Good Luck Oakham CC

Just a quick note to wish Oakham Cricket Club all the best for their forthcoming season… what’s my interest at OCC… well I designed and developed an affordable and easy to use content managment system for cricket clubs. Project II in this field is to offer a blogging facility (similar to this) and based on the website template developed for them… visit it at www.oakhamcricketclub.co.uk

Oakham Cricket Club

In conjunction with Kookaburra Sport (who sponsored the development of the website) and Blusky Marketing, I developed a basic web standards based website, with a simple to use Content Management System that could be offered to UK cricket clubs, and subsequently roled out with ease.
 

Project Included:

• Dynamic Content Management System (ActiveCMS v.4)
• Standard template driven design, allowing further rollout to cricket/hockey/sports clubs
• CSS Web Standards Compliance
• Best practice Search Engine Optimisation techniques

Business coach - Individuals & Teams ?

I have just started the redevelopment of a number of websites for William Barron, a successful business coach in the Midlands. He has a number of different websites targetted to essentially the same business - that of business coaching and mentoring. I was responsible for developing three sites targetting 3 specific aspects of his businesses.

 

Visit his sites at

• http://www.creatinginsight.co.uk/
  Targetting individuals and businesses looking for business mentoring
• http://www.williambarron.co.uk/
  Targetting individuals and businesses looking for business coaching
• http://www.personalprofiling.co.uk/
  Targetting individuals and businesses looking for personal profiling

If you know someone who has use of his services, he comes very highly recommended… and watch this space as a larger version of his site will be online shortly…

Importing Blogger Posts to Wordpress

If you have read some of my earlier posts, you may have noticed that I started blogging using Blogger.

I then looked at other packages… before implementing this system on my own personal webspace (something I can offer to others - for more details drop me a line). With some further development, I now have the ability to import those Blogger posts that I made into this system… and the test seems to have been a success !!!

So now their really is no excuse for people not running their own websites - sites they have total control over !!!

Spraylat Update - Protectapeel Video

The Spraylat website was redesigned and developed in 2002. Since then it has undergone a number of further updates. In 2006 video footage to the site, promoting the latest addition to the Spraylat product range - Protectapeel. The format chosen to show the video was Macromedia (Adobe) Flash Video (.flv). Macromedia Flash video lets you easily put video on a web page in a format that almost anyone can view.
 

 

About Video And The Web

Video and the Internet seem ideally matched. Video is the medium that most closely echoes our day-to-day visual experiences, and the Internet is a boundless playground filled with interesting content. You might expect, therefore, that thousands of compelling websites would integrate video with data, content, and interactive controls to create rich experiences that go beyond what is possible with video on a television set.

Unfortunately, early video content on the web has often been simply a rectangle of content playing back on your computer monitor, usually in a separate pop-up window covering the website page that spawned it. The video images are often small and ugly, and the overall experience is poor.

Several technical challenges have kept designers from using video content to its full potential, including the following:

• Bandwidth Limitations
  Video is a data-intensive format, requiring megabytes of data to display even short video clips. The growth of broadband has greatly reduced this technical obstacle, and increasingly large numbers of site visitors have the bandwidth required to receive video content via the web, but file size is still a problem for many visitors.
• Complexity of Authoring Video for the Web
  There have been no standard tool sets for creating interactivity, navigation control, and fusion of video with other rich media content. Furthermore, most video playback clients are not pre-installed on most visitors’ systems, so many visitors must pause to download a plug-in or application before they can view video.
• Lack of Compelling Integration of Video and Other Web Content
  Most video formats for the web offer no rich media capabilities beyond playback of video in a rectangular window.

Fortunately, Flash video (which presents video content seamlessly and in context, in a form that site visitors can view using Flash Player) overcomes these issues.