Diary for July 2009
21st Closing Date for Graduate Junior Web Developer Job Applications
This is the closing date for receiving applications for the Graduate Junior Web Developer job. Full details of the job vacancy and the application form can be found here: http://www.alacrify.co.uk/feature/Hot+Off+The+Press/119...
6th Business Link: 3 Day Start Up Workshop in Bath
Business Link are running a three-day start up workshop for businesses in the south west. It covers planning and regulations (premises, employment law, etc), sales and marketing, and finance and accounts. It takes place on 6-7-8 July 2009 in Bath and is repeated monthly through to December. Other locations where the course is run include: Weston Super Mare, Bristol, Cheltenham, Swindon, Stroud, Salisbury and Trowbridge. Click here for full details....
27th Changes Afoot
As you may have noticed we have been recruiting for a new member of staff at Alacrify to allow us to continue to grow and develop as a business, and continue to provide high quality services to our growing portfolio of clients. Going through the process of recruitment for the first time as an employer has been really interesting. We received some excellent applications which has made the decision-making process even more difficult than I'd expected. As with all changes and times of growth th...
21st The Web Is A Wonderful Thing
For every question there really does seem to be (some sort) of answer on the web. Today I had a tiny problem with a website page that refused to load completely on Internet Explorer 7. It contained the fantastic "AddThis" widget that allows visitors to bookmark and share the page with their social networking services like FaceBook and Twitter. The page opened fine, and looked complete, but there was a persistent little message in the status bar saying it was waiting for one more item to lo...
17th Domain Name Registration
Today we have launched a new service for our clients as a domain name reseller. We are partnered with GoDaddy principally to register .com and .net domain names. There is now a portal website that we can use to allow our clients to register domains directly, but allow us to assist them with their administration, whether that be just parking the domain, linking the domain to an existing website, or using it to build a new site from scratch. ...
14th Making Progress
This month has been one of our busiest on record. With the final stages of our two largest projects to date reaching completion, the pressure is well and truly on to produce results. Balancing the productive time writing the code for the projects, plus arranging client visits requires a bit of creativity all of its own, not to mention a modest drop of midnight oil on occasion. Meeting clients is always a pleasure. I've learned a huge amount from the conversations I've had with different clients...
10th John Wright Seafood Guru on the BBC
Our friend John Wright is featured on the BBC Dorset website today. There's a short audio clip of him enthusing about the fantastic virtues of the Dorset Coast as a source of food for free. His interview can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/articles/2009/07/09/edible_seashore_feature.shtml John's latest River Cottage Handbook on Seafood foraging can be bought from Amazon by clicking on the image below. It's a really good read, written with John's trademark wry comments a...
8th Google Search Ranking Success
Following on from our recent successes with improving the search result rankings for Dry Island and The Gables we are now beginning to see a simliar improvement in search rankings for John Bullock Lighting Design too. Our recent conversion of John's website from a static brochure site to our own Simple CMS (content management system) has brought about some excellent results. He is now listed 4 times on the top 2 pages of Google for "Dorset Lighting Design" and the traffic to...
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