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Comic Sans to be Used for 2012 Olympics
Posted: 1st Apr 2009
The official type-face for the London 2012 Olympics has been announced - it is to be Comic Sans.
For more on this please see this article on creative review.
Simplicity in Design (1)
Posted: 31st Mar 2009
We're starting a series on Simplicity in Design. We thought we'd start off with a couple of sites that we really like which have very simple designs.
What do you think it is about these sites that makes them so simple? Is it the colour palette? Is it the Information Architecture? Why is simplicity in design so important?
Tidy Domain Name with a Regular Expression
Posted: 27th Mar 2009
TECHY WARNING: This post has 'techy talk' be warned
We have just been working on Halogy and making a Javascript and PHP function that tidies domain names. We thought we would share it!
If you want to remove the 'http://www' from a string, or even just the 'www' or the 'http://' use this really nifty regular expression:
// get the old untidy domain string and tidy it
$str = 'http://www.haloweb.co.uk';
$newStr = preg_replace('/^(http)s?:\/+((w+)\.)?|^www\.|\/+/i', '', $str);
// and this will output your new tidy string!
echo $newStr;
Why People Use Social Networking
Posted: 26th Mar 2009
An excellent recent post on Seth Godin's blog reveals the 5 pillars of social media success. Basically why do people use social networking sites? We liked his reasons...
- Who likes me?
- Is everything okay?
- How can I become more popular?
- What's new?
- I'm bored, let's make some noise
Invite Share
Posted: 25th Mar 2009
There's a lot of things bubbling at the moment with Haloweb. We've got Halogy being branded, Project Bubble in Beta and lots more projects in development. We will be inviting people to use our private betas very soon, and we found just the tool to do it. It's called Invite Share - check it out. You'll get your invites very soon for our new Halogy CMS and Project Management Software.
Another CodeIgniter Project - Car Sages
Posted: 24th Mar 2009
Another project we finished a few weeks ago was a site called Car Sages. A car questions and answers community. It was an experiment to see how long it would take to build a site with user registration, question asking and answering and other nifty features like AJAX search and autocomplete.
Well it took 2 days - roughly 18 hours. Thanks to CodeIgniter. The site is far from complete, but it goes to show what you can do when you have a spare weekend and not a lot else to do. :-)
Join the Team!
Posted: 20th Mar 2009
We are always on the look out for designers and developers with fresh talent and motivation to build amazing websites (which is what we try to do incidentally). If you are a designer or developer and want to join our team please send us your CV and show us what you got.
Haloweb is a virtual agency, so we thrive on being able to use contractors from around the country and not have expensive central offices in London. We may do one day, but for now because of our low overheads we can offer clients very competitive rates yet exceptional quality work - and still go for walks in the country at lunchtimes!
Project Management Made Easy
Posted: 18th Mar 2009
Over the last year we have been working on a web application called Project Bubble. The aim is to provide project management software for self-employed people or small businesses that has the really easy to use philosophy. We use BaseCamp and we like it, but we want to provide our own offering with a Haloweb angle. So in comes Project Bubble, a fun, friendly and easy to use account and project management system.
12 Free Garden Textures
Posted: 16th Mar 2009
In web design we often use textures from photos to give a website a certain look and feel. For example, a site about gardening may benefit from a grass texture in the footer, or maybe a wood grain background (was very popular in 2008!).
The Halogy Screencasts - Permissions
Posted: 12th Mar 2009
Earlier we shared about our new permissions system. We have made a quick screencast showing you this new feature and how easy it is to grant different permissions to your users.
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