Callender Creates

Essential Web Design and Development Conferences

Jim Callender — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:59:02 +0000

Here’s a list of conferences and exhibitions you will find us at over the next few months, and into 2009. Why? Not just because they are great fun, but also very valuable tools in training, learning emerging internet technologies and trends. Getting to the cutting edge of Internet leaders minds is what it is all about, [...]

We are with Happy Cog!

Jim Callender — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:58:55 +0000

Our redesign has made it onto Designm.ag titled 101 awesome portfolio sites. Alongside some world renowned web agencies and individuals: Happycog, Jason Santa-Maria, and Dan Cederholm’s Simplebits. Disclaimer: This is someones individual opinion into current design on a variety of portfolio sites. We have not paid to be included! However, we hope we have made it [...]

Geek Desk Spaces - Customised Creativity

Jim Callender — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:38:56 +0000

Finding your own creativity, whether at home or in your office. It takes a combination of hardware, comfort (Aeron chair, cough), and inspiration to get you working productively. When starting a company, most unless you are funded by a Venture Capital (VC), you will have a limited budget. So, its whatever you have at hand to [...]

Sponsorship for upcoming web conferences

Jim Callender — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:06:34 +0000

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 [...]

New Project Win with East Hampshire District Council

Jim Callender — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:40:42 +0000

After a successful pitch we are pleased to announce that we are working with East Hampshire District Council (EHDC). EHDC approached us in June, and since then we have been initiating the start of an entirely new web site. A community site that will feature news, events and encourage a two way dialogue between people [...]

Email Marketing Masterclass

Jim Callender — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:29:52 +0000

We are proud to be collaborating with local email marketing company Pure360 on a session at The Werks based on email marketing. Date -Thursday, August 21, 2008 Time - 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Why are we doing this? As email marketing has fantastic results in terms of converting new and existing customers to buy your products [...]

Getting your Satisfaction

Jim Callender — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:35:11 +0000

After meeting one of the founders at this years SXSW I was intrigued to see how companies and customers participated together. As part of our rebranding and new business aims we think this is a fantastic way for people to ask questions and comment on our services and products. Get Satisfaction is a place where customers can [...]

Whats been going on..

Jim Callender — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:31:05 +0000

Here are some recent successes at Callender Creates over the last couple of months that we think you should know about. We’ve been accepted into The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) for our clean and well structured code. We have done this from the start of our business, so it’s nice to get recognition for [...]

Brands in an interactive world

Jim Callender — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:24:17 +0000

This post is regarding online brands, and accompany notes from Internet world which was a while back now, however it’s always a good free event to visit and see the big brands and startups represent themselves in a competitive marketplace on and off-line. There were lots of seminars on search to content management, from hosting to [...]

Apples WWDC Need to Know

Jim Callender — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:12:48 +0000

The keynote of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference always creates a lot of buzz and hype surrounding Steve Job’s latest creation and tech. announcements, as they are renowned for their secrecy all bloggers can do before the event is make predictions which adds more excitement to the speculation. Now we have time to calm down and [...]