Back to Nottingham

Today I'm moving back to Nottingham and unfortunately I won't have the internet while telephone lines etc. are installed. Give it a week or two.

EDIT: I am now back online.

Lydney Group LTD

I've essentially finished my work on Team Trimite and have now handed over the majority of the project to Phil for coding and functionality. Whilst he is doing that I've started work on our next project at Hexademic, Lydney Group LTD. Lydney group produce large containers and modular buildings for both government and private sector, Their old websites (www.lydneycontainers.co.uk and www.lydneymodular.co.uk) where not targeted effectively at their target consumer and the web designer working on the projects was difficult to make contact with. My goal in terms of presentation is to make the website as easy to use as possible as I found the existing websites very confusing. I've have been to the Lydney Group head office to talk with their managing director Andrew Burrows as well as their sales team where we discussed how maximize the websites effectiveness.

The key points we concluded were that the site shouldn't be entirely flash as you won't have an initial paragraph for search engines to pick up on, the website must be easier to use and be aimed at a set of key target consumers.

You can see my progress here.

Podcasting

Lately I've been listening to a lot of podcasts such as IGN Game Scoop. I think it's a great way to present news and entertainment so I found out how to make my own. I thought it would be a good idea to make a podcast for the Gamer society to spread news on upcoming events. I found a tutorial here. Now my podcast is up and running, you can even subscribe to it on iTunes.

Gamer Soc is GO

The Gamer Soc is confirmed for 2008-2009. We'll have a booth at freshers fair and everything, so I have decided to start building the Gamer Soc website, check it out here.

Hexademic First official client

After seeing HR Business Dynamics Team Trimite asked us to build them a more advanced website. Team Trimite have just won the Avon Tyres British GT3, they need a website to generate cash to help fund their efforts to enter the Le Mans race event. I have recently started to finish off the front end of the site which you can see here, Phil is currently at Camp Bestival on the Isle of Wight but when he's back he'll start the back end.

HR Business Dynamics

A while ago I was approached by one of my Dads colleagues to build a website for them as I mentioned earlier. I contacted my friend Phil Howell who is studying computer science at Nottingham University. The results were much greater than expected, so much so we have decided to start a small web design company called Hexademic New Media. Here is what our first client said about our service...

'I approached Phil Howell and William Thomas of Hexademic New Media to create a website for me without much of an understanding of the requirements for this sort of project.

I supplied Hexademic New Media with a few pictures and a very general idea of the types of colours I preferred for the site. The results were phenomenal – they were able to tailor my website just with the information I had provided them and produced an extremely professional look and image. They registered the domain name and set everything up from scratch.

They designed it so that I’m able to access the site and make any amendments that I believe are necessary at any time of the day or night by using their own hosting service.

If you’re looking for a company to produce a website for you and have very limited knowledge of what is required, I strongly recommend Hexademic New Media. My personal experiences of them have been that they are extremely professional, conscientious, and committed in their approach to work. They far surpassed their deadline and all my expectations of them.

Thank you for a fantastic service and website."