We’re happy to let you know about two very exciting (local) web events that are happening this autumn.

Barcamp Brighton 3. We are helping to pay for the staffing for this event which is being held at Brighton University.

‘BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats”, Wikipedia.
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With Web trends and technologies moving at a phenomenal rate recently, I feel the customer has a vast and often bewildering array of services offered to them. However, how do they know which one is best for them?

That is where our company can help, as well as complete rebranding with a web site redesign we have improved the message we are giving our new and existing clients. Making it easy for you to do business on the web, with our experience in web design and development often utilising new and emerging web technologies.
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The latest event from Carsonified is The Future of Web Design, which was held in London this week. These are the notes from some of the speakers presentations.

The theme for the event focused on creative approaches for design:
The main ways for the speakers we by ‘changing your perspectives’ and ‘asking and collaborating with other people for ideas’.

Inspiration vs duplication – Often leads to designs being directly copied as its easier, but leads to abuse. How do we go about doing the right thing? By looking for elements that solve problems in intersting ways.

Inspiration. Takes practice and is never ending process. Lead to wealth of ideas that you can apply to web design

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For those that want to find out about the presentations, and for indeed the people that made it, but couldn’t missed panels that ‘rawked’. Check out the links below to relive some of the panels back in March from SxSw 2008:

http://video.sxsw.com/2008/mov/ Movie – Quicktime

http://video.sxsw.com/2008/swf/ Flash – swf

http://video.sxsw.com/2008/mp4hi/ Audio – MP4

So heres a quick list of what you need to know about SxSw, or ‘What I wish I’d known before I arrived’, suitable for Newcomers and even ‘old timers’:

• Say Hello and speak to everyone, there may be some important people to meet, standing right next to you. Ask them ‘where are they from’ then you will be well on your way to exchanging contact details.
• Ditch the freebies, from your welcome bag – if you are lucky enough to get a platinum pass you will collect three bags, don’t worry there are recycling points in the conference centre for plastic paper and aluminium.
• Go to all the parties – Its a lot of fun, soak up the Texan atmosphere, make new contacts and drink the free beer
• Be Polite – You may just be sitting next to your all time web hero, or your next big client.

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After a great night with some leading agencies in London, here are the notes of the evening hosted by Chinwag.

The evening had 5 speakers, all from different areas of the digital market place.

• Marketing - Jon Bains – Co-Founder, Lateral
• User experience – Nikki Barton – Creative Director, CIMEX
• Agencies - Andy Hobsbawm – European Chairman, Agency.com & Co-Founder, Green Thing
• Advertising - Guy Phillipson – CEO, Internet Advertising Bureau
• Media Planner – Pete Robins – Co-Founder, Agenda21

A marketing look in the future for digital media. Based on what brand is all about rather than the bling of web 2.0.

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We often use the content in the following post, when explaining designs and layouts to clients who. We make it easy to understand why homepages and doorway pages are so important for new visitors to your site.

Probably the most important one being “You have less than 5 seconds to catch your customers attention.” If the design or interface of the web site or application confuses you will repeatedly lose valuable customers.

A company’s homepage is its face to the world and the starting point for most user visits. Improving your homepage multiplies the entire website’s business value, so following key guidelines for homepage usability is well worth the investment..
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