get your name into Sunday Times. I'm not sure whether this is something they pushed for themselves or whether

Fasthosts fail to amaze again

I don't know if any of my readers are familiar with Fasthosts' recent security problems that hit the press a couple of weeks ago but I couldn't help but laugh at a conversation I had with them the other day. Baring in mind they had

The office to end all offices

Some of you have already heard about my miss fortune with the office flooding. It's thrown things up in the air somewhat at a time when I could really do without it. The bonus however is that I get to have a nice new office fitted (hopefully on